03-27-2026, 11:54 AM
HELP!!
1. The car park is attached to the Eltham branch of Sainsburys.
2. The parking tariff is refunded if you spend £10 or more in store.
3. This wasn't a shopping trip. The driver's missus was attending a hospital appt. at the Eltham Community Hospital.
4. She has a 'blue badge', which she believed exempted her from normal parking charges.
5. The driver knew this was nonsense, but unfortunately didn't engage his grey matter sufficiently to challenge her baseless assumptions.
6. Consequently, no ticket was purchased.
7. You now have before you the result of the driver's own stupidity and lack of engagement with his missus' misapprehensions about her parking rights.
8. The driver is painfully aware that the PPC will just laugh at any appeal based on this set of circumstances. He would rather by-pass this stage altogether if legally feasible.
9. Although there must be signs all over the place, none were seen or read. The disabled bays were by the entrance, and the driver had no reason to seek them out.
10. The driver wonders if the invoice might be successfully challenged by arguing, for example, that there is no contract between him and the PPC.
11. Her misapprehensions arose from a tel/con. with Customer Services at Bexley Council, who assured her that no charges applied to her when using council-owned car parks.
12. It was also assumed that this car park was owned by Greenwich Council. Unfortunately:
"No, the Eltham Sainsbury’s car park (Passey Place) is not, and has not been, directly owned by Greenwich Council. It is owned and operated by the Greenwich Enterprise Board (GEB), a social enterprise and independent body, although the Council helped establish the GEB. It is technically private land, though open to the public."
Yes, the driver walked into this one. Any grounds for a defence? Any point in appealing when the driver knows any appeal will be rejected OOH?
Any help/advice greatly appreciated.
https://ibb.co/album/0DJXWq
1. The car park is attached to the Eltham branch of Sainsburys.
2. The parking tariff is refunded if you spend £10 or more in store.
3. This wasn't a shopping trip. The driver's missus was attending a hospital appt. at the Eltham Community Hospital.
4. She has a 'blue badge', which she believed exempted her from normal parking charges.
5. The driver knew this was nonsense, but unfortunately didn't engage his grey matter sufficiently to challenge her baseless assumptions.
6. Consequently, no ticket was purchased.
7. You now have before you the result of the driver's own stupidity and lack of engagement with his missus' misapprehensions about her parking rights.
8. The driver is painfully aware that the PPC will just laugh at any appeal based on this set of circumstances. He would rather by-pass this stage altogether if legally feasible.
9. Although there must be signs all over the place, none were seen or read. The disabled bays were by the entrance, and the driver had no reason to seek them out.
10. The driver wonders if the invoice might be successfully challenged by arguing, for example, that there is no contract between him and the PPC.
11. Her misapprehensions arose from a tel/con. with Customer Services at Bexley Council, who assured her that no charges applied to her when using council-owned car parks.
12. It was also assumed that this car park was owned by Greenwich Council. Unfortunately:
"No, the Eltham Sainsbury’s car park (Passey Place) is not, and has not been, directly owned by Greenwich Council. It is owned and operated by the Greenwich Enterprise Board (GEB), a social enterprise and independent body, although the Council helped establish the GEB. It is technically private land, though open to the public."
Yes, the driver walked into this one. Any grounds for a defence? Any point in appealing when the driver knows any appeal will be rejected OOH?
Any help/advice greatly appreciated.
https://ibb.co/album/0DJXWq
