Aggressive parking policies benefit no one except the parking company. Tritton Retail Park has now lost a customer who will take their business elsewhere.
The trick is to find the happy balance between landowner, motorist and operator. This will never be achieved by landowners letting their car parks be managed 'for free'. Portion controlling shoppers is a recipe for disaster, lost business and reputational damage.
Happy Parking
The Parking Prankster
Aggressive ticketing may even cost the retailers more in business rates. The following clause is from the rating valuers manual.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of Business Rates the Valuation Office Rating
Manual Volume 5 suggests thus
"In some cases whilst there is no provision for parking charges,
the
operator rigidly applies a policy of penalty charges to anyone who
overstays their free parking period. Where a significant income is
generated from this source, there is a presumption of value; how
much will depend on the facts.
Penalty charges may be levied by car park operators. In most cases, penalty charges should be considered to be part of the Gross
Receipts."
It's an appealing parable, but how could any particular shop or Tritton Retail Park itself get a UKPC penalty "quashed" on the spot? Aren't UKPC one of the outfits that blithely ignores instructions from the landowner?
ReplyDeleteDoes sound a little too, well...... constructed.
ReplyDeleteYou could always give him a call or email though
The person stands up in a company search: http://www.bizstats.co.uk/ltd/k-anderson-butchers-whisby-ltd-07607491/
You could email from here:http://www.whisbygardencentre.co.uk/the-lakeside-butcher.html
love the idea of returning the goods........hit'em where it hurts
ReplyDeleteThe daft thing is that finding a space has never been a problem during the week. In spite of it being one of the closest free car parks to the High St, we go there on a regular basis Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (my days off) and it is never filled up with commuters staying all day.
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