Peers demand action to regulate private parking industry and protect motorists

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Labour peer Lord Lipsey shed light on his experience with a parking company.

Peers have voiced their frustration at the conduct of the private parking industry and urged the Government to swiftly act to implement regulatory reforms and protect motorists.

But it was withdrawn four months later due to a series of legal challenges, initiated by several parking firms, primarily centred around capping the level of parking charges and a ban on additional fees. Expressing concern over unclear signage and inaccessible payment methods at the car park site, he said: “I looked round the same car park the other day.

“I hope they will realise that the game is up and that ripped-off motorists throughout the country will come to realise they are not powerless against their abusers, not while this Parliament exist to stand up for them.” “Nicholas Lyes, the RAC’s head of roads policy, said when the code was withdrawn the fact that parking companies take issue with the capping of charge notices, and the debt recovery phase, shows precisely why both the cap and the code are needed.”

“The Government therefore decided to concede those challenges and temporarily withdraw the code to ensure that its impacts are rigorously examined.

 

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