Parking Ticket

[mayennaise]

Are parking tickets issued in supermarket car parks legal and can they be enforced?
Apparently I spent too long shopping and have been asked to fork out £30 as it seems I overstayed my welcome!!!!!

[Baldric]

Retrochic, I'm glad you liked my link @ 15:17

[sunny-dave]

Sorry Eddie - you're wrong too - either pay what is 'invoiced' or risk paying much, much more - I don't like the new world of parking, but that is now the law.

[Retrochic]

EDDIE spot on - they cannot 'fine' you they have no legal stand to fine anyone. Councils on the other hand can 'fine' you and I would always pay fees in a council run car park.

[sunny-dave]

I await your "I'm in court for not paying a parking charge" whining with some glee, retro - couldn't happen to a nicer person.

[Retrochic]

Baldric - yes sorry about that but felt I had to remind Divebuddy

[Canary42]

Please don't pay it mayennaise, and keep reporting back the consequences. If it does go to court and you lose then we'll have a whip round for you. That way we might find out who's right and who's wrong on this one from actual experience, rather than anecdotal evidence. ;-)

[sunny-dave]

Many Councils (especially in holiday areas) now charge for blue badge parking - often with a 30 minutes 'free extra period' to allow for mobility issues slowing people down - seems fair to me.

[Retrochic]

sunny-dave -grow up I've had at least 12 tickets probably more and bin them. They rely on frightening people into paying them. What company is going to pay court fees to try and recuperate money that is not even legally owed to them?

[Retrochic]

canary42 mine is not anecdotal - its experience.

[sunny-dave]

Sadly it's not anecdotal Canary - some courts now 'nod through' all enforcements by these money grabbing swine - as I say, I hate them with a vengeance, but ignoring them is dangerous.

[mrs_overall]

Since the law changed in October 2014, it is now the registered keepers duty to provide details of the driver. Before the law changed, you could get out of paying by claiming you didn't know who the driver was. Alas you can no longer do this.
When you park in one of these car parks, their terms and conditons are clearly displayed on boards. By parking in the car park you have entered into a contract and by overstaying, you have broken this contract.
More and more of these companies are taking motorists to court. The advice to throw the PCN in the bin means you are taking a gamble.
The last time I got one, in an Aldi car park, I did some research and found a brilliant cop out.
I wrote to them saying that one of my children, age 17, had been the driver at the time. As a person aged under 18 cannot enter into a contract, the PCN was invalid. Also, as the driver was under 18 I was not obliged to provide their details.
I never heard anymore from them

[Retrochic]

sunny dave -try and keep up - I said I always pay if need to in council run car parks

[sunny-dave]

Sadly retro (because I hate them) these companies have been given the green light by your wonderful Tory Government - they will come for you eventually ...

[Retrochic]

Mrs overall hi and welcome back I hope you have a speed recovery. I think if you had just ignored your ticket in Aldi you would have had the same outcome.

[mrs_overall]

retrochic, it is possible that I could have binned it and heard no more, but I am one of those people who can never get away with anything, hence the research and the letter

[sunny-dave]

From a moral point of view (you do understand morality I hope) - is it right to repeatedly contravene the legally displayed parking regulations of a private car park, retro?

Surely after the first ticket you'd have said to yourself - "Ooops - should be more careful to comply with the regulations in future"?

[Retrochic]

sunny dave I pick which car parks not to pay - hospitals (not my fault I'm on a medication that requires blood tests every week and follow up nursing care, and supermarkets -if I'm spending £ 100 on stuff in the supermarket then stuff them I;m not paying for the privilege. I do pay other tickets if I have to.

[sunny-dave]

Ah right - the pick'n'mix attitude to paying.

I don't have kids - so I'll withold all taxes which pay for education ... that OK with you?