UKCPM being shamed on ITV

safarmuk

@mistercesq - I read that blog on the PP website and with your additional news above (regarding an ITV programme) I would very much like to get in contact with you in order to connect you and the TV programme makers with some other people who are having problems with UK CPM.

I also think you - as the landholder who had the contract with UK CPM - would have valuable information for these people that may finally disprove some of things those people have been told and help them in their current battle.

Is the email address in the PP blog still the best way to get in touch?

mistercesq

safarmuk wrote: »

@mistercesq - I read that blog on the PP website and with your additional news above (regarding an ITV programme) I would very much like to get in contact with you in order to connect you and the TV programme makers with some other people who are having problems with UK CPM.

I also think you - as the landholder who had the contract with UK CPM - would have valuable information for these people that may finally disprove some of things those people have been told and help them in their current battle.

Is the email address in the PP blog still the best way to get in touch?

Yes thats the best way to get in touch. Drop me an email.

Loadsofchildren123

Thank you for sharing your story. You tried to do the right thing, but replaced one problem with a worse one.
There doesn't seem to be a ppc out there who doesn't target everyone indiscriminately. Landowners do need to understand this and write into the contract the terms on which they operate (in detail, so that there is protection for genuine parkers) and the right for the landowner to demand the cancellation of tickets at no cost to them. Alternatively, you write into the contract that the ppc has no legal right to issue court proceedings in their name. At all.

Zero_Gravitas

It's also worth mentioning that if this is the car park at Coexeter house in Abingdon, the sign at the entrance still refers to a £100 parking fine...

richy4

So what will this program be called on ITV at the end of May? Is there a name yet or is it a panorama style expose?

The_Deep

I too can sympathise, but I cannot but feel that you brought this upon your own head.

Had you have done a couple of hours of research, you would have realised that a great many of these companies were ex-clampers. Surely that should have told you something.

You should now check the court lists daily to see who they are suing, and, as a gesture of goodwill, contact those who lose and offer to reimburse the genuine ones.


opomn a

mistercesq

Zero_Gravitas wrote: »

It's also worth mentioning that if this is the car park at Coexeter house in Abingdon, the sign at the entrance still refers to a £100 parking fine...

CPM have not removed their signs I am in the process of having them removed.

mistercesq

The_Deep wrote: »

I too can sympathise, but I cannot but feel that you brought this upon your own head.

Had you have done a couple of hours of research, you would have realised that a great many of these companies were ex-clampers. Surely that should have told you something.

You should now check the court lists daily to see who they are suing, and, as a gesture of goodwill, contact those who lose and offer to reimburse the genuine ones.


opomn a

Do you not think I personally have prepared defences for people being taken to court and I personally would have attended any hearing if someone was taken to court? I have a list of every person who was being taken to court. You may slate me for wanting available parking for genuine customers but I would ask you to go and find another landowner who has done as much as I have to help customers. I have spent 2 years fighting this.

mistercesq

richy4 wrote: »

So what will this program be called on ITV at the end of May? Is there a name yet or is it a panorama style expose?

Its an exposee type programme. Its a documentary by ITV's Tonight series.

mistercesq

Loadsofchildren123 wrote: »

Thank you for sharing your story. You tried to do the right thing, but replaced one problem with a worse one.
There doesn't seem to be a ppc out there who doesn't target everyone indiscriminately. Landowners do need to understand this and write into the contract the terms on which they operate (in detail, so that there is protection for genuine parkers) and the right for the landowner to demand the cancellation of tickets at no cost to them. Alternatively, you write into the contract that the ppc has no legal right to issue court proceedings in their name. At all.

The fact that I have agreements in writing from CPM agreeing to cancel tickets when we requested, a letter from James Randall stating he would cancel any tickets sent over and they cancelled in excess of 1500 tickets at our request creates a precedent under the law of Estoppel. We entered into this from day one with the ability to cancel tickets.