We need barriers and staff in car parks, not anonymous machines

Paul Watters, head of roads policy, AA

Paul Watters

Paul Watters

It remains a constitutional anomaly that the Protection of Freedoms Act allows parking companies belonging to the British Parking Association to chase the registered keepers of vehicles with unpaid parking charge notices yet the very practice itself is not governed by regulations other than civil law.

The government must introduce a system whereby, when your address is given to a parking company by DVLA, the DVLA tells you this has happened and what your legal rights are. This will at least...

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