Regarding parking control services at Hospitals. Should a Hospital choose to introduce charges for parking, then that is their prerogative and the decision to do this is nothing to do with Parkforce. Whether any of the revenue generated from pay and display parking charges is put back into the NHS Trusts is also their decision. However, Parkforce does pay each Trust a sum for every paid parking charge ticket issued on their site. Parkforce is employed by various NHS Trust across the country, predominantly to ensure that Hospitals access roads are kept clear so traffic can flow without hindrance. Before our services were employed at one hospital in particular, ambulances could not reach the A and E department due to cars parked on the double yellows leading to it, and the helicopter some times could not land on the heli pad due to cars parked on this. Our services have also eliminated those non-disable drivers who park in disabled bays. Surely this is a good thing for all concerned? Imagine if it were your loved one who needed urgent medical attention, yet the emergency service vehicle could not get through the site due to cars parking in places they should not. Please remember, it is the Hospitals and not Parkforce that decide their traffic and parking policies. All we do is offer a service to the Trust in order to encourage motorist to adhere to the Trust’s chosen policies. Should motorists never park on double yellow lines, grass verges or always obtain a pay and display ticket then the Parkforce system would not be required. Our system also gives the motorist 14 days to to appeal against any parking charge issued to them. I can assure you that every appeal is perused and looked into thoroughly. We always check, where necessary with the Hospital, the validity of appeal claims and then decide to uphold or reject an appeal adoringly. For example, if you receive a parking ticket because your vehicle was parked where is should not be, but you were rushing a person into the A and E department for immediate emergency treatment, then your appeal would be undoubtedly up held. As it would if you were at the bed side of a dying loved one. Even we would not expect you to keep running to a ticket machine to “top up”. Your appeal however, would not be up held should you have parked on double yellow lines and your excuse was “there was no where else to park”. On Hospital sites in particular, we uphold a high amount of appeals. I appreciate that the type of business I have is always going to be in the firing line of the majority, especially on forums such as this, however, the services we offer have helped hundreds of clients reclaim their parking areas from unwanted and unauthorized vehicles parking on them.

Wilsea Services Ltd T/a The UK Parking Enforcement Agency. The Parkforce system has been operating in the UK for 5 years now. Parkforce offer a service to private land owners to deter and eradicate unwanted cars parking on their land by way of issuing parking charge tickets. When the company was formed, we worked closely with North Yorkshire Trading Standards and The North Yorkshire Police and developed with them a code of conduct thus ensuring ethical business practices. The Directors of the company now sit on a “special interest group” board at The British Parking Association and are currently working with them to establish a national, government recognized code of conduct. The company now services over 800 uk car parks including Universities, Hospitals, Councils etc and are pioneers with regards to cleaning up the parking management industry so only reputable companies can operate within it. With regards to the enforcement of issued parking charges, if the company was unable to enforce it simply would not still be in business. Should you wish to query the validity of the company or any of the above comments, please feel free to contact the British Parking Association http://www.britishparking.co.uk/ . Our registration number is 30215, or North Yorkshire Trading Standards based in Northallerton. Mrs Jan Gillet was the trading standards officer we worked closely with. Should you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me on [email protected]