Private parking businesses have been accused of using misleading and confusing signs, aggressive debt collection and unreasonable fees
Drivers are being handed an average of more than 41,000 parking tickets a day by private companies in Britain, figures show, sparking calls for major reforms to how the sector is managed. Some 3.8 million tickets were handed out between July and September, according to analysis of Government data by the PA news agency and motoring research charity the RAC Foundation.
A Bill to enable the introduction of a legislation-backed code of conduct received royal assent in March 2019. This code - due to come into force across Britain by the end of last year - 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.
RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding said: "Private parking is clearly one sector of the economy which appears to be booming, but at the expense of millions of motorists each year. It is hard to believe that tens of thousands of drivers are setting out each day intent on flouting parking rules on private land and so risking stiff penalties.
Some 172 parking management businesses requested vehicle owner records in the three months to the end of September. ParkingEye was the most active, buying 594,000 records. "We strongly refute the speculative scare stories perpetuated by the RAC Foundation. In October we published a single code of practice which incorporated the standard-raising recommendations from the withdrawn Government code.
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