Over 350,000 homes will be fitted with electric vehicle chargers by 2025 as plug-in car uptake surges, according to electric vehicle charging scale-up Andersen. By 2025, an expected one million electric vehicles will be registered on UK roads bringing with it a spike in the number of home chargers and Andersen is selling them from under £1,000 with a typical installation of a 7KW unit costing … [Read more...]
Historic parking “offences” rising, say Citizens Advice
Being fined for overstaying by seconds or getting chased about an unpaid parking penalty charge issued several years ago are some of the parking problems catching out drivers, said Citizens Advice. The Citizens Advice service helped with 12,500 parking problems on public and private land between April and June 2016. An analysis of over 1,300 private parking cases reported to the charity’s … [Read more...]
Logbook loans need reviewing and changing
The law on logbook loans needs changing, say law-makers and the Citizens Advice body. Logbooks for vehicles have been used as surety on loans, often at high interest rates, but pose problems when a vehicle is sold on and the new owner faces paying the debt or losing a vehicle. Citizens Advice is supporting recommendations from the Law Commission’s report on logbook loans including … [Read more...]
Disputes escalate over parking penalties on private land
Citizens Advice is reporting a dramatic rise in people seeking help about penalties for parking on private land. The number of people using online advice from the consumer champion has nearly tripled from 16,300 to 50,000. Local Citizens Advice services have also recorded an increase of 26 per cent in the number of their cases involving parking tickets given on private land. It comes as … [Read more...]