Why it’s time to fight back against parking madness (and how to beat a ticket)
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4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
From pubs to hotels and shops to petrol stations, Britain has gone parking mad.
Private land owners have been signed up across the country by operators, who stick in automatic numberplate recognition cameras and then dish out tickets to motorists who stop there.
We’ve had countless stories of over-zealous fines and this week Lee Boyce revealed how he fought back after he was sent a ticket for stopping briefly at a BP petrol station.
What allows all this to happen is the DVLA selling people’s details to car park operators who snap their numberplate.
So is it time to fight back against this parking madness? Why has it got so bad? And how do you beat a ticket?
In this week’s podcast, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Rachel Rickard Straus and Georgie Frost talk parking tickets.
Also, on this week’s show, the banks doing the dirty on savers after the rate rise, how to make your child a pension millionaire and the curious case of Aldi and the food producers accusing it of copying them.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money podcast in partnership with NS&I. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm your host, Georgie Frost, and alongside editor Simon Lambert and I today, for the very last time, is personal finance editor Rachel Rickard Strauss, off to Pastures New. |
| 0:16.5 | But not yet, Rachel, not yet. |
| 0:18.9 | Coming up, is there an issue that gets under the collar of Brits more than unfair parking charges? |
| 0:24.0 | Find out what happened when our very own Lee Boyce got hit. |
| 0:27.6 | As you can imagine, he didn't take it lying down. |
| 0:30.0 | Also, imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery. |
| 0:33.4 | But not in the case of supermarket-owned brand products. |
| 0:36.3 | The fight back is on. |
| 0:38.1 | We have the latest from the interest rate rise, how have savers fared. |
| 0:42.5 | And could you make your child a pension millionaire? |
| 0:45.7 | Probably not, but you could give them a nice little helping hand. |
| 0:49.9 | Don't forget you set up to date with all the latest breaking money news. |
| 0:52.7 | Just go to this ismoney.co. |
| 0:54.2 | UK or download the app. |
| 0:57.0 | This is Money, brought to you in partnership with NS&I, where safer savings set you free. |
| 1:04.0 | Now, the job of Simon and his journalists is to investigate unfair practices, expose, poor |
| 1:09.0 | customer service, call out bad business. |
| 1:11.5 | But don't think it stops when they leave This Is Money HQ. |
| 1:14.9 | Clearly, a firm called MET parking service based in London did not know quite what they were dealing with or indeed who they were dealing with |
| 1:23.6 | when they handed our very own Consumer Affairs editor Lee and his fiance a fine. A rather |
| 1:29.3 | I'm just charged which Lee was not just going to take lightly. And we have Lee on the phone |
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