Now, new rules have come into force across the UK which means drivers using private car parks will no longer be penalised if they take more than five minutes to pay. This new change is being introduced in order to protect motorists who may see a delay when making a payment at car parks.
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00:00The fact that people feel they've been victims of rogue parking companies, not all of them
00:08are I accept, but nonetheless there are those that go around with a positive incentive to
00:13get as many people as possible because quite clearly it's about fines which of course goes
00:17into their coffers. It's not a new problem, this has been around for a quarter of a century
00:23or longer.
00:24The new five minute rule in private car parks applies a safeguard which is monitored by
00:28ANPR or CCTV cameras in order to ensure drivers who face difficulties paying for parking in
00:33a short time frame aren't treated unfairly. This comes following several reports of drivers
00:38who were charged hefty fines for taking longer than five minutes to pay for parking, with
00:43one motorist being charged nearly £2,000.
00:47And the reality is that these days when you go into car parks or wherever you get done
00:52as it were, you have to find either the money, but of course it's not money anymore, it's
00:58And of course for older people that's also a big problem in terms of getting on to your
01:02phone and doing quite complicated things which may be a bit of an issue.
01:08The fact that there's a bit of a clamp down will be welcomed by many motorists who feel,
01:12as I say, I use that word very deliberately, victimised. Wherever we go we seem to get
01:18sort of done for parking. Free parking seems to be now becoming a bit of a privilege.
01:24So yeah, for sure, more regulation is good, although of course I do accept that there
01:30is an issue if you have private parking, or private land rather, you don't want everyone
01:35parking on there because of course that can also become a problem. So it's a question
01:38of people parking more responsibly, but also the motorists expecting that they get a bit
01:45of respect from the companies that own the land as well.
01:50As a police officer in this country, I've got enough problems dealing with a wide scope
01:55of crime and parking problems are another sort of burden.