Is parking enforcement outsourced?

[So]

I got a parking ticket in Tunbridge Wells a couple of weeks ago, as I usually do when I visit the town. I have always managed to get them overturned because they have always been issued inappropriately.

But it is always hard work and the process is like the John Cleese argument sketch, with their arguments generally ludicrous and, dare I say it, dishonest.

It occurs to me, do towns like that manage their own parking enforcement or is it someone like Capita doing it centrally?

[bobtail4x4]

have you tried buying a ticket?

[So]

bobtail4x4 said:

have you tried buying a ticket?

Have you tried reading my OP properly?

[Alucidnation]

How is it you manage to get a parking ticket every time you go there then?

[Toaster Pilot]

Some are, some aren’t.

Gloucester(shire?) outsource to APCOA. Was fairly trivial getting two incorrectly issued PCNs cancelled.

[anothernameitist]

Depends on the council

[JP18]

Whereabouts in Tunbridge Wells?

There are uniformed council parking wardens walking around the central bits, so pretty sure it isn’t outsourced.

[So]

JP18 said:

Whereabouts in Tunbridge Wells?

There are uniformed council parking wardens walking around the central bits, so pretty sure it isn’t outsourced.

Warwick Park this time.

[Riley Blue]

Toaster Pilot said:

Some are, some aren’t.

Gloucester(shire?) outsource to APCOA. Was fairly trivial getting two incorrectly issued PCNs cancelled.

Also APCOA in Derbyshire, here's the original report: https://www.parksmarter.org.uk/Images/2009-10%20FI...

[S11Steve]

NSL do a lot of the back office processing of local authority fines and charges.

http://www.nsl.co.uk/

[Mandalore]

Alucidnation said:

How is it you manage to get a parking ticket every time you go there then?

You've clearly never read a post of theirs before then.

[So]

Mandalore said:

Alucidnation said:

How is it you manage to get a parking ticket every time you go there then?

You've clearly never read a post of theirs before then.

You might be confusing me with someone else. I don’t get many parking tickets and cannot recall the last time I paid one.

[speedchick]

S11Steve said:

NSL do a lot of the back office processing of local authority fines and charges.

http://www.nsl.co.uk/

they also do a lot of the on-street and car park enforcement on behalf of many local authorities.

[Chrisgr31]

As a matter of interest how did you pay? Someone on Twitter was complaining recently about T Wells as they had had 2 tickets where they had paid using Ringo but paid for the wrong car park.

[Ian Geary]

Are you talking about the issuing of tickets? Or subsequent collection/ enforcement?

I'm not aware of many councils that have outsourced the actual parking warden/ceo function.

Selecting the wrong car on ringo...there's a lot of mistake you should only really need to make once..

[So]

Chrisgr31 said:

As a matter of interest how did you pay? Someone on Twitter was complaining recently about T Wells as they had had 2 tickets where they had paid using Ringo but paid for the wrong car park.

The most recent incident: I had paid by Ringo to park in a car park (the right one), but it was a long way from where I needed to drop off some stuff. So I left the car park briefly, dropped off the stuff and returned. Whilst dropping off I got a ticket.

It really should have been easy for the local authority to look at the situation and waive the ticket. But they made hard work of it and only cancelled it when a manager looked at it and concluded that his subordinate had been making things up.

[The Li-ion King]

Ian Geary said:

Are you talking about the issuing of tickets? Or subsequent collection/ enforcement?

I'm not aware of many councils that have outsourced the actual parking warden/ceo function.

Selecting the wrong car on ringo...there's a lot of mistake you should only really need to make once..

Most councils have outsourced their parking work to the likes of APCOA, NSL or Indigo. Main parking apps are RingGo, PayByPhone or Dash Parking. The apps are quite straightforward. Most have removed ticket machines now.

[Cliftonite]

Why are postings by So incomprehensible?

[So]

Cliftonite said:

Why are postings by So incomprehensible?

Because you are only semi-literate?

[Hol]

I wondered if it would be down to something stupid or deliberate.(Considering who the OP is, )