17 April (Part 1) - Scammers - of the doorstep and the parking variety
The repercussions of
the doorstep scam referred to earlier contrived to keep
me away from last night’s Cabinet meeting, but do not despair, I asked Nick
Dowling to go in my place and his report will be along later. I need to tone it
down a bit first as it would appear he has an even lower opinion of Bexley’s
ruling mafia than I do.
A reader with a more analytical mind than mine and with, I assume, more legal knowledge, has
alerted me to more problems with
B&Q’s new parking rules than I had noticed. While I work
on Nick’s cabinet report you may ponder his views. Maybe Hugh Neal will bump
into his B&Q ‘friend’ again.
Vehicle Control Services Ltd does not own the land and therefore cannot offer any contract
or impose penalties for parking on it. It would be like me charging you £100 for parking on
my next door neighbour’s front lawn. It would be interesting to see them explain that in any
court of law. Also, by failing to disclose the company registration number, full registered
address and telephone number on their sign, they are committing an offence under section 82,
Companies Act 2006. I noticed something about charging VAT, in that case, they would also
need to display their VAT registration number on any charge they attempt to make.