Government Regulations for off street parking

beamerguy

Castle wrote: »

One thing which must happen is a reduction in the time limit for commencing legal action; 6 years is far too long. Ideally I'd suggest 6 months from the date of the parking event, but allowing 9 months if an appeal body (POPLA/IAS) is used.

Agreed and the other point is that these charges actually have no founding so should not impact credit ratings or allow CCJ's

That is acceptable if you owe REAL money to banks etc and you default but NOT Playdoe monopoly money used by these scammers

Edna_Basher

Castle wrote: »

One thing which must happen is a reduction in the time limit for commencing legal action.

Absolutely.

In our response to the Government's consultation last year, we suggested a maximum "time-out" period of 18 months, allowing for up to 12 months for ADR with a further 6 months after the conclusion of the ADR process for a PPC to decide whether it had a sufficiently strong case to progress to Court.

Castle

Edna_Basher wrote: »

Absolutely.

In our response to the Government's consultation last year, we suggested a maximum "time-out" period of 18 months, allowing for up to 12 months for ADR with a further 6 months after the conclusion of the ADR process for a PPC to decide whether it had a sufficiently strong case to progress to Court.

Right now the ADR process is a mess and the new ADR's introduced in 2015 by the government don't really help as (a) there are not mandatory, (b) don't cover business's, (c) technically they only apply to contracts; not "torts" such as trespass or "byelaws".

hoohoo

Oopsie, apparently this was an error. The page is now gone.

beamerguy

hoohoo wrote: »

Oopsie, apparently this was an error. The page is now gone.

The page you're looking for is no longer available
The information on this page has been removed because it was published in error.

This document was publish in error

So, who is controlling the government then ??
No worries, we have all seen it now so we await the report in April

For those who missed it, the government page said this

"Regulatory reforms being introduced on 6 April 2016
amendments to off-street parking legislation will balance the right of land owners to control the use of their land and protect drivers from unscrupulous practices"

Guys_Dad

Probably the page in question had a maximum time limit and it has now been towed away. Haven't they heard of POFA and that is now illegal?

ManxRed

Capita are probably already upset by this and had it pulled.

yotmon

beamerguy wrote: »

For those who missed it, the government page said this

"Regulatory reforms being introduced on 6 April 2016
amendments to off-street parking legislation will balance the right of land owners to control the use of their land and protect drivers from unscrupulous practices"

The problem with this is that Government papers are not just put together overnight. The reform will probably be more or less completed, other than for the crossing of the tee's and the dotting of the i's.

It is now very important that action groups get their voices heard and their inputs noted before the ink dries, otherwise they will all be chasing for amendments !

catfunt

The other problem is that this is being done by Statutory Intstrument, therefore there will be no discussion in Parliament.

Dave's lot do not have a great track record in paying much more than lip service to the general public, they don't want to upset their paymasters (big business) and they really don't like regulating things very much... so I do not expect April to bring much of an improvement in the private parking situation so far as the motorist is concerned.

Hope to be proved wrong.

beamerguy

ManxRed wrote: »

Capita are probably already upset by this and had it pulled.

Well Capita would be, nobody would want such a money making scam to be upset ?

David Cameron's ministers should practice what he preaches, that is TRANSPARENCY

Motorists cannot accept anything less than being protected from unscrupulous practices operated by PPC's
PROBABLY the #1 UK SCAM overtaking the phone scammers and PPI