vincematthews
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A nice civilised response to having ones 944 removed . . . ;-)
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944 Owner Prevents Car From Being Towed
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Waylander
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these parking firms are criminals,
I picked my son up from the pub the other night, had to wait 10 mins for him,
3 days later I get a fine in the post for exceeding the grace period in the car park, by 1m 45 seconds, £85 parking fine, please tell me how can £1 a second be justified
I picked my son up from the pub the other night, had to wait 10 mins for him,
3 days later I get a fine in the post for exceeding the grace period in the car park, by 1m 45 seconds, £85 parking fine, please tell me how can £1 a second be justified
Waylander
Active member
I have contacted the British Parking Association and they assure me it’s totally legal and within the parking code of practice,
I think it needs changing personally, especially in these times, as I’m a highly vulnerable I was never going to go in the pub to sign in to the exemption screen,
I never even got out the car
I think it needs changing personally, especially in these times, as I’m a highly vulnerable I was never going to go in the pub to sign in to the exemption screen,
I never even got out the car
Waylander said:
You can dispute it and by the sounds of it have a more than fair chance of it being cancelled - https://www.moneysavingex...ivate-parking-tickets/
Waylander
Active member
Update,
so after a few phone calls to Mitchell & Butler who are the parent company to this pub and also some big high street names, like miller and Carter, Toby Carvery.
they wholeheartedly agreed that £85 for 90 seconds was unfair, and have told the parking company to revoke the charge,
but I did some investigation work on the profits made from parking for this lot, as all the venue car parks for this group are with euro car parks
looks like last year they made 5.5 million in fines
so after a few phone calls to Mitchell & Butler who are the parent company to this pub and also some big high street names, like miller and Carter, Toby Carvery.
they wholeheartedly agreed that £85 for 90 seconds was unfair, and have told the parking company to revoke the charge,
but I did some investigation work on the profits made from parking for this lot, as all the venue car parks for this group are with euro car parks
looks like last year they made 5.5 million in fines
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Organised crime is what it really is, how it is allowed is beyond me, in my opinion the kind of practices that these companies get up to is the same as a common criminal. Don't want to divert the topic but I live in a rural area and I'm not connected to mains gas so have to rely on bulk LPG. It is a similar racket with the LPG companies who make up prices based on what they think they can get away with due to it being a captive market, there was an investigation into various business practices and pricing several years ago but apart from a few of the companies getting their wrists slapped nothing really changed. You could be paying 50 pence per litre and your neighbour next door could be paying 35 pence per litre for LPG from the same company.
blade7 said:
Problem with that is you have a big expenditure on a new boiler and fitting, removal of LPG tank (not cheap). My boiler is located in a cupboard off the hallway (with flue through the roof) which when built was perfectly acceptable but now due to new building regulations is not allowed. So if I was to change the boiler I'd also have to resite the boiler elsewhere in the house and have all the associated plumbing changed.
When I last looked biofuel boilers seemed the way to go for cost savings.
blade7
Well-known member
Is there expense to remove a LPG tank, thought you just told the tank owner that you don't want it anymore? My oil boiler was changed a couple of years ago (thanks Eco scheme). The flue exits straight out of the wall behind it. Admittedly there's the expense of a bunded oil tank, but oil is really cheap at the moment.
vitesse
Active member
Given that we have been told that new Homes can't have gas boilers from 2025,& possibly neither oil nor LPG ,this question will rapidly become a dilemma.
Our main house is a large Victorian (1863) detached property with 12' ceilings ,sash windows with no double glazing,13 rooms but insulated cavity wall construction(quite a novelty for that time).
Cooking is entirely gas & we have a gas heated greenhouse for a large collection of tropical plants plus my wife's 6 tortoises.
We have a sophisticated electronic thermostat/heating control system operating a Potterton fully pumped Sedbuk A condensing boiler-28 kW rating with separate stored water cylinder with electric immersion heater(only used in an emergency) -the control allows us 24 time periods with 2 channels.
Monthly cost -£118 with Octopus at present.
Electricity is at least 4 times as expensive with electric boilers such as Fischer,also hugely expensive & heat from air units wouldn't be adequate & they are also very expensive
It seems to me we are all going to get seriously hammered when the time comes whatever system one has now.
Our cottage on the IOM has a Vailant wall hung combi boiler 24 kW but only providing hot water & 6 radiators on LPG ( we are just a little too far from the natural gas main) but mains gas & LPG are priced the same at over 2 times our mainland price.
I hate storage radiators but what else will be using in 10 yrs?
Our main house is a large Victorian (1863) detached property with 12' ceilings ,sash windows with no double glazing,13 rooms but insulated cavity wall construction(quite a novelty for that time).
Cooking is entirely gas & we have a gas heated greenhouse for a large collection of tropical plants plus my wife's 6 tortoises.
We have a sophisticated electronic thermostat/heating control system operating a Potterton fully pumped Sedbuk A condensing boiler-28 kW rating with separate stored water cylinder with electric immersion heater(only used in an emergency) -the control allows us 24 time periods with 2 channels.
Monthly cost -£118 with Octopus at present.
Electricity is at least 4 times as expensive with electric boilers such as Fischer,also hugely expensive & heat from air units wouldn't be adequate & they are also very expensive
It seems to me we are all going to get seriously hammered when the time comes whatever system one has now.
Our cottage on the IOM has a Vailant wall hung combi boiler 24 kW but only providing hot water & 6 radiators on LPG ( we are just a little too far from the natural gas main) but mains gas & LPG are priced the same at over 2 times our mainland price.
I hate storage radiators but what else will be using in 10 yrs?
blade7
Well-known member
Don't buy a new home after 2025 then. For 6 months of the year we rarely have our heating on, and the boiler runs half an hour a day to heat the water. Our oil bill is probably £500 a year for a 3 bed detached. Heating oil and gas will still be around in 10 years, though we'll all be paying through the nose for the renewable subsidies.
Did somebody mention Bio Fuels? Need to be careful with that...in my last job we built a lot of housing association apartments, and ticking the boxes for Green compliance many included wood pellet boilers. However, for those in the know there was concern over security of supply for wood pellets, so most would fit a gas boiler as well, in tandem, just in case...
Did somebody mention Bio Fuels? Need to be careful with that...in my last job we built a lot of housing association apartments, and ticking the boxes for Green compliance many included wood pellet boilers. However, for those in the know there was concern over security of supply for wood pellets, so most would fit a gas boiler as well, in tandem, just in case...
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