Am I liable to pay a fine

lunar

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I was at a well known food store last week. I parked at the store car park and walked to the store with my young children. It takes a few minutes to reach the store. I returned to the car after 22 minutes.
Today I received a fine of £90 from a parking company stating that I overstayed the parking time allowed, which is 10 minutes.
I have appealed.
Should I have just paid up?
 
Good one, I never thought of that. However, could there be a safety issue involved; as I would have to hurry back to the car and my child could fall abd get hurt. Then I could be liable for child neglect!
 
Maybe speak to the store? If it is actually their car park (i.e. owned and run by them) and you have proof you were shopping there, they may be able to get it cancelled
 
Customers have less than 10 minutes to browse and pay? Can't be good for business, especially if the area has elderly folk.
 
lunar said:
However, could there be a safety issue involved; as I would have to hurry back to the car and my child could fall abd get hurt. Then I could be liable for child neglect!
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:confused: I do hate it when those short parking time limits cause me to carry out child neglect...

There are many ways to argue these things, that is not one of them.
 
Was it a place Lidl or similar? where you have to validate your parking at the till. If you have the receipt then I'm sure you can prove that you were a customer and were entitled to parking.

Brother did something similar, parked up and walked in but couldn't find the stuff he wanted so left, he was scared that something might be coming through the letterbox any second.
 
10mins to park and do your shopping?

That doesn’t make any sense:confused:

Most places give u at least 30mins for parking and shopping. Even that is a stretch.

I’d appeal it and tell them in what world do they expect you to park and do your shopping in 10mins.

Bunch of shysters by the looks of it.
 
NoobCannon said:
Have you got the reciept for whatever you
Bought. Send them a copy of it they are prob trying thier luck as get lots of randomers parking there etc.
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This is beautiful.
I just checked. I do have the receipt. The transaction was made at 16.20 and we returned to the car at 16.24
Therefore, it took 4 minutes to return to the vehicle, mainly due to children.
 
HecFam said:
Was it a place Lidl or similar? where you have to validate your parking at the till. If you have the receipt then I'm sure you can prove that you were a customer and were entitled to parking.

Brother did something similar, parked up and walked in but couldn't find the stuff he wanted so left, he was scared that something might be coming through the letterbox any second.
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I don't want to name the store. However you may have a point as regards validating the receipt.
But it still does not make sense as the parking fine states 'Allowed duration of stay 10 minutes.'
 
Not a fine it's an invoice if they are calling it a fine they are taking the **** it's a invoice only local authorities can issue a PCN
 
I could return to the store and show the receipt or send copy to the parking enforcement. But the fine had no mention of receipt.
 
i see so there playing on words local authorities issue penalty charge notice and is backed up in law, there parking charge notice is not
 
Sorry, Ivreally don't want to name the store. I feel it is unfair.
All I can say is it's a four letter word with two L letters.
 
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