DVLA guidance on releasing names and addresses to PPCs and clampers

usignuolo

The following appears on the DVLA website in relation to releasing details of vehicle keepers to the PPCs and clampers:

Annex C
Persons and organisations seeking access
The following persons and organisations have been granted access to data under the 'reasonable cause' provisions

Parking companies
To identify those violating parking restrictions on private land and to instigate action for recovery of penalties etc

Clamping companies
To enable the companies to pursue cases where damage has been done to their property - usually the wheelclamp. Wheelclamp companies do not require DVLA information for their routine business.

So the DVLA apparently thinks the penalties enforced by parking companies are legal.

Of course it is one thing to ignore threatening letters but another still to have to retrieve your car from someone demanding very large sums with menaces when it has been illegally clamped or towed away.

I have read about a couple of such cases recently. In one case the cars were illegally removed, after the owner had given permission for them to park on the ground, and the owners were charged £500 and £700 pounds to get them back; in the other case, the company was fraudulently claiming it had rights to manage the site when it did not and was clamping people who parked there and charging them to be released.

In both cases the police said it was not a police matter as it took place on private land. Is this really true and could a private prosecution succeed against the towers and clampers.

mcjordi

the dvla dont care so long as they get their fee for this info

Coblcris

Parking companies
To identify those violating parking restrictions on private land and to instigate action for recovery of penalties etc


The use of 'penalties' is most improper. By all means correct them.

flutterbyuk25

mcjordi wrote: »

the dvla dont care so long as they get their fee for this info

the fee is maximum £5 so it's not like they are making a huge profit on this

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trisontana

flutterbyuk25 wrote: »

the fee is maximum £5 so it's not like they are making a huge profit on this

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Those five pounds add up. It amounted to nine million pounds in the six years from 2002 to 2008:- What Car

Coblcris

flutterbyuk25 wrote: »

the fee is maximum £5 so it's not like they are making a huge profit on this

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A huge amount are processed electronically. A 2.50 gbp fee per request is a massive markup.

BFG_2

Under what circumstances can Jo Public make a [successful] request??

Photo_Stylus

BFG wrote: »

Under what circumstances can Jo Public make a [successful] request??

Any reason that sounds plausible as long as you send a nice crisp fiver with it?


Reversed onto my property and knocked over Mr Grumpy the garden gnome, Mrs Grumpy wishes to claim for lack of marital rights during his recovery.

Enc. Crisp five pound note.

BFG_2

Photo_Stylus wrote: »

Any reason that sounds plausible as long as you send a nice crisp fiver with it?


Reversed onto my property and knocked over Mr Grumpy the garden gnome, Mrs Grumpy wishes to claim for lack of marital rights during his recovery.

Enc. Crisp five pound note.

LOL, love it!