ROY Horrobin is right on the inadequate notices about the Llandough Hospital parking scheme run by 'Parking-Eye', so people can be very annoyed at receiving a penalty notice in the post (Penarth Times, February 27).
But he's misleading in writing of "parking regulations". The hospital site in not a public highway and the 'charges' are not enforced by the police. The £70 might be extracted via the County Court (as a google-search explains), but the fear that one's credit rating could be affected is more serious.
An "appeal" to Parking Eye against their penalty-charge, on grounds that the public notices are unclear, is likely to succeed. Of 600 appeals in the first month, Parking Eye say they accepted some 60 per cent; of the others, many would simply not have paid up.
Max Wallis
Westbourne Road
Penarth
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