In reply to andy:
What I m saying is that as the landlord he or she has to manage the business as a whole, one of the reasons pubs are closing is because too many landlords don't appreciate this, they are operating in a difficult climate so yes they do have to have better business brains.
The car park that a pub has is part of it's asset, a decent landlord will adapt his or her business model because of that anyway, probably will let focus on the wet trade and more on food. All assets are also liabilities which require investment, a car park requires maintenance and if it isn't going to be abused management. I guess we are probably agreeing so far.
Clamping was a bad thing because it was abused, penalties are a bad thing because they are abused and are often disproportionate, I guess if they are not disproportionate they are not penalties, also in the context of the law as it stands, in relation to private land, they are dishonestly applied. Everyone who will regularly abuse parking on private land, I'm not one by the way, knows this. So it also doesn't work.
I guess you want a change in the law so that these penalties can be applied, I don't, I think perfectly good deterrents exist in the current law without handing powers to the same people operating the clamping rackets.
So you have a pub car park, parking is free for pub patrons, they can just give their registration number at the bar, anyone else can go in to the pub and purchase a parking ticket. This will be very rare though because the price of parking would be much more than local rates, probably best set as an all day rate for ease of management. Staff could check the car park a few times a day, they don't have to catch everybody every time. They can then bill the people abusing the parking, it is worth the effort, whilst it may only bring in a small amount of money, not that this won't be welcome, it will show that the parking restrictions are being enforced rather than just a follow threat.
Under th existing law this would be far more effective than these penalty type notices and as I say I don't think legalising penalties would be a good thing.