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No, sorry. I meant for that to go in Private parking tickets, I must have clicked the wrong section.

Do you have the power to move it or should it be deleted & I'll start over?

Wesley, a young manager at the store who is clearly destined for greatness cancelled the PCN on the spot with no quibbling or snivelling. He said the cancellation letter from PE would take a couple of weeks but I was NOT to pay anything in the meantime.

How refreshing.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/08/tfl-speeding-driver-fights-court-case-lbc-host-iain-dale/

Victory for driver fighting speeding charge could lead to 60k convictions being overturned
Previous motorists prosecuted include LBC radio presenter Iain Dale

Gareth Corfield Transport Correspondent
08 August 2025 8:41pm BST

A senior Transport for London manager has claimed that there is no need to tell motorists whenever speed limits are temporarily lowered.

Gerard O’Toole, the authority’s network regulation manager, told a court that he believed details of “emergency” cuts to speed limits did not have to be made available to the public – even though such orders effectively create new criminal offences.

Mr O’Toole was giving evidence during the trial of John Dunlop, 55, who is accused of breaking a temporary 40mph speed limit imposed on the A20 near Sidcup, south-east London, last year.

As many as 60,000 motorists have been prosecuted for speeding along the same stretch of road between late 2023 and early 2024, campaigners have previously said. Victory by Mr Dunlop could potentially lead to the conviction of these drivers being overturned.

Those previously prosecuted include LBC radio presenter Iain Dale, who said last year that the case against him collapsed after a police witness failed to attend court.

Normally the speed limit on that stretch of the A2, which is the main road between south-east London and Kent, is set at 70mph. It was lowered at short notice in October 2023 after standing water formed on the carriageway, causing a traffic safety hazard.

Mr Dunlop’s defence is that temporary speed limit signs put up by TfL contractor FM Conway were below the legally required minimum size.

He also claims they were positioned too low down at the sides of the road for motorists to see them, as traffic sign rules require.

Mr Dunlop, of Chislehurst, Kent, also claims a temporary traffic regulation order (TRO) made by TfL, giving precise details of where the speed limit had been dropped, could not be read by any member of the public despite putting drivers in legal peril if they broke it.

At Bromley magistrates’ court on Friday, Mr O’Toole was asked by Mr Dunlop’s counsel Chris Jeyes: “You recognise, undoubtedly, that making a traffic order is making a serious step? It may criminalise actions that may not otherwise be criminal?”

The TfL manager, who was wearing a grey suit, rimless glasses with black arms and white-soled shoes, replied “Yes”, later adding that for temporary TROs: “There’s no statutory requirement on us to publish them.”

When asked if he believed that the Openness of Local Government Regulations 2014 apply to TfL – a law which says public authorities must make formal records of their decisions available to the general public – Mr O’Toole answered: “The openness regulations, yes, they apply to Transport for London. Obviously they don’t apply to the making of traffic orders. Because traffic orders have their own legislation and own set of statutory guidance.”

Mr O’Toole also said that TfL had taken out advertisements in local newspapers the Bexley News and the News Shopper saying that the speed limit on the A20 near Sidcup had been lowered.

District Judge Sarah Turnock adjourned the case until Nov 13.

What happened to the old PPP site?

I only realised it was defunct after I referred someone there for help with a private parking ticket.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/12/five-minute-parking-rule-scrapped-private-car-parks/


Victory for drivers as five-minute parking rule scrapped

Private car park users have been ticketed for failing to pay quickly enough after arriving


Gareth Corfield
Transport Correspondent
12 February 2025 6:22am GMT

Motorists will have more time to pay for car parking as the controversial five-minute rule is scrapped in a rare victory for drivers.

Private car park users have been ticketed for failing to pay within a certain time – usually five or 10 minutes – after arriving at a car park.

A woman was taken to court last year by a private parking company which demanded she pay £1,906 after poor mobile phone signal meant she repeatedly took more than five minutes to pay after entering a car park in Derby.

Now, however, the industry’s two trade associations have said their code of conduct would be updated to provide a “safeguard” when motorists experience delays in making parking payments.

The British Parking Association (BPA) and the International Parking Community (IPC) said drivers should no longer be issued tickets for using privately owned car parks where a fixed camera monitors when cars enter and exit, as long as they pay before they leave.

The change, which will not apply to council-run car parks or those where wardens are deployed, is being made by a panel established by the industry bodies last month. It comes after The Telegraph revealed in January that the changes were set to be announced.

Will Hurley, the IPC chief executive, said: “It is crucial that there is a mechanism to identify and resolve issues quickly.

“I am pleased that the panel has acted swiftly to introduce safeguards for motorists. It is important drivers play their part by reading and following instructions on signage when parking their vehicle.”

Andrew Pester, the BPA chief executive, said: “It is a real testament to the [panel] that this change has been implemented so efficiently.

“The parking sector is always striving to ensure it operates in the interest of compliant motorists and to ensure that parking is fairly managed for all.

“This change is another important step in achieving this.”

Motoring groups, however, repeated previous calls for a legally binding, Government-backed code of practice to be introduced to regulate private parking operators.

The RAC says the change is 'the latest attempt to make the private parking industry look fair'
The RAC says the change is ‘the latest attempt to make the private parking industry look fair’ Credit: Moment RF
Jack Cousens, the AA head of roads policy, said: “This change to the self-authored code by private parking operators only highlights the urgent necessity to implement the Government-backed code of practice alongside a truly independent single appeals process and oversight board.

“Until the statutory system is in place, drivers will continue to receive aggressive letters from shark-like companies that scare people into payment even though they may have done nothing wrong.”

Simon Williams, the RAC head of policy, said: “This is the latest attempt to make the private parking industry look fair.

“As there’s no information on how the change will work in practice, we fear it will make little difference to drivers.”

A bill to enable the introduction of a Government-backed code for private parking companies received Royal Assent under the Conservative government in March 2019. It was withdrawn in June 2022 after a legal challenge by parking companies.

This code included halving the cap on tickets for most parking offences to £50, creating a fairer appeals system and banning the use of aggressive language on tickets.

The BPA and IPC’s own code of practice was introduced in June last year.

Private parking businesses have been accused of using misleading and confusing signs, aggressive debt collection and unreasonable fees.

Drivers in Britain are being hit by an average of more than 41,000 parking tickets a day by private companies.

Some 3.8 million tickets were handed out between July and September 2024, according to analysis of Government data by the PA news agency and the RAC Foundation, a motoring research charity.

Each ticket can be up to £100, meaning the total cost to drivers may be near £4.1 million per day.