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Topic Originator: General Zod
Date: Tue 24 Sep 16:25
I know itโs been done a few times on here but whatโs the deal with these? My maw parked at the Aldiโs next to East End for 2 hours during the week and got a parking fine from a company called Parking Eye. I know most folk just ignore these types of things but is that a good idea in this instance? Anyone know the rules of parking at Aldiโs? She got a letter to inform her.
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Tue 24 Sep 16:46
Rule is simple - park for less than 90 minutes or get a fine. It`s written on all the signs. Personally, I`d disregard it. Although there have been cases of action being taken, it`s been for repeat offenders who won`t take a telling rather than a one-off.
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Topic Originator: Connor560
Date: Tue 24 Sep 16:49
Police or council only due to be paid.
C'mon Ye Pars!
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Topic Originator: DunfyDave
Date: Tue 24 Sep 18:22
Quote:
Connor560, Tue 24 Sep 16:49
Police or council only due to be paid.
^^^ I have heard this as well Connor. In Scotland a private parking company cannot enforce the fine BUT you must never answer any of their calls, emails or letters as this is deemed you have entered into communication and they may be able to enforce it.
It is not the same rules in England and they will enforce payment. I have a van and park in a loading bay in London, put a "Making Delivery Sign" on the windscreen and the amount of times I have had a ticket and to go through the painful process of appeals is frustrating. Never paid one yet.
Scottish Council and Government parkings will enforce payment. You can`t ignore them.
DunfyDave
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Topic Originator: brian
Date: Tue 24 Sep 20:10
can you go into Aldi`s and query the fine.
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Wed 25 Sep 07:36
Quote:
DunfyDave, Tue 24 Sept 18:22
Quote:
Connor560, Tue 24 Sep 16:49
Police or council only due to be paid.
It is not the same rules in England and they will enforce payment. I have a van and park in a loading bay in London, put a "Making Delivery Sign" on the windscreen and the amount of times I have had a ticket and to go through the painful process of appeals is frustrating. Never paid one yet.
Was this in Peckham?
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Topic Originator: DunfyDave
Date: Wed 25 Sep 08:25
Quote:
jake89, Wed 25 Sep 07:36
Quote:
DunfyDave, Tue 24 Sept 18:22
Quote:
Connor560, Tue 24 Sep 16:49
Police or council only due to be paid.
It is not the same rules in England and they will enforce payment. I have a van and park in a loading bay in London, put a "Making Delivery Sign" on the windscreen and the amount of times I have had a ticket and to go through the painful process of appeals is frustrating. Never paid one yet.
Was this in Peckham?
^^^ McDonalds in Welling.
Funny thing is that it is usually full of Uber Eats Mopeds that seems to be off the radar to the traffic warden.
DunfyDave
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Wed 25 Sep 15:16
Quote:
DunfyDave, Wed 25 Sept 08:25
Quote:
jake89, Wed 25 Sep 07:36
Quote:
DunfyDave, Tue 24 Sept 18:22
Quote:
Connor560, Tue 24 Sep 16:49
Police or council only due to be paid.
It is not the same rules in England and they will enforce payment. I have a van and park in a loading bay in London, put a "Making Delivery Sign" on the windscreen and the amount of times I have had a ticket and to go through the painful process of appeals is frustrating. Never paid one yet.
Was this in Peckham?
^^^ McDonalds in Welling.
Funny thing is that it is usually full of Uber Eats Mopeds that seems to be off the radar to the traffic warden.
Wooooosh! Lol
Post Edited (Wed 25 Sep 15:16)
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Topic Originator: DunfyDave
Date: Wed 25 Sep 17:32
Quote:
PARrot, Wed 25 Sep 15:16
Quote:
DunfyDave, Wed 25 Sept 08:25
Quote:
jake89, Wed 25 Sep 07:36
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DunfyDave, Tue 24 Sept 18:22
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Connor560, Tue 24 Sep 16:49
Police or council only due to be paid.
It is not the same rules in England and they will enforce payment. I have a van and park in a loading bay in London, put a "Making Delivery Sign" on the windscreen and the amount of times I have had a ticket and to go through the painful process of appeals is frustrating. Never paid one yet.
Was this in Peckham?
^^^ McDonalds in Welling.
Funny thing is that it is usually full of Uber Eats Mopeds that seems to be off the radar to the traffic warden.
Wooooosh! Lol
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DunfyDave
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Topic Originator: Buster_Brown
Date: Mon 30 Sep 10:08
If they are acting on behalf of Fife Council, then you need to pay the fine or legal action could be taken. If it`s just a company working on behalf of another company then due to Scots law it doesn`t have to be paid. These companies will obviously send more threatening letters but there`s nothing they can do and, in my experience, will eventually disappear.
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Topic Originator: DBA
Date: Mon 30 Sep 13:30
Quote:
Buster_Brown, Mon 30 Sept 10:08
If they are acting on behalf of Fife Council, then you need to pay the fine or legal action could be taken. If it`s just a company working on behalf of another company then due to Scots law it doesn`t have to be paid. These companies will obviously send more threatening letters but there`s nothing they can do and, in my experience, will eventually disappear.
That`s no longer true. Scots Law now does allow them to be paid legally, law changed a few years ago.
The chances of them coming after you are extremely low, unless you`ve built up a number of fines, however the law now does allow them to charge you.
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Mon 30 Sep 19:29
Kinda unrelated but my 79 year old mum and her 3 pals (one of whom has a blue badge) parked on Kirkcaldy high St outside Bob and Berts, to go for a coffee. It`s the first time they`ve done this post covid.
The driver got a parking ticket and ยฃ60 fine as apparently no vehicles are allowed to park there on a Monday Wednesday Friday and Saturday between 11 & 5 However they would`ve been OK on a Tuesday Thursday and Sunday all day.
Needless to say they won`t be back. No wonder the high street is dead.
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Mon 30 Sep 20:52
There are signs advising of the high street parking times at the entrance to the "pedestrian" zone but, like all things implemented by Fife Council, they make little sense. Being brutally honest, the council needs to review the pedestrian zones and either have them truly pedestrianised or open to traffic. This halfway house doesn`t work, especially in Dunfermline where it isn`t even enforced.
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Tue 1 Oct 13:26
Quote:
da_no_1, Mon 30 Sept 19:29
Kinda unrelated but my 79 year old mum and her 3 pals (one of whom has a blue badge) parked on Kirkcaldy high St outside Bob and Berts, to go for a coffee. It`s the first time they`ve done this post covid.
The driver got a parking ticket and ยฃ60 fine as apparently no vehicles are allowed to park there on a Monday Wednesday Friday and Saturday between 11 & 5 However they would`ve been OK on a Tuesday Thursday and Sunday all day.
Needless to say they won`t be back. No wonder the high street is dead.
My wife and I were ticketed down there as well , just about the same spot whilst displaying blue badge.
The signs at the start of Kirkcaldy high street might as well be in Greek, impossible to understand!
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Tue 1 Oct 15:45
I would suggest appealing as it`s poorly written and reads like the restricted hours only apply to lorries rather than blue badges.
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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Thu 3 Oct 04:46
Quote:
jake89, Mon 30 Sep 20:52
There are signs advising of the high street parking times at the entrance to the "pedestrian" zone but, like all things implemented by Fife Council, they make little sense. Being brutally honest, the council needs to review the pedestrian zones and either have them truly pedestrianised or open to traffic. This halfway house doesn`t work, especially in Dunfermline where it isn`t even enforced.
This was a killer when doing Just Eat as my job - there is nowhere to park to collect from the high st/kingsgate stores without breaking these daft rules.
Luckily enough I avoided fines whilst working round the town, but itโs not exactly great for delivery drivers when theres 10 restaurants from there needing serviced. It puts a lot of drivers off accepting offers from them.
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Thu 3 Oct 06:55
Mums pal appealed and the council have cancelled the fine.
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: fcda
Date: Thu 3 Oct 12:43
Quote:
da_no_1, Thu 3 Oct 06:55
Mums pal appealed and the council have cancelled the fine.
Good to hear. On what ground did they appeal? Poor signage?
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Thu 3 Oct 23:57
Quote:
fcda, Thu 3 Oct 12:43
Quote:
da_no_1, Thu 3 Oct 06:55
Mums pal appealed and the council have cancelled the fine.
Good to hear. On what ground did they appeal? Poor signage?
She wrote them a letter. Not sure what she said but it worked ๐ค ๐
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Fri 4 Oct 12:52
Don`t see what`s good about a bunch of raucous, tearaway, renegades being allowed to flout parking regulations with impunity. Broken Britain, hell in a handcart, etc.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Fri 4 Oct 19:07
Quote:
The One Who Knocks, Fri 4 Oct 12:52
Don`t see what`s good about a bunch of raucous, tearaway, renegades being allowed to flout parking regulations with impunity. Broken Britain, hell in a handcart, etc.
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The four of them have a combined age of about 300
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: OorWullie
Date: Thu 13 Mar 08:28
hi all
got a charge through then door from a company called uk parking control [ukpc]
100 quid reduced to 60 if paid within 14 days. letter dated 7/3 and received 12/3
anyone had similar from this company and what did they do?
cheers
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Thu 13 Mar 10:20
One of my friends is getting pulled into court next week for an unpaid ticket. Private car park they had permission to be in.
There`s a group in Facebook that offers advice (just search for UK parking fines).
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Thu 13 Mar 12:29
Quote:
jake89, Thu 13 Mar 10:20
One of my friends is getting pulled into court next week for an unpaid ticket. Private car park they had permission to be in.
There`s a group in Facebook that offers advice (just search for UK parking fines).
Ooh, up in court, the shame. Let us know how that goes. I think most people have been ignoring these fines, but from time to time there are some horror stories where that approach goes wrong
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Thu 13 Mar 17:38
I`ll get the name of the firm. I saw it again recently as I think they do the car park by Dunelm in Kirkcaldy. The feeling seems to be that the firm is hoping to encourage resolution (e.g. cough up the cash) and cancel the court date last minute. They`re sticking to their guns as they were parked legitimately and have all the evidence to support it. The firm has probably wasted more in admin fees than the ticket is worth.
VCS Ltd is the company.
Post Edited (Thu 13 Mar 18:56)
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Mon 17 Mar 18:32
Quote:
OorWullie, Thu 13 Mar 08:28
hi all
got a charge through then door from a company called uk parking control [ukpc]
100 quid reduced to 60 if paid within 14 days. letter dated 7/3 and received 12/3
anyone had similar from this company and what did they do?
cheers
It`s an invoice, not a fine, Wullie. There is an outside chance they`ll take you to a small claims court and you might have to defend yourself. If you lose, you`ll have to pay the ยฃ100 plus court costs. Chances are they`ll send you some more letters to try and scare you into paying and then drop it. Enough people pay up to make it worthwhile for them.
The annoying thing is that the DVLA make money by giving these companies the name and address of the registered owner of the vehicle.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: DBP
Date: Mon 17 Mar 20:08
Why do the dvla give out the informationโฆ there must be conditions surely?
If I wanted to know the contact details of someone who owned a car, could I just send a request for the details from the the dvla?
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Tue 18 Mar 11:16
Does anyone ever get these fines and just throws up their hands, says it`s a fair cop, I was taking the p*** out of the free facilities offered, and I`ll cough up?
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Tue 18 Mar 11:34
I was down south at weekend and parked up in a carpark, Pay and display machine had been vandalised and push to pay online, clicking through the faff trying to pay I was getting pop ups about addding recurring subscriptions etc. Thankfully through my banking multi factor authentication it`s weeded through and cancelled payments etc as suspected fraud so not even paid for the carpark so will see if i get a ticket through.
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Topic Originator: Athletico
Date: Tue 18 Mar 15:17
We got one for Tesco Fire station, we left about 15 mins after the allowed time. 2 hours or so pottering about town, getting a haircut, lunch etc. Thankfully I spent a whole ยฃ6.30 in Tesco on the way back to the car, sent them a copy of the card transaction and it was dropped.
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Tue 18 Mar 18:29
Friend did end up having to appear in court, plead their case and now has a second court date. They`ll win, but worth being aware that you might want to save yourself the hassle and just pay up if you genuinely did break the rules. It`s bully boy tactics effectively.
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Topic Originator: parsmad68
Date: Wed 19 Mar 13:09
What I have always wondered is parking at football matches in Dundee where they put cones out then fine people. If you are parked the day before and were staying at a friends,say. Then they place the cones down, you get a fine. How does that work?
I suppose there must be signage?
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