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A few weeks ago I received a parking ticket from the above, claiming that I had parked in the local Tesco store for over five hours. Doubting this, I checked my Podpoint account, the store having four charge points. The times on the parking ticket corresponded with the starting time of the first charging sessions on that day and the end of the second charging session! So I appealed without offering the Podpoint evidence and they conceded. Which means that they had the evidence all along that I hadn't been there for five hours or so - the limit is 1.5 hours. There was a recent item on You and Yours about this very "phenomenon"; the programme was inundated with calls and emails. A member of the BPA (British Parking Association) claimed that 50% of appeals were successful - he didn't mention the remaining 50%. This is simple opportunistic attempted fraud, nothing less. I will be writing to my MP, although without much hope - she's a Sleaze Party member!
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