SABA Parking Grace period

[PudseyBearHST]

Hello,

What is the grace period for entering and leaving a SABA ANPR car park and not having to pay? If I was there for 5 minutes, am I still required to pay the daily charge?

Thanks

 

[Nippy]

It’s 20 minutes at Tring.

image is a screen shot of the LNR website.

 

[PudseyBearHST]

Thanks. I tried to see on the app and it wouldn’t even let me pick anything less than a 30 minute gap between start and finish.

 

[Nippy]

You don’t need to do anything with the app if you’re not parking. you don’t even need to register with Saba. Which station is it?

 

[PudseyBearHST]

You don’t need to do anything with the app if you’re not parking. you don’t even need to register with Saba. Which station is it?

It was cheddington.

 

[Bletchleyite]

It was cheddington.

WMT stations usually have a 20 minute free period for collection/drop off/going to the booking office for a future journey (which is a fairly standard railway thing going back to BR days). Some of them (e.g. Bletchley) have the 20 minute area separate from the main parking, but I don't *think* Cheddington does, and based on what I see on the Glide app when I park it appears that 20 minute free period is applied to all spaces. So my view would be that you are OK there. If in doubt, go to the machine and put in your registration number, it'll say nothing is due if you're within that time.

 

[PudseyBearHST]

Thanks

WMT stations usually have a 20 minute free period for collection/drop off/going to the booking office for a future journey (which is a fairly standard railway thing going back to BR days). Some of them (e.g. Bletchley) have the 20 minute area separate from the main parking, but I don't *think* Cheddington does, and based on what I see on the Glide app when I park it appears that 20 minute free period is applied to all spaces. So my view would be that you are OK there. If in doubt, go to the machine and put in your registration number, it'll say nothing is due if you're within that time.

 

[Mojo]

FWIW, in order to obtain keeper’s details from the DVLA in order to issue / enforce a civil penalty, parking companies have to be members of either the British Parking Association or the International Parking Community; these organisations have a code of practice which specifies that generally speaking car parks should have a consideration period of 5 minutes (10 minutes if more than 500 spaces and offering more than an hour’s free parking) and a 10 minute grace period.

 

[Nippy]

It was cheddington.

Cheddington is shown as being one of the ANPR controlled car parks so is covered under that 20 minutes in the screen shot I attached.
This is the link spot the ANPR page I screenshotted

Automatic number plate recognition

The way you pay for parking has changed Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology have been installed at the following locations along with more payment options and increased security. As part of these changes, these locations have also become cashless.

www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk

 

[PudseyBearHST]

@Nippy @Mojo Thanks for the replies

 

[Kite159]

FWIW, in order to obtain keeper’s details from the DVLA in order to issue / enforce a civil penalty, parking companies have to be members of either the British Parking Association or the International Parking Community; these organisations have a code of practice which specifies that generally speaking car parks should have a consideration period of 5 minutes (10 minutes if more than 500 spaces and offering more than an hour’s free parking) and a 10 minute grace period.

Said code of practice in real life is as useless as a chocolate teapot with those parking parasites, safe in the knowledge that it will take something serious (like doctoring photos) to get banned from accessing the DVLA data.

 

[johncrossley]

Said code of practice in real life is as useless as a chocolate teapot with those parking parasites, safe in the knowledge that it will take something serious (like doctoring photos) to get banned from accessing the DVLA data.

I never pay to park at privately owned sites. I only park at privately owned sites if there is a minimum of one hour free parking and I won't ever exceed the free period. That is my policy. In the very rare occasions that I pay to park, I only ever use council owned sites. Otherwise I'll park on unrestricted roads nearby, or if that's not possible I simply won't go to that location by car.

 

[Egg Centric]

I never pay to park at privately owned sites. I only park at privately owned sites if there is a minimum of one hour free parking and I won't ever exceed the free period. That is my policy. In the very rare occasions that I pay to park, I only ever use council owned sites. Otherwise I'll park on unrestricted roads nearby, or if that's not possible I simply won't go to that location by car.

That's practical up here. How on earth do you manage that in London?

 

[Bletchleyite]

That's practical up here. How on earth do you manage that in London?

Driving in London is a mug's game.

 

[johncrossley]

That's practical up here. How on earth do you manage that in London?

Council car parks are pretty widespread in outer London. But mostly I'm talking about when I'm outside London. I don't drive to destinations within London very often.