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Ten-minute leeway rule for council car parks in England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31759767
Ten-minute leeway rule for council car parks in England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31759767
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New Council parking ticket rules
- Thread starter Chicken Run
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mikeyjh
Well-known member
Possibly the most pointless piece of legislation ever - 30 mins becomes 40 mins and then people will whinge that they were only a few seconds after the cut off for the 10 min leeway.... Anyone know if there is an election coming up?
Shows how far we have gone when you need to introduce legislation to ensure common sense is applied.
drew
Drew
Why would someone get excited just because you're paying for 40 mins instead of 30?
Mikeyjh is right, the goal posts have been moved but they are still there. People on here will be whinging when they get a ticket at 41 minutes.
Mikeyjh is right, the goal posts have been moved but they are still there. People on here will be whinging when they get a ticket at 41 minutes.
Norman Potting
Well-known member
Today's headline in the Daily Fail FFS! I get sick of Fat Boy Pickles spouting off as though motorists (and I am one) are some kind of oppressed ethnic minority. How hard can it be to follow some simple rules on parking?
drew
Drew
Lest we forget that Pickles once claimed that weekly bin collections (as opposed to fortnightly) were a human right! He lives on a different planet.
Wrong-Direction
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,416
People that work for the council are generally c***s
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Day off again?
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,890
How about doing the same with speeding limits ? You are right, you just move the goalposts.
Shows how far we have gone when you need to introduce legislation to ensure common sense is applied.
This.
I do believe that a degree of flexibility is generally allowed for as far as speed cameras are concerned.
Worthing exile
New member
- May 12, 2009
- 1,219
Get a life
BensGrandad
New member
I agree with him on that they should be weekly.
drew
Drew
I don't. We now separate recycling from landfill. Works well in B/Hill. People need to think a bit more about what they throw away or, more imporantly, how much they buy in the first place.
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 30,564
In Steyning we are allowed to park for free for 4 hours with the proviso you cannot return to the car park for a second 4 hour block until at least one full hour has elapsed. If you simply move your car within the car park they can issue you with a parking ticket.
A parking attendant explained to me this week: "The idea is you park for 4 hours, then you can go away and have lunch for an hour, then come back and repark."
I'd didn't bother pointing out that by making people go away she was depriving the High Street of income. I see the same people every day, moving their cars when the attendants aren't around, or having to quit the car park altogether when they are around.
A parking attendant explained to me this week: "The idea is you park for 4 hours, then you can go away and have lunch for an hour, then come back and repark."
I'd didn't bother pointing out that by making people go away she was depriving the High Street of income. I see the same people every day, moving their cars when the attendants aren't around, or having to quit the car park altogether when they are around.
Heaven forbid people being made to think about their consumption, and its life after being discarded. All Kemptown's communal bins overflowing after 2 days without lorries, sickening amount of waste.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,292
are you suggesting there is more in Steyning high street than can be covered in a 4 hour trip? the restrictions are to prevent workers filling up the car park so that shoppers cant find a space.
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 30,564
No, I'm saying the car park itself it big enough to cope but the long stay spaces are less than 20% and fill up with health workers who arrive for the early shift. Hence the song and dance that full-time workers have to go through every lunchtime moving their cars in among the short term space.
High streets like Steyning need to offer free parking in order to compete with Tescos. Full time employees are also an important contributor to the high streets shops too. The money raised in penalties just about covers the costs of employing parking attendants to fine people, it's small minded district council bollocks like this that hamper high streets up and down the country.
BensGrandad
New member
I am not sure emptying the bins is a criteria that will make many buy less.
