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Parking Code evidence - pictures of signs with £50, £60 or £70 PCN and no £ DRA fee on the sign

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  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 151,694 Forumite
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    edited 16 September 2023 at 2:47AM
    Next door is a large business which does use a PPC, but with inadequate 'mixed message'  signs threatening illegal clamping.

    C Dugard Machine Tools
    Old Shoreham Road
    Hove
    Brighton BN3



    Adjacent to Kwikfit (that has no parking abuse), restaurants and a pub that have no parking available.

    At first glance it looks like it might be a car park with clear contractual signs, but no:



    Release fee £60... (illegal but a deterrent!)

    But apparently it's actually £100 says NPC who were clearly happy to put their sign joined onto an old clamping sign:


    Which is it? 
    Clamping?

    £60?
    £100?
    INADEQUATE SIGNS = NO DETERRENT
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  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 16 September 2023 at 2:52AM
    On the same road they also went to a place that most older BHA fans like me still boycott (the site of the old football stadium):

    Goldstone Retail Park
    Old Shoreham Road
    Hove


    Burger King
    Nandos
    TK Maxx
    Lidl
    DFS
    Pets At Home
    Sofa store

    Euro Car Parks £100 max stay 3 hours but only 10 mins after 11pm

    ...but you wouldn't know that at the EV bays because my contact found no ECP signs:



    Nor are there any parking rules signs at all in the entire accessible bay area, nor at the parent & child bays either:


    There are yellow signs but only in the 'ordinary' bays.  How odd.  Bit of a trap.

    You can see 2 signs here but the disabled and P&C bays in the middle row? Nothing:


    Not really a deterrent, is it Euro Car Parks? 
    Almost as if you don't want those people who might take longer, to know about the time limit?

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  • Castle
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    Nice of Euro Car Parks to confirm that charging an EV is not parking.
  • Ralph-y
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    Probably the biggest Home Bargins in the country , on a retail park with two other retailers. No infestation ......even at busy times PPC's are not required
  • Coupon-mad
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    Ralph-y said:
    Probably the biggest Home Bargins in the country , on a retail park with two other retailers. No infestation ......even at busy times PPC's are not required
    Thanks very much @Ralph-y

    Which town?
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  • Ralph-y
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    1 Portal Wy, Gillmoss, Liverpool L11 0JA
  • Spire Health Consulting rooms, walking distance to Rob & Ryans's Wrexham FC stadium AND Wrexham Maelor Hospital. No PPC present, just polite notices.
     

  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 16 September 2023 at 3:05AM
    I've been sent a shedload more evidence by Brighton & Hove people who I've helped over the years.

    First up:

    SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
    IN DETERRENT VALUE:

    1. Portland Business Park: 

    versus

    2.  Portland Road Trading Estate:



    Two multi-business parks on adjacent blocks.

    Portland Road
    Hove/Portslade
    Brighton BN3

    Ten minute walk from Portslade station which is a direct commuter route to Brighton & London.

    The bigger one (pic 1) has no PPC.

    PORTLAND BUSINESS PARK

    NO CARMAGEDDON:













    Looks like City Wood Floors is the ONLY unit that had a PPC once, but not any more:


    CANNOT BE A CURRENT SIGN. NO £££
    UNREADABLE AND NO MORE IN SIGHT:


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  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 16 September 2023 at 3:08AM
    Pic 2
    Portland Trading Estate, looks like this:

    Martello Flats on the left.
    Business units at the back.


    No entrance sign, but broken and blacked out PPM signs inside:




    The only clear message is this one at the Martello apartments which appear to have no PPC because the person who took the pic saw nothing in that area about permits
    No signs.  No carmageddon.

    Maybe PPM were removed,..who knows?

    UNCLEAR SIGNS = NO DETERRENT

    Ordinary drivers would see no difference between the two business parks. Both look unmanaged.

    NO CARMAGEDDON AT EITHER
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  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 15 September 2023 at 11:47PM
    Still in Portslade, near the station:

    Boundary Road shops
    Portslade
    Brighton
    East Sussex

    My contact had a look at the forecourts of shops (unmanaged but are used for deliveries):



    NO PPC

    NO CARMAGEDDON
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