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Hi all, first off I have to say this is an excellent forum - very knowledgeable and informative - hopefully you'll be able to shed some light on my issue.
I work as a contractor for a major UK insurance firm, who operate a rather unfortunate (for me) parking policy, whereby after my 70 mile commute to their office, as I'm a contractor, they insist I may not park on-site but must instead battle for one of their park&ride spaces at the local football club, or park in a 'park & hide' space (a couple of local residential roads have been reccommended and a lay-by).
Anyway, being slightly over-protective of my car, I took exception to these suggestions and parked onsite (for over a year now!) without a permit. The normal course of action to combat this is to put a note under the windscreen wipers and do nothing else. During a recent clampdown on a 40-50 people parking onsite without a permit, the parking wombles have collected a list of registration plates, and now lie in wait for one of these cars to appear in the car park so they can obtain our details and go tell-tales to our managers.
Yesterday I spotted a parking womble at the entrance to the car park and so drove past and parked on one of the reccommended public roads. Having parked here I returned to my car to find one of the standard 'you have parked on site without permission' notices on my car.
Now clearly I had not parked on site; as I was parked legally on a public road I am interested to know if this parking womble was in fact tresspassing and if I would be able to take any legal action as retaliation for any disciplinary action I may be subjected to?
Is it demanding money, or just a note? Not much you can do about notes on your windscreen, unless it escalates towards harrassment.
Putting an invoice on a car demanding money on a public road would come under fraud I would have thought.
Just a note - It's the fact that they've taken to effort to locate my car off-site and still whack a notice on it that riles me a little bit. Would like to have something in my armoury to hit back with if they want to discipline me for my previous 12 months of non-permitted parking!
I'd put your own note on your car, telling them to sling their hook and not to leave stupid messages when your car is legally parked on the public highway.
What kind of discipline are we talking about the non-permit parking?
Is there nobody you can talk to so you can actually get a permit? It sounds like it's proving difficult to do the job they are paying you to do.
Private parking notice on public road
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