Private Parking Industry Hits back blog discussion

trisontana

FlyingCabbage wrote: »

The BPA is a thoroughly respectable organisation doing its best to bring order.

It is not for ordinary members of the public to trouble themselves with the intricacies of parking tickets issued on private land.

At the end of the day, if you break the rules, payment should be made - end of story.

What rules are being broken?

Orford

FlyingCabbage wrote: »

It is not for ordinary members of the public to trouble themselves with the intricacies of parking tickets issued on private land.

Don't worry, we don't trouble ourselves with the intricacies of parking tickets issued on private land. We just ignore you, no trouble at all.

trisontana

FlyingCabbage wrote: »

The rules clearly displayed in the car park.

At a village fete, you wouldn't agree to have 3 goes at hoopla for a pound and then refuse to pay - it's just not the decent thing to do.

The same goes for parking on private land. If it says that it costs £60 to park here without a permit, then you don't refuse to pay afterwards.

But you are not asked to pay £60 to park on private land. You are being asked to pay an unfair and illegal penalty if you break the supposed rules. That's the difference.

trisontana

FlyingCabbage wrote: »

It's not a penalty. It's a pre-agreed charge for parking services.

You just tell me of one instance of a private car park charging say £60 just for parking there? Most of these parks charge nothing. Where the £60 penalty comes in is when motorists supposedly break the rules by overstaying or not parking in the correct bays. These "charges" are illegal because they bear no relationship to the actual loss suffered by the land owner.

trisontana

FlyingCabbage wrote: »

Once again - It's NOT a penalty.

What are they then?

Poppycat

There are no rules. The only thing a driver has done is trespass. What damage or loss has the landowner endured

FlyingCabbage wrote: »

The BPA is a thoroughly respectable organisation doing its best to bring order.

It is not for ordinary members of the public to trouble themselves with the intricacies of parking tickets issued on private land.

At the end of the day, if you break the rules, payment should be made - end of story.

Methusela

FlyingCabbage wrote: »

The BPA is a thoroughly respectable organisation doing its best to bring order.

It is not for ordinary members of the public to trouble themselves with the intricacies of parking tickets issued on private land.

At the end of the day, if you break the rules, payment should be made - end of story.

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I can only assume that you work for BPA. No one else would call them "thoroughly respectable" because they are the umbrella organisation that represents all of the illegally operating parking companies. By doing this they create an air of legitimacy for their members, which most of them do nothing to deserve.

Your "holier than thou" attitude towards members of the public suggests the same thing. Don't concern ourselves with the intricacies of the law? If we are mugged in the street would you suggest that we don't trouble ourselves about the intricacies of the laws governing crime - just accept that the mugger may have a family (or drug habit) of his own to support?

Lots of innocent people have been trapped by inadequate warning signs into parking where they do not expect to be charged. No one would knowingly accept a £60 or more charge for parking for a few minutes, and your suggestion that they "broke the rules" would only be true if they did so knowingly, not unwittingly. [/FONT]

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Lube

British Parking Association are a toothless inept organization that looks after one thing the interest of its members

They do not give a monkey's about normal decent people, often they represent crooks and low lifes of this world who are they for one thing to extract as much money through intimation/fear from its victims

Lube

One more thing what right does the DVLA of giving our out personnel data to these cowboys so that they can then use it for there own ends. These are not fines they give out but invoices why so does the DVLA have the right to give out to them who owns the vehicle, why isnt data protection being implemented here?