Parkingeye ANPR PCN - Double Dipping - Aldi The Grange Retail Park **RESOLVED BY ALDI**

[claire250482]

I have a local retail park (The Grange Retail Park) that has an Aldi, Gregg's, Subway and Costa.

 

On the 27th January I nipped into the retail park for 5 mins for a Gregg's lunch, left and went on with my working day.

That evening, I needed to nip to Aldi on the same retail park... 

 

Over the weekend I have received a parking fine from Parkingeye for being parked up for nearly 8 hours! 

 

It's not a pay and display carpark just a limited time whilst shopping (I think 2 hours)

 

What do I do next?

I have proof of being in Gregg's at lunch but can't find my receipt for Alid, though this doesn't prove I wasn't there in between?

[honeybee13]

Hi.

 

It isn't a fine, only the police or a court can do that. What you have is a speculative invoice and we can help.

 

First of all, could you let us have the information requested in the forum sticky please?

 

 

HB

 

[claire250482]

I HAVE A PARKING CHARGE NOTICE

For PCN's received through the post [ANPR camera capture]

 

please answer the following questions.

 

1 Date of the infringement

27/1/20

 

2 Date on the NTK

30/1/20

 

3 Date received

1/2/20

 

4 Does the NTK mention schedule 4 of The Protections of Freedoms Act 2012? [Y/N?]

YES

 

5 Is there any photographic evidence of the event?

YES

 

6 Have you appealed? [Y/N?] post up your appeal]

Have you had a response? [Y/N?] post it up 

NO

 

7 Who is the parking company?

PARKINGEYE

 

8. Where exactly [carpark name and town]

GRANGE RETAIL PARK, LOUGHBOROUGH

 

For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under.

BPA

 

 

[brassnecked]

So a Double Dipping event, did you pay by cash or card at Aldi, if by card it would show on a bank statement?  Don't appeal, wait for the experts to pop in, they will be along soon for sure.

[claire250482]

Frustratingly card at Gregg's but cash at Aldi and I can't find the receipt for Aldi. I can find receipts from Tesco from 3 years ago, but not the one I so desperately need!! Typical

[brassnecked]

Where did you go in between?  bound to be something that would be fatal to any claim, don't worry the others will be along soon with further advice.

[claire250482]

Just been bin diving and found the Aldi receipt!!!

 

 

[honeybee13]

Well done.

 

HB

[Gick]

Just to clarify, only a Court can issue a FINE. The Police cannot, they can however issue a Fixed Penalty Notice (decriminalized). Likewise the Council cannot, they issue a Penalty Charge Notice (also decriminalized)

 

The differences are that only the Court issued Fine results in a record that can be referenced in a subsequent court case - subject to time limits.

[brassnecked]

Great  take a photo of the receipt and label it, as these can fade over time the pic will have a time date stamp as well.

[ericsbrother]

get onto one of the stores involved and tell them there you have been unfairly clobbered for visiting them and the other store on the same day by the mickey mouse parking cowboys system and that to avoid embarassment would they care to tell PE to wind their necks in?

 

If they wont then come back here and we will offer further advice on how to proceed.

 

The double dipping problem is well known so PE will look stupid if they dont drop the charge when they are told about it but better that the store does this so they know that it is their customers who are antsy about  this and not just some poor sucker who might yet pay them if they deny any fault with their rubbish system

[claire250482]

Thank you all for your help. I will keep you posted.

[claire250482]

*Update*

 

I nipped into Aldi today, showed proof of my two purchases and explained and they have made sure I don't have to pay the fine. They did explain that I may get a few more letters but to ignore or go back if in anyway concerned. Result!

[dx100uk]

IT IS NOT A FINE!!

 

dx

 

[FTMDave]

Well done on your victory!  

 

If I were you I'd write a couple of lines to the local Aldi to thank them for getting this speculative invoice cancelled, mentioning the date & time of the conversation, so you have something in writing just in case Parking Eye try to renege. 

 

 

[brassnecked]

Good advice FTMDave, PE are known for double dipping and resurrecting dead tickets.

[claire250482]

Thank you for the advice, I will do that

[ericsbrother]

I agree, make sure they follow up on their promise and let us know when either PE or Aldi give you somehting in writing.

Glad they have at least agreed to do something as it is rarer for the 2 budget supermarkets to be helpful than the bigger ones

They commonly own their land though so they do have more say on how things are run if they can be prodded into action