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

Umkomaas

Castle said:

Umkomaas said:

kryten3000 said:

According to the BPA's press release, their commissioned research estimates 46% of BPA operators would become insolvent within 12 months and 62% by the end of year 2.

I fail to see the downside to this.   

Are they using the same fingers on which they calculated the £19.5billion loss to the economy?  I don't think the BPA is over endowed with people who got ticks in sums at school!

The £19.5 billion loss is based on a sample of just three car parks, (Altrincham, Hounslow and Woking), all of which were Council Owned and managed. Two of which, Altrincham and Woking have now re-opened and the number of parking spaces have increased in each car park. The Hounslow car park has been re-developed into Homes, Shops, Cinema and a double basement car park has also been built. (I'm guessing that "footfall" has actually now increased at all three sites).

In other news, I see that Mazars are no longer acting for one of their "famous" clients:-
Trump accountants say financial reports unreliable - BBC News

A statistically representative sample then! 🤓

ihatetrump

"Alternative facts"?

Excuse my ignorance! - but please explain?

D_P_Dance

Fake news, "I thought it was a work event"  "There were no parties" , take your pick. 

Castle

ihatetrump said:

"Alternative facts"?

Excuse my ignorance! - but please explain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts#:~:text="Alternative facts" was a phrase,President of the United States

ihatetrump

Castle said:

ihatetrump said:

"Alternative facts"?

Excuse my ignorance! - but please explain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts#:~:text="Alternative facts" was a phrase,President of the United States

Got you - more like an out and out narcissistic orange haired baby liar to me ( ). Still he did send me a stimulus check (sic) with his signature boldly emblazoned  across the front - which I was more than happy to deposit, so I should just move on.

Snakes_Belly

D_P_Dance said:

Fake news, "I thought it was a work event"  "There were no parties" , take your pick. 

Or "Recollections may vary"

bargepole

This reminds me of Sir Humphrey Appleby's famous quote:

Ah, Prime Minister... It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection of them differs violently from every other member's recollection. Consequently we accept the convention that the official decisions are those and only those which have officially recorded in the minutes by the officials, from which it emerges with an elegant inevitability that any decision which has been officially reached will have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials and any decision which is not recorded in the minutes has not been officially reached even if one or more members believe they can recollect it, so in this particular case if the decision had been officially reached it would have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials. And it isn't so it wasn't.

ihatetrump

@bargepole

Brilliant! - except in Trumps' case, he rips up the minutes, eats them and/or flushes them down the toilet! (or alternatively sticks them in a box and ships them out to some place in Florida)

BelladonnaTook

Coupon-mad said:

Private parking companies who do not follow the Code by the end of 2023 could be banned from accessing Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) data.
Doesn't this imply that the Code will be introduced sooner but the PPC's have until the end of 2023 to get their act together?

Yes, that is a grandfather period and pretty generous, certainly achievable by professional companies.

Changing signage and processes like template letters doesn't take long.  Re-training takes a bit longer but they will be expected to be working to the Code asap.

Neil O'Brien MP stated that in a reply to an MP's question in 2021, that they wanted to get the Code published so PPCs can start working to it.

I spent ages trawling through this thread (brain fog) to read and re-read what you wrote here, @Coupon-mad - it is very reassuring because I felt a bit disturbed when I came across this from a former 'Consumer Lawyer of the Year' -

Coupon-mad

I can't really comment but suffice to say, don't be disturbed by that. 

I would be very surprised if this new Code simply sits dormant till 2023.  That's not really how one expects statutory regulation to work.

A 'grandfather period' is an end date, not a start date.

The BPA said to their members (as reported here by another poster) that they need to start complying sooner rather than later. 

The IPC put out what (on the face of it) reads as a realistic statement, too (it's earlier in this thread).

That's not to say I don't expect we will see attempts at loopholes and delay.  I do.