Parking stories in the News/media

Nellymoser

Oh dear driver refunds will cost Croydon Council around £10.7 million

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/other/london-council-scraps-ltns-after-having-to-pay-back-over-10-000-000-to-drivers/ar-AA1Znz7H?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Car1980

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81941522#Comment_81941522

So if you decide you do actually want more time how do you pay for the hour you've just had?

Nellymoser

Around £2 million a day is spent on parking at five of England’s biggest airports

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/holidaymakers-hit-with-2-million-a-day-airport-parking-bill-at-five-major-uk-hub-5HjdWzq_2

Passengers paid £751m to leave their cars at Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands in 2025, up from £703m the previous year. Ownership of these airports is now 55 per cent overseas with Heathrow now fully foreign-owned.

Business Travel Association CE said rising drop-off and parking charges were becoming “a little bit out of hand” and suggested they may eventually need to be capped. He also questioned why passengers were being charged for drop-offs despite already paying airport fees within their ticket.

The Govt do not believe it is their role to dictate airport parking prices from Whitehall. Perhaps the Govt need to rethink this since many believe the prices charged are unfair and the petitions below wouldn't have been accepted by the petitions committee if it wasn't the Government's role.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/759700

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/756767

As airport petitions close, another opens.

alanjuk

This all seems a bit complicated for local residents etc, what could possibly go wrong.

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/new-parking-system-iconic-welsh-33676478?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook

Half_way

If local councils can not use PPCs and/or ANPR for so called enforcement, then other quangos/state bodies such as national parks etc should also be prohibited from doing so

Car1980

Then there is POFA, which details that the max that may be recovered is the amount detailed on the NTK. If the £70 charge is quoted on the NTK and sign; the judge MUST award it (they can’t overrule POFA even if they want to).

The £70 is never demanded on the NTK. The £70 is always quoted on the NTK for the future.

That only gets applied at the first debt collection letter because it's a "recovery charge".

(5)The MAXIMUM SUM which may be recovered from the keeper by virtue of the right conferred by this paragraph is the amount specified in the notice to keeper under paragraph 8(2)(c) or (d) or, as the case may be, 9(2)(d) (less any payments towards the unpaid parking charges which are received after the time so specified).

(6)Nothing in this paragraph affects any other remedy the creditor may have against the keeper of the vehicle 

Which means you could attempt to claim the £70 as a genuine loss, but as a contractual addition the above paragraph nullifies it. But you'd have to prove it!

patient_dream

Cannot see they can prove anything when it's a clear case of DOUBLE RECOVERY

Bazarius

my interpretation of “double recovery” of the parking charge at para 4(6) means it does not permit recovery from the keeper and driver at the same time.

It doesn’t have to rely on it , can instead choose to use vicarious liability from companies or if the identity of the driver is known to them they must chase that person- or some other remedy available to them .

Jenni_D

I thought double recovery referred to the Heads of Cost? Thus adding £70 (it used to be £60) is recovering heads of cost that are already covered by the PCN amount .. I believe this was assessed in the Beavis SC ruling?

Kaizen2024

My understanding is that ’Double Recovery’ relates to where recovery of a loss is sought.

In the context of Parking Charges, not many operators will be looking to recovery any loss; hence why I have previously stated that the financial arrangement between DR companies and operators is irrelevant i.e if the contract is worded correctly, the operator is owed £170 NOT £100 plus whatever the cost of debt recovery is (be it in-house or via a 3rd party).

If the above was not supported by law, it wouldn’t have been listed as an option in the consultation.