The car park on the Westwood side, owned by the tearoom No10 as of 2016 leases its carpark to a private company who charge the following and manage:
This info / prices are correct as of August 2016. Please check as potentially may have changed.
£2 per hour
£3.50 (upto 3 hours)
No overnight parking
Charges apply to all users (sadly the Tea Room offers no discount for customers or locals) please be careful, the company operating on behalf of the tea room has received comments / complaint’s below.
To avoid these charges, there area a few spaces on the Turleigh side but also and double yellow lines. Traffic Wardens visit often and especially at weekends / busy times.
8 thoughts on “Avoncliff Private Car Park. Expensive, fines.”
Why was £10,000 of local taxpayers money given to a private resident / landowner on the premise of a carpark serving the community locally and at large. Did they not have to agree some sort of local commitment to justify receiving this money. If not. It’s scandlous and they should be made to pay back all the public funded money. https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/14350504.avoncliff-tourist-car-park-thrown-a-lifeline-with-10k-grant/
I was surprised just how expensive it is. We now go to Hartley Farm Tearoom which offers its customers free parking and is in Winsley. https://www.hartley-farm.co.uk/
So were we. Did you contest it and if so how did you get on? We paid for two hours and according to them were parked for less than two hours however THEY say we took longer than 10 mins (no evidence provided) and therefore are expected to pay a further £60 which will increase if we appeal. They are sharks, business parasites of the worst order. Hard to believe this is legal however cannot afford to fight the lowlifes. The local MP, brian.mathew.mp(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)parliament.uk, should be contacted about thisas reflects badly on Avoncliff. £63.50 for less than two hours cannot be justified .
Have just been hit by a £60 fine for parking here. This will rise to £100 or more if I appeal. We paid £3.50 for two hours and by the evidence provided by the company operating this we were there for less than two hours. We tried paying online but this meant downloading yet another app and despite haveing O2 and Three on our respective phones signal for these was virtually non existent. Paid by card at machine hidden in the corner and next to another box covered in tarpaulin looking like it may have been out of action. Actions of the operators are neither warrented nor welcome and definitely unpleasent in tone. They have refused our appeal and have effectively said any further appeal will just add cost and misery to our lives as most appeals are refused. We will not be returning and this approach cannot help with visitors. Needless to say both Cross Guns and Tearooms were closed on our visit in the pouring rain. I doubt we will come back.
Paidthe £60 as I cannot afford to risk the cost going up further. So £63.50 for 1 hour 56 minutes. Civil Enforcement are a disgrace as are the owners of the land which I understand is the No 10 tearooms at Avoncliff. What I wish upon the shysters involved I will not put here but you can assume the worst.
Just been hit with a parking fine of £60, even though I paid for a ticket for 2 hours and went over the time – no evidence provided of this. I’ve appealed and they’ve dropped the fee to £20. This makes me think that the fine is actually un-enforceable and should I chose to not pay it at all (not decided yet) then legally they cannot actually force me to pay anything. I may appeal via POPLA too. The real issue is that this is a growing problem for Avoncliff given the amount of comments building here and really puts me off going there, affecting all the local buisness there. I’m sure this wasn’t the aim of privatising the car park, however the company they’ve chosen are the absolute worse – I hope someone reads this and see’s some sense!
We accidentally got back 14 mins over our paid time and got a £60 fine – car park is camera enforced. Others beware not to take too long over your meal in the pub! This is not good for local businesses!
Why was £10,000 of local taxpayers money given to a private resident / landowner on the premise of a carpark serving the community locally and at large.
Did they not have to agree some sort of local commitment to justify receiving this money.
If not. It’s scandlous and they should be made to pay back all the public funded money.
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/14350504.avoncliff-tourist-car-park-thrown-a-lifeline-with-10k-grant/
I was surprised just how expensive it is.
We now go to Hartley Farm Tearoom which offers its customers free parking and is in Winsley.
https://www.hartley-farm.co.uk/
Do not use this carpark. I paid for a ticket and was then wrongly pursued for not having a ticket.
So were we. Did you contest it and if so how did you get on?
We paid for two hours and according to them were parked for less than two hours however THEY say we took longer than 10 mins (no evidence provided) and therefore are expected to pay a further £60 which will increase if we appeal. They are sharks, business parasites of the worst order. Hard to believe this is legal however cannot afford to fight the lowlifes.
The local MP, brian.mathew.mp(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)parliament.uk, should be contacted about thisas reflects badly on Avoncliff.
£63.50 for less than two hours cannot be justified .
Have just been hit by a £60 fine for parking here. This will rise to £100 or more if I appeal.
We paid £3.50 for two hours and by the evidence provided by the company operating this we were there for less than two hours.
We tried paying online but this meant downloading yet another app and despite haveing O2 and Three on our respective phones signal for these was virtually non existent.
Paid by card at machine hidden in the corner and next to another box covered in tarpaulin looking like it may have been out of action.
Actions of the operators are neither warrented nor welcome and definitely unpleasent in tone. They have refused our appeal and have effectively said any further appeal will just add cost and misery to our lives as most appeals are refused.
We will not be returning and this approach cannot help with visitors. Needless to say both Cross Guns and Tearooms were closed on our visit in the pouring rain. I doubt we will come back.
Paidthe £60 as I cannot afford to risk the cost going up further.
So £63.50 for 1 hour 56 minutes.
Civil Enforcement are a disgrace as are the owners of the land which I understand is the No 10 tearooms at Avoncliff.
What I wish upon the shysters involved I will not put here but you can assume the worst.
Just been hit with a parking fine of £60, even though I paid for a ticket for 2 hours and went over the time – no evidence provided of this. I’ve appealed and they’ve dropped the fee to £20. This makes me think that the fine is actually un-enforceable and should I chose to not pay it at all (not decided yet) then legally they cannot actually force me to pay anything. I may appeal via POPLA too. The real issue is that this is a growing problem for Avoncliff given the amount of comments building here and really puts me off going there, affecting all the local buisness there. I’m sure this wasn’t the aim of privatising the car park, however the company they’ve chosen are the absolute worse – I hope someone reads this and see’s some sense!
We accidentally got back 14 mins over our paid time and got a £60 fine – car park is camera enforced. Others beware not to take too long over your meal in the pub!
This is not good for local businesses!