Parking Code evidence - pictures of signs with £50, £60 or £70 PCN and no £ DRA fee on the sign

Coupon-mad

pinkelephant12 said:

Riverside Retail Park, Chelmsford aka the Beavis v Parking Eye car park.  Charge is £85, but included to show that signs are just updated with stickers, so cheap to replace.



More sticker signs at the same car park


And this is what the sign should look like.

Wow that's great evidence!

Not only have ParkingEye failed to maintain the signs at their 'flagship' (Supreme Court anti-consumer victory) car park but that's evidence of crappy stickers used to replace entire signs...

In fact the 'sign' is in itself a giant sticker.

So, if ParkingEye tell the DLUHC that they use 'metal signs' that cost £xxx each, to replace, then I hereby invite the DLUHC to PLEASE CALL THAT OUT with this sign as evidence.

... and they have not increased the £85 in a decade since Barry Beavis parked there in late 2013 (and he wasn't a rogue driver and he did nothing wrong, having been delayed by Staples' printer breaking).

Debunks the IPC's trashy argument where they bleat: "waaah, parking charges need to increase with inflation!"  If that were true this sign would be £100.  But it's not.

1505grandad

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/23790617.peers-demand-action-regulate-private-parking-industry-protect-motorists/

Umkomaas

1505grandad said:

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/23790617.peers-demand-action-regulate-private-parking-industry-protect-motorists/

Very encouraging messages from The Lords. Good read. 

TomOrrow

Thanks. An excellent read.
One parking experience like that Lord in the car park is worth multiple emails to your MP. And there'll be more like him who've experienced the mugging by the PPCs.
They'll surely outnumber any who have a retainer from the parking industry.
 

Coupon-mad

Recording here -

Start time 14:55, finish time 15:40

https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/005fa1b1-8423-406d-b8bf-eb1ac5ed758f

Lord Leigh of Hurley...oh dear. Embarrassing to listen to.

IMHO absolute crap PPC-speak throughout.

Such pro-PPC carefully-fed spiel that I thought for a minute it was the other Hurley.

Nellymoser

The short debate can also be read
https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2023-09-14/debates/BA225AD6-3420-49CD-B9FA-68CF66D32195/PrivateParkingCodeOfPractice

Great to know Lord Lipsey's not a fan. Good on him to give such an accurate account of the PPC's and their practices.

Agree with @Coupon-mad about Lord Leigh of Hurley. He's clearly fan of the private parking industry. 

TomOrrow

mmm. Lord Leigh of Hurley, aka Howard Leigh, current Conservative Party treasurer and co-founder of Cavendish Corporate Finance clearly has no postbag of parking complaints as he's never been an MP. In speaking he showed no interest in PPCs behaviour, rather focussed on proposed £50/£25 fines being no deterrent when shared by four people in a car. Also argued £100 then equates to £137 now with inflation.
So opposition can be expected. 

Coupon-mad

TomOrrow said:

mmm. Lord Leigh of Hurley, aka Howard Leigh, current Conservative Party treasurer and co-founder of Cavendish Corporate Finance clearly has no postbag of parking complaints as he's never been an MP. In speaking he showed no interest in PPCs behaviour, rather focussed on proposed £50/£25 fines being no deterrent when shared by four people in a car. Also argued £100 then equates to £137 now with inflation.
So opposition can be expected. 

Don't worry.

Comments will be made in certain quarters. I'm confident that the DLUHC already know much of what that PPC-favouring toff spouted is misleading PPC dross. 

Coupon-mad

Back to the photos.

My Portslade/Hove contact was unsure which school car park this is, as the entrance she photographed is between two schools.

School car park
Radinden Manor Rd
Hove
Brighton BN3

Football practice was happening so she thinks it was Cotesmore School, could be Brighton Girls:

NO PPC

NO CARMAGEDDON

Coupon-mad

My contact drive further along the main road A270 through Hove to Brighton and found:

KwikFit
Old Shoreham Road
Hove
Brighton BN3

Adjacent to restaurants and a pub that have no parking available.

Empty car park when Kwikfit is closed, early evening.

NO PPC

NO CARMAGEDDON