Excel Have Left The BPA Ltd.

trisontana

According to Parking Prankster's latest blog, Excel have jumped ship from the BPA Ltd to IPC. :-

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/excel-parking-jump-ship-to-independent.html

At this rate the BPA Ltd will only have Parking Eye and Trev's outfit as members.

Umkomaas

Sign still has the magic words '...... breaching these terms and conditions ......'

So a continuing need to define their GPEOL - whatever the IPC IAS might make of it.

Dack

Looking at the sign on the PP site would, to me at least, seem to indicate that £15 charge is more likely to be the cost of the IAS appeal. If you appeal to Excel, and then the IPC 'independant' (sic) appeal service then it incurs a £15 cost to Excel when they win.

If the landowner subsequently cancels the PCN (which Excel would no doubt charge them for anyway) then Excel would be out of pocket by £15 and so they have passed that back onto the victim.

HO87

Update - I think we can now safely drop the word "seem" from the thread title.

The IPC website AOS listing now clearly shows that as of 1 January 2015 Excel Parking Services Ltd are members. Not entirely a surprise.

Bye bye to SRS's seat on the board or has he bought shares in IPC Ltd? I think we should be told. Or is Karen's horse going to have to go - along with the yacht?

Pleasing to see that Excel - forever behind the curve - can't update their website which continues to show that it is a BPA AOS member.

hoohoo

Their news page was last updated in 2013

The_Slithy_Tove

Dack wrote: »

IPC 'independant' (sic) appeal

I'm sure the appeals service doesn't have any dependants, so your "sic" is a little misplaced. Or did you mean "independent"?

bazster

It's a little jibe at the spelling on Excel's website: "Independant Consultancy" is one of the services they claim to offer!

The_Slithy_Tove

trisontana wrote: »

At this rate the BPA Ltd will only have Parking Eye and Trev's outfit as members.

Somewhat disturbing, though, that the Protection of Freedoms Act is now in play without the checks and balances that the government insisted were in place, i.e. an independent appeals service. The IPC is no such thing, which an increasing number of (major) PPCs are now members of. Of course the DVLA in their negligent way are allowing continued illegal activities by the PPCs in their own criminal behaviour (by which I mean continuing breaches of the DPA).

bazster

The_Slithy_Tove wrote: »

Somewhat disturbing, though, that the Protection of Freedoms Act is now in play without the checks and balances that the government insisted were in place, i.e. an independent appeals service. The IPC is no such thing, which an increasing number of (major) PPCs are now members of. Of course the DVLA in their negligent way are allowing continued illegal activities by the PPCs in their own criminal behaviour (by which I mean continuing breaches of the DPA).

Yes but this short-termism will ultimately be their downfall. I am increasingly of the opinion that, as suggested recently by The Deep, people should be encouraged to appeal to the IAS even though we know they will probably lose. The IAS figures on appeals upheld against appeals rejected will be so grossly different to PoPLA's that ultimately the minister will be unable to ignore it.

Furthermore everyone who gets a stupidly-biased, unprofessional and anonymous appeal rejection from the IAS needs to send it to DVLA, their MP, and Robert Goodwill.

Also, given the involvement of solicitors, it should also be the subject of a complaint to the SRA regarding breaches of various of their principles, specifically:

"You must:

1. uphold the rule of law and the proper administration of justice,
2. act with integrity,
3. not allow your independence to be compromised,

6. behave in a way that maintains the trust the public places in you and in the provision of legal services"

Dublindel

Just remember.
The Minister has ignored everything so far, so do you really think anything will change?
Allowing IPC / IAS in the first place tells you something

Hot_Bring

Am I missing something - I thought POFA required any appeal system to be free to the motorist so how do Excel get away suggesting they will charge £15 for any cancellation ?