Private Parking Article in Today's "Times"

Half_way

trisontana wrote: »

That £80 charge might be OK for London, but you will find that most councils in the rest of the country don't charge anyway near that. Here in Nottinghamshire it's £50, reduced to £25 if paid promptly. Other nearby councils have a two-tear system of penalties, with £30 for minor violations in car parks, and £50 for more serious ones.

when I was last in Nottingham the penalty charge at the council operated and run Queens drive park and ride was £25

Loanranger

Marktheshark wrote: »

I forgot to add in my list of criminal conspiracies.
Perverting planning rules and planning officers, illegal signs, illegal car parks, avoiding rates, no problem, the planning department will just retrospectively sign off any oversight when the public complain.
Then there is VAT avoidance, millions of pounds of VAT are just not paid.

They have the whole society and those in power twisted around their fingers.


Now they want to "regulate" it, or in other words, make new laws so it even easier for them to rob the public, but dress them up like they are doing everyone a favour.
Hundreds of years of contract law and EU and consumer regulations were tossed away by the supreme court to help this little syndicate scam its way forward.

Money can buy anything in this bent little country and this is the absolute proof.

It started as a scam faking council parking tickets in some small private car parks, now they want new laws to make the scam identical to council tickets.
This is how far it has come.
Bent Britain.

Oh dear, always ready to see conspiracies without any link to any evidence.

Marktheshark

Loanranger wrote: »

Oh dear, always ready to see conspiracies without any link to any evidence.

Have you been asleep, all these are common knowledge if you follow the saga.

Half_way

A non paywall report on the Times article in the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/12072577/Motorists-overcharged-because-number-plate-recognition-technology-is-flawed.html

Marktheshark

Is the technology flawed or is it deliberately manipulated so they can try it on.
Would they ?
What do you think ?

Half_way

Stating it is deliberately manipulated is probably giving the PPCs too much credit.
If the technology is flawed, and/or mistakes are happening then why change anything? after all if most people pay up then why bother?

Ivor_Pecheque

can the government over rule the supreme court like that?

Yes.

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trisontana

Another article in the Times today, this time about the way PPCs mimic council paperwork. This includes calling their fake fines "PCNs" and the general layout, colouring and typeface of their toilet paper to make them look like council tickets.

According to Patrick Troy talking on Watchdog a couple of years ago, this is just one large coincidence and in fact the councils might have copied the PPC paperwork, not the other way around.

The_Deep

I very much doubt that Mr Troy would be able to provive any evidence to support that statement.

trisontana

The_Deep wrote: »

I very much doubt that Mr Troy would be able to provive any evidence to support that statement.

Just as he could not provide any evidence concerning the "thousands" of court cases pre-POFA and the way the new act would considerably reduce those court cases. In fact quite the opposite has happened.