POPLA ruled on my side when I appealed against Parking Eye who charged me £100 for overstaying 20 minutes when in fact it was 2 separate visits (first time I'd taken taken a wrong turn and only turned around).
There is a need for parking control firms but there are far to many incidences of people being wrongly charged and the firms ignoring the appeals.
Fair points; but that is the kind of situation that IMHO POPLA should overturn - albeit might be harder to prove, as opposed to people just 'saying' that there was a queue on exit.
But how does pay on exit help there, if you try to leave within 2 hours but the queue for the exit is long then you'll be into 3 hours anyway. And if it's pay on foot then you only get a short period to leave - have fallen foul of that before.
ANPR works because it is unmanned, no ticket machine infrastructure, no need to go round collecting money...... the argument is not really about ANPR but the level of charge for overstaying. IMHO people would accept ANPR happily if the fine was smaller, but then it's not really the deterrent any more.
[quote=theotherjonv ]IMHO people would accept ANPR happily if the fine was smaller, but then it's not really the deterrent any more.
As discussed above, there doesn't really need to be much of a deterrent for a 15 minute overstay. If they're still charging £60 to those they do need to deter then they have a deterrent.
Though that of course would be assuming that the idea is to deter people from overstaying when their business model is exactly the opposite.
