![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/were-tormented-by-100-fines-from-parking-warden-hiding-in-shopping-centre-bushes/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_1JPG.jpg&description=Shoppers parking at Gloucester's Peel Centre have been given £100 penalty fines if caught leaving the retail park for the neighbouring shopping centre - which is owned by the same company Motorists visiting a city retail park before crossing the road to visit another shopping centre say they are being slapped with fines by "a parking officer hiding in the bushes". Shoppers at the Peel Centre in Gloucester have been given the £100 penalties after being spotted leaving their car in the car park to visit neighbouring Gloucester Quays Outlet – despite both sites being run by the same owners. Now furious customers have hit out at the policy of not allowing visitors to cross the street from the park. Parking at the Quays centre is currently paid for, while remaining free at the retail park. As a result, owners brought in a new policy which bans shoppers from parking at the latter and crossing the road. But furious locals and councillors have criticised the Draconian policy. One shopper hit out at penalising customers crossing the road to use shopping centre's toilet facilities, in what was described as a breach of human rights and 'pure greed'. Councillor Pam Tracey said that, while the rules were stated in small print at the bottom of signs, the method of catching people out was 'diabolical' and keeping people away from the city centre. 'If you leave your car at the Peel Centre and pop over to Gloucester Quays you get fined,' she told Gloucestershire Live. 'Apparently this guy stands behind a bush and sees people going over to the Quays. It's diabolical really. It all comes under the same company. You've got Next there and you think you'll go there and then you'll pop over to the shopping centre to Marks and Spencer and have a drink at Costa. 'And they are all getting penalised for it. It's not as if people abuse that car park there. But to pounce on them when they cross the road is diabolical. It's not fair. The print is so small.' 'The Peel Centre is on the opposite si){kind=link}
Shoppers parking at Gloucester’s Peel Centre have been given £100 penalty fines if caught leaving the retail park for the neighbouring shopping centre – which is owned by the same company
Motorists visiting a city retail park before crossing the road to visit another shopping centre say they are being slapped with fines by “a parking officer hiding in the bushes”.
Shoppers at the Peel Centre in Gloucester have been given the £100 penalties after being spotted leaving their car in the car park to visit neighbouring Gloucester Quays Outlet â despite both sites being run by the same owners. Now furious customers have hit out at the policy of not allowing visitors to cross the street from the park.
Parking at the Quays centre is currently paid for, while remaining free at the retail park. As a result, owners brought in a new policy which bans shoppers from parking at the latter and crossing the road.
But furious locals and councillors have criticised the Draconian policy. One shopper hit out at penalising customers crossing the road to use shopping centre’s toilet facilities, in what was described as a breach of human rights and “pure greed”.