A man has been hit with a fine for £270 despite paying for parking at a notorious Welsh car park. The car park at the seafront in the tiny village of Llangrannog in Ceredigion has made headlines over the past few years due to the number of people receiving fines in the post after leaving their vehicles there.
The car park has a camera placed high above its entrance, which was put in place in 2019 to automatically clock every vehicle as it arrives. The camera is operated by One Parking Solution Ltd, a company based in west Sussex which manages the car park and has come in for fierce criticism over the past three years from angry residents and visitors alike.
At the end of summer, 2019, controversy surrounding the car park made national news as it threatened to tear apart a close-knit village. The problem initially stemmed from the ticket machine only accepting coins, payment over the phone, or via an app which needed to be downloaded onto a user’s handset.
