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ANPR in Roadchef Sites

bluebazil
bluebazil Posts: 1 Newbie
in Parking tickets, fines & parking
I find this outrageous,can a private company use ANPR in this way.

From 10may,Roadchef will be introducing ANPR in collaboratin with CP Plus Ltd and capturing number plates entering and leaving their sites,if you stay over 2 hours they will send Parking Charge Notice through the post,
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  • Coblcris
    Coblcris Posts: 1,862 Forumite
    They are welcome to waste such postage costs of their own volition at any time.
  • cajef
    cajef Posts: 6,283 Forumite
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    bluebazil wrote: »
    if you stay over 2 hours they will send Parking Charge Notice through the post,

    Oh goody more paper for the kids to draw on.:D
  • Weirdlittleman
    Weirdlittleman Posts: 412 Forumite
    Yes how dare roadchef expect to be allowed to control who uses their own land.
  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
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    Weirdlittleman wrote: »
    Yes how dare roadchef expect to be allowed to control who uses their own land.

    Nobody is complaining about that. What people object to is the penalties demanded by the parking companies that bear no relation to the actual losses suffered by the landowner, and the fact that the PPCs act as judge and jury.
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 159,914 Forumite
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    bluebazil wrote: »
    I find this outrageous,can a private company use ANPR in this way.

    From 10may,Roadchef will be introducing ANPR in collaboratin with CP Plus Ltd and capturing number plates entering and leaving their sites,if you stay over 2 hours they will send Parking Charge Notice through the post,



    Well they can waste their money on ANPR, paying the DVLA for registered keeper details and then umpteen debt collector letters in the post...but they can't make people pay!

    Watchdog this week at last gave the right advice re unfair private ANPR parking tickets:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIcdi9niHA

    You only need take a parking ticket seriously if it comes from the Council or the Police. End of. :D
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  • AlexisV
    AlexisV Posts: 1,890 Forumite
    Yes how dare roadchef expect to be allowed to control who uses their own land.

    Please explain how CP Plus achieve this in a lawful way.
  • daveyjp
    daveyjp Posts: 14,016 Forumite
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    If Roadchef want to control access to land they need to employ a system which allows them to do so - have they not heard of parking barriers and ticket machines?

    Set the barrier to allow free exit before two hours, after that there's a charge.
  • maninthestreet
    maninthestreet Posts: 16,127 Forumite
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    AlexisV wrote: »
    Please explain how CP Plus achieve this in a lawful way.

    Roadchef have appointed them as their agents to control parking on this site. The site is private property and is monitored by CCTV. This is all perfectly legal. They don't break any specific laws by sending invoices for people who overstay the 2 hour limit, but the recipient has no obligiation to pay unless ordered to do so by a court.
    "You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    Think of how much these ppc's are helping the post office to stay in business.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • Coblcris
    Coblcris Posts: 1,862 Forumite
    maninthestreet wrote: »
    Roadchef have appointed them as their agents to control parking on this site. The site is private property and is monitored by CCTV. This is all perfectly legal. They don't break any specific laws by sending invoices for people who overstay the 2 hour limit, but the recipient has no obligiation to pay unless ordered to do so by a court.

    So you have visibility of the contract between CP Plus and Roadchef ?
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