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Lex et aequitas

England and Wales · private parking charge notices · draft beta

Published record

What is on the public record.

This page lists published figures and official positions. A data request is not a finding that a company broke the law. NoticeClear does not decide that.

Keeper data

  • The DVLA may release keeper details to a private parking company that shows reasonable cause, under Regulation 27 of the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002. The fee published for that release is £2.50.
  • Churchill Motor Insurance, from a freedom-of-information extract, reported 7.7 million requests in the first half of 2024/25, and about 12.8 million in 2023/24. ParkingEye, Euro Car Parks and Horizon were among the largest requesters in that extract.
  • In 2022 the ICO said the DVLA had named the wrong lawful basis for those disclosures. It took no enforcement action. The ICO did not say the charges were invalid.
  • On 30 October 2025 the Department for Transport said it had no plan to remove the private-parking request route.

What a case can still test

  • Whether the notice to keeper met the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, Schedule 4, paragraph 8 or paragraph 9 timetable.
  • Whether the mandatory wording was there.
  • Whether the land was relevant land.
  • Whether the Single Code of Practice point relied on was in force for that site. The joint code has applied since 1 October 2024. Signage at existing sites has a transition to 31 December 2026.

Nothing on this page is a judgment against a named company. A ground is used only where the documents support it.