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Parking ticket tenfold increase, Parking tickets rise tenfold to 6.4million
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post Mon, 20 Aug 2018 - 09:55
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'Parking tickets rise tenfold to 6.4million as ministers are urged to crack down on 'cowboy fines'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/20...k-cowboy-fines/
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post Mon, 20 Aug 2018 - 14:23
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The DVLA charges private firms £2.50 per record, meaning the agency could collect more than £16million during 2018/19.

The agency says its charges are set to recover the cost of providing the information and it does not make any money from the process.


Yeah, that's right.


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post Mon, 20 Aug 2018 - 15:36
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Steve Gooding, RAC Foundation director, said: "Motorists might well be asking what is going on when the number of records being sought by private parking companies has shot up yet again. Numbers like these suggest that something, somewhere, is going wrong."

Well yes, poor or misleading signage designed solely to create a chargeable honey trap is a big chunk of that.


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post Mon, 20 Aug 2018 - 19:00
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There's a similar story in The Times, hidden behind a paywall.

It won't happen overnight, but eventually I think that PPC invoices, likely issued in future at ever-higher amounts and ever-increasing rates, will end up being as much as an abusive feeding frenzy as clamping of old, assisted by district and circuit judges in 'landmark' cases, such as Indigo v nurses and VCS v Crutchley doing everything they can to (mis?)interpret the case law on signage and consideration in the most favourable manner to the PPC.

Just as with clamping, I think that there will eventually be considerable public pressure, including from judges themselves fed up with their ever-increasing workload, on Government and Parliament to 'do something'. A complete ban on private invoicing is inconceivable, as, unfortunately, is Parliament legislating to restore the old GPEoL requirement, but I can foresee a future Parliament legislating to give the Transport Secretary a regulation-making power [that is, a more expansive power than currently exists in Schedule 4] in relation to such invoices, including in particular the power to provide that non-compliance with some or all of the regulations shall make the invoices unenforceable against driver or RK irrespective of whether they would otherwise be enforceable under contract at common law.

The content of such hypothetical Regulations, would doubtless be a matter of great debate, with the PPCs bringing all their influence to bear to ensure that nothing really changes. Nevertheless, I could see such Regulations providing for a statutory cap, albeit likely a three-figure cap, on the charge itself, expressly disallowing additional "administration/ collection fees", and providing for minimum signage requirements as to prominence, legibility, and contents. For example, it is plausible that such Regulations might provide that Crutchley-type signage is inadequate to create a binding contract.

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post Mon, 20 Aug 2018 - 21:22
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Hmm.......
What really needs sorting out is council parking penalties. Councils are making enormous sums from penalty charges and the system allows them to ruthlessly game the system to their advantage. And don't forget they can whallop people for trivial bus lane offences when there isn't even a bus in sight on their videos.
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post Tue, 21 Aug 2018 - 17:25
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I suspect that, just as with clamping, the prospect of government action will result in a feeding frenzy AND the frenzy will continue when the operators discover that any action is years away and nothing has been done to curb their abuses

Two possible solutions :

Pay car parks : The return of GPEOL

Free car parks : Only the land-owner can take legal action
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post Wed, 22 Aug 2018 - 14:44
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QUOTE (Redivi @ Tue, 21 Aug 2018 - 18:25) *
Pay car parks : The return of GPEOL


I read that as 'Prey Car Parks', and you know, on reflection, I think that's a more accurate term to use.


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