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brandmartyr

I'm in the process of my own little battle with Premier Park Ltd. It stems from a little goldmine  known as Exeter Road Car Park, Braunton.

I thought I'd do a little digging into the land owner to see where the trail led. I believe this provides the worst possible truth about this torrid industry.

Exeter Road Car Park, Braunton, EX33 2JJ, is operated/leased by Premier Park Limited.
  
The title for the land belongs to the George Hotel, Exeter Road, Braunton.

The title for the George Hotel, Exeter Road, Braunton belongs to Tavern Propco Limited.

Tavern Propco Limited, is an internationally registered privately owned business based in tax haven St Helier Jersey.

The principal beneficiary of Tavern Propco Limited, is an American Investment Banker worth an alleged $1.82 billion

Really does stink doesn't it!
I've written to my MP to raise this again and urge others to do so.

Coupon-mad

No wonder the Tories kicked the review of the sector into the long grass.

They didn't.      

brandmartyr

Ah, yes I see, my bad. 

Castle

brandmartyr said:

I'm in the process of my own little battle with Premier Park Ltd. It stems from a little goldmine  known as Exeter Road Car Park, Braunton.

I thought I'd do a little digging into the land owner to see where the trail led. I believe this provides the worst possible truth about this torrid industry.

Exeter Road Car Park, Braunton, EX33 2JJ, is operated/leased by Premier Park Limited.
  

Have you checked that Business Rates are being paid?

Fruitcake

Have you checked that planning permission has been approved for any pole mounted ANPR scameras, and if advertising consent for any signs grater than 0.3 m² has been granted? Not having the latter is a criminal offence, but only the council can pursue it.
If ad' consent has not been granted, then complain to the council/planning office and your MP. Failing to enforce this by a government official (councillor/council employee) could constitute misconduct in public office.

Not having ad' consent is also a breach of Para 12 of the PoFA2012, and a breach of the PPC's KADOE contract with the DVLA.

brandmartyr

Castle said:

brandmartyr said:

I'm in the process of my own little battle with Premier Park Ltd. It stems from a little goldmine  known as Exeter Road Car Park, Braunton.

I thought I'd do a little digging into the land owner to see where the trail led. I believe this provides the worst possible truth about this torrid industry.

Exeter Road Car Park, Braunton, EX33 2JJ, is operated/leased by Premier Park Limited.
  

Have you checked that Business Rates are being paid?

No, but I might. Do you know if this is publicly available information or would I have to submit a request to the local Council in question? Thx. 

fisherjim

If the signage at the entrance still looks like this it is woefully in adequate:

KeithP

brandmartyr said:

Castle said:

brandmartyr said:

I'm in the process of my own little battle with Premier Park Ltd. It stems from a little goldmine  known as Exeter Road Car Park, Braunton.

I thought I'd do a little digging into the land owner to see where the trail led. I believe this provides the worst possible truth about this torrid industry.

Exeter Road Car Park, Braunton, EX33 2JJ, is operated/leased by Premier Park Limited.
  

Have you checked that Business Rates are being paid?

Do you know if this is publicly available information or would I have to submit a request to the local Council in question? Thx. 

It varies.

Some councils publish a spreadsheet on their website listing all the non-domestic rate payers and the properties covered.
Other councils wrongly consider that publishing that would somehow breach data protection legislation.

fisherjim

Fruitcake said:

Have you checked that planning permission has been approved for any pole mounted ANPR scameras, and if advertising consent for any signs grater than 0.3 m² has been granted? Not having the latter is a criminal offence, but only the council can pursue it.
If ad' consent has not been granted, then complain to the council/planning office and your MP. Failing to enforce this by a government official (councillor/council employee) could constitute misconduct in public office.

Not having ad' consent is also a breach of Para 12 of the PoFA2012, and a breach of the PPC's KADOE contract with the DVLA.

All planning for this car park can be found here, you may have to put in post code only things I could see were for Barriers in 2006, no longer there.

Car park lighting in 2007, nothing for signage or ANPR cameras.

https://planning.northdevon.gov.uk/Search/Results

brandmartyr

fisherjim said:

If the signage at the entrance still looks like this it is woefully in adequate:

Yes, it remains like this. They (and POPLA) maintained their signage is compliant with requirements. I was lured into the carpark at dusk (fading light), by a generic road 'P' Sign.  Further there is only 1 sign that carries all of the detail including charges in one corner.  I'm attaching a comparison of this sign with others that are much clearer and providing a visual of the actual size of the sign for context. Bearing in mind, I'm incapacitated dealing with a medical issue in my car at the time.  Can you make out any of the necessary information?

brandmartyr

brandmartyr said:

fisherjim said:

If the signage at the entrance still looks like this it is woefully in adequate:

Yes, it remains like this. They (and POPLA) maintained their signage is compliant with requirements. I was lured into the carpark at dusk (fading light), by a generic road 'P' Sign.  Further there is only 1 sign that carries all of the detail including charges in one corner.  I'm attaching a comparison of this sign with others that are much clearer and providing a visual of the actual size of the sign for context. Bearing in mind, I'm incapacitated dealing with a medical issue in my car at the time.  Can you make out any of the necessary information?

Sorry, there is a second similar sign, mounted high, almost off the site on a grassy verge, behind a wall and a No Entry sign. This image was provided by Premier Park to Popla to support the compliance of their signage which POPLA agreed with!! Not sure what this might mean for a wheelchair user or person with eye-sight issues?