Parking Charge

[Stamford]

I recently received a Parking Charge from a private parking company for a slight overstay in the car park of a local retail park (Aylesbury Shopping Park, Cambridge Place, Aylesbury), a friend of mine who worked in one of the stores on the site advises me that charges there are unenforceable as neither the parking company or the company employing them don't own the land, is this correct?

[charitynjw]

I recently received a Parking Charge from a private parking company for a slight overstay in the car park of a local retail park (Aylesbury Shopping Park, Cambridge Place, Aylesbury), a friend of mine who worked in one of the stores on the site advises me that charges there are unenforceable as neither the parking company or the company employing them don't own the land, is this correct?

No.

While landowner authority is required, agents of the landowner (eg a managing agent) might have themselves been given the requisite authority by the landowner (or some other entities which may form a chain, the authority flowing from the landowner, through these various agencies, to the parking company).