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

patient_dream

95Rollers said:

Have BPA, IPC, Gallstones/ other bent solicitors, DRA, PPCs and other bottom feeders issued any statements or quotes!?!  I imagine there will be some serious steam coming out of Captain Clamp-It's ears right (which will match the Hot Air that comes from his mouth!).  Oh well you can't take the pi55 out of people, rip them off, harass and bully them forever just like you can't deal drugs or cash in fraudulent cheques for ever either. Every crime and criminal has a shelf life!   They done their own legs by their own greedy, dishonest and nefarious behaviours!!! The government had enough and kicked the troughs away from the reach of their greedy snouts!!!

I would imagine that the PPC's are very disappointed in their leaders,, both ATA's who FAILED them

For government, the icing was on the cake with the recent BPA propaganda which said ...

Government proposals  to reduce parking charges will lead to a £19.5 billion hit to the UK economy ?

Whoever the BPA employed to come up with such rubbish ... they should ask for a full refund because parking charges have been reduced to £50 in the new bill and guess what ..... their will be no hit to the economy ?

Umkomaas

Kite2010 said:

The only icing on the cake would have been a stricter time limit in which the PPCs can take someone to court over an unpaid parking invoice, i.e. 12 months.  Over 12 months old and the parking ticket becomes barred from being put in front of a judge [to stop the bottom feeders from passing details of unpaid invoices from 4-5 years to try and take them to court].

I suspect PPCs will be far less keen to chase a one-off £50 charge to court, with no £70 add-on, Judges wise to and keen to knock back the the interest rates PPCs try to charge, plus the uneconomic £150+ on a gun-for-hire legal, the sums would no longer seem to add up.

Half_way

Im surprised there havent been ore toys thrown out of the pram - its some time until the new code of practice comes in so between then and now it could get even busier on here.

 I wount be surprised to see a few new codes of practice spewing forth that heavily lean to the pakring companies ( ie even more so) and possibly raise the maximum private pakring charge notice value in the meantime to help generate a PPC feeding frenzy - and maybe help build a war chest for a judicial review

bargepole

Umkomaas said:

I suspect PPCs will be far less keen to chase a one-off £50 charge to court, with no £70 add-on, Judges wise to and keen to knock back the the interest rates PPCs try to charge, plus the uneconomic £150+ on a gun-for-hire legal, the sums would no longer seem to add up.

Exactly. Which was one of the DLUHC's stated aims, to see far fewer charges pursued to court.

Their business model will only make sense for motorists who have accumulated multiple tickets, say 4 or more.

On the other hand, I suspect that far more people will just pay within 14 days to get the 50% discount, even if they thought the charge was unfair, rather than go to all the trouble of two stages of appeal. So I don't think the Single Appeals Service, when it is established, will be overrun with appeals.

Thrugelmir

patient_dream said:

Since Bargepole posted this thread at 7.42 this morning, the thread has over 2000 views ... amazing.

How many times have you personally viewed the thread today to read responses?  

Snakes_Belly

I did not see any mention of the regulation of the debt collection agents. At the moment they are unregulated. 

Curlyben

Thrugelmir said:

patient_dream said:

Since Bargepole posted this thread at 7.42 this morning, the thread has over 2000 views ... amazing.

How many times have you personally viewed the thread today to read responses?  

Good thing forum views don't work like that...

Snakes_Belly

Has it been decided at what point the discount will be lost? I was hoping that it would be after the Single Tier Appeals Service. We all know that appeals to the PPC are a waste of time.

There might as well be just the Single Tier Appeal and drop the appeals to the PPC's and keep the discount until after the Single Tier Appeal. It would save the PPC the trouble of sending out the standard letter rejecting the appeal.

Zero_Gravitas

Did anyone else notice this in the response to the consultation:

"We received 559 responses through the online form and 14 email responses.

We asked respondents to self-identify as parking operators, motorists, landowners or other. The breakdown of respondent types is as follows:

Land owner 30 5.40%

Motorist 455 80.90%

Of which appear to be landowners/parking operators posing as motorists (based on e-mail domain) 8 1.80%

Parking operator 38 6.30%

Other 45 6.60%

Not Answered 5 0.90%

However, we have no means of verifying each respondent or, for example, whether self-identified motorists have a connection with parking operators or landowners."

So they did notice the PPCs lying to influence the outcome - and well done for calling it out!

Fruitcake

patient_dream said:

95Rollers said:

Have BPA, IPC, Gallstones/ other bent solicitors, DRA, PPCs and other bottom feeders issued any statements or quotes!?!  I imagine there will be some serious steam coming out of Captain Clamp-It's ears right (which will match the Hot Air that comes from his mouth!).  Oh well you can't take the pi55 out of people, rip them off, harass and bully them forever just like you can't deal drugs or cash in fraudulent cheques for ever either. Every crime and criminal has a shelf life!   They done their own legs by their own greedy, dishonest and nefarious behaviours!!! The government had enough and kicked the troughs away from the reach of their greedy snouts!!!

I would imagine that the PPC's are very disappointed in their leaders,, both ATA's who FAILED them

For government, the icing was on the cake with the recent BPA propaganda which said ...

Government proposals  to reduce parking charges will lead to a £19.5 billion hit to the UK economy ?

Whoever the BPA employed to come up with such rubbish ... they should ask for a full refund because parking charges have been reduced to £50 in the new bill and guess what ..... their will be no hit to the economy ?

The government effectively said the exact opposite. 

Ministerial foreword

Key to helping our local high streets and town centres roar back into life as part of our recovery from COVID, is encouraging more people to shop local and support local businesses.

Yet, poll after poll - both before and during the pandemic - shows that a lack of cheap, easy parking is one of the greatest barriers to people visiting their local high street.

This is unlikely to come as a surprise for anyone who owns a car, because if there is one thing that unites all motorists it is that poor quality, expensive parking - and the universal fear of a parking ticket - are enough to put anyone off driving into town.

And that fear is not entirely unfounded.

It is the unregulated parking companies who have already caused a major hit on the UK economy.

Apart from their inherent unfairness, these practices damage our high-streets, our towns and our city centres. We are determined to bring them to an end.