Bristol Airport fines of £100 thrown into doubt over whether they can be enforced

Bristol Airport is notorious for its stiff parking fines. (Image: Getty)

The Bristol Airport is notorious for its harsh £100 parking fines, but uncertainty has been formed implicit whether the fees tin beryllium enforced. 

Drivers hazard being slapped with the interest for stopping extracurricular designated pickup zones. However, they whitethorn beryllium entitled to a refund, The Guardian reports. 

Bristol Airport employs VCS, a contractor that enforces the parking regulations connected the airport’s property. 

According to Steve Williamson, a erstwhile section authorities officer, Humberside has adopted bylaws nether the Ariports Act 1986. He says the authorities indicates that the powerfulness to enforce charges is held by courts, not by an airport’s contractor. 

When Mr. Williamson’s woman was fined for a parking interest astatine Humberside Airport, helium claimed the airdrome dropped the complaint aft she pointed this out. The bylaws are akin successful Bristol.

Without prosecution successful the magistrates court, Bristol Airport whitethorn not beryllium capable to enforce their stiff parking fines. 

However, the airdrome has maintained that the fines are valid and enforceable. 

A spokesperson for Bristol airdrome told Guardian Money: “The airdrome has a morganatic confidential declaration with the relation to negociate the information and cognition of our roadways and car parks. We are assured that the declaration operates successful accordance with the statement and the applicable legislation.”

Derek Millard-Smith, the solicitor to the British Parking Association, said that enforceability would apt beryllium connected whether the roads are portion of the portion governed by the airport’s bylaws. 

Divers person bemoaned the airport’s strict parking strategy for years, with immoderate motorists receiving a £100 good aft stopping for arsenic small arsenic 34 seconds. 

The fines tin beryllium peculiarly frustrating erstwhile home flights tin outgo arsenic small arsenic £20, and drivers are forced to fork retired 5 times their summons terms for insignificant parking infractions.