A Gem on Parking eye web site

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

What will happen if I ignore the Parking Charge?

Unfortunately ParkingEye have to issue hundreds, sometimes thousands of County Court Claims each month to recover unpaid Parking Charges - Take appropriate action and do not ignore the Parking Charge.

Really?, now i know they have been issuing quite a few, but thousands per month....?

Fergie76

That would surely prove vexatious claims?

Umkomaas

kirkbyinfurnesslad wrote: »

What will happen if I ignore the Parking Charge?

Really?, now i know they have been issuing quite a few, but thousands per month....?

Irrefutable evidence that the BPA's assertion, should PoFA be enacted, there would be a dramatic decrease in the number of court cases being brought forward by PPCs was wholly incorrect..... and has, seemingly, misled Ministers.

Wonder how the BPA will defend their position? One for the Prankster's blog, maybe?

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

Umkomaas have you got the link to that statement?,

Umkomaas

kirkbyinfurnesslad wrote: »

Umkomaas have you got the link to that statement?,

Haven't got a direct link, but FWIU this was all part of the negotiations/discussions/consultations that took place leading up to PoFA.

Didn't the BPA wildly exaggerate the number of court cases PPCs were bringing forward and how PoFA would dramatically reduce these? Then it was brought to light that the figures were totally wrong and the BPA had to significantly (and embarrasingly) reduce them to the level they were really at - the 49 before a judge, 25 for motorists 24 for PPCs statistics that are now frequently quoted.

I'll do a bit more digging around to try to get you something more substantive, if I can.

Unfortunately I wasn't involved in anything PPC at the time of PoFA - a relative newcomer to all of this .... but trying to learn fast

Umkomaas

Here we go - caught this fish first stab via Google:

http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/plcdev/app/public/system/pdf_files/files/000/000/144/original/BPA-CuttsCorres14Aug2012.pdf

It's from Martin Cutts to Anjna Patel, it's 36 pages long, so I'll read it later after dinner, but I'm sure from a skim this is a good start.

Umkomaas

Here's a rather telling statement from the above document:

'A reduction in the number of cases taken to court, due to the introduction of an independent appeals service, which in turn would benefit the Criminal Justice System.'

The BPA initially estimated between 2% and 5% of parking charges (Initial figures put forward suggested 4 million** tickets issued per year) ended up in court - in absolute terms between 80,000 and 200,000 ....... when the reality proved to be a mere 49 :eek:

Footnote: **later revised to 1.8 million tickets with (still erroneously) between 36,000 to 90,000 court cases per year. Reality remained at 49