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I’ve just drove past my gym area and thought I’d take a pictures of the signs in the dark as it would have been dark in February/early March mornings.

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How did you get to that location as you have to pass a no entry sign unless you enter the car park the normal way and drive around the building, in which case you probably passed this sign (unless it is no longer there):



Not that the no entry sign has any authority on private land.

This sign does not currently exist and I have never seen it.

But what is the relevance of the timestamps? Regardless, the driver was in that space. The letter does state 'entry and exit times' but there is no footage of my car leaving the spot at any point.

There evidence clearly is flawed, but does that actually help the driver?

I do not have all the time stamps to hand currently, but they are all between the times of 6:10am to 6:30am. One, I recall, registers the number plate at 6:18 and the second picture is at 6:32am. This is the longest time gap I have seen in the PCNs received thus far.

I have taken a picture of the sign put up by the gym recently as what I can only assume is in response to the influx of parking tickets.

The driver parks in the red - as they have been doing for years. Sometimes, in the purple which do have a 'JD' sign on the bottom but are not marked in green on this sign, pointing to inconsistencies.

Another gym car park is the bit in blue.

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The car park gets absolutetly jam-packed in the morning. The only other spaces are on the other side of the building which is shared by yet another gym. You would think that in the mornings there is an abundance of space, but there is not.

Could I drive all the way around and find a space further a way, perhaps. I will not neglect that aspect. However, naturally I chose to park where I have been parking for literal years.

To me, the sign was unclear especially during dark mornings. Sometimes it was even dark when I still left around 8am.

That is the point - it is not clear that it is not the gym's land. The lady on the phone today when I called Jardines remarked how bollards (which are never erected) had been installed and numbers in the spaces, but how was I now supposed to know that means the area is now cordened off? The fact that there are people complaining to Jardines daily makes it clear that there is a clear error on the part of EPS. I saw people parking there today!

As mentioned in other comments, the time gap seems to be around 10-14 minutes in terms of picture taken. To me, it reads as if perhaps they give an 'allowance' of some sort. The contravention time stamp is marked as the latter time. I, of course, stay at the gym longer than this.

Update:

I’ve spoken to the landowners and they’ve agreed to raise a complaint with Euro Parking Services.

They say they have had calls/complaints everyday from people!

However, the lady on the phone seemed to think there isn’t much she can do.

Yes, I’ll be moving out of the UK. Out of Europe.

Ah, I see the confusion. It is one way. A unwritten rule is if you park near enough the exit (hence why people aim to been park around that particular area where the contravention occurred), you can turn right and slip out through the one way.

If you’re further up, it’s usually frowned upon.

Further, the sign is amidst bushes so I couldn’t get any closer to it.

There is a sign a little further along, however, at the same height but not in bushes.

Here’s a link to all the signage!

https://imgur.com/a/O0RBYzy