{"id":716830,"date":"2026-07-29T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716830\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:09:08","slug":"unauthorised-car-park-near-stansted-airport-grows-after-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716830\/","title":{"rendered":"Unauthorised car park near Stansted Airport grows after notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC approached Cheema and Abdul Rehman, the new director listed for SC Parking Ltd, for comment and did not receive a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Uttlesford District Council said it was a complex case with &#8220;various agencies involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said the authority would continue to monitor the site and assess any new reports received to determine whether they fall within the scope of the existing enforcement notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex Trading Standards said it had not received enough complaints to justify a formal investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Travel Extra Deals Ltd, which owns a comparison site used by some of the car park&#8217;s customers, said it had issued the operator with a final warning and would stop sending bookings if further complaints were received.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said it would review unresolved cases, provide refunds where appropriate and offered an apology on behalf of the operator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC put customers&#8217; complaints to Park Pilot Ltd, the company named on customers confirmation emails as the service provider, as well as the writing to management at New Farm, but neither responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Radisson Blu Hotel at Stansted Airport said it was aware of concerns. Its general manager, Dinesh Kunder, said: &#8220;We would like to stress, the hotel has no commercial agreement nor affiliation with this company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stansted Airport&#8217;s managing director, Gareth Powell, urged customers to choose authorised parking providers, check reviews and report concerns to Essex Trading Standards via the Citizens Advice consumer helpline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC approached Cheema and Abdul Rehman, the new director listed for SC Parking Ltd, for comment and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}