NEWS COMPANIES AND PEOPLE
FLASHPARK AVOIDS ALL FLASH POINTS
A parking company that is exploring ways of fi lling the gap in parking provision, once the clamping ban kicks in was paid a visit by a high profi le minister. Home Offi ce minister
Lynn Featherstone visited north London parking management fi rm FlashPark to learn about the processes involved in parking enforcement services. Head of business development at FlashPark, Costas Constantine, said: ‘We are the only facility in the UK that allows landowners to report illegal parking online and the company’s executives were able to show Ms Featherstone what the future has in store for moderate and non-confrontational parking enforcement.
‘FlashPark solves 82 per cent of parking problems without having to resort to issuing tickets, but our business is a constantly developing formula and is fi lling the vacuum created by the wheel clamping ban,’ Constantine explained. Landowners want to solve parking problems in an ethical and non- confrontational manner. FlashPark has
introduced two new rules to its parking enforcement operation: there must be pictorial evidence of the offending vehicle, with the date and time clearly marked; and the parked vehicle must clearly be wrongly parked deliberately, for example the driver has not simply gone to purchase a ticket.
THE SHARD TAKES SHAPE – IN THE MIDLANDS
Birmingham-based Gallan Parking is putting the fi nishing touches to the retail element of a new £41m urban village within the city.
The company has been appointed jointly by Birmingham City Council, Barratt Homes and developer Stoford Retail to manage a purpose-built 47-space car park for local shoppers at Ownall Road in Shard End. The car park has been developed to meet the standards of the BPA’s Safer Parking Scheme. As well as maintaining lighting and CCTV
cameras, Gallan Parking will be carrying out security patrols, litter collections, green verge maintenance, and gritting duties. The amenity, which will also
serve a new library, is at the heart of a major new development of 191 mixed-tenure homes, which is replacing poor quality accommodation and is scheduled for completion in December 2013. Gallan Parking now manages eight car parks in Birmingham, with a total capacity of 855 spaces.
Lighting up the car parks
Abacus Lighting has launched an LED lantern specifi cally for car parks following the success of its Orion range of lanterns across a range of facilities, including Tesco, Asda and Network Rail. The
Quantum lantern
range was launched at the Light and Building Exhibition in Frankfurt. Abacus has also provided lighting solutions at the Silverstone Grand Prix
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Circuit and Brighton and Hove Albion Stadium car parks, as well as running operations across the UAE, China, Russia and Asia. Quantum is an LED solution for car park and open area lighting, with a key modular
construction designed
around LED light sources rather than LEDs placed in an existing fi xture. Quantum features Luxeon Rebel LEDs, 12 LEDs per module, with 20 modules
per luminaire and the Philips Xitanium DALI, 1-10V and standalone driver for full digital dimming capability.
Andrew-Morris Richardson, group managing director at Abacus Lighting, said: ‘Quantum has been specifi cally designed to meet the needs of customers for car parks and open areas. It delivers key benefi ts to customers in comparison to other LEDs on the market – it is powerful and has the highest environmental credentials.’
they SAY...
All businesses are operating in an economic environment where return on investment is the abiding issue
COLIN NAYLOR
www.britishparking.co.uk
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