Since I retired and went back to work I have been parking in the shopping precinct car park near to the office. The attendants told me that quite a few of the people belonging to my employer were doing the same. The cost was £2.00 per day. Sounds strange, but there you are. The attendants warned me during the Xmas period that the shopekeepers were making representations to the landlord that their businesses were suffering because prospective customers were finding it hard to find a space. In the last couple of years the council has put a lot of restrictions on street parking, and the streets look nice and exclusive.
Now the landlord has revised the pricing system and all day parking will now be £15.00.
Oh, well, it was good while it lasted. Back to reality now.
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Presumably the shopkeepers and staff will have shot themselves in the foot as they will have to pay an extra £13 per day to park in their closest car park. Maybe that will teach them to complain about others without considering the full consequences.
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Roger
I read frequently, but only post when I have something useful to say.
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I had a word with the gateman today. He said that the Boss intended to empty the carpark, and almost suceeded. Shoppers could find as many spaces as they could wish at any time of day. The takings must have plummetted. There are two council carparks in the area, which were free but now have cash machines in them. The machines are not yet in use and have canvas covers. We are waiting to learn what the charges will be, probably high.
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There was an item on the radio this morning about McDonalds fining people for parking on their premisses and walking off to nearby shops with a burger in hand rather than staying in the "restaurant" and some guy in the know very briefly explained how parking fines on private land are unenforcable because they are breach of T&C of service rather than traffic offence and as such fall under the same laws as for example banking charges, ie - land owner can't fine anyone with more than you actually cost them by breaching their terms of service. If that makes sense to anyone. The guy wouldn't elaborate on that which is a pity, because if this is true, it could stop parking cowboys all together...
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I think this fits in with some advice (as distinct from Legal Advice, I should point out) from my solicitor-wife. It concerned a new housing development near us, which has no through route for road traffic and so makes the walk from home to school more pleasant by avoiding some of the main roads. At each end are are prominent 'No thoroughfare' notices, but Mrs W tells me these could be enforced only by a householder there who could 'prove a loss'. We keep to the paths, don't drop rubbish and make as little noise as two under-sixes can manage, so there's nothing to challenge and no-one has tried - quite the contrary, in fact. Might be rather different if we started parking on their drives, though!
Generally, I'd far rather park once to do everything than adopt the American practice of driving tiny distances from shop to shop. Our town-centre Sainsbury's has adopted a two-hour maximum policy, presumably because some people were parking there and going to work. I've not tested it but the yellow-jacketed enforcers seem to have no problem with me doing my Saturday shop there and then strolling up the hill into town for a visit to the market, the dry cleaners and the butchers. I don't know what sanction they could apply if I did exceed two hours.
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