Channel 5: Britain's Parking Hell

Umkomaas

Some of the comments about windscreens and tickets were bordering on Freeman on the Land stuff!

beamerguy

BrownTrout wrote: »

Another Tony Taylor Success here.

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

How childish by CPS :rotfl:

Fake news from a loser

BrownTrout

Nuddmann wrote: »

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.

My bold- That complete and utter tosh, spouted by a person who is well known on this forum and in the industry. The company he runs made this comment to a customer:

After escalating I received a sarcastic email in response which pointed out that there were legitimate reasons for ignoring me and criticism of that is a racially aggravated offence.

I will just leave the source of that quote below.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/privateparkingappeals.co.uk

AdamBliss

Private parking is just a scam. Sick of it.

roddydogs

I quite agree, landowners should all provide free parking for all, just like the bloke on the prog.

beamerguy

BrownTrout wrote: »

My bold- That complete and utter tosh, spouted by a person who is well known on this forum and in the industry. The company he runs made this comment to a customer:


I will just leave the source of that quote below.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/privateparkingappeals.co.uk

Not that lot again, thought they went bust

peter_the_piper

I'm surprised that Trustpilot have not sued him for calling them a Fake Review Company.

BrownTrout

beamerguy wrote: »

Not that lot again, thought they went bust

Unfortunately not

Nuddmann

OOhhhh. That turned into a lively thread!!

I did think that the criminal damage opinion was stretching the definition somewhat,I was interested in people's views nonetheless. I'd have thought that the BBC would be. bit more careful with their guests having seen the other thread, on the other hand.....

BrownTrout

Nuddmann wrote: »

OOhhhh. That turned into a lively thread!!

I did think that the criminal damage opinion was stretching the definition somewhat,I was interested in people's views nonetheless. I'd have thought that the BBC would be. bit more careful with their guests having seen the other thread, on the other hand.....

There are some very dodgy people around in the whole parking industry.