Saba Park Services UK Limited

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Saba Park Services UK Limited formerly known as Indigo Park Services UK Limited is a parking facilities company based in Watford.

It is owned by Infra Park S.A.S. That is owned 37% by Ardian, 37% by Crédit Agricole and 25% by Vinci SA.[1] The parent company was offered for sale in February 2017 with the price expected to be around 3 billion euros. It operates a parking network in more than 500 cities and 17 countries with 530,000 parking spaces in the Iberian Peninsula, Britain and Turkey.[2] Its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization were 71 million euros in 2016 on sales of 201 million euros. [3]

Operations

  • University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff - a 15 year contract. It made a profit of £2.8 million in 2016 from this contract, from charges and fines. 80 staff who have been fined challenged the fines in court. [4] The staff also claimed that just finding a space used up to an hour a day of their time and that their earnings may be insufficient to cover the fines.[5] In July 2017 the doctors and nurses lost the case and were required to pay £128 per ticket issued, leading to a number of them handing in their notice. The hospital employs 6000 staff but only has 1800 parking spaces.[6]
  • Ninewells Hospital- a 30 year lease.[7] Three nurses were ordered to pay the company more than £4,000 in September 2017 for a total of 30 unpaid fines at the hospital.[8]
  • It offers “premier parking” at most of the car parks it operates on behalf of Govia Thameslink Railway north of the Thames.[9]
  • Edenbridge Town railway station[10]
  • Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust which it took over October 2022.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Indigo, a world leading parking provider". Park Indigo. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  2. ^ "China's Shougang among bidders for parking space company Indigo: Les Echos". Reuters. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  3. ^ Schuetze, Arno; Berra, Stefano (18 May 2017). "Spanish car park owner Empark up for sale -sources". Reuters. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Hospital parking firm makes £2.8million in just 12 months from just one car park". Daily Mirror. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Cardiff NHS hospital staff lose parking tickets case". BBC. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  6. ^ Victoria Ward (17 July 2017). "NHS staff 'broken' after court orders them to pay thousands of pounds in hospital car park fines". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Did the SNP government end hospital parking charges?". The Ferret. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  8. ^ "Parking firm wins court battle against nurses accused of ignoring fines". Nursing Standard. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  9. ^ "Passengers pay premium for a parking space". The Times. 4 February 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  10. ^ "New parking charges cause upset and dismay in Edenbridge". Oxted Today. 7 May 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  11. ^ "Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro scrap parking charges call". Falmouth Packet. 29 October 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
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