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The Prankster tries to book on a POPLA workshop
Ring RingRECORDED VOICE: Blah blah blahInternal Ring ringPOPLET: Good morning, you're through to POPLA my name is [Poplet] how can I help you?PRANKSTER: Oh hello, I missed your workshops in Birmingham...
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Nick Lester distances himself from The Parking Prankster
Nick Lester is the corporate director of services for London Councils.He has recently changed his email signature to emphasise that he is not The Parking Prankster. Here is his old email signature.Here...
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Slow days for news in the Parking Industry
Apparently its been a slow few days for news in the parking industry. Nothing much interesting seems to have happened since 26 July.
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The Prankster releases the POPLA email trail
[Update. Portions of this blog post are copyright London Councils. Brief extracts of material have been reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988...
View ArticleHow to request the POPLA emails
The POPLA emails were released under an FoI request to London Councils and are protected by copyright. The Prankster cannot therefore make the full set of emails generally available. Here is London...
View ArticleHighview Parking at it again
The Parking Prankster hasn't received a parking charge notice from Highview for a time. He naively thought this was because they fixed their problems at Yate shopping centre. Now this seems not to be...
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Telegraph picks up on the story. 'Private parking ombudsman advising...
Here is the link to The Telegraph story. The story also features at the top of page 10 of the main section, Saturday 3/8/2013.Once again The Prankster would like to thank the real people who made this...
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Do not pay your parking charge if you wish to appeal to POPLA
The Parking Prankster has to apologise yet again for jumping the gun and making incorrect assumptions. In this post The Prankster noted the large number of appeals 'withdrawn by POPLA' in June and...
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Highview Parking and the massive invisible erection
The Parking Prankster apologises if you arrived here by search engine, perhaps expecting to find something salacious such as the joke about Superman, Wonder Woman and The Invisible Man. This is a blog...
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POPLA may have pulled a fast one regarding paying before an appeal is heard
The Parking Prankster previously published a blog entry warning motorists not to pay if they wished to appeal to POPLA.The Prankster today received an email from a concerned motorist who thought he...
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BPA Sanction points, July
It looks like most AOS operators were behaving themselves in July, with only one instance of sanction points being awarded compared to the 13 instances in June.If the AOS operators have started to...
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The Prankster loses to Smart Parking at POPLA!!!!!!!!
The Prankster lost his latest appeal at POPLA, which he fought mainly on the grounds that the Operator had not included their Parking Charge Notice with the evidence pack. This surprised The Prankster,...
View ArticlePepipoo suffers DDOS attack
Pepipoo, the motorists fightback forum, suffered a short DDOS attack last night and this morning. This post has the details.The web site is obviously getting up someone's nose, and someone has now...
View ArticleWheels back on - ANPR right of reply
Trev Whitehouse from ANPR has been in communication with The Parking Prankster, resulting in this 'guest post'. The Prankster invites other parking companies to put 'their side' if they wish.Here is Mr...
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BPA Ltd announce free for all. Parking Companies allowed to define appeal...
The Parking Prankster has decided now might be the time to buy shares in parking companies. In a recent letter to him, the British Parking Association Limited effectively stated that parking companies...
View ArticleDVLA will give data for free if there is a legitimate reason
Although DVLA like to charge £5 for telling you if a PPC accessed your data, they will give it you for free if there is a legitimate reason, such as suspected fraud. This email provided to the...
View ArticleParking Poker with Debt Recovery Plus
The Parking Prankster has now received a second letter from Debt Recovery Plus.After receiving the first letter, The Prankster wrote to Debt Recovery Plus denying the debt and also asking for...
View ArticlePOPLA pantomime marches on
In a decision recorded here on Pepipoo, POPLA upheld the appeal because the operator provided no evidence that the landowner could operate on the land. This was strange because the operator did provide...
View ArticleHappy 100th birthday
The Parking Prankster's oldest POPLA appeal is now 100 days old. The Prankster eagerly raced downstairs this morning to see if his appeal had received a telegram from the queen, but she was apparently...
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Is Outsourcing Parking a Poisoned Chalice for Supermarkets?
Many supermarkets outsource their parking management to third parties. They are lured by the promises of the parking companies, who offer to do this for free. Of course, there is no such thing as a...
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