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#Post#: 59329--------------------------------------------------
"Park with Ease" at RHDR.
DIR By: roythebus
Date: February 22, 2025, 11:03 am
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Living near the Kent Coast, we have the delightful Romney, Hythe
and Dymchurch Railway in our locality, a 15" steam Railway in
miniature celebrating its centenary in 2026. To celebrate this
event, they've just contracted Park With Ease Ltd to manage car
parking at their station, parking which was previously free. I
know the railway is short of funds, as indeed are most heritage
railways but their charges seem to be £2,50 for up to 2 and a
half hours with a £60 "fine" for overstay etc.
Do we have any information on how Park with Ease Ltd works? I've
not heard of them before. they are using ANPR on entry cameras
and pay machines on site to collect the £2.50. I don't have a
picture of the T&Cs to post at the moment for our learned
members to comment on.
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Re: "Park with Ease" at RHDR.
DIR By: 666
Date: February 22, 2025, 11:46 am
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--- Quote from: roythebus link ---
>
> Living near the Kent Coast, we have the delightful Romney,
Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in our locality, a 15" steam Railway
in miniature celebrating its centenary in 2026. To celebrate
this event, they've just contracted Park With Ease Ltd to manage
car parking at their station, parking which was previously free.
I know the railway is short of funds, as indeed are most
heritage railways but their charges seem to be £2,50 for up to 2
and a half hours with a £60 "fine" for overstay etc.
>
> Do we have any information on how Park with Ease Ltd works?
I've not heard of them before. they are using ANPR on entry
cameras and pay machines on site to collect the £2.50. I don't
have a picture of the T&Cs to post at the moment for our learned
members to comment on.
>
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For some reason the old phrase "... and repent at leisure"
sprang to mind.
But perhaps I was wrong. On their website they say "Park with
Ease is the UKs ethical parking management system". That seems
to be an oxymoron: it would certainly be interesting to hear of
any first hand experience with them.
#Post#: 59334--------------------------------------------------
Re: "Park with Ease" at RHDR.
DIR By: andy_foster
Date: February 22, 2025, 11:54 am
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Apparently they were established in 2012 - which is pre Beavis -
which means that they must have lied about their penalty charges
for parking on other people's land being a genuine pre-estimate
of their loss. So "ethical" in very much the same way that the
communist states with the word "Democratic" in their names were
democratic.
If you want to know what the small players in the PPC industry
are like (beyond the subtle clue in the words PPC industry) try
googling their name.
#Post#: 59336--------------------------------------------------
Re: "Park with Ease" at RHDR.
DIR By: DWMB2
Date: February 22, 2025, 12:02 pm
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They don't crop up very often, so I don't know if they still do
this, but they used to claim that they could "enhance" the
quality of ANPR images in order to prove the keeper was the
driver if the matter got to court (I've never seen them sue
anyone).
Nothing says "ethical" quite like lying in a bid to elicit
payment.
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Re: "Park with Ease" at RHDR.
DIR By: roythebus
Date: February 22, 2025, 12:20 pm
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From their website which hasn't been updated to include the RHDR
yet, this gem:
"What happens if I do not pay?
If you do not pay within 48 hours for your parking then the
matter will be forwarded to a third party company."
So the RHDR gains sweet FA from it, another comany will no doubt
send out the threatograms.
#Post#: 59353--------------------------------------------------
Re: "Park with Ease" at RHDR.
DIR By: Lodesman
Date: February 22, 2025, 2:59 pm
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Roy, we live close to the RHDR and the story, when I queried the
parking charges, was that local commuters were parking there,
sharing a car to a common destination, returning in the late
afternoon, picking up their cars and driving home. This reduced
the number of spaces available to customers of RHDR.
How true this is I have no idea but I wouldn’t be surprised if
it were the case.
#Post#: 59354--------------------------------------------------
Re: "Park with Ease" at RHDR.
DIR By: roythebus
Date: February 22, 2025, 3:22 pm
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That surprises me but again it doesn't. there's plenty of free
parking in the trading estate alongside New Romney station, a
couple of council car parks at Dymchurch and at Hythe. Let's see
who whinges first.
#Post#: 59534--------------------------------------------------
Re: "Park with Ease" at RHDR.
DIR By: Lodesman
Date: February 24, 2025, 11:14 am
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Let’s face it Roy, three cars parking for free in the RHDR Hythe
car park rather than pay £10.80 a day in the Military Road car
park is a no brainier if you all then pile into a fourth car and
drive to Ashford/Canterbury for work. Small wonder the spaces
get used up in Hythe.
#Post#: 60074--------------------------------------------------
Re: "Park with Ease" at RHDR.
DIR By: The Slithy Tove
Date: March 1, 2025, 4:43 am
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Park With Ease used to manage the Lake District National Parks*
car parks. Of all the private parking schemes, theirs seems to
be one of the fairest. ANPR clocks your car coming in. When it's
time to go, you enter your reg and it tells you what you owe.
And even if you forget/don't have any money or cards, you have
up to the end of the following day to pay online. I even "got
away" without paying once - it was raining so hard I think the
cameras couldn't pick up the car reg. It couldn't find the reg
when I typed it in, so I took a gamble and didn't pay. Never got
a "fine".
*Previous to Park With Ease, ParkingEye (mis)managed their car
parks, I presume there were many complaints. Now LDNP have
brought parking back in-house with old-fashioned Pay & Display,
so I assume even Park With Ease wasn't good for them.
#Post#: 60077--------------------------------------------------
Re: "Park with Ease" at RHDR.
DIR By: DWMB2
Date: March 1, 2025, 4:57 am
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To their credit, allowing payment up until the end of the day is
certainly more generous than the opposite end of the scale, with
Excel's "pay within 5 minutes of arrival or we'll sue you"
approach.
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