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ParkingEye found to be committing a crime
polyplastic
Posts: 54 Forumite
in Motoring
Location - The Range Barrow in Furness
It has been discovered that ParkingEye has been operating this car park in criminal circumstances. It never bothered to obtain advertisement consent for its signage under the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007. By virtue of Regulation 30 that is a criminal offence. If the Council bothered to deal with this properly, and prosecuted, then a fine of up to £2500 could have been imposed with a daily fine of £250 for each day that the signage remained. Might be nice to see ParkingEye taken to court
The Council has confirmed that this crime has been on going for two years or so
So, in order to contract with motorists ParkingEye had to commit a criminal offence. Surely, on those grounds they should not be allowed to take money off motorists as that would be profitting from their crime and that is obviously taboo.
So, if anyone has paid ParkingEye why not write to
<a href="mailto:enforcement@%3Cenforcement@parkingeye.co.uk">[EMAIL="enforcement@parkingeye.co.uk"]enforcement@parkingeye.co.uk[/EMAIL] and ask for your money back. Maybe even sue ParkingEye under, perhaps, the Tort of Deceit.
ParkingEye, finally submitted an application for consent on the 18th November 2014 and the Barrow in Furness Council's Planning Committee is to consider the application on the 3rd February 2015.
Ironic isn't it that ParkingEye take people to court and criticise them for allegedly parking for too long but is not averse to committing a crime!
Under the contract that ParkingEye has with the Range (CDS (Superstores International) Limited) The Range agreed to get the necessary consent but, it seems, it just didn't bother. ParkingEye obviously never bothered to check that the consent was in place, or did know that it wasn't, and carried on anyway.
The Planners in Barrow started asking for an application for advertisement consent to be made, so that it could be properly considered, back in March 2014. Yet it took ParkingEye 8 months to do it. Does this show some kind of contempt for the law. During those 8 months they continued to issue tickets.
Under the DVLA's suspensions policy document any company that displays signage that does not comply with the law should be suspended for 3 months from access to data. Will the DVLA comply with its own policy?
Is it one law for the rich and something completely different for the rest of us
Polyplastic
It has been discovered that ParkingEye has been operating this car park in criminal circumstances. It never bothered to obtain advertisement consent for its signage under the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007. By virtue of Regulation 30 that is a criminal offence. If the Council bothered to deal with this properly, and prosecuted, then a fine of up to £2500 could have been imposed with a daily fine of £250 for each day that the signage remained. Might be nice to see ParkingEye taken to court
The Council has confirmed that this crime has been on going for two years or so
So, in order to contract with motorists ParkingEye had to commit a criminal offence. Surely, on those grounds they should not be allowed to take money off motorists as that would be profitting from their crime and that is obviously taboo.
So, if anyone has paid ParkingEye why not write to
<a href="mailto:enforcement@%3Cenforcement@parkingeye.co.uk">[EMAIL="enforcement@parkingeye.co.uk"]enforcement@parkingeye.co.uk[/EMAIL] and ask for your money back. Maybe even sue ParkingEye under, perhaps, the Tort of Deceit.
ParkingEye, finally submitted an application for consent on the 18th November 2014 and the Barrow in Furness Council's Planning Committee is to consider the application on the 3rd February 2015.
Ironic isn't it that ParkingEye take people to court and criticise them for allegedly parking for too long but is not averse to committing a crime!
Under the contract that ParkingEye has with the Range (CDS (Superstores International) Limited) The Range agreed to get the necessary consent but, it seems, it just didn't bother. ParkingEye obviously never bothered to check that the consent was in place, or did know that it wasn't, and carried on anyway.
The Planners in Barrow started asking for an application for advertisement consent to be made, so that it could be properly considered, back in March 2014. Yet it took ParkingEye 8 months to do it. Does this show some kind of contempt for the law. During those 8 months they continued to issue tickets.
Under the DVLA's suspensions policy document any company that displays signage that does not comply with the law should be suspended for 3 months from access to data. Will the DVLA comply with its own policy?
Is it one law for the rich and something completely different for the rest of us
Polyplastic
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Why Rich? Its merely a parking company you are talking about.
Parking companies showing contempt for the law? What a surprise.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0 -
op - this has already been posted and you were made aware of this yesterday by trisontana:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4841442
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