Fury after shopper fined £70 for returning to Hull retail…

Customers at a Hull retail park have been warned about parking fines after several shoppers were charged upwards of £70 for breaching “unfair” rules. The rules of the Mount Pleasant car park, operated by Parkingeye, state that customers can stay for up to three hours, with no return within one hour which they say is “to prevent long-stay parking abuse”. However, one man was recently charged £70 for returning 57 minutes after his visit to the Asda at the retail park to use the neighbouring KFC drive thru, sparking a heated debate between other road users. One woman said that she had recently received a similar fine when she was shopping at Asda, claiming that she was sent a charge for breaking the car park’s ‘one hour no return’ rule when she had to go home to collect money to pay for her shopping. Shoppers are now calling for more lenient rules to avoid these kinds of “unfair” fines. Read more: East Hull route to close for up to 10 weeks – with diversions along Holderness Road On the Hull Traffic & Travel Facebook page, alongside a photo of his fine, David posted: “FYI, parking notice for returning to Mount Pleasant retail park within 1 hour (3 minutes early…) didn’t even know it was a thing… “First visit was Asda and second was KFC drive through, car park is never ever full! Won’t be shopping at any of these stores anymore until they get rid of this scam company.” David had returned to use the KFC drive thru Chrissie had a similar experience, commenting: “My dad just got stung with this. He went to Asda and when he got home realised he needed to return something to Asda and then got one of these through the post. And Asda claim they can’t do anything as it’s not their car park.” Janet had also been stung by a fine: “I’ve just received one too, Mount Pleasant again! Did some shopping and left, realised I’d forgotten something went back. Less than an hour in total!” Commenting on the parking system, Lesley said: “I would argue and say that the no return within one hour rule only counts if you park for the full free allotted time. You could have drove away- then re
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