I’m currently doing battle with a private parking contractor who seriously thinks I’m going to give them £70 (plus a £40 ‘admin charge’ if I don’t cough up within 28 days) because someone (not me) allegedly ‘overstayed’ 27 minutes in a supermarket car park that’s free for two hours anyway, while driving a car registered to me.
Private parking contractors (or PPCs) have been in the news a lot recently – stories about overcharging, threatening/intimidating letters and follow-up from debt collectors, and in a few cases aggressive phone calls and even visits. Mine hasn’t gone this far. In fact I believe the company I’m dealing with are one of the more ‘moderate’ PPCs, though even they have just sent me a ‘reminder’ that seems deliberately designed to imply powers they don’t have. Continue Reading…
