Sir, – If you thought your parking fine was unfair, you could be correct.

The 2014 annual report of the Parking Ombudsman (POPLA) saw 45 per cent of the fines are being incorrectly issued and subsequently cancelled as having no merit. A further look at individual companies showed up to 100 per cent of fines issued being wrong!

But why is this level of error – and subsequent harassment of the driver – allowed to continue?

Part of the reason is many people are confused and bewildered as to how to deal with these given changing and contradictory information.

In his 2014 annual report, the Ombudsman highlights widespread poor practices within the parking industry. The practices are designed to confuse and bewilder.

See www.popla.org.uk/Annual- Report.

The BMPA is campaigning for #FairParking. Our members are offering to help those who inadvertently pick up one of these fines.

One of our members has helped 500 drivers with ParkingEye fines in the last three months. They can help drivers and registered keepers through the appeals processes, so that everyone reaches a satisfactory solution.

Our campaigners are also challenging the industry’s legal basis of these fines at the Court of Appeal, having helped to defend drivers at what ParkingEye call the “Chelmsford Test Case”.

See http://parking-prankster.

blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/parkingeyewin- cambridge-test-case.

ANGUS GILL British Motorist Protection Association Battle, East Sussex.