I HAVE been reading reports and letters about the new parking conditions at Beeches Green... unfortunately too late for me, I received a £100 penalty.

I have only ever been in this car park to use the breast screening service and the last time I went was in 2012.

So when I went on June 17, to the mobile unit, I was not looking for, nor did I see any notices regarding pay and display.

Had there been prominent warning notices at the entrance that new regulations were in place I would of course have paid.

I sat in my car parked by the mobile unit facing the cream painted house at the back for a few minutes before going in and was not aware of any signs, they were certainly not at my eye level.

Had I been a visitor to the surgery I may have been made aware of the new regulations but that was not the purpose of my visit.

I have read and re-read the ParkingEye penalty notice and am amazed that anyone in authority could have agreed the wording, it just doesn’t make sense.

Perhaps there is no one with authority in that organisation who has the ability to draft important notices!

Having studied their website regarding appeals, I was astonished and upset to read that should I appeal I would lose the right to ‘an early settlement discount’ should I lose my appeal.

However, this statement is not on the parking notice.

If a visitor to the site is forming a contract with ParkingEye, then I think that the omission of this statement on the penalty notice and the very fact that it does actually exist, may make this an unfair contract and possibly unenforceable in the county court.

Jill Matley
France Lynch