Parking Code of Practice Consultation - now EXTENDED - closes Friday 26th September

Protest

"MHCLG and Govt need some blocking strategy that avoids any potential capitulation."

Govt must require MHCLG to prepare to dominate all opposition to the will of Parliament wrt the 2019 legislation and the related CoP. Which depends on a Minister with her eye on the ball and the skill and grit to score against a well-organised ATA opposition. 

ATAs win by delay: "Hi Minister....are you sure....?"  - and DoT regard BPA as "parking industry experts".....

"Government teams with parking giants to ensure drivers can use preferred apps in all car parks

British Parking Association will develop and run the 'national parking platform', providing drivers with a more flexible parking experience."

grassmarket

Which? As usual it’s too little, too late. 

It’s all very well sending their own response, but Which? have done absolutely nothing to tell anyone else about it! This is a public Consultation - not an exclusive invite for self-appointed ‘consumer champions’ like them. Up to now (2 days to go) they’ve given zero publicity to the Consultation - magazine or online. Which? admits (as quoted above) that they regularly hear from consumers about the unfair treatment & distress caused to them by Operators. Yet they have done nothing to help all those people who contacted them, to make their own views & experiences known. 

The accompanying article from Which? is equally useless. It just tells you how to ‘appeal’ to the Operator & their ‘independent adjudicator’. They give no advice about how to deal with debt collector & quasi-legal threats, let alone LBCs. 

All they say is “If you go to court and lose, you’ll have to pay the fine and possibly court costs.”
https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/parking-fines-which-calls-for-tougher-rules-to-protect-motorists-aQajg9R1y8Kr