Please urge your readers to write to their MPs as soon as possible regarding the Protection of Freedoms Bill

If any motoring or other bod, or indeed any individual, wants to oppose the proposal by the BPA in the Protection of Freedoms Bill to make vehicle keepers liable for private parking penalties, time is...

Why don't you support the Protection of Freedoms Bill?

I know some of what is in the Protection of Freedoms Bill because I have been talking and writing about it for some time. Thank you for sending the draft to me. It seems I was correct that it concerns...

I urge your readers to write to their MPs over the Protection of Freedoms Bill.

I have for many months read your replies regarding experiences with members of the British Parking Association (BPA), and how they have used the DVLA to make money from unsuspecting motorists. I have recently...

Why can parking enforcement companies access my private data from the DVLA?

Like many of your readers my car was logged as overstaying a 2-hour limit in a B&Q car park. The parking company were given my personal details by the DVLA in order to track me down. The company concerned...

I enquired with the government regarding a loophole in the Protection of Freedoms Bill relating to clamping.

As the Surrey County Cllr. for Camberley West I've spent hundreds of hours trying to help people in Cedar Lane CP Frimley who've been the victims of clamping. Some, of course, who were trying to avoid...

Where do I stand legally if I use an angle grinder to remove a wheel clamp?

Having been clamped on private land (where I was working, I parked in the wrong bay at a block of flats last week), I now carry a powerful angle grinder in my van. The nice Russian lad who came to remove...

Is the Protection of Freedoms Bill as outrageous as it seems?

Certainly I believe the proposals in the Protection of Freedoms Bill to allow 'keepers' to be penalised to be outrageous. In my view the BPA and SIA have done little to control the 'rogue clampers' and...

Is anyone lobbying against the British Parking Association's proposals to make vehicle keepers liable for penalties?

You recently mentioned in your column that the British Parking Association is lobbying Parliament to make vehicle keepers liable for parking penalties. Is anybody lobbying to maintain the status quo?

Did you know that OPC Parking was fined over £26,000 having been convicted of various Trading Standards offences?

Regular followers of the fight against parking pirates will welcome the news that one of the Penalty Charge Notice perpetrators, OPC Parking, was fined £26,750 plus costs in Wolverhampton Magistrates Court...

How does the data protection act fit into the Protection of Freedoms Bill?

Regarding the possibility of the British Parking Association (BPA), or any other organisation, obtaining permission from the Government to have access to Automatic Number Plate Recognition, prompts me...