Private Parking FInes

If it's council pay up. If it's private they are entitled to claim compensation from you for actual loss of earnings and NOT the mickey mouse "penalty charges" that they try to bully you in to paying.

So, with private parking either offer to pay what it would have cost for your overstay, or, ignore all correspondence.
DO ask for a POPLA appeal number if they reject your offer of paying them 20p or whatever the normal extra charge would be as they have to hand over 25 quid to give you this and they can't claim it back either.

I've got a company trying to charge me £75 for overstaying in a free to use public carpark. Given it was free and the majority of spaces were empty I'm interested to see what their actual out of pocket expenses are going to be if it ever goes to court. As you can imagine I'm deeply hoping that it does so for a giggle since I'll be claiming costs of a full days wages plus travel expenses for a personal court appearance!

6) parking in supermarket for more than (3?) hours

You definiteley don't have to pay this one. The Asda by me always do this and if you don't pay nothing happens.

If you left it a week I reckon they'd clamp

I wonder if you can park in the disabled too

You probably can, but you'd be a douchebag.

Oh I wouldn't, don't get me wrong.

I'm just saying that it would not been punishable by law if I drove lengthwise across 3 disabled bays in a supermarket, but it would be punishable if the council owned the car park.

Oh I wouldn't, don't get me wrong.

I'm just saying that it would not been punishable by law if I drove lengthwise across 3 disabled bays in a supermarket, but it would be punishable if the council owned the car park.

Thanks JC

So as the law stands you can park on someones driveway and it isn't punishable ?

I don't need to pay for parking when I go to a hotel then, and if they clamp me I just call the cops ?

And I can park at Tescos for a whole week if I please ?

If you left it a week I reckon they'd clamp

I wonder if you can park in the disabled too

Someone once parked on my driveway.
I parked behind them and told them they could collect their car the following day as I wasn't planning on starting my car again that day.
Guy called the Police... "civil matter, nothing we can do sir".
They returned 24 hours later for their property...

Is it punishable? No... but people can get their own back if you're being unreasonable.


If you leave your car in Tesco's for a whole week they'll assume it's abandoned and have it towed.

You're a cock if you do park in disabled bays without a blue badge though...

Parent and child bays are fine, though... no reason to be inconvenienced because someone can't keep their knees together. Not to mention they tend to have wider bays which is useful if you've got a nice car and don't want to pick up parking dings from muppets that can't work out how far to open their doors!

TBH it's really annoying when you see someone parking in parent and child bay minus kids. The spaces are wider to allow you to open doors wider so you can lift a child in & out(with or without carry cot or pram on backseat) as you need more room than just squeezing yourself out (unless person is a fat git). It's safer and prevents parent trying to get kid out in a smaller space which is more likely to create dings in neighbouring cars and kids also do have a habit of swinging doors wide open.

What if you are fortunate enough to own a wide car and need a large bay ?

TBH it's really annoying when you see someone parking in parent and child bay minus kids. The spaces are wider to allow you to open doors wider so you can lift a child in & out(with or without carry cot or pram on backseat) as you need more room than just squeezing yourself out (unless person is a fat git). It's safer and prevents parent trying to get kid out in a smaller space which is more likely to create dings in neighbouring cars and kids also do have a habit of swinging doors wide open.