Geoff Pugh, 52, was hit with the shock charge after taking his family for a throat and mouth swab by Edmonton Green Shopping Centre car park in Enfield, North London.
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The site was used to test the blockade and insisted that it was only there for 23 minutes, but was still fined through Highview Parking.
Photographer Pugh, from Stoke Newington, east London, said, “At first I thought it was a genuine fine, so I was about to pay it, but when I looked at where it happened and found out what it was, I was surprised.”
“I think it’s absolutely ridiculous to rate the fitness of your family, neighbors and co-workers.
“I didn’t even leave the car for the whole stay.”
Mr. Pugh and two young men, aged nine and eleven, said they had followed all the staff’s recommendations to tell them where to go when he went to the review on July 7.
A camera in the parking lot detected automatic recognition of his car’s license plate, then recorded that the same vehicle had gone without buying a ticket, which led to the fine.
A spokesperson for Highview Parking said it would cancel any penalty notice to visitors “incorrectly”, and even admitted that they had not been informed that the site in question was being used for coronavirus testing at the time.
The spokesman said: “General car parking situations, paid parking formula and fee are set through our visitor; we are concerned about the definition of those rules, even when they qualify or qualify for parking.
“We cannot verify whether or not the motor park has been rebuilt through the Enfield Council, but we have only been asked to suspend activities on express days and times when they have agreed to supply the area for Covid testing.”
“However, parking is still used for retail in this period.
“As those are express dates, we expect to notify those dates in advance.
“On July 7, an instance in which we were only informed that the site had been used for Covid testing more than a week later, and that NCPs had already been issued.
“We will cancel all NCPs issued incorrectly on that date or on any other specified date when testing is performed.”
This happens after thousands of Britons taking home verification kits were warned last week that they may have been given a negative result by mistake.
But the Government is set to ramp up testing with new on-the-spot swabs that will take just one hour to give results.
Scientists said the new tests were ground-breaking and millions will be rolled out across the NHS.
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