UKPC parking charges at Boucher Crescent

StripeyMiata

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

Can someone please tell me WHY oh WHY these companies are allowed to operate here? Who Owns/Operates Boucher Retail park and do they pay these guys to patrol their carparks?

It's actually a bunch of Yanks - Marathon Asset Management - http://www.marathonfund.com/


However it's probably the local management company who decided to go into bed with UKPC, I can probably find out who it is if you like?


Edit - It's probably these guys but I can find out for definite if you like, have contacts in that line of work. Property Management, not Car Parking - http://www.savills.co.uk/services/property-management.aspx

CPS

You may have seen on the news today that a Private Parking Company (Parkingeye) have successfully defended an appeal in court with the person forced to now pay his parking fine (in England).


Is this a game changer here in Northern Ireland or does advice still stand that because they (UKPC) cant prove who the driver was they will eventually give up? We are now on letter no.6 and were happily ignoring them but I am wondering should this development now cause concern?

irishjohn

There may be another appeal in the Beavis Case with Parking Eye to the Supreme Court.

This could be a game changer.

Why do these companies do it? Well for every individual who ignores the penalty demands there are probably quite a number who pay up immediately.

The company does it to make money - simple.

Sending multiple letters to those who do not pay up adds little in the way of costs to their business.

If the ultimate threat of a court case is implemented that will add costs to their business and they are likely to consider whether it is a worthwhile expense. Although the outcome of a civil case could be that their costs are awarded too.

I would think they will continue to send demand letters and hope that, as a result of this publicity, fewer people will ignore their demands. If that is the case and they are making more money they may still give up on the ones who fail to pay up, but that has become more of a gamble after yesterday.