Breaking News: Government has announced the statutory Code of Practice, and Enforcement Framework

ihatetrump

BrownTrout said:

Umkomaas said:

The allowance of up to £70 as a 'debt recovery charge' has now been binned, it is dead, it is defunct, it is pushing up the daisies.

Mr Osner can take much applause for this!  Bye bye DRP, Zenith, DCB Limited, ZZPS et al from the private parking end of the swamp!

Well done @bargepole and @Coupon-mad. 👏 

No it wont be the end of the likes of DRP at all, they will go back to their old method collecting where they take a % of the parking charge and not the add on charge.

Sadly @BrownTrout is 100% correct. DRP are not going to go away, when you follow the corporate trail, they are owned by Bristow & Sutor (bailiffs & enforcement agents) who are owned by Sovereign Capital IV Limited - follow this corporate trail (limited though it is on Companies House) and you're into multiple Venture Capital Funds owning them offshore (via Jersey, BVI etc), including Shell Pensions Trust, Chrysler Group Retirement Trust, University of Chicago, South Yorkshire Pensions Authority ...... and the list goes on. It is really is mind numbing to see how many investors there are in this seedy industry - especially the pension providers. 

patient_dream

And it proves one thing about the BPA waffle ..... IT REALLY WAS WAFFLE

bargepole

The new single appeals service will hopefully reduce the number of claims reaching court. I just hope that the new appeals service employ adjudicators that have some discretion unlike the current incumbents.

This is now the next stage in the process, and the DLUHC are running a series of meetings with key stakeholders to establish how the new SAS will work, and who should run it.

We have made it clear that nobody connected with the current ATAs and appeals services should have any involvement whatsoever, and that it must be a new service completely independent of the parking industry, with legally qualified adjudicators who have experience of parking issues. That narrows it down to a very short list of candidates.

BrownTrout

bargepole said:

The new single appeals service will hopefully reduce the number of claims reaching court. I just hope that the new appeals service employ adjudicators that have some discretion unlike the current incumbents.

This is now the next stage in the process, and the DLUHC are running a series of meetings with key stakeholders to establish how the new SAS will work, and who should run it.

We have made it clear that nobody connected with the current ATAs and appeals services should have any involvement whatsoever, and that it must be a new service completely independent of the parking industry, with legally qualified adjudicators who have experience of parking issues. That narrows it down to a very short list of candidates.

Bet that went down like a lead balloon with those on the parking industry side.

nicestrawb

Good news at last. It was inevitable eventually. PPC's dont help themselves with their flimsy arguments and more importantly, just completely choosing to ignore the actual issues that they are being held to account for.

Still, nothing will change until the new CoP is shown to have teeth, that's the next priority....

Snakes_Belly

DRP may move into energy bills which are forecasted to rocket. Energy companies tend to use regulated firms though.

The likes of SRS will probably go more upmarket where there are people actually parking your car.  I think that Excel/VCS are aready into this.

patient_dream

BrownTrout said:

bargepole said:

The new single appeals service will hopefully reduce the number of claims reaching court. I just hope that the new appeals service employ adjudicators that have some discretion unlike the current incumbents.

This is now the next stage in the process, and the DLUHC are running a series of meetings with key stakeholders to establish how the new SAS will work, and who should run it.

We have made it clear that nobody connected with the current ATAs and appeals services should have any involvement whatsoever, and that it must be a new service completely independent of the parking industry, with legally qualified adjudicators who have experience of parking issues. That narrows it down to a very short list of candidates.

Bet that went down like a lead balloon with those on the parking industry side.

They dealt it and now they can smell it ....but what will the 4 stooges do now ?

ihatetrump

Snakes_Belly said:

I would image that the likes of DRP will move onto energy bills which are forecasted to rocket.

As per my earlier thread (8:58am), through their ownership trail, DRP are already in the Energy Sector - partially owned by Shell Pensions Trust!

DRP will no doubt go wherever their Vulture  Venture Capital owners direct them - morals don't tend to be high on their list of endearing qualities. 

Le_Kirk

bargepole said:

The allowance of up to £70 as a 'debt recovery charge' has now been binned, it is dead, it is defunct, it is pushing up the daisies. A number of posters on here raised this point with their MPs, with varying degrees of success, but it seems that enough pressure was brought to bear on the DLUHC policy advisors during the summer 2021 further consultation, for them to realise they were flogging a dead horse.

This is a brilliant part of the news. 
The article in the #daily Mail says this ... "However, motorists still have to wait until the end of next year for the new measures to be implemented."? This is not so good - Why wait!

Humdinger1

bargepole said:

The new single appeals service will hopefully reduce the number of claims reaching court. I just hope that the new appeals service employ adjudicators that have some discretion unlike the current incumbents.

This is now the next stage in the process, and the DLUHC are running a series of meetings with key stakeholders to establish how the new SAS will work, and who should run it.

We have made it clear that nobody connected with the current ATAs and appeals services should have any involvement whatsoever, and that it must be a new service completely independent of the parking industry, with legally qualified adjudicators who have experience of parking issues. That narrows it down to a very short list of candidates.

Yep; it really comes down to the regulars on here!  Oh,  the joy of imagining @bargepole @Coupon-mad @BrownTrout  @KeithP   and others (need to check exact names but you know who you are!) on an appeals panel.  You should indeed be in the next honours list.  I cannot congratulate you all enough on the campaign you have won and the example you've set of refusing to buckle to bullies and standing up for what is right; sadly lacking these days....  Love, love, love from Humdinger1 xxx