Machinery of Government Change: Off-Street Parking

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The Prankster has alerted us of this... Is the timing relevant? And what is the purpose of it?

 

 

Who knows?

 

 

Machinery of Government Change: Off-Street Parking

 

 

This written ministerial statement confirms that responsibility for off-street parking will transfer

 

 

from the Department for Transport to the Department for Communities and Local Government.

 

 

This includes Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 in respect of the recovery of

 

 

unpaid parking charges. Responsibility for those aspects of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984

 

 

and the Traffic Management Act 2004 which relate to off-street parking, will also move to the

 

 

Department for Communities and Local Government. This change is effective immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/picture-of-week-morely-outpickles-in.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-vote-office/March%202015/12%20March%202015/33.PM-off-street-parking.pdf

 

 

 

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-communities-and-local-government

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PICKLES WARNS ROGUE FIRMS Daily Mail14 Mar 2015

 

PRIVATE parking firms accused by critics of dishing out tickets like confetti face a crackdown, Eric Pickles has warned.

 

The Communities Secretary has been given powers to regulate them by the Prime Minister and has in his sights practices such as crippling charges, unfair terms and conditions and poor signage in car parks which entraps unsuspecting drivers.

 

He has also pledged to restrict firms’ access to motorists’ records from the DVLA. And he plans to extend the ten-minute grace period – the time which council wardens must wait before issuing fines after a ticket has expired – to private car parks.

 

Regulation of private parking firms used to be covered by the Department for Transport. Mr Pickles, who has already pledged a crackdown on the extent of local council parking enforcement, said: ‘There is more to do – there are still rogue practices by private car park sharks that we need to stamp out.’

 

 

 

http://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20150314/282059095477119/TextView

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Pickles has done a lot for motorists. Lets hope he gets the chance to do more.

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'Discussion paper on the management and regulation of parking on private land, and land owned by public bodies, and cash payment facilities for municipal parking.'

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/parking-reform-tackling-unfair-practices