Car parking Beware - New ANPR cameras in ASDA and Tesco

[henryscat]

I'm pretty damn sure that if I rang up the DVLA for the details of someone parked outside my hour for a few hours so I could try and invoice them, the DVLA would not supply them to me.

Assuming you meant house: you don't own the road outside your house, Tesco/Asda do own their car parks so can dictate the conditions of using them. I don't understand people's expectation that supermarkets should give them unlimited parking if they're not shopping there. That said, their "fines" are open to question as in law they can only charge an amount equivalent to any losses they incur.

 

[Jonah]

Assuming you meant house: you don't own the road outside your house, Tesco/Asda do own their car parks so can dictate the conditions of using them. I don't understand people's expectation that supermarkets should give them unlimited parking if they're not shopping there. That said, their "fines" are open to question as in law they can only charge an amount equivalent to any losses they incur.

Yes it was house. I do realise I don't own the road outside my house, I am really not that stupid to assume I do. What if someone parked across my drive so I couldn't get access? Do I not have the right to access my own property? Why couldn't I send a fine to someone for irresponsible parking?

Have I ever said I want unlimited parking at a supermarket? No and I don't expect it.

 

[PeterD]

if you have a dropped curb then i believe they are breaking the law.

 

[proactive]

Is the real issue not about the right to unlimited parking on supermarket car parks but that the DVLA can simply disclose the data that it has on us to private companies who have no legal entitlement to them but are prepared to pay a fee. One would assume that this is a breach of the DPA (it certainly would be if I started selling my client data) and at no time do I remember there being a a means of opting in or out of allowing the DVLA to sell my data.

Someone needs to challenge the DVLA over this in the courts, but it would be a lengthy and expensive process.

 

[Jonah]

Is the real issue not about the right to unlimited parking on supermarket car parks but that the DVLA can simply disclose the data that it has on us to private companies who have no legal entitlement to them but are prepared to pay a fee. One would assume that this is a breach of the DPA (it certainly would be if I started selling my client data) and at no time do I remember there being a a means of opting in or out of allowing the DVLA to sell my data.

Someone needs to challenge the DVLA over this in the courts, but it would be a lengthy and expensive process.

Yeah for me it's the fact that the DVLA can give my details to third parties which I object to.

 

[Gramaisc]

Don't abandon your car in the snow - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-21177572 - even if you do it as well as you can.

 

[proactive]

Obviously a slow news day in Somerset.

 

[Gramaisc]

Every day's a slow day in Somerset.

 

[highguyuk]

if you have a dropped curb then i believe they are breaking the law.

I'm really not sure that is the case, unless there is road markings to back that up - such as a H-Bar marking.

 

[Gramaisc]

I'm really not sure that is the case, unless there is road markings to back that up - such as a H-Bar marking.

Apparently, from some of the discussion on legal forums, stopping you exiting is far more likely to result in the obstructing vehicle receiving a fixed penalty notice than stopping you entering would. Indeed, it was alleged by an 'expert', that preventing entering of the access was not an offence, although preventing an exit was. FPNs have been issued without the H-bar markings being present, apparently. There are examples of these markings on Porlock Avenue, for those who wish to inspect them and see the beneficial effect that they have..

 

[PeterD]

I'm really not sure that is the case, unless there is road markings to back that up - such as a H-Bar marking.

you are right I am incorrect its in the highway code but not enforceable.

 

[Gramaisc]

Bloke here claiming to have been ticketted for blocking his own drive - http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/8314947.Pensioner_fined_for_parking_on_his_driveway/ - although, they wouldn't have known that it was his car, without a bit of effort.

 

[Jonah]

The enforcement officers certainly aren't going to knock on doors to find out who the car belongs to. Why not park on his own drive and move it if he needs to work on the drive?

 

[Gramaisc]

The enforcement officers certainly aren't going to knock on doors to find out who the car belongs to. Why not park on his own drive and move it if he needs to work on the drive?

I suspect that he may have been doing it to stop anybody else doing it.

 

[Jonah]

That's usually the case.

Like the ex-policeman who lives on Anson Drive who deliberately parks his car in an awkward position at Berkwich School collection time.

 

[flossietoo]

I avoid Stafford wherever possible, because of the parking hassle. However today's news indicates that the penalties for infringement in Leicester may be even more draconian.

 

[Withnail]

My Kingdom for a space?

 

[Gramaisc]

 

[John Marwood]