Parking Reform-Summary of responses

Castle

A summary of responses made to the Government's 2015 consultation paper; no surprises!
http://www.britishparking.co.uk/write/Documents/DCLG_Summary_of_responses_BPA.pdf

Umkomaas

Let's see what they make of it. My skim reading suggests a more than negative response in regard to PPCs.

The disappointing aspect, IMHO, is that only 571 respondents bothered to reply, jeez, we deal with more PCN cases than that on here every month!

Herzlos

I wondered about that. Unless they've discounted a lot of responses for some reason.

Grandad123

It's taken them long enough to produce a list of responses, how long will it take to make an actual decision.

trisontana

"Some suggested that Government should consider
the position of car park owners who did not want to be involved in enforcement for profit, but had to manage illegal parking on their land, for example business parks with allocated car parking for tenants."

Surely they mean "unauthorised" and not "illegal", as no criminal law has been broken?

Castle

Umkomaas wrote: »

The disappointing aspect, IMHO, is that only 571 respondents bothered to reply, jeez, we deal with more PCN cases than that on here every month!

I was very surprised at the number of responses especially given that the paper also covered Council Parking as well. One of the reasons could be that the original consultation was rushed out on 28th March 2015 just before the General Election and closed at the end of May 2015. This was before the judgement in Beavis.

The_Deep

So small a response as to be worthless. The Monster Raving Looney Party attracts more support.

System

Here's how its going to pan out.

DCLG will avoid getting the legislation in early via a SI and opt for the long and laborious process of additional primary legislation. This will have a number of effects

1. The IAS won't give a toss as they know they are going to be replaced.

2. POPLA won't give a toss as they know they are going to be replaced.

3. The DVLA will say it up to the ATA's as they are not legislators.

4. There will be a rush of claims on any pretext or the selling on of dodgy tickets.

At the same time, the BPA's lobbying firms will be following the progress of the new legislation and attempting to water down anything that affects business. They will also be wailing about parking carmageddon in Scotland and Northern Ireland unless there is Keeper Liability there.