…Or not? The Independent Scrutiny for Parking Appeals (ISPA) board announced on 15th September that it would cease operating from 23rd September. Mysteriously that notice has now gone, as has chair of the board, Nicola Mullany, who has resigned according to Parking…

Today the Department for Communities and Local Government announced several new regulatory reforms set to be introduced on 6th April 2016. These includes: Amendments to off-street parking legislation will balance the right of land owners to control the use of…

I was sent this interesting video on an experiment to stop people abusing disabled spaces. I think you’ll agree this would be far more effective than sending £100 fines in the post after the event…

From the producers that brought you Parking Mad… Starting on Tuesday 15th September is a three part series about parking called Parking Wars. This is the blurb from the production company: Battles over parking occur every day on our streets…

In this clip, comedian Joe Lycett explains how he got a recent parking fine cancelled. Watch and enjoy…

The private parking industry makes a number of bold claims as justification for imposing their ‘fines’ on motorists. They claim they’re required to protect the land owners rights and without it there would be Carmegeddon™. In defence of the industry,…

Whist most of the parking world has been focussing on the Beavis vs ParkingEye case at the Supreme Court, POPLA slipped out their 3rd annual report on the state of their appeals system. The report, written by Henry Michael Greensalde…

We’ve just heard that the Court of Appeal has granted permission for the case to be appealed to the Supreme Court, the highest court for civil cases. It remains to be seen whether Mr Beavis decides to take the case…

Yesterday someone copied me on a tweet responding to an Honest John article, telling him he was giving out the wrong advice. So I thought I’d take a look, and see what a he’s said… The motorist describes their situation…

The welcome news today is that the government are going to clamp down on parking charges at hospitals. The guidance document from the Department of Health is published here. There is also coverage in the Daily Mail and on the…

Well not exactly, but it seems the Daily Mail has taken inspiration from us in naming its latest campaign. The Mail like to think they were behind the clamping ban, and so they have now started the campaign against the…

This morning the newspapers are full of the news that the Government has clamped down on local authority parking enforcement after the recent consultation. The measures include: Banning mobile and fixed CCTV for parking enforcement The trial of a 25%…

Our friends NoToMob had a little fun when they attended the Parkex event recently. They issued their very own parking tickets to the attendees of the conference. Check out the pictures here –> http://notomob.co.uk/discussions/index.php/topic,3947.0.html

… except that it’s not. It’s actually a criminal offence to use a blue badge if they’re not in the car with you. However, Barry from Watford does make a compelling case for it. Enjoy… Incase you were in any…

Armchair lawyers is the term parking companies use to belittle the volunteers helping the motoring public fight private parking charges. They deride them on their websites, on their news pages, on their appeal rejection letters. “Ignore the forums, don’t listen…

Last week we updated our POPLA code checker so that it now identifies the parking company’s POPLA code (e.g. ParkingEye = ‘606’). It’s a small, but hopefully useful change! Elsewhere on the site we’ve added the following pages: What do I do?…

The Government has been running a consultation on local authority parking – a subject of much political debate recently. Although local authority parking is not Parking Cowboys usual subject matter, we do take more than a passing interest. The British…