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Record number of private parking penalty notices issued
« on: 21 August, 2016, 09:41:28 AM »
Record number of private parking penalty notices issued



A record number of motorists have been given penalties after parking on private land, new figures released by the DVLA have revealed.

According to the statistics, in the first quarter of the 2016/17 financial year, 1.07 million vehicle keeper records were provided by the DVLA to third-party private parking companies.

These companies use this data to send fines and penalty charges to vehicle owners, and the DVLA charges £2.50 for each record.

The RAC Foundation said the quarterly figure is a record total and could lead to more than four million penalty notices being issued by the end of the year, a 1370% increase compared with a decade ago and a significant jump compared with last year's 3.7m total.

While there are no limits on how much a penalty charge should be set at, the British Parking Association recommends a maximum of £100 in its code of practice issued to parking operators.

"There is no way of reading these figures other than as an indication of yet another increase in the number of tickets being issued to drivers parked on private land. Why else would parking companies request vehicle keeper records?," said Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation. "Yet you have to ask how legitimate these penalties are? The BPA's own code of practice calls for a ten-minute grace period after paid-for and time-limited free parking expires, so is the industry really saying that four million drivers a year are even later getting back to their vehicle -15 times more than just ten years ago? It beggars belief."

"We need a clearer, more equitable set of rules to balance the interests of landowners and motorists," he added. "In an ideal system that was working few if any drivers would get penalty charges, certainly not several million annually. Yet we have heard of examples where some firms actually pay landowners for the privilege of managing their car parks in the anticipation that they will make their money back from penalties. How can that be right?"

http://www.businesscar.co.uk/news/2016/record-number-of-private-parking-penalty-notices-issued#.V7gISXaj-sE.

 


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