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Re: What is the outcome for ignoring a private pcn?
DIR By: b789
Date: March 9, 2025, 7:42 am
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I have yet to see a single PCN issued by any unregulated private
parking company that does not have at least a single breach of
PoFA or the PPSCoP. These companies have had nearly 13 years to
get their PCNs worded correctly with regards to PoFA, yet it
suits them to continue continue issuing them with the various
omissions or errors because the overwhelming majority of
recipients are none the wiser of their rights.
The PPSCoP is yet another attempt to protect the industry from
the upcoming legislation that, if ever implemented, is going to
send a large chunk of these ex-clampers to the wall. The BPA and
breakaway IPC are not set up to actually regulate their members.
Their primary objective is protection their members fr9m over
regulation and to lobby on their behalf.
You only have to look at the directors of these organisations
and see that they are nothing but incestuous and are a conflict
of interest. The public are a trough of pigswill and these
companies have their snouts firmly embedded. The source of easy
money that funds these companies is not only endless, mostly
free from VAT, so the exchequer, gets a reduced benefit.
With over 40,000 private parking charges issued every day, the
sums involved are huge. If these companies had any real
motivation to do their jobs properly, you’d expect to see some
sort of improvement over time. You don’t.
There are plenty of locations that do not need these firms
infesting them. For many of the smaller car parks or residential
locations, it is well known within the industry that some of
these companies actually set up the locations with their own
vehicles parking in such a way as to cause problems and then
they approach the landowner/agent with an offer of free
installation of ANPR and signs and a promise that their car park
problems will vanish overnight. In the meantime, innocent
residents or motorists start receiving PCNs, more often than not
unlawfully in residential cases, and the nightmare begins.
There are many examples of these parking companies, instead of
“managing” these car parks, actually drive away business over
time, leaving the hapless landowner wondering what went wrong.
To presume that they serve a good purpose when their behaviour
has caused parliament to react and have to create new
legislation to try and control their prolific abuse of the
courts system is evidence enough that these are not companies
with the public interest in mind.
Don’t even get me started on the abuse of byelaws and fake
penalty notices that can only be explained as extortion. The
fact that the BPA and POPLA are complicit says enough about
those two organisations show the corruption that is endemic in
this industry.
So, yes, I am passionate about the rights of motorists to fight
against these corrupt, ex-clampers who are unjustly enriched.
That they cannot get the legislation right, either through
ignorance or, more likely, because there are enough, what I lake
to call low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree, out there who
have no idea of their rights or that they are being conned, to
make it worthwhile for them to continue feeding on this gravy
train.
What we see here and over on MSE are a minute fraction of the
abuse. Yes, there will be plenty of PCN recipients that think
they’ve been caught banged to rights and simply pay up at the
“mugs discount” and get on with their lives. However, you only
have to spend a little time reading the cases we have on here to
see that there is very little “management” of car parking and a
whole lot more of abuse and corruption.
I’m not sure how many of these cases that we’ve seen go to court
over the last year or so actually reach a hearing and been lost
by the defendant. What we do know is that the majority of those
that do end up as a claim, never get heard in front of a judge.
So, whilst I may be passionate about these issues and have no
fear of exposing my utter contempt for these bottom-dwelling
vermin, to date, I have not had a single case that has made it
all the way to court and lose. I will continue to campaign on
behalf of anyone who has received a PCN from a company that
cannot get its act together for what ever reason reason and do
so lawfully.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
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