Parking Fines

[Baboonboy]

My local hospital has introduced a fixed penalty of �40 for anyone found parking on their car parks without a ticket or permit. Is this legal?

[bednobs]

yes, it's their land, they can do what they like!

[NORMANTHEDOG]

of course its legal

[Grunty]

There are two main reasons for this charge. One is that hospitals used to suffer from people meeting there, travelling into town in one car and leaving the other cars on the hospital car park. So they shared one parking charge between them. The other reason is that tax rises are bad publicity for the government. Much better to allow parking charges instead. The hospital will allow you to park on their (our) land subject to conditions. Among those conditions is the parking fee, which they can recover as a civil debt if it is unpaid.