I have not heard of this one before. A LIDL supermarket in Dundee has ANPR cameras and a 10 minute parking limit. If you use the supermarket the checkout operator deletes your registration number from the system. Many, even those using the store have been caught out by not being aware of the routine or not being asked for their registration number (so they claim) and received a £90 invoice.
The parking enforcement companies have expanded rapidly into Scotland since clamping was banned down south.
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Last edited by: Old Navy on Wed 10 Jul 13 at 14:42
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Not a scam really, just a bit strict - 10 minutes from checkout to load your car and move looks reasonable to me
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no problem, dont pay the "fine"
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>> no problem, dont pay the "fine"
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From my experience, if you don't pay, they'll go away. (Eventually!)
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Do they really have to pay?
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I wouldn't pay, it is an invoice not a fine. The newspaper article says that customers have one hour if their registration number is logged at the till, if not ten minutes parking applies.
Last edited by: Old Navy on Wed 10 Jul 13 at 16:09
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I'm still ignoring letters about the ' ticket ' I got in early February for overstaying my welcome on a free car park locally.
One interesting point has been pointed out from a parking forum I looked at. The second letter has a line in one of it's paragraphs......' We would like to remind you that, if you were the DRIVER of this vehicle at the time of this parking event you are required to pay or appeal the parking charge '.
No mention of ' keeper ' !
They'r now terrifying me with threats of solicitors. I go to bed a trembling jelly every night !
Ted
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The problem is that both Lidl and Aldi have free parking in their business model. Free parking in a town/city centre goes against money-grabbing local council ideas about revenue generation, which leads to inevitable abuse by Joe/Josephine Public. Shame, really.
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>> The problem is that both Lidl and Aldi have free parking in their business model.
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We have an ALDI / Tesco / small retail car park complex in a semi rural edge of town setup. ALDI have recently installed ANPR cameras with penalties in their car park, the other two are unregulated. The only difference is the ALDI car park is nearest to a school / leisure centre (which has its own unregulated car park) but this does not seem to be a problem. We also have a town centre ALDI with no parking restrictions (yet) and that one is next door to the football stadium. The parking enforcement companies have expanded their operations in Scotland rapidly in the last year, has England reached saturation point?
Last edited by: Old Navy on Sat 13 Jul 13 at 19:31
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2 hour limit Notices have gone up in the local Lidl car park shared with several other stores, pet shop subway pet vet chemist, increasingly people parking for the hospital are leaving cars there for hours on end and it can be difficult to park for the shops who pay the costs for this.
No doubt eventually penalty charges will be issued and i do have every sympathy with the store operators.
Hospital parking charges are too high IMO, hence someone else's problem.
Used to be that many people would park both sides of one of the industrial estate service roads nearest to the hospital, caused absolute havoc when i had to deliver to the Suzuki garage there as it could be a 500 yard blind single track lane left open on a busy road, local authority have now double yellowed one side but obviously a couple of hundred cars now park elsewhere all day.
It might seem harsh but i do think there's a need for parking companies or otherwise people take the P, and i have a feeling all it will take is one successful claim for parking charges and legal costs under the new rules where owner is responsible for the whole game plan to change.
As it is we park out as little as possible, the whole mess that is the modern high street with its anti car owner agenda has seen us shop increasingly online which as well as being cheaper is much easier and there is no fuel tax to pay quite apart from parking charges.
The high street is doomed i tell ya.
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>> As it is we park out as little as possible, the whole mess that is
>> the modern high street with its anti car owner agenda has seen us shop increasingly
>> online which as well as being cheaper is much easier and there is no fuel
>> tax to pay quite apart from parking charges.
>> The high street is doomed i tell ya.
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The parking enforcement companies feed on the inherent laziness of humans, so does the internet, I can guess who will win, and it won't be the car parks or town centers.
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Lucky i am that ti did not encounter this cause i will surely annoyed if it is happen.In Finland i found that most expensive private parking control at 8< snip - I suspect you might some connection with the company so removed and many people say that it is better to pay expensive rather than encountering scam and avoid having violation for wrong parking.
Last edited by: VxFan on Thu 19 Sep 13 at 14:00
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I received* an £80 "fine" from Luton airport for pausing outside the airport for less than 10 seconds while my brother leaped into the car. Not entirely sure what their issue is with this (trespass, maybe?) but has ensured that I do everything possible to recommend against Luton airport (Luton in general, actually). It's crap to fly into, too, which doesn't help my perception of the place.
* Read "binned".
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I presume that you stopped on the double yellow lines on the roundabout?
I think you will find that this wholly enforceable and not a scam parking charge.
If everybody stopped on the r'about the whole place would grind to a halt! The best place to pickup/drop off is the mid? term car park 200m down the hill. Free 20 mins parking or something similar. And a courtesy bus for the feeble limbed.
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Is the camera camera car parked 'legally'? : goo.gl/maps/w5a69
I presume it's one of these two blue vehicles parked on the East side of the roundabout, although IME it's usually parked just off the North side of the roundabout, below the bus area.
The JVS show on Three Counties Radio often have complaints about this (09:00 - 12:00, weekdays) and I believe their advice is to do ..................................
Don't you have priority parking for this place?
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Pub in a local business park has this system - they just ask you to key in your reg at the bar. Before the car park was full by 9 with office workers
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Why cant the the store ask the council to enforce these? Seems obvious to me.
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The Council can only enforce if it has been given the appropriate authority by the Dept for Transport. This covers basic enforcement plus tow/clamp if needed and, importantly, right of appeal to the wholly and fiercely independent Traffic Penalty Tribunal.
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New parking scam? - Meldrew
