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The big ol' list of Airport Byelaws and Plans/Maps/Charts
Thought I'd put this together in case it was useful to anyone.
Airport | Byelaws | Plan/Map/Chart Showing Boundary? | Do the byelaws explicitly cover parking? |
|---|---|---|---|
Birmingham International Airport | Available online. | 5.12 is headed parking | |
Bournemouth Airport | No plan attached. Emailed to enquire as to whether one exists. | 4(4) - includes "parking"
6(1) mentions placing a vehicle
| |
Bristol Airport | See page 20 of the PDF. | 6.2 and 6.3 include the word parking | |
Cardiff Airport | See page 25 of the PDF. | 7.1.8 is headed parking | |
Doncaster Sheffield Airport | Not currently operating. | Not currently operating. | |
East Midlands Airport | See page 22 of the PDF. | 5.10 mentions placing a vehicle | |
Exeter Airport | Available online. | 4(6) mentions parking | |
Heathrow Airport | See page 16 of the PDF. | 6.3 mentions parking | |
Humberside | Obtained by request from the airport directly. | 8 mentions parking | |
Leeds Bradford Airport | See page 25 of the PDF. | 5.4, 5.10, 6.3 mention parking | |
Liverpool Airport | See page 23 of the PDF. | 6(3) mentions parking | |
London City Airport | See page 12 of the PDF. | 4(4) mentions parking 6(1)mentions placing a vehicle | |
London Gatwick Airport | Obtained by request from the airport directly. | 6(3) mentions Parking | |
London Southend Airport | See page 29 of the PDF. | 5(10) is headed parking | |
London Stansted Airport | No plan attached. Emailed to enquire as to whether one exists. | 6(3)is headed parking | |
Luton Airport | See page 24 of the PDF. | 14.4 covers parking | |
Manchester Airport | See page 23 of the PDF. | 5.10 mentions placing a vehicle | |
Newcastle Airport | Available online. | ???Cannot see any mention of parking or like terms. | |
Newquay Cornwall Airport | Not known whether byelaws are in force at this airport. Enquiry sent to airport, pending response. | "The Airport has byelaws that came into effect in 2017.
They were previously published on the website, but it recently came to light that associated maps indicating the area to which they apply were not linked to that document. The Airport Byelaws have been removed from the website and are currently being reviewed. " | |
Norwich International Airport | Byelaws are mentioned on their website but unable to locate a copy. Enquiry sent to airport, pending response. | ||
Southampton Airport | No plan attached. Response to enquiry: "Our boundaries are clearly defined either by our fence line or in the case of the access road for vehicular traffic by clearly defined road signage." "I can confirm that while we do hold copies of our airport boundary map for the purpose of enforcing airport byelaws, we do not provide these documents on request. If you wish to obtain an official copy, you may contact HM Land Registry directly, who will be able to assist you with this information." | 6(3) is headed parking | |
Teesside International Airport | Unable to locate a copy. Enquiry sent to airport, pending response. | |
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Thank you @cooldude255220 for all your hard work in putting this together. It could be a very useful resource going forward. I’ve bookmarked my own link to this. 👍
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This seems to be a big task and quite comprehensive in its inclusion of the various airports. What puzzles me is that I can't see anything in the few sets of byelaws I've looked at that relates to being fined for entering the premises in a vehicle or getting out of a vehicle near the airports. I wonder if this omission would be a defence should one receive a PCN.
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Great work there, appreciate the effort
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The existence of the byelaws mean that it is not relevant land as far as POFA is concerned, no matter what certain parking companies think
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the next list needs to be ports and harbours 😅
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As for Newquay Airport, it definitely does have byelaws. I recently dealt with a case where Initial Parking issued a PCN at the airport and explicitly claimed keeper liability under PoFA. That position is plainly wrong.
Until very recently, Newquay Airport published its airport byelaws on its own website. They have since been removed, but that does not change the legal position.
The airport is covered by byelaws by virtue of the Airport Byelaws (Designation) Order 2009, which designates the airport for the purposes of section 63 of the Airports Act 1986. Once designated, the airport is subject to statutory control, and land subject to statutory control is not “relevant land” for PoFA.
For the avoidance of doubt, the relevant byelaws were made under section 63(1) of the Airports Act 1986 and include provisions regulating parking at the airport. I have submitted an FOI request to Cornwall Council for copies of those byelaws that were previously published and have now been taken down. Their sudden disappearance strongly suggests the airport and its parking operator have realised, rather late in the day, that PoFA cannot apply to the car parks.
In this case, Initial Parking even tried to fob off appeals by relying on a statement from the BPA’s own lawyer claiming that “no byelaws have yet been made” following the 2009 Designation Order and that parking at Newquay Airport was therefore not subject to statutory control. That statement was demonstrably wrong.
Once the local press became aware of the issue and the existence of the byelaws, the POPLA appeal was withdrawn with all the enthusiasm of traditional Catholic birth control.
I’ll post the byelaws here once I receive them in response to the FOI request.
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Thanks, this is interesting.
I did see some suggestion online that the byelaws hadn't actually been approved by the Secretary of State - no idea whether or not that has any basis in reality!
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Great resource! Will bookmark it.
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My understanding is that it is only if PARKING on the land is controlled by the byelaws, then it falls outside POFA 2012.
In other words…if the byelaws don't mention parking the scumco can still use POFA 2012 for RK liability etc.
I know Newcastle doesn't mention parking, whilst Bristol does…
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I agree.
Paragraph 3(1)(c) of POFA is the bit which talks about byelaws and relevant land. It says:
(c)any land (not falling within paragraph (a) or (b)) on which the parking of a vehicle is subject to statutory control.
That IMO clearly has the effect you say it has. If that was not the intended effect then it could just as easily read "any land… under statutory control".
It's also a good point about the Newcastle byelaws specifically. They don't explicitly mention parking. The only thing I can see which may be arguable is 6.8, which is about observing traffic signs; but to be honest I don't think a contractual car parking sign is the same as a traffic sign. And Bristol's include the same wording about traffic signs as well as including wording about parking; clearly they thought extra wording was needed.
I think there's a good argument there that for POFA, Newcastle Airport could well be relevant land!
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