After tipping in Cardiff I decided to take a break at Cardiff Bay Retail Park. I needed some fish food and a couple of other bits from Pets at Home, bought a couple of running vests from Sportsdirect and then got brekkers at McDs. On returning to my 26 tonne flatbed I noticed I had a parking ticket. Cardiff Bay Retail carpark is a free car park so I was a bit confused. There were no height restrictions nor lorry forbidden signs. I trawled the internet and found a news report of a motorist who had been given a parking ticket when she parked her car over two spaces. It turns out I had been ticketed for occupying more than one space!!!
I’ve never come across this before and wasn’t best pleased. Fortunately I have severe Crohn’s disease and a colostomy bag so I immediately appealed online saying my bag had filled up really quickly (which it often does) and I had needed to stop quickly to relieve myself and obviously hadn’t checked the parking regulations. I even took a photo of my bag and attached it to my appeal. Hopefully they will rescind the parking ticket, I have appealed successfully before in similar circumstances when I have had to park on double yellow lines.
I’ve never heard of such ridiculous parking rules!!!
If it is a parking charge ‘notice’ then ignore it. I had lunch with a mate, who happens to be an acting Inspector in the Met, and got a parking charge notice from the pub for not displaying a ticket. Mate told me, it’s a notice, ignore it. So I did, and all the letters. Then a solicitors phoned me, not sure how they got my mobile number, and I told them take me to court and when a judge tells me to pay, i will. That was early last year. Heard nothing since.
Only if it’s a ‘fine’ should you pay it.
Don’t listen to any ramblers saying ‘ignore it, they can’t do anything’ etc etc. Parking companies CAN and WILL (increasingly are) taking it all the way to court and the majority of times winning. If they reject your appeal, it may be worth paying rather than risking a CCJ that will cost you way more than the £50?ish fee!
Provided there were plenty of other spaces available at the time they are extremely unlikely to be successful in court. They will only really be successful when it is clear you were abusing the car park to then go to work or visit somewhere else that isn’t the retail park.
The fact you were patronising businesses on the retail park would go strongly in your favour as will there being no clear signage prohibiting HGVs.
SUFCMark:
Don’t listen to any ramblers saying ‘ignore it, they can’t do anything’ etc etc. Parking companies CAN and WILL (increasingly are) taking it all the way to court and the majority of times winning. If they reject your appeal, it may be worth paying rather than risking a CCJ that will cost you way more than the £50?ish fee!
Do you work for a parking co as you don’t know anything about county courts. As long as you pay it immediately at court, even if you lose, you won’t get a CCJ they can only add the fairly modest costs of the court fees to the parking ticket.
SUFCMark:
Don’t listen to any ramblers saying ‘ignore it, they can’t do anything’ etc etc. Parking companies CAN and WILL (increasingly are) taking it all the way to court and the majority of times winning. If they reject your appeal, it may be worth paying rather than risking a CCJ that will cost you way more than the £50?ish fee!
Do you work for a parking co as you don’t know anything about county courts. As long as you pay it immediately at court, even if you lose, you won’t get a CCJ they can only add the fairly modest costs of the court fees to the parking ticket.