IF YOU PARK, YOU PAY – THE LAW CLARIFIED

LAW CONFIRMS THE LENGTH OF TIME PARKED IS IRRELEVANT – EVEN IF THE DRIVER REMAINS IN THE CAR

WHAT WAS THIS ABOUT

We were contacted by a landowner who experienced many problems with parents using his car-park to drop their children off at school and also people visiting the local library.

This meant that between 08:30-09:15 and 14:45-15:15 in particular each and every day his car park was full of non customers, taking up valuable spaces and preventing customers from using his store – and as a result revenue was lost.

In addition to this people visiting the local library even for a few minutes were taking up spaces and our of sheer frustration he decided to contact Combined Parking Solutions to assist with parking enforcement.

Due to the fact on many occasions people do not actually leave the vehicle and the time span is short the landowner thought there was nothing that could be done.

Combined Parking Solutions recently took 2 cases to court and secured judgement in both as the terms of our signage is perfectly clear and it doesn’t matter how long (or short parked) the charge remains.
 

Combined Parking -v- Hall

This person used the car park to drop his children at school, each time only stopping for 5 minutes and often the driver remained in the car.

A person does not have to leave the car for the charge to be effective – as the purpose of the visit was to drop children off at school and not use the facilities offered.

; See the JUDGEMENT transcript here.

 

Combined Parking -v- Watts

In this case the driver went quickly into the library and was gone for 91seconds … but his primary purpose was to use the library and therefore it fell outside the ‘grace period’ a site offers to allow a person time to decide if they want to accept the contract/charges as once a persons intention was shown and/or the driver left the site then the contract is accepted.

; See the JUDGEMENT transcript here.

 

Combined Parking Solutions yet again shows that their charges are 100% enforceable – contact us today if you require assistance in resolving your car park issues with a system that is proven to be 100% effective, legally enforceable and free to implement.

For more information and details on how Combined Parking Solutions can resolve your parking issues then call now on 0871 288 4606 or you can email us..