Government CoP/CoE update.

Fruitcake

Please see the link posted by blackdog further down this thread.

It seems we are going to have to wait another year before it will be implemented.

Charges to be reduced to £50 outside London with a 50% discount for early payment. Charges in London to be £80.

Charges in residential areas to be £100. That may help combat fly-parking, but won't help genuine residents.

Snakes_Belly

"The £100 charge may be retained in residential areas. Good to deter fly parkers, but that doesn't protect genuine residents."

That is bad news for residents unless there is something in the tier system than covers residents parking in their own spot. Perhaps if they have a lease then it will just be a small admin fee. 

ParkingMad

https://archive.is/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/government-clampdown-on-cowboy-car-parking-operators-l5p66ljrj

blackdog2220

Fruitcake said:

An article in the Times online, littered with the word penalty, showing a picture of a windscreen council penalty notice, has been published stating that the new PAS won't be introduced until next year. 

I won't post a link as the site takes ages to load all the pop-ups.

It does have some good-ish news in that the maximum charge outside London will be £50 with a 50% discount for early payment. In London it will be £80. Whether this is based on a suggestion in the consultation, or is hard fact remains to be seen.

The £100 charge may be retained in residential areas. Good to deter fly parkers, but that doesn't protect genuine residents.

It quotes lies from PoPLA who say mitigating circumstances are considered in an appeal.

So, it's going to be business as usual here for some time to come.

remove the times from the equasion , updated yesterday or whatever https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/parking-code-enforcement-framework

Fruitcake

blackdog2220 said:

Fruitcake said:

An article in the Times online, littered with the word penalty, showing a picture of a windscreen council penalty notice, has been published stating that the new PAS won't be introduced until next year. 

I won't post a link as the site takes ages to load all the pop-ups.

It does have some good-ish news in that the maximum charge outside London will be £50 with a 50% discount for early payment. In London it will be £80. Whether this is based on a suggestion in the consultation, or is hard fact remains to be seen.

The £100 charge may be retained in residential areas. Good to deter fly parkers, but that doesn't protect genuine residents.

It quotes lies from PoPLA who say mitigating circumstances are considered in an appeal.

So, it's going to be business as usual here for some time to come.

remove the times from the equation , updated yesterday or whatever https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/parking-code-enforcement-framework

Thanks. I've edited the title and my OP accordingly, and referred to your post above with the link.

Fruitcake

I note that it is now being referred to as a Code of Enforcement. 
I also liked the comment about the number of "Unique" responses to the consultation.  

Me thinks the scammer's war-posting, copy-and-plaster technique has been spotted and acted upon.

Coupon-mad

This is news, in fact it is all news, but I am reading through and saw this:

46. Outside of London, we will mirror Local Authority Band 2 for the majority of private car parking spaces: car parks where parking is invited, either to any member of the public or to customers of public-facing business e.g. supermarkets or shopping centres. On these types of land, more serious breaches of the terms and conditions can incur a parking charge of up to £70 and less serious breaches up to £50.

48. The exceptions outside of London are on land where parking is not invited or is restricted (often through the use of permits) to specific groups, for example private residents or staff. In these cases, the current £100 cap will apply. This is in recognition that these types of land have no direct analogue in the Local Authority system and of the importance of balancing the rights of motorists with those of private landowners.

51. In recognition of respondents’ views that any system should protect Blue Badge holders, parking in a Blue Badge bay when not eligible to will attract the higher charge in London of £130. Outside of London, abuse of a Blue Badge will not be reduced to £70 but will instead remain at the current £100 to provide a strong deterrent.

50% discount appears to have been confirmed across the board.

Snakes_Belly

Spring 2021: Pre-market engagement for single appeals service.
How will this work? Will they put it out to tender? They need to drain the swamp.

Needs to be judgmental decisions not box ticking.

Snakes_Belly

Most infringements will be £25.00 if paid within a given time. I think that this will see off some of the clingons.

Coupon-mad

Snakes_Belly said:

Spring 2021: Pre-market engagement for single appeals service.
How will this work? Will they put it out to tender? They need to drain the swamp.

Looks like it will have to go out to tender, based on that wording.  Makes sense that it needs a tender process.

As long as those behind POPLA and the IAS get no sniff at running it, and as long as the single appeals service is run by legally minded, fair and robust people and made available not just for a 28 day window but right through to court claim filing day (and proclaimed prominently as an ADR option on any LBC) then we could be getting somewhere in terms of draining that swamp.

Coupon-mad

On these types of land, more serious breaches of the terms and conditions can incur a parking charge of up to £70 and less serious breaches up to £50.

It is noticeable that the suggested £70 is not reflected in the tables below that statement.

So let's hope they had a re-think and realised that you can't clutter a single sign in a supermarket/cinema/GP surgery (publicly invited) car park with more than one list of 'breaches' and two different parking charge contracts.

The danger is, more car parking firms will no doubt try to find a way of making a car park a 'permit only' car park.  What counts as permit only, would Aldi car parks where you have to input your VRM fall within 'permit only' and thus be allowed £100 charges?  That will need addressing to stop that happening.

And people who are permitted, and can prove it retrospectively, must be protected against those punitive £100 charges and not charged £20