Car park supervision company have sent me a notice for penalty charge. Does someone here from Dartford in Kent know Prospect Place retail park? Could someone tell me if drivers have to vacate the car park by 23:00 hrs?

 

Fanx.

Yes simply ! My son got caught by just that clause not there but at another retail park , they use the same criteria in all their plots we paid up but a lot have not

Car park supervision company have sent me a notice for penalty charge.

 

It is not a penalty charge.

It's a parking charge.

It is not a penalty charge.

It's a parking charge.

 

So don't pay?

So don't pay?

 

Legislation has changed.

Some you have to, some you don't.

 

Not easy to comment on this one without all the details.

 

I currently have a Parking Eye parking charge notice on my desk for one of my buses, for it being in a car park for 45 minutes and 09 seconds.

This one I will be disputing, considering it's a special needs minibus that has to unload and load wheelchairs and also has an organisational blue badge.

 

In the case of the OP if there are signs saying the car park must be vacated by 11pm then he might have to pay it.

If the retail park has that kinda restriction I take it the shops were all closed? If so I would expect a barrier across the entrance/exits as otherwise I could roll into the carpark to take a break from driving at 23:01, go past the anpr and before I've read the t&cs been handed a parking charge.

Personally I'd dispute it as clearly there was nothing to prohibite you from entering the carpark.

The other defence that might work is claiming that you can't read English.

Legislation has changed.

Some you have to, some you don't.

Not easy to comment on this one without all the details.

I currently have a Parking Eye parking charge notice on my desk for one of my buses, for it being in a car park for 45 minutes and 09 seconds.

This one I will be disputing, considering it's a special needs minibus that has to unload and load wheelchairs and also has an organisational blue badge.

In the case of the OP if there are signs saying the car park must be vacated by 11pm then he might have to pay it.

PParking eye are one I recall reading on various forums are having results in their favour with courts, and are now proceeding to use bailiffs to pursue charges.

They're using the night clause to go after cruises/boy racers. If you entered and left almost immediately you may be able to get it waived, the same as if you work on the site, dropping someone off who works there, or were a contractor working for one of the units then contact the manager of the store.

Go here:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/

Post scans of the ticket in the correct forum and someone will tell you whether you have to pay or not and offer great advice (free).

Just to update, went to check notice and was caught for excessive stay. In excess of four hour limit. Paid up and moved on. Cheeky buggers charge for debit card payment though, £0.70 

Bit late if you've paid. But usefull for others.

We had one for overstaying a four hour limit.

I scanned in all receipts from the days shopping and showed I was a legitimate shopper not a worker using a 'free' car park.

Also argued the 'charge for parking' was excessive. Something like £70 from memory.

They overturned the charge and dropped it.

Thanks Wookie. I took this one on the chin as I was parked whilst using the local theatre. Lesson learnt, painfully 

Hi all,

 

I recently drove into the private area of Parking Eye's car park in Prospect Place, Dartford - realised it was the wrong area and drove out back into the public area. I paid for the ticket as usual.

 

Unfortunately they photographed this and are demanding 85.00 from me. When I logged an appeal, describing the mistake, they have requested proof that I indeed turned around and parked in the public area. 

 

Any ideas anyone on what to do??

Tell them to prove you didn't.

Don't they provide times that you went in and out? If they can't then they can't really prove you parked.

They have times but I guess the exit is the same exit for both car parks. It looks to them as if I went in to the private car park and come out three hours later without paying.

Seems like a system deliberately setup to catch people out. Pepipoo is a better place for this kind of stuff. But it seems like again, they should prove that you parked in their carpark, since they have no way to prove you didn't just drive through.

Contact the local newspaper and BBC Kent. That'll expose the scam