Update... I'm going to check the signage tonight and see if there's a friendly human who's willing to speak to me about it and might be willing to get the parking company to waive it. If that fails we're just going to pay it.Good luck with that! As a non-customer with multiple businesses on-site I can't imagine any of them being bothered, especially now you've disclosed this extra rather important change:
She also technically arrived a few mins before midnightwhich kind of contradicts the whole sign not clear argument and your OP:
after midnight.
which kind of contradicts the whole sign not clear argument and your OP:
My OP was purely around whether I needed to change the name on the PCN, I didn't feel 100% accuracy about the timing was important at the time, especially as she was so close to midnight as to make little difference. I also had no intention of appealing it until more info came to light.
Like I say, with the full info and some time to think about it I don't intend to appeal as it's a pretty weak case.
Sounds like your daughters paid up quickly to avoid the embarrassment of you having to spend too long questioning the details of what people get up to for 40min in a secluded car park after midnight 😂
Sounds like the OP needed an excuse to go down there and find what people get up to for 40min in a secluded car park after midnight.....
To answer your original question there is no downside to you paying on her behalf. Stop over thinking the invoice value, it was set in 2015 through Beavis vs Parkingeye and was based on the cost of enforcement and the deterrent value. It hasn't gone up since then so in real terms the cost has dropped.
FWIW that signage isn't acceptable, the no parking restrictions should be a lot more prominent.
Pay it with your daughters money and move on.
As for sliding scale charges based on income, the implications of that are mental, if nothing else do you really want a private parking company having access to your financial data. The cost of managing that would also be crazy.
What we actually need is proper regulation by the government and a clear out of the less ethical companies. The Torys tried to do this but made an absolute mess of it and got their arses handed to them by the industry when the government completely failed to follow their own rules on consultation.
Edit: In fact, they should be charged for their improper use of ALL CAPS.
Nah, I’d give them a pass on that, upper/lower case on the large headline text, all caps to emphasise the smaller, but important text underneath. There are far worse crimes against good, legible typography than that! 🙃
