‘The Great British parking scam!’ Drivers react to raft of fines issued by companies

‘Pikestaff’ wrote of their own experience, saying: “My Local M&S has reduced the parking time from 3 to 2 hours and have installed an ANPR camera.

“Having been made aware of this by the attendant who used to enter the reg no manually, he informed me that if you went over 2 hours you would now automatically receive a £100 charge notice through the post.

“We had had a spot of lunch and my wife was still in there having been there 1 &1/2 hours I went off to find her and we left with 10 min to left to go.

“It’s a trap by any other name.”