£70 Parking Fine in non P&D Car Park

peter_the_piper

I look forward to reading about your "case" although I have yet to hear of any who will take you up on your ""offer"".

looby75

Did anyone watch Watchdog tonight???

peter_the_piper

If you missed it, like me, its on BBC Iplayer from today. I understand its quite dismissive of PPC's and their invoices.

superscaper

looby75 wrote: »

Did anyone watch Watchdog tonight???

Yep, can't believe so many people think they're actually obligated to pay, especially with that threat of bailiffs.

peter_the_piper

Hopefully now more people understand that you don't have to pay these ""people"" anything. Still, apart from the well known 3 cases, it would have been nice to see the hundreds of court cases we were promised. Ah Well.

Backbiter

peter_the_piper wrote: »

If you missed it, like me, its on BBC Iplayer from today. I understand its quite dismissive of PPC's and their invoices.

Here's an extract from the programme's report:

25 February 2008


While clamping firms now have to be licensed, private parking firms don’t, and there are no set rules they have to follow. Some join the British Parking Association but even then its code of conduct is entirely voluntary. Conrad Murray is a lawyer who thinks the public are frightened into paying up when they receive these charges from private firms. Unlike penalty charges from the police or councils, you’re not legally obliged to pay them. He says that if they charge is unreasonable you shouldn’t pay, “If you get a parking charge notice you haven’t broken the law; you’ve committed no offence.”

Backs up what many peope have argued on here.

Read it in full here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio/watchdog/reports/transport/transport_20080225.shtml

germ73

Just as a matter of interest, how long have these companies got to proceed further after issuing the INVOICE?
I received one at the end of November, and havnt heard anything yet.

hollydays

Backbiter,where does it say the bpa code of practice is voluntary for members-everything on their site says the opposite-they even claim to have a compliance officer?

peter_the_piper

germ73 wrote: »

Just as a matter of interest, how long have these companies got to proceed further after issuing the INVOICE?
I received one at the end of November, and havnt heard anything yet.

They don't have a specific time to send their invoice, they could turn up at any time. When you get one look on pepipoo (links on earlier posts) and they will show you how to deal with them.

peter_the_piper

hollydays wrote: »

Backbiter,where does it say the bpa code of practice is voluntary for members-everything on their site says the opposite-they even claim to have a compliance officer?

The BPA is a private organisation, not recognised and enforced by Mr Brown and co. so it is therefore only a voluntary one. It was set up to give an illusion of a regulated industry.