Lets setup a petition to ban private parking companies

izawa

Lets raise a petition, complain to our MP that parking should only be provided by council and no private company should be allowed to exist. Please support me.

KeithP

Please post a link to your petition when you are ready to accept signatories.

MattMattMattUK

My local council are useless at just about everything, including parking, no point in letting them run anything.

Private parking companies are a necessary evil because otherwise a significant minority of people spoil things for the rest of us. I very much doubt you would find anyone rational who would argue against both better regulation and more strict rules being placed on parking companies, but equally those people recognise the need for parking to be managed.

Emmia

And of course if councils ran all the parking, it could be a nice little earner for them, especially if they keep all the revenue.

elsien

My local council can't afford afford enough traffic wardens to monitor the parking they cover at the moment, let alone any new ones. And while PPCs are poorly regulated cowboys there does need to be some enforcement and oversight to stop people taking the proverbial. 

MattMattMattUK

elsien said:

My local council can't afford afford enough traffic wardens to monitor the parking they cover at the moment, let alone any new ones. 

This is something I do not actually understand. My local council claims to not be able to afford traffic wardens, however the revenue stream from enforcing parking revenue would be on the order of thousands of pounds an hour were I live, one week's work for one traffic warden would generate enough revenue to employ several of them for a year or more. I know it would improve over time as behavioural changes kicked in, but knowing how resistant to change the general public are I imagine that would be years before there was any significant improvement in behaviour. 

elsien

In the case of my council a poorly thought out outsourcing decision which they are now tied into. 

Mr.Generous

Having worked in retail I can also see it from the landowners - or business owners - perspective. Imagine running a furniture store with 20 spaces for customers that was 2 minutes from the station. What are they supposed to do when every spece is taken by 8am?

Nebbit

In order to close down these companies completely there would have to be very long transition period whilst the responsibilities were passed to the local authorities. In fact I think if you want them closed down it might be more fruitful - given our current left-wing government - to campaign for their nationalisation, so there would be one National Parking Board which would employ all their staff. There might be economies of scale possible in the procurement of camera technology etc. I am not *recommending* this, it is just something for the OP to consider. 

DullGreyGuy

izawa said:

Lets raise a petition, complain to our MP that parking should only be provided by council and no private company should be allowed to exist. Please support me.

So you think councils should be issuing tickets on other people's land when people decide to park in resident's parking spaces near a train station and over stayers in out of town shopping malls? Or you think they should all be free and the fact as a leaseholder you have to pay to maintain a parking space that other people help themselves to is just a cross to bear because you can only afford to live near to a train station?


Give me a world where people pay their way, park considerately and never where they shouldn't and then we can discuss getting rid of parking companies. Until that time no way should parking companies be removed and would have no confidence in the duties passing to the council; they're bad at policing the areas that are already theirs let alone extending it to thousands of retail parks, shopping centres, blocks of flats etc etc.

LightFlare

Councils have no jurisdiction to enforce parking on private land
or are you just asking that they be given the contracts instead of PPCs ?

Or are you hoping that people behave and park sensibly….. can’t see how that could possibly go wrong for anyone