Overview:
a. I have been parking in a car park from Monday to Friday since June 2004. This car park is part of a shopping complex.
b. I enter in the morning at approximately 9 am, buy lunch and leave the car park at approximately 1 pm with a validated ticket.
I then re-enter the car park at 1.15, buy dinner and leave the car park at approximately 5.30 pm with a validated ticket.
The reason I do this is to keep the cost downby getting a validated ticket. My ticket is validated if I spend money in the supermarket there.
c. Since at least February 2010, as I have been exiting the car park I have been told on various occasions by the cetnre manager that I am breaching the car park conditions and would be clamped. I explained that I didn't think I was breaching the rules and kept parking there. I was not clamped even though it is quite visible that I was still parking there.
d. So today they refused entry on the basis that I was breaking the terms and conditions. I left without argument because the centre manager stayed looking from a distance and send one of his staff to refuse entry so I didn't see the point in arguing the point with someone just carrying out instructions.
Extra points
1. I know lots of others who do this and are never hassled
2. I have been doing it for over 6 years so what is the issue now?
Can anyone tell me -
1. Have I got a right to park there given that I spend money there every day - therefore fulfilling the customer only condition?
2. Am I breaching the all day parking rule if I move the car out once a day?
3. Does the fact that I have been doing this for over 6 years hold any sway
Opinion - Take the terms and conditions and rights away - I'm clearly spending a lot of money at this centre (not just the lunch/dinner scenario but weekly shopping, using the various shops in the centre on a weekly basis) and I can't understand why they want to stop this? I know they are just the management company acting on behalf of the centre owners and maybe are just following the rules but common sense is not prevailing here as I am not blocking anyone else from parking there (there are many free spaces at any time of the day). It just doesn't make common sense, even if it makes legal sense.
a. I have been parking in a car park from Monday to Friday since June 2004. This car park is part of a shopping complex.
b. I enter in the morning at approximately 9 am, buy lunch and leave the car park at approximately 1 pm with a validated ticket.
I then re-enter the car park at 1.15, buy dinner and leave the car park at approximately 5.30 pm with a validated ticket.
The reason I do this is to keep the cost downby getting a validated ticket. My ticket is validated if I spend money in the supermarket there.
c. Since at least February 2010, as I have been exiting the car park I have been told on various occasions by the cetnre manager that I am breaching the car park conditions and would be clamped. I explained that I didn't think I was breaching the rules and kept parking there. I was not clamped even though it is quite visible that I was still parking there.
d. So today they refused entry on the basis that I was breaking the terms and conditions. I left without argument because the centre manager stayed looking from a distance and send one of his staff to refuse entry so I didn't see the point in arguing the point with someone just carrying out instructions.
Extra points
1. I know lots of others who do this and are never hassled
2. I have been doing it for over 6 years so what is the issue now?
Can anyone tell me -
1. Have I got a right to park there given that I spend money there every day - therefore fulfilling the customer only condition?
2. Am I breaching the all day parking rule if I move the car out once a day?
3. Does the fact that I have been doing this for over 6 years hold any sway
Opinion - Take the terms and conditions and rights away - I'm clearly spending a lot of money at this centre (not just the lunch/dinner scenario but weekly shopping, using the various shops in the centre on a weekly basis) and I can't understand why they want to stop this? I know they are just the management company acting on behalf of the centre owners and maybe are just following the rules but common sense is not prevailing here as I am not blocking anyone else from parking there (there are many free spaces at any time of the day). It just doesn't make common sense, even if it makes legal sense.