Parking stories in the News/media

daveyjp

If I were a punter and saw an ANPR car park I'd park on the public highway.

Coupon-mad

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81912749#Comment_81912749

Same.

I always seek out a road not a car park.

BlueonBlue

Are the pub landlords getting a incentive from the PPC,s ?

Coupon-mad

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81912941#Comment_81912941

Almost certainly not.

All the PPC has to do is worry the landlord with complaints in the build up to pitching their 'free solution'. It's like taking candy from a baby.

I suspect that some of the industry ANPR players create or inflate a problem that doesn't exist.

It would be easy when targeting new sites to send a couple of complaints to the owning brewery and/or even go for a drink there and whinge that you 'couldn't park' and that it is putting you off using the pub and that you 'saw three people walking off site'.

Once that seed is planted then it's a cinch for a salesperson at the PPC to rock up and persuade a clueless duped landlord to let the cameras in.

Same with retailers, who - in newspaper articles - always spout the same rhetoric about people 'parking and leaving the site' which no big supermarket will have witnessed first hand and could easily be a story arising from fake complaints spun by the firm who has most to gain.

I often wonder why the landowners are so stupid but looking at this, it's easy to play to their worries then string them along with the usual spiel.

knightstyle

You and Yours on the BBC had a chap using AI got £500 from a parking company.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s4d5

Coupon-mad

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81914634#Comment_81914634

Thanks! Jeez he took an age to get to the point!

Not even sure if he counterclaimed or just made an application for costs after late discontinuance. Anyway he extracted a few hundred quid from a rogue PPC as a result of an unfair PCN so it's a good news story!

😃

patient_dream

MHCLG Steve Reed MP was on ITV this morning talking about the crisis we are in.

Many times he said "it's the right thing to do " ??

Don't you think Steve it is the right thing to do is STOP this mega money scam by parking companies which is not in the interests of the public ?

Or is it because the MHCLG cannot multi task ?

MothballsWallet

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81911931#Comment_81911931

I bet your PPC buddies are salivating profusely over that one.

Kaizen2024

No, not really; it is what it is.

Coupon-mad

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81915687#Comment_81915687

As will be the Code & wider statutory framework.

Your industry will have no choice but to comply but we'll get MPs to attack it (early doors) and reject it if it's wrong.

It's not just a JR that can block a creature of statute passing through Parliament. But motorists hope the MHCLG are listening and learning, such that the hopelessly naive Options Assessment is binned and we don't have to get MPs to object & stop the Code.