It's based on the private parking company having to rely on contract law rather than statute, thus creating a fairly onerous set of legal requirements they have to satisfy before being able to enforce their charges.

All the details are rlhererl and I can verify from personal experience that it works.

Private parking companies rely on fear, intimidation and ignorance - fight the power!

Thanks for the heads up, hopefully when I do clothes shopping I can park up in Crown Point and walk to Leeds city centre still too!

sorry..just saw the richardsons.