Parking stories in the News/media

patient_dream

Coupon-mad said:

patient_dream said:

 The BULL PUB will have a short life unless they get rid of parking company

Yep.

I looked at their website and they have a big TV screen to show sports, they serve cooked food, they have an outdoor area and have a weekly quiz, and live music often. Every word on their website invites people to make an evening of it.

Twice a week they are open until midnight so are those wishing to meet friends, relax and 'make an evening of it' meant to ensure they don't arrive until 9.15 on those evenings? Impossible if you've booked a meal!

Patrons will have to leave early, citing the unworkable parking limit, or just boycott the place completely.

It's a recipe for disaster for the Bull Pub. Stonegate Group - you have been warned.

BIG MISTAKE.

There are 3 problems that will kill pubs

THE GOVERNMENT
THE PARKING COMPANIES
IGNORANT PUBLICANS AND OWNERS

They are probably paid a percebtage of the ticket but that will not stop pubs going bust. The one sure thing is thar pubs who are sucked into the great parking scam will lose more business than their overdraft will take

Banks who give loan facilities to pubs should be aware that if a parking company gets involved, their funding is at grave risk simply because the public will not put up with such rubbish, nor should they

This is what they say on their website .....  

Bringing people together through our passion for great pubs, bars and venues.

WOW ?   Having Rogue Traders in your car parks really does make your headline look pathetic

THEY SAY ....
We strongly believe that the pub is the heart of the British culture and we strive to deliver fantastic guest experience

SO THEY EMPLOY ROGUE TRADERS...... what is the guest experience when they face a £100 ticket

NO doubt the Stonegate Group will have a rude awakening in the not too distant future

Nellymoser

Private parking companies hit new record number of tickets issued to drivers this year

According to govt data 15.9 million pcns were issued to end of Sept 2025, a 17 per cent rise from the previous year.

RAC head of policy Simon Williams said the increases demonstrate that 'something must be going badly awry' with the parking system, as the majority of motorists 'try very hard' to avoid tickets.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/private-parking-companies-hand-out-record-number-of-tickets-to-drivers/ar-AA1SxJik

Nellymoser

The Battle between Improving Compliance and Reputational Harm: could issuing Warning Notices for first parking offences be a solution?

NO says Unity5.

Apparently Warning Notices have been implemented by certain authorities in the past, and the primary opposition to their wider adoption is their perceived ineffectiveness.

https://unity5.com/articles/the-battle-between-improving-compliance-and-reputational-harm-could-issuing-warning-notices-for-first-offences-be-a-solution/

With year on year increases in recorded numbers of costly pcns issued this surely demonstrates the ineffectiveness of this practice at improving driver parking compliance yet...there seems to be absolutely no opposition from the industry to this ineffective practice.

Is this because pcns generate income for the industry whereas warning notices would cause a loss of income ??

patient_dream

What is a puzzle to me is why Reeves and Starmer prefer to damage normal people and not the rogue traders and money scammers operating throughout the UK .... PRIVATE PARKING COMPANIES ?

With a multi million pound business model allowed to roam free, there is a fortune for collect for Reeves if she becomes as devious and more devious as shown to the UK public

Parking compies operate a service industry and like every service industry should include VAT in their prices   ... not another add-on but included

Does Reeves not understand that the revenue she could collect will go towards and help the NHS etc

Reeves is cluless

Coupon-mad

Reeves is clueless

Not all of us with that name ... careful who you are calling clueless!

 

 

  

But this post is:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/will-hurley-45077141_the-private-parking-sector-manages-a-vital-activity-7399809789293252609-b-U7

Utter codswallop IMHO, called out by Andy T:



Interesting how they are now calling it an Escalation fee. It is doomed though, IMHO.

patient_dream

Sorry about that Coupon ,,,,  I forgot you shared the same name.  Of course I refered to the UM AH lady

What is the matter with Hurley ?
Is he trying to trick government using the word escalation ?
Has HURLEY forgotten the words of the Suprreme Court, maybe he needs a refresher course

It is still debt collection based on the OSNER SCAM

It's like DCBL not knowing how to spell debt collection and calling it DAMAGES ?

BOTH DAMAGES AND ESCALATION IS JUST UTTER RUBBISH

It's all part of the great UK SCAM.
Wonder what fabrication HURLEY will come up wuth next ?

kryten3000

patient_dream said:

What is the matter with Hurley ?
Is he trying to trick government using the word escalation ?
Has HURLEY forgotten the words of the Suprreme Court, maybe he needs a refresher course

It is still debt collection based on the OSNER SCAM

It's like DCBL not knowing how to spell debt collection and calling it DAMAGES ?

BOTH DAMAGES AND ESCALATION IS JUST UTTER RUBBISH

It's all part of the great UK SCAM.
Wonder what fabrication HURLEY will come up wuth next ?

Will is worried that the gravy train is coming to a halt. Good.

Yes he is trying it on with the usual deflective rubbish  about 99.7 compliant motorists and "repeat offenders".

Nellymoser

Doubt a refresher course would have any affect on Mr Hurley. His opinions seem unchangeable unlike the name for his industry's £70 rip-off fee.

Probably best if he were to take early retirement as he doesn't even understand that if his industry WAS functioning effectively and delivering a seamless reliable service there would be no need whatsoever for past and present Government intervention.

patient_dream

Nellymoser said:

Doubt a refresher course would have any affect on Mr Hurley. His opinions seem unchangeable unlike the name for his industry's £70 rip-off fee.

Probably best if he were to take early retirement as he doesn't even understand that if his industry WAS functioning effectively and delivering a seamless reliable service there would be no need whatsoever for past and present Government intervention.

Will Hurley and his partner Davies are simply not fit to run a system that deals with the public. The IPC sham which we all know about and the IAS RUBBISH is just a SCAM to protect the IAS users of the IPC

Government  fails to understand that this sham members club is just a scam ..... Hurley is a complete waste of space

Coupon-mad

'I used ChatGPT to fight parking ticket - company ended up paying me £462'

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-used-chatgpt-fight-parking-36429227.amp

Sounds like a DCB Legal discontinuance in the Spring, then he pursued costs at £19 per hour and got them granted by a judge.

Tough luck, ParkingEye.