AT YOUR SERVICE THE BPA COUNCIL
The MULTI
STORY I
Through his involvement on the BPA Council, David Peach has discovered just how many people’s lives are affected by parking
was elected to BPA Council in 2007 and am now serving my second term of office. It is humbling to have had the
support to get elected, so my first duty is to the membership of the organisation. I’ve been involved in parking since 1986 when I was selling printed solutions to local authorities and police forces. I remember delivering the first box of excess charge notices (as they were then known) to Westminster Council in the middle of the ’86 gales. Its new on-street contract was going live the next day, so the show had to go on.
In 1993, as decriminalised parking enforcement was introduced in the capital, I founded The Parking Shop. As a result, I’ve seen the development of on-street enforcement from a fledgling sector to a major national service, with the diversity of public sector and commercial enterprises. It has also developed into a key facet of traffic management at a central government level.
Growing influence
ABOUT the AUTHOR: David Peach is managing director of the Parking Shop
I have also witnessed the growing influence of the BPA within government. It has been hard won by everyone involved in the organisation. It is most recently reflected in the Approved Operator Scheme (AOS), which has gained recognition for providing a robust means of managing parking on private land. With that comes responsibility, and the development of the Independent Appeals Service is both a responsibility and recognition of government’s view of our sector and its management body. One of the advantages of my day job is that I get to meet very diverse organisations
and people that manage parking operations. This includes a wide range of public sector bodies and commercial organisations for whom parking is a peripheral activity. It is this diversity and range of interest that I try and reflect back in my work on BPA Council. Civil parking enforcement – and increasingly the AOS – are major parts of the make-up of our sector. But this is only part of the story, and our organisation is unusual in bringing together buyers and sellers in the same membership body. Suppliers to the sector are a major part of the membership and their interests have to be represented, too.
Meeting people
Along with attendance at regular council meetings, all members are actively involved in a number of the other groups that help the BPA to function. I attend the north east regional meetings as a council member, both to communicate with members there and reflect back views to council. I sit on the Safer Parking Scheme panel, which works with the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to help develop the Park Mark accreditation. I have also had an involvement in the Futures group, which meets to consider how the BPA will best serve its members in the future. One of the outputs from that group is the membership consultation that is currently happening. I hear a few moans about the BPA on my travels. I encourage anyone who has a view to voice it and get involved. BPA is a member organisation and it can only properly reflect our sector’s diversity by individual involvement.
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