Channel 5: Britain's Parking Hell

Phillb87

Sorry for this being unrelated but I'm new here and I can't seem to be able to put a post up can you share any info on this please?
Thank you
Phill

roddydogs

PasturesNew wrote: »

99% of people don't park up thinking "heh, heh.... I'm going to cheat the system here and get away with it". They park in genuine innocence.

If you parked wrongly/broke a rule then at most you should be charged for a full day's parking.... at MOST....

To be perfectly honest - a lot of the time I simply don't go to places, I don't park, if I'm at all nervous or unsure that I am following the correct signs, doing the right thing.... I couldn't afford to "miss a sign in the rain/dark" or any other such nonsense....

Re paragraph 2, if that was the case why would anyone bother to get a ticket?

BrownTrout

Umkomaas wrote: »

As owd Trev did in the marketing of his 'ANPR In a Box' - full of his very own algy rythums, hatched in his garden shed, capable of catching shoplifters, terrorists and illegal immigrants. Pity he doesn't have a few boxes left that could now be usefully deployed on and around Kent beaches!


Tony Taylor, a former UKPC lieutenant, commenting in the main about his ex-employer, as well as some more general observations.

Not without his own controversy around these parts! Opened his own Appeals Service some time ago.

Yes and doesnt really know what he is doing.......

The_Deep

I have no idea why landowners and retailers are so stupid, or so easily led by PPCs.

I am presently engaged in a battle to stop the management company appointing CPM in one of my properties. One of the directors is a property company with 7-8 investment properties in the block. I had a lengthy conversation with one of their legal team the other day. They use CPM in other locations and speak highly of them.

These companies flourish not only because of the cupidity of landowners, but also the stupidity or complacency of the general public. A group which shops at Brighthouse, pays silly prices for designer labels, must drive the latest Beamer, buys travel insurance from Tui, and was conned into paying billions in PPI.

BrownTrout

bergkamp wrote: »

It was UKPC, and TT is making a lot of money from the public with his 'appeal service' .....

Yea its money for old rope.

Ralph-y

Phillb87 ....







hi, and welcome to the forum ........

there will be plenty for you to read up on ...

but first you need to start your own thread ....

go to the newbies thread

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4816822/newbies-private-parking-ticket-old-or-new-read-these-faqs-first-thankyou

first and have a general read up

then visit the start page

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163&order=desc

where you will find the 'new thread button '



Ralph:cool:

BrownTrout

Another Tony Taylor Success here.

http://www.combinedparkingsolutions.com/yet-another-internet-expert-taken-to-task/

The_Deep

Another Tony Taylor Success here.

How so, this has very little to do with Mr Taylor

Mrs Woodward seems to be a serial bilker.

Nuddmann

I didn't watch the programme, could do without the increase in blood pressure(!), but Radio 4 had a section on parking on the money programme a couple of weeks ago, which is available on podcast. It was quite nice listening to a PPC trade body rep being given some incoming by the other two guests :-)

A couple of interesting things on there, which I don't recall seeing on this forum, were that, in the opinion of one of the guests, PPC employees who place notices on vehicle windscreens, which have to be subsequently cleaned, could be considered to be causing criminal damage because they have no statutory power to do so, unlike local authority wardens who do. I suppose the guest bases this on the fact that criminal damage can be defined as altering the state of someone else's property and I'd be interested in your views.

The second point he raised was that, apparently, PCNs from PPCs that have words to the effect that the notice must not be removed by unauthorised persons are a breach of the codes of practice and therefore render the charge and issue of it invalid. Again, what are your views and experience relating to this?

The podcast is around 25 mins long and well worth a listen.

KeithP

Nuddmann wrote: »

...Radio 4 had a section on parking on the money programme a couple of weeks ago, which is available on podcast.

Indeed they did. Discussed at the time:

Moneybox Radio 4 Parking Podcast