Parking Charge Notice appeal rejected - issued while unwell shopping at Aldi's

KeithP

Zoho said:

Drayton Road. 

Land Registry have Freehold and Leasehold documents relating to Unit 1, 36 Drayton Road, NR3 2DW. The freehold sold for £8,182,228 May 2017. I would have to pay Land Registry to find out more.

Lists of Norwich City Council's business rates payers are freely available online, here...
www.norwich.gov.uk/info/20020/business_rates/1794/business_rate_reports
They do however take a bit of deciphering.

Home Bargains is a trading name of T J Morris Ltd and they pay the non-domestic rates for Unit 2 of 36 Drayton Road.

Unfortunately I can't work out whether 'Unit 2' includes the car park.
Maybe a phone call to Norwich City Council will reveal all.

Zoho

Thanks for the helpful list Umkomaas (yes, the address is in the stack). 

Thanks also for other responses in this thread.

Zoho

KeithP, thanks for the helpful link. 

I opened Council reports for March, but nothing is apparent for the car park space, only Aldi and T.J.Morris (Home Bargains). 

In Land Registry, I put a marker on the map for the car park space in front of Home Bargains - shows Unit 2, 34-50 with the same sale price and purchase date as Unit 1 (see my earlier post).

As you say, I'll phone Norwich Council (Tuesday, when they open again), also to follow up Umkomaas suggestions.

Zoho

Update for future readers with similar problems. 

I contacted Aldi again who referred my appeal to their Parking Team. 

Thereafter, the manager of the store gained access to the Parking Awareness portal and cancelled my Parking Charge Notice.

Personally, I think Aldi should have done this straight away instead of making me go through Parking Awareness appeal system.

I tried to find out who owns the land through council planning and business rates (Council BR reports do not include Parking Awareness), but I would have to pay the Land Registry to find this out. 

Clearly, the government (and firms like Aldi who entice people onto the private land) needs to influence a parking charge policy for unwell people. 

Given Michael Gove MP is stepping down as transport minister handling the Parking Charge Bill, I will wait until after the election to take it further.

Many thanks again for helpful comments, much appreciated.

Coupon-mad

Gove leaving won't matter, whichever Government we get. The new statutory code already covers the fact that PPCs will have to consider mitigating circumstances.

Zoho

...took a while to find the new charter for PPCs and mitigating circumstances, but this link is helpful:

https://www.salford.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/how-to-pay-or-challenge-a-pcn/mitigating-circumstances-for-appealing-against-a-ticket/

Parking Awareness completly ignored my circumstances, despite sending two urgent health referral letters.

For these reasons, I would like to add my voice to future government consultations. As this link states: https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/private-parking-code-of-practice-latest-developments/

The government launched a 10-week private parking code of practice call for evidence on 30 July 2023, alongside a draft impact assessment. The call for evidence is scheduled to close on 8 October 2023. The government has said it will issue a further consultation on the options for parking charges and debt recovery fees once the call for evidence is complete.

Hopefully, in the future the £2 billion PP industry might get fined for breaching the charter.

Gr1pr

The current consultation expires on Wednesday 5th of June 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6528490/official-dluhc-paid-research-have-you-ever-appealed-a-parking-charge-notice/p1

I am not convinced that reading the council link helps in these cases, but may be useful with the new mandatory regulated Code of Practice by the DLUHC when it is implemented later this year ( hopefully. ) , by comparing notes

However , Coupon mad may well know what it may say regarding those mitigation circumstances seen in the council link 

However, its always worth pointing landowners and businesses at existing guidance, no matter the source, if it gets a cancellation 

Coupon-mad

Zoho said:

...took a while to find the new charter for PPCs and mitigating circumstances, but this link is helpful:

https://www.salford.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/how-to-pay-or-challenge-a-pcn/mitigating-circumstances-for-appealing-against-a-ticket/

That's not relevant to private parking.

I mean the clauses in the incoming (some time after the GE...) Private Parking Code of Practice which covers elements of mitigation where a Notice of Parking Charge will have to be cancelled...

...Once the industry is finally put in their box.