Parking stories in the News/media

Coupon-mad

Nellymoser said:

Private Parking Company continues to issue PCNs to drivers parked in free public spaces.

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/25761556.drivers-issued-fines-parking-abertillerys-iceland/

Since March 2025 Neil Milkin, 74, has received FIVE incorrect PCNs. He along with ‘dozens of other people,’ is so fed up with this Neil intends to file a small claims case for damages for the harassment and stress.

See Neil's 2/1/2026 email sent to Vehicle Control Services on Trustpilot (and his other 3 reviews)

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/vehiclecontrolservices.co.uk

Neil had contacted the police saying this is a criminal matter, and they said it’s a civil matter, not a police matter.

The TrustPilot Reviews speak for themselves!

Below is is the original post on this saga, from April. Why hasn't the DVLA banned VCS?

Coupon-mad said:

Abertillery Iceland:

Somebody needs to contact this journalist and link her to this post.

The journalist can be emailed:

demiceryscaddy@gmail.com

Please tell her - and tell Neil Milkins who has been posting on Facebook (see images) and really has the bit between his teeth - to send their evidence to the DVLA and the Information Commissioner's Office...

...and to get Neil's constituency MP to raise this case at the House of Commons debate on private parking on 6th May:

A Westminster Hall debate on parking regulation has been confirmed to take place on 6th May at 11:30am.

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/25098515.abertillery-iceland-illegitimate-parking-fine-complaints/

Here are the DVLA emails to copy in, for the Customer Complaint Resolution Team:

CCRT@dvla.gov.uk
and
KADOEservice.support@dvla.gov.uk
and
complaintsTeam@dvla.gov.uk

This is serious: allegations of illegal ticketing as a result of wide-angle CCTV filming all cars entering this SHARED site, where four of the spaces are owned by the Council.

Reportedly, the Council wrote to Iceland and ex-clampers Vehicle Control Services to remind them that 4 of the bays are Council owned. So they know. Not sure why the Council hasn't simply told them to take down the CCTV camera.

This situation means anyone whose data was harvested by VCS whose car was in one of the Council bays has had their data bought illegally.

VCS: have you refunded those who paid?

DVLA: will you grow a pair, investigate properly with Gwent Council - get on with it - and (if the evidence is there) suspend VCS, like you did other AOS firms caught issuing PCNs on council land? Or did you only bother to do that when (very robust) David Dunford was head of data complaints?

If this allegation is true, it breaches:

- DVLA KADOE rules.
- the DPA 2018
- UK GDPR 2018 and
- the ICO's Surveillance Camera Code of Practice.

It's because they are using hidden CCTV high on a building at the back of the area (you can tell from the pic in the PCN below) that they are capturing EVERY pedestrian and every vehicle arriving,

That's excessive and unjustified camera use. WHICH IS UNLAWFUL.

This is not a suitable site to run parking management by remote cameras.

Looks like (allegedly) VCS have been obtaining DVLA data without reasonable cause and issuing PCNs to pretty much every vehicle that enters (except permitted vehicles like Iceland vans, one assumes),

Top photo shows the 4 council bays on the right, positioned next to a VCS sign on the left:


Second & third images I got from GSV which shows the VCS signs on the other bays, plus a close up of the sign in the other side (Iceland):

Trustpilot: 

kryten3000

Nellymoser said:

Private Parking Company continues to issue PCNs to drivers parked in free public spaces.

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/25761556.drivers-issued-fines-parking-abertillerys-iceland/

Since March 2025 Neil Milkin, 74, has received FIVE incorrect PCNs. He along with ‘dozens of other people,’ is so fed up with this Neil intends to file a small claims case for damages for the harassment and stress.

See Neil's 2/1/2026 email sent to Vehicle Control Services on Trustpilot (and his other 3 reviews)

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/vehiclecontrolservices.co.uk

Neil had contacted the police saying this is a criminal matter, and they said it’s a civil matter, not a police matter.

Of course it's VCS who can never admit fault.  Remember this, posted by Jake last year around the time the "10 minute rule" was removed from the Single Code.  While VCS/Excel have their MD on the board of the IPC, they will never be sanctioned.  

Bazarius

kryten3000 said:

Nellymoser said:

Private Parking Company continues to issue PCNs to drivers parked in free public spaces.

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/25761556.drivers-issued-fines-parking-abertillerys-iceland/

Since March 2025 Neil Milkin, 74, has received FIVE incorrect PCNs. He along with ‘dozens of other people,’ is so fed up with this Neil intends to file a small claims case for damages for the harassment and stress.

See Neil's 2/1/2026 email sent to Vehicle Control Services on Trustpilot (and his other 3 reviews)

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/vehiclecontrolservices.co.uk

Neil had contacted the police saying this is a criminal matter, and they said it’s a civil matter, not a police matter.

Of course it's VCS who can never admit fault.  Remember this, posted by Jake last year around the time the "10 minute rule" was removed from the Single Code.  While VCS/Excel have their MD on the board of the IPC, they will never be sanctioned.  

Same goes for Kevin McManus’s Alliance parking . Their repeated  breaches are brushed under the carpet