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PPC Revenues During Lockdown - Down By Over 80%

The DVLA has now published the latest KADOE request numbers up to June 2020: 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/who-dvla-shares-data-with


Looking at two of the larger Operators, Parking Eye and VCS, the number of KADOE requests made by PE in Jan-Mar 2020 was 495,111, whereas for Apr-Jun it dropped to 81,339 - an 83% decrease.


For VCS, the numbers were 41,099 and 7,878 respectively, so they are down 81%.


As we suspected, the lockdown has hit PPCs as hard as most businesses.


I have been providing assistance, including Lay Representation at Court hearings (current score: won 57, lost 14), to defendants in parking cases for over 5 years. I have an LLB (Hons) degree, and have a Graduate Diploma in Civil Litigation from CILEx. However, any advice given on these forums by me is NOT formal legal advice, and I accept no liability for its accuracy.
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  • Le_Kirk said:
    Maybe we are just better at parking properly .............. or more likely we didn't go out much, as you suggest!
    yup the other day someone left a message on my car "parking fine" , my parking was good , but I still think a wheel or so where on the kurb 
  • Umkomaas said:
    The heart bleedeth 🩸 
    may thier overdraft charges get out of hand , many a bank manager has recieved a ticket in the past 
  • Fruitcake
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    PTRed said:
    I wonder if this is  why I and seemingly many others are now seeing PPC's initiating court action where they have previously not bothered for long-standing PCNs. Without as many new tickets, they need to pursue their old ones.
    Precisely so.
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  • D_P_Dance
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    I wonder how much Riki is bunging them?
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • PTRed said:
    I wonder if this is  why I and seemingly many others are now seeing PPC's initiating court action where they have previously not bothered for long-standing PCNs. Without as many new tickets, they need to pursue their old ones.
    yes , but can they survive long enough untill courts are free 
  • D_P_Dance
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    They are relying on stupid people to pay up.  Lckily for them, there are lots f stupid people about.  
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • and if you think yhey are resurectung cases now ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,just wait for new laws and 80% of them out of buisness , they wull all have portfolios of cases going back to the 6 yr date ,,,,,,,,,, that will be there ONLY income 
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