Goverment Press Release- Clampdown On PPCs

trisontana

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/clamp-down-on-private-parking-charges

A crack down on rip off parking charges by private firms could end excessive fees and inflated fines forced upon motorists, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced.
Measures could help small shops and town centres by stopping extortionate charges that are a deterrent to shopping locally and instead drive people to shop in out-of-town centres or online.
Topics outlined for discussion today on private parking practices include whether there should be a ban on private companies setting excessive charges or levying excessive penalties for overstaying in a parking bay.



Put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr Trouserfire!

Marktheshark

It could be sorted by stopping the sale of details by the DVLA, but they wont want to lose the cash they rake in.
car parks will have to go back to the old ways of man with barrier, you pay your parking, he lifts the barrier.
Job done.

bazster

"The discussion could also consider the amount and type of data that should be provided to private parking operators by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency"

That's gonna pi55 off the Department for Transport.

Castle

trisontana wrote: »

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/clamp-down-on-private-parking-charges

Topics outlined for discussion today on private parking practices include whether there should be a ban on private companies setting excessive charges or levying excessive penalties for overstaying in a parking bay.

So the Government thinks they are Penalties!

bazster

They are penalties. It's only the parking weasels who have to pretend they're not.

Grimble

Should we as a group put a paper together to add to the discussion? i.e only one impartial appeal panel.

The_Deep

... Eric Pickles has announced.
Measures could help small shops and town centres by stopping extortionate charges that are a deterrent to shopping locally, ...

Not really a problem in Reading. The (not a) city centre has adequate parking which, judging by the queues, is not unaffordable. It is the out of town complexes, infested by the usual trash,. which are the problem, but the local rag and radio station are wise to the scam as The Great Apex Plaza Robbery some years ago got a lot of coverage and The Prudential put a stop to it.

Where RBC makes its money is the underused and over policed bus lanes so beloved by our motorist hating, twice convicted for gross indecency, Transport Czar.

Johno100

Just a shame this was announced 5 weeks before a General Election and not 5 weeks after one. Who knows what the political landscape will be at the end of May and who will be the Communities Secretary.

Castle

Johno100 wrote: »

Just a shame this was announced 5 weeks before a General Election and not 5 weeks after one. Who knows what the political landscape will be at the end of May and who will be the Communities Secretary.

And before the "Beavis" decision is handed down.

surfboy1

Castle wrote: »

And before the "Beavis" decision is handed down.

Could it be that they have sight of the "Beavis" decision?;)

Redx

just goes to show our assumptions about why Cameron signed this off recently (the DfT to Communities handover) was right on the money

clearly the message is getting through about this scandal