What will it take to put them out of business?

SodG24

Coupon-mad wrote: »

I was thinking along the same lines, just waiting for October...

See you in Aldi, Homebase, Wickes ( spit due to the old Archer connection ! ), Next and Asda then My god people might think we're having an affair :rotfl:

ManxRed

Don't forget me as well, duckie!

muckybutt

And moi

Oh gawd its gone from an affair to an orgy now :rotfl:

mikey72

That should help the figures.

"Look, since clamping was banned, look at the extra abuse of your car parks. You need us more than ever, and maybe you should even consider paying us a fee. You'll get a few complaints, but only from the ones parking badly. Look at our figures on overstaying, using two bays, blocking the access, parking all day, leaving the site, stopping paying customers parking, it's just like we predicted, next month you'll be overrun ........"

Go you.
Get those tickets up.
Get them to record figures, now clamping is banned.
Keep the need for the business in the headlines.
An intelligent PPC would probably even join in, and certainly put you on his christmas card list.

Maybe if enough of us (and them) do it, we could prove how much clamping really was a deterrent.

ManxRed

Wouldn't that only make sense if it happened at sites where clamping was in force prior to Oct 1st?

mikey72

ManxRed wrote: »

Wouldn't that only make sense if it happened at sites where clamping was in force prior to Oct 1st?

I doubt it.
It doesn't make sense to buy a burglar alarm because the house in the next street was burgled. People do though.

If parking overall in the uk gets worse from Oct 1st, that's the headline everyone will see.

Coupon-mad

mikey72 wrote: »

I doubt it.
It doesn't make sense to buy a burglar alarm because the house in the next street was burgled. People do though.

If parking overall in the uk gets worse from Oct 1st, that's the headline everyone will see.

I have no worries at all about collecting a ticket or three and adding to the POPLA appeals deluge.

The headline everyone will see will be if the POPLA appeals system is overloaded and the adjudicators quickly realise what utter rubbish the PPCs have been passing off as 'signage' and 'excuses to issue fake tickets where they have no interest in the land'. If practically every appeal is allowed for the motorist then the PPCs will be on a very sticky wicket very fast. I can't see how the adjudicator in charge (a barrister?) can possibly ignore VCS -v- HMRC for starters, when used in someone's appeal along with the fact that in almost every case the person is actually already allowed to park there by the landowner/occupier.

Also not sure how POPLA are going to cope with any appeals citing the Equality Act 2010 re reasonable adjustments, as it isn't the simple 'Blue Badge yes or no?' scheme they are used to. I believe they think it is, so I will be having a go at getting a ticket with a disabled passenger with me, when overstaying for shopping - think I will go for an ANPR fake ticket as they don't take any notice of the Equality Act and deserve to be shot down. Then will hit the PPC and POPLA with the Equality Act reality and we'll see.

esmerobbo

mikey72 wrote: »

If parking overall in the uk gets worse from Oct 1st, that's the headline everyone will see.

Scotland is in the UK didn't happen there when clamping was banned! (Well we haven't seen or heard of any problems in the press) I know Scotland has a smaller more dispersed population, but most of the clamping went on in the cities.

There is a percentage of people who will park where or how they like, the clamp my well have put some of them off! However I find most inconsiderate parker's also know to avoid clamping areas. Its the unwary who get caught out, and most of them for trivial matters.

I don't really have any sympathy for someone who parked for hours on someone's land and was clamped. However this is rarely the case it's normally done in minutes if not seconds.