paulhandyman

have nice holidays and thanks for all your hard work Mark

There is nothing wrong in charging people for a car parking by NCP as they have invested a lot of money in that. The only problem is that they forgot to invest a couple of hundreds pounds in a proper sign informing that there is not "usual" free sainsurys car parking but a chargable parking managed by NCP. Do you think that they just forgot to do it or that the managment people of the sainsburys in Forest Hill are so stupid and don't know this problem ?? You should see today the suprised faces of the old couple putting their shopping in the car as the trafic warden informed about the penalty parking ticket. How they should know about the parking fees if there is no big sign informing about it ???? They just park automaticly their car as in many other free sainsburys parkings. There is only the question about fair business practices - nothing more !!!!

I was waiting today (approx 30 min) for my friend at the back of the Sainsbury's store in Forest Hill (Pear Avenue). There is a nice big parking for sainsbury's shoppers. It seems like a normal free parking for sainsbury's visitors like the one in East Dulwich or Sydenham but it isn't a free parking!!! I saw there a traffic warden making a good business today morning. During my 30 min observation the traffic guy made approx 20 photos of the cars without valid parking ticket. Many people visiting the store don't suspect that there is a NCP paid parking. There are a couple of small signs "pay and display" but the visibility of those signs is really poor. Also the ticket machine is located NOT in the open parking space but first in the sainsbury's underground sub-parking. I saw there today many suprised people who spent a lot of money in the shop plus they have now to spend ?60 or ?80 for the penalty parking ticket. NONSENSE !!!!! I even asked the traffic warden guy 'what's going on' - he said that the parking is magaged by NCP in cooperation with Sainsbury's !!!! For me it's a real trap for unaware customers. They should put there a huge sign informing that the parking is not free and managed by NCP and install a couple of ticket machines!!!!