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Parking Code evidence - your images of private parking signs are needed please!

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  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 15 April at 12:46PM

    ParkingEye sign from this thread:

    IMG_1747.jpeg

    Fairly clear terms and £100.

    However, NOTHING about:

    • adding £30 (double recovery fee) if P/Eye send a LBC
    • adding £70 (double recovery fee) if they farm it out to a scam DRA.
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  • Car1980
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    edited 15 April at 2:17PM

    Anybody going to point the CMA to this thread now they have new powers to tackle such fraud?

  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 25 April at 1:40PM

    ParkingEye sign from this thread:

    IMG_1921.jpeg


    Usual illegal term holding disabled motorists to the same fixed stay time for their money. There should be an extra hour at least, and a way to claim it.

    Nothing about adding £30 (double recovery fake fee) if ParkingEye sue or £70 if they farm it out to DCB Group.

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  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 25 April at 2:17PM

    Green Parking sign from a recent news article in the Parking in the News & Media thread:

    IMG_1917.jpeg

    Now this one offers disabled motorists 3 hours free, per the Equality Act 2010 legal duty to make time adjustments.

    Trouble is with this sign:

    • it doesn't explain how they avoid the ANPR fixed time limit so people are getting unfair PCNs, ignoring the offer of 3 hours free.
    • It doesn't have the PCN £sum prominently displayed. It's in small print.
    • It doesn't mention the double recovery "extortion" that kicks in on day 29, thanks to the trade bodies making up a false 'debt recovery' fee and stage and blindsiding the MHCLG into believing it's a separate stage and cost.
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  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 28 April at 3:11PM

    TPS sign from this thread:

    IMG_1965.jpeg

    So weatherworn & faded it's incapable of communicating a contract. Can't even see the max stay hours let along read the so called terms or risk of parking charge.

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  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 11 May at 11:47PM

    UKPC signs from this thread:


    The Entrance sign offers 2.5 hours free:

    IMG_2160.jpeg

    Signs inside are way higher than a car or person:

    IMG_2162.jpeg

    And this is what the 'contractual' signs say:

    IMG_2161.jpeg


    So drivers can have '2.5 hours free parking', right?

    Wrong…

    Zoom in and look at the sneaky, illegible small print. That offer doesn't apply between 8.30pm and 8.30am (when there is 'NO PARKING') despite the fact some businesses in that site are open for customers!

    The OP says:

    "UKPC took control of a carpark used by a 24/7 emergency vets and placed a no parking between 8.30 pm and 8.30 am rule approx. 5 weeks ago and seemingly have been ticketing most people going to the vets out of hours.

    We took our dog in for a 7.30 am surgical appointment and have been issued with 2 tickets (we took 2 cars) even though the vet receptionist took down out number plates to enter on the UKPC website as genuine customers. UKPC were supposed to be sending terminals to the vets for customers to enter their car reg details, but they still haven't arrived. To compound the problem the vets have been struggling with internet server problems over this period. 

    We contacted the vets who have put in a cancellation request for us with UKPC but said they had been battling for the past month or so to get a lot of tickets cancelled.

    Surely, they should also have to have additional signs that say NO OVERNIGHT PARKING.

    Also, as they have not provided the terminals to the vets in which they expect customers to enter their car reg details surely they shouldn't be allowed to impose penalties? Also, there are no instructions either in the car park or inside the vets that explains that you must enter your car reg so they have really stacked the odds in their favour to generate tickets. 

    My understanding is that the vets have kicked off massively…"

    I'm not surprised! 😮

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