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Parking stories in the News/media
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No, because they only exist to pay themselves. Once that is done - bye bye NCP.
And anyone daft enough to buy these fake debts - caveat emptor. One court case could wipe out the entire lot.
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No doubt The Grifters we see on here will give it a try
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Parking tariffs increased on 6 May. Express pick-up and drop-off charge increased from £5 to £6.
The fee for spending up to 15 minutes in Short Stay 2 - which had already risen from free to £3 in January when free terminal parking was scrapped - has now climbed further to £4.
New airport parking prices have been branded a “joke” and a “needless tax” by members of the North East public.
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The new camera-controlled, ticketless car parking management system called ANPR will be "simple to use" says the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust...OR is that what private parking firms told the Trust.
The ANPR system will be expanded into staff car parks starting in the summer.
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https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2026-05-21/ive-done-nothing-wrong-man-wrongly-fined-in-ncp-car-park
NCP's ANPR cameras getting it wrong. How come the timings are inaccurate?
In their notice to Rhodri Davies, NCP claimed their ANPR cameras detected he was in the Cardiff car park for nearly 20 mins.
But after doing his own investigation, Davies was able to show that his vehicle was infact in another car park by 6:10pm, proving that NCP's fine was incorrectly issued.
"I knew I was being accused of something that wasn't true."
The charge was cancelled after Davies appealed but he has described the ordeal as "frustrating" and says "the industry needs to change."
Speaking about the 97% accuracy of ANPR cameras Lisa Webb, a lawyer at Which?, said "The fact that they can be wrong needs to be acknowledged by these companies. It shouldn’t be down to the consumer to fight their corner if the technology being used isn’t accurate in the first place."
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Speaking about the 97% accuracy of ANPR
Lisa Webb, a lawyer at Which?, said"The fact that they can be wrong needs to be acknowledged by these companies. It shouldn’t be down to the consumer to fight their corner if thetechnology being used isn’t accurate in the first place."So only a 3% error rate. Not much you might say, but 3% of the 16 million tickets issued in the past year is 480,000. That’s almost half a million people having to battle an intransigent and utterly rapacious private parking industry!
Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .
I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.#Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street3 -
But it falls to 0% when it's a "double dip".
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Pensioner Mal Standing has expressed his anger at receiving a £100 pcn after having a dashcam installed in his car at Halfords, The Pavilion Centre in Lewes Road.
The job ran 18mins over the Centre's 3hr allowed parking time as Halfords staff fitter didn't turn up at the pre arranged booking time.
"To be honest, when we dropped it off I'd never even thought about parking times, because I was having work done," said Mr Standing. "It never entered my head that parking there could cost us an extra £100."
He returned to the Halfords store to ask for help and appealed to Smart Parking, attaching his Halfords receipt. Smart rejected his appeal but reduced the £100 charge to £20 as an "act of goodwill".
Mal said: "You'd have thought any reasonable person would have said, 'he's having a dashcam fitted, fair enough'. But no, Smart Parking still want to squeeze you. I think it's unreasonable."
Unfortunately the landowner here didn't employ a 'reasonable' private parking company to manage the car park they employed a greedy self centred one.
The pensioner paid Smart their £20 'act of goodwill' demand. Though Halfords reimbursed him after The Argus made contact.
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Well done
The pensionerAr least he he went further than most
Retailers really do believe they are protecting the car park but in reality they are druving customers away
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Administrators are personally liable for their actions whilst appointed so if they want to get involved in a “scam” that would be an unusual step
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