initialparking.co.uk

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Carl Coleman
In July used slate quay car park

In July used slate quay car park. App didn't work so used coins to pay. Displayed ticket. Several days later issued with £100 PCN. Appealed and requested Initial parking check their CCTV to show ticket being purchased on placed on dashboard. Immediately appeal rejected and didn't keep ticket so utterly scamned

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Date of experience: Jul 19, 2025
payed for car ticket at lamberis car…

payed for car ticket at lamberis car park for 2h only stayed for 1h30mins got a 100 fine waiting on appeal outcome beware keep ticket as proof

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Date of experience: Jul 11, 2025
Esty P.
Unable to extend car parking session

My son, a new driver parked in Gulls Rock Inn Car Park, putting a ticket onto his car, over running he went back and added another to extend it. From what we can see the ANPR couldn't cope with that and just fined him for the first car parking offence, ignoring the second ticket. To rub salt into the wound the offence was on the 10th July, notice issued on the 15th and only received on the 25th giving us just 5 days to deal with before the £60 fine rises to £100, completely done on purpose to catch you out. Wish these companies did not exist as they are nothing short of rip offs, personally I avoid these car parks and think companies and councils that use them need to think again, would avoid!!

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Date of experience: Jul 10, 2025
Gabe Sanders
Completely unethical company

Completely unethical company, no understanding shown having paid for a ticket, simply making money often at the expense of legitimate human difficulty!

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Date of experience: Jul 10, 2025
LP17
Avoid parking here

Avoid parking here, it's a scam!Use the Parking for Snowdon further down the road as it is cheaper and legitimate. Staying in your car for more than 10 minutes will result in a £100 fine.

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Date of experience: Jul 09, 2025
Axiane
No point appealing, these scammers will still get you

Even though we paid, provided evidence of the payment via bank statement AND produced the ticket and then appealed to POPLA, the appeal got denied because of an error on our ticket. As MANY others have stated here, this is due to a faulty machine printing only the first 2 digits. How would anyone even know that the machine part printing your reg is a mistake and not because of privacy??? Why are motorists now being held liable for faulty or incorrectly set up machines?Appalling that POPLA are not concerned, stating that this falls outside their role. Note the owner has multiple such businesses, and a little digging into their reviews, shows MANY to have the same thread....SCAM! These guys need to be reported, but I suspect just like POPLA, they wont care.

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Date of experience: Jul 09, 2025
Caratek53
Scam parking company

3 days agoNewDO NOT PARK here...it's a pay & display car park BUT they have anpr cameras on entry & exit...so by the time you have found a space, parked, walked to the ticket machine, queued & actually paid, then returned to put the ticket into your car - you think you have the ticket time as purchased to enjoy Abersoch. You then return back to your car, make your way out to the exit and at that point the anpr camera clocks you going out. Basically you don't just pay to park here, you pay for the time you enter & exit the car park...so BEWARE it could cost you £100 just to enter here!!!!!SHAME ON ABERSOCH VILLAGE HALL FOR SUPPORTING THESE CROOKS!!!

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Date of experience: Jul 08, 2025
Tyrone Brown
Dishonest spivs

I thought I was pretty street wise, clearly not though as it turns out. There’s a lovely village in Wales called Abersoch. It has a village hall which has a car park. Sadly they employ a team of scammers to run their car park. The scam is quite ingenious. They scan your vehicle as you drive in. You park and buy a ticket. There is no internet connection or phone signal so you go back to the car for change. You buy a ticket and it has an expiry time. You think that’s the time you need to return by. But no they record the time you physically leave and even when this is before the expiry time you get a fine of £100. Why, because they base it not on the time on the ticket but that on the camera. Seems this is common practice with the company concerned who run car parks all over the UK. What bothers me most is not the sharks who run the company it’s Abersoch village hall. Surely you know what is going on, a minute on trip advisor will show this.

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Date of experience: Jul 08, 2025
Branden Price
Just had a parking fine of £100 through…

Just had a parking fine of £100 through the door from parking in Holywell bay, luckily I’d kept the ticket so appealed and got a reply from these scammers saying because of my evidence they wouldn’t pursue the fine, firstly I payed for my parking I remember thinking how shocked my Dad would’ve been £8 for parking !! secondly they didn’t apologise at all, they must get so much money taking advantage of people especially the most vulnerable, absolute disgrace.

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Date of experience: Jul 05, 2025
Mikey Johnson
We were actually working for the car…

We were actually working for the car park's owner when we got fined by their scamming car park management company, Initial Parking. Even though we appealed on that basis they still would not retract the charge. They don't read your letters, the response to mine rejecting my appeal came by email at 4.30 in the morning proving it's just an automated system set to auto reject.

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Date of experience: Jun 30, 2025

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