BPA Continuing to Whinge about Reduced Parking Charge Levels

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95Rollers said:

It's beggars belief!

YES it does.  we now wait to see if government allows the scam and are foolish enough to listen to an industry that has already duped them nearly10 years ago

95Rollers

Fingers crossed the government do the right thing this time 🤞  It makes me sick to the stomach thinking about all the unjust stress, anxiety, sickness people have endured over a protracted period at the hands of these companies! Not to mention ££s lost unfairly due to fear!  It's pure predatory extortion!

The BPA already duped the Govt, DVLA and big corporations on multiple occasions so I'm not going to lie that I'm a bit worried - but tyring to keep optimistic. 

patient_dream

95Rollers said:

Fingers crossed the government do the right thing this time 🤞  It makes me sick to the stomach thinking about all the unjust stress, anxiety, sickness people have endured over a protracted period at the hands of these companies! Not to mention ££s lost unfairly due to fear!  It's pure predatory extortion!

The BPA already duped the Govt, DVLA and big corporations on multiple occasions so I'm not going to lie that I'm a bit worried - but tyring to keep optimistic. 

Well, whatever else the BPA get up to is nothing to do with us. 
For years they have turned the parking industry into a complete disaster and Sir Greg and other MP's want it stopped for good. 

Government can ill afford to let this continue and so I am confident that the current new code of practice which is now law together with prices that fall in line with councils ... will reign.

If it takes out some parking companies so what, they should have behaved themselves in the first place

Coupon-mad

Government can ill afford to let this continue and so I am confident that the current new code of practice which is now law together with prices that fall in line with councils ... will reign.

It's not the Code of Practice that's the problem.

It's the Framework and new idea about 'making a false debt recovery sum part of the price term on signs' that's clearly come from the APA lobbying 'all levels of Government' with meetings since March. 

You can tell it came from the parking industry because the consultation actually repeated the guff that adding £70 will be a 'safeguard' and will 'add to the deterrent value'. 

You could not make that up unless you were an APA saying exactly what you know the MHCLG wants to hear.  It must have sounded so plausible that they fell for it. 

It doesn't help that the 3 stated 'policy objectives' were written without consumer protection against this rogue industry even getting a mention.  Frankly, the 3 stated 'policy objectives' read like an APA wrote them and are all about reducing harm caused by motorists and making sure parking charges can be enforced. 

Not a dicky bird about the entire point of the Knight Act, to balance the thinking.

Jenni_D

I think C-m is referring to the CoP part of the Parking Bill, not the CoP of the BPA or IPC. The problem (which the consultation was about) is the additional frippery being applied to circumvent the core purpose of the Bill.