Parking stories in the News/media

Kaizen2024

Nope, I’m not ‘Perky’. Although, similar in the sense that I am not a sheep that copies other operators. Nor do I tend to make the same mistake twice i.e if a loophole comes to light, internally or via info on these forums; I’ll do what I can to close or mitigate it.

Coupon-mad

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81985588#Comment_81985588

Ah, a 'licence to occupy' … quite a Simple Intelligent philosophy then. Gotcha.

ChirpyChicken

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81985588#Comment_81985588

That may very well be the case but luckily SIP parking are extremely easy to deal with at court claim stage and in fact the best stage to deal with them

TBF they did have quite a decent Paralegal working for them until she left last year, She was efficient and prompt unlike a lot of others within "legal teams"

patient_dream

Labour's new war on motorists revealed: Cash-strapped councils could be allowed to double parking ticket charges to £160 in 'greedy' move which would 'fleece' drivers already hit by sky-high pump prices

I think we all know who will want the same

May 7th looms for councils

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15786859/Labours-new-war-motorists-revealed-Cash-strapped-councils-allowed-double-parking-ticket-charges-160-greedy-fleece-drivers-hit-sky-high-pump-prices.html

Le_Kirk

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81985566#Comment_81985566

The title of this thread is parking stories in the news/media; does your issue fit into that? If not, just read the newbie sticky; however if it is a council issue, suggest you got to FTLA: -

Council
https://www.ftla.uk/civil-penalty-charge-notices-%28councils-tfl-and-so-on%29/

Car1980

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81986140#Comment_81986140

Considering the source, a massive handful of salt is required.

Coupon-mad

Yep and look at those backing it:

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15786859/Labours-new-war-motorists-revealed-Cash-strapped-councils-allowed-double-parking-ticket-charges-160-greedy-fleece-drivers-hit-sky-high-pump-prices.html

"The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents town halls, and the private parking industry also back this."

Of course they do!

We did already dissect BPC's half-assed report months ago on this thread.

It is worrying that the DFT seems to think that a balanced group of stakeholders worth listening to, includes (private parking industry mouthpiece) the BPA and, it appears, no consumer/motoring contributors.

And nobody has pointed out to the DFT that in the control group area, Christchurch, PCN issuance (which remained at £70/£50 during the trial) significantly fell.

Ooops, that doesn't support the narrative the BPA are lobbying for so let's only mention that in passing, buried low down in the report!

And equally damningly:

In the council's car parks (trialling the £160 rip off penalties) PCN issuance significantly increased (massively more than the pathetic overall 8% difference).

Why was that then? How come your high penalty failed as a 'deterrent'?

Any comment, BCP other than wildly suggesting 'displacement' which makes zero sense because the high penalty applied in both car parks and on-street! Why would there be displacement of vehicles from one bay (on-street) to another (off-street) with the exact same penalty in play?

Pull the other one!

Clearly this experiment was hit and miss and DIDN'T work off-street, which the MHCLG have been told by me months ago, when the report first came out.

Didn't work then, did it?

We can't even tell which type of vehicles were still getting PCNs on-street and why, which is data entirely within BPC's knowledge and would have really helped to determine the underlying matters.

Could just be that the Double Yellow line PCN problem involves mainly delivery drivers and disabled motorists relying on their DYL exemption and inadvertently exceeding the period they are exempted for (20 mins to facilitate loading and 3 hours for blue badge holders to park)? Who knows, but it's nothing to do with obstructing the highway. If we knew the breakdown in terms of type of vehicle, then there might be some rationale to work on.

It could just be that Bournemouth and Poole needs more loading bays and accessible bays which afford longer exemptions to those currently using their DYL exemption correctly but maybe overstaying.

Bespoke loading & disabled bays to offer fairer exemption time (all day is OK in accessible bays) would resolve and reduce a high number of DYL penalties immediately.

This is a sledgehammer & nut situation and utterly biased. The report is a joke and the so-called 'stakeholders' have cherry-picked the very few results of the trial that support the narrative the BPA want.

patient_dream

Will Hurley IPC was on GMB this morning giving his reasons why a parking charge should be £160 ?

Sadly it was the waffle we expect from him. He seems to think that motorists are rogue whilst not talking about the rogues who belong to his club

Of course he forgot to mention that a charge of £160 will drive people away from town centres. Shops will close which in turn means a drop in tax and revenue to coincils … THEY CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS CAN THEY ?

Two pubs a day close because the lack of money people suffer and maybe if the pubs employed parking companies

MAY 7th elections is looming for councils

daveyjp

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy816xdp226o

A local council did similar. Small village car park, it now stands empty most of the day, streets are full of cars. 1-2 free hours would at least allow short visits and stop long term parking.

Car1980

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81987126#Comment_81987126

The question of course is what the hell has it got to do with him? He has nothing to do with council PCNs.

He hands out kiddy begs for payment.