Lidl parking

[Fredxxx]

That was my thought initially, but this is really defamation and its consequences.

Aren't we therefore talking of High Court action?

[Capitol]

Aldi is just about the only grocer still selling breadcrumbed Camemberts. Their junk collection is much wider than Lidl.

[Bob Minchin]

That was my thinking about a year ago. Now about 80% of our weekly shop comes from Aldi and the rest from a fortnightly trip to ASDA and the odd trip to Costco.

[Tim w]

Simply this:

If you have some land you can run a private car park, no question. Put a bloke in a kiosk or a pay and display machine, whatever you like,

BUT you are NOT entitled to issue a fine or a ticket for non-compliance or failure to pay and you are NOT entitled to clamp either.

So what looks like a parking ticket is actually only an invoice for inflated charges on the basis that you agreed to a contract when you parked there because the terms were written up on a sign. But you didn't read the small print and even if you did unreasonable terms are unenforceable under consumer legislation.

So it is a scam tolerated by every town council in every town centre in the land. If you ignore the demands the 'fine' wil be doubled and doubled until it is in the hundreds and backed up by letters from solicitors that probably don't even exist, with charges added on so it can get quite scary. In the end it is all bluster and hollow threats. they can't enforce it in court.

Tim w

[Nightjar]

Fair enough. In the same town as my Lidl you get the first two hours free in the town centre car park.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Then the station should build themselves a car park. Why did the council approve a station with no car park?

[michael adams]

As it happens I wasn't advising the OP to do anything. I was simply making an observation.

Any advice on offer would have been in the webpage to which I left a link

As to Beavis I'm not aware of any judgement being made, and in any case with Beavis, there is no disagreement as to fact.

In this case there most certainly is. It's for the complainant to prove that the OP hadn't shopped in Lidl at the appropriate times, not for him to prove that he had.

michael adams

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[Jonno]

Dave Plowman (News) scribbled

Lidl have set a 2 hour limit at my local shop. Not that it's ever more than half full.

[charles]

That's rather like asking why Windsor Castle was built so close to Heathrow airport.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

No it isn't.

[charles]

Since the station waa built before the age of the motor car - and Town & Country planning did not exist - it is very similar

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

And everything nearby is equally old is it? When a building is knocked down, a car park should be made if there aren't enough already.

[newshound]

Yes indeed. When I was a lad (1950's) my local suburban commuter station (Ewell West) had a couple of dozen car parking spaces, but it was seldom more than half full. Most of those commuters who were lucky enough to have a car left it at home with the wife.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

All these problems are solved by not living so close to each other. I don't have parking problems in Scotland.

[charles]

That probably depends where in Scotland.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Yes there are a couple of horrid places called Glasgow and Edinburgh, but normal people don't live there.

[Graham.]

Defamation? No. Theft maybe!

[Graham.]

Women driving? Next thing they'll will be smoking pipes.

[Fredxxx]

What theft? How have the parking charge company benefited from this theft?

[Tough Guy no. 1265]