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

Umkomaas

The Lords had some input yesterday, covered by BBC Parliament.  Now available on BBC iPlayer - and available here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0016c0m/house-of-lords-private-parking-code-debate

Credit to the NoToMob forum for first bringing it to (my) notice. Well worth a watch; I expect it will be music to many ears on this side of the fence. 

Enjoy.

Castle

And here's Hansard's report of the discussions:-
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2022-03-28/debates/02E530A9-3FA5-4E03-A9B5-30CD73E1D93F/CodeOfPracticeForPrivateParking

Reading Lord Lucas's statement, I was somewhat surprised to read that he thought:-

It would be a big alarm signal if the result of this code was to push operators towards a financial model that was dependent on parking charges.

Jenni_D

Quite - given that this is the current situation anyway 🙄

Fruitcake

I liked Baroness Randerson's comment, "The Government apparently spoke to three companies and the British Parking Association. They predicted an apparently massive impact on the industry, which seems unlikely to me and, I believe, to the Government."

That to me is a subtle way of saying she believed the parking industry was telling porky pies.

Jenni_D

You mean they used a terminological inexactitude?

patient_dream

Fruitcake said:

I liked Baroness Randerson's comment, "The Government apparently spoke to three companies and the British Parking Association. They predicted an apparently massive impact on the industry, which seems unlikely to me and, I believe, to the Government."

That to me is a subtle way of saying she believed the parking industry was telling porky pies.

I agree with you  ...... we all knew that anyway.

I think we can all be happy that it is clear that government is not about to U-turn

They mention "loopholes" especially obtaining the data.  This could mean a request to the DVLA as to who accessed the information 

Fruitcake

Jenni_D said:

You mean they used a terminological inexactitude?

That's easy for you to say. 

Jenni_D

Not really - I had to use spill chuck 😁

Umkomaas

Fruitcake said:

I liked Baroness Randerson's comment, "The Government apparently spoke to three companies and the British Parking Association. They predicted an apparently massive impact on the industry, which seems unlikely to me and, I believe, to the Government."

That to me is a subtle way of saying she believed the parking industry was telling porky pies.

Nothing new there then!  Similar to the flights of fancy of the PPC/DCA reps at the Select Committee meeting, and not forgetting the BPA's prediction that the cut in the level of parking charge will result in a £19 billion (yep, billion!) hit to the British economy.  Are they on speed (or an even stronger mind-masher)?

patient_dream

Umkomaas said:

Fruitcake said:

I liked Baroness Randerson's comment, "The Government apparently spoke to three companies and the British Parking Association. They predicted an apparently massive impact on the industry, which seems unlikely to me and, I believe, to the Government."

That to me is a subtle way of saying she believed the parking industry was telling porky pies.

Nothing new there then!  Similar to the flights of fancy of the PPC/DCA reps at the Select Committee meeting, and not forgetting the BPA's prediction that the cut in the level of parking charge will result in a £19 billion (yep, billion!) hit to the British economy.  Are they on speed (or an even stronger mind-masher)?

Whatever the BPA are on is clearly a waste of money because IT DOES NOT WORK ?

Guess government had an extra shot of laughing gas when they read that