Parking Scotland Expo Stronger together his will be my first Scotland Expo as chair of BPA Parking Scotland and I am looking forward to it. As chair, it is an honour and a fabulous opportunity to work alongside the undoubted quality, experience and enthusiasm within the current membership. I am delighted that the newly elected President of the BPA, Stuart Harrison, will attend this years Expo, joining me in showcasing our aspirations for Parking Scotland. I am very keen to continue the good work undertaken by my predecessor, Lorna Hogg. We have fantastic and experienced local authority representation within our T Parking Scotland Expo returns this month, at the Village Hotel, Edinburgh, on Thursday 14 September. It is set to be an action-packed day, as Karl Russell, new chair of Parking Scotland, explains membership, and one of my aspirations is to grow the amount of quality from other areas of the public sector such as healthcare and education as well as, importantly, the private sector. I firmly believe that incorporating experience from across all these verticals within Scotland will benefit the overall membership and facilitate even more meaningful discussion and collaborative thinking, for the betterment of all. Collaborative thinking The BPA mission statement involves benefiting motorists, society and the environment by providing a leading membership community, supporting parking Although this years Expo comes at a time of industry uncertainty caused by ongoing discussions about the new Code of Practice and the anticipated go live date of the pavement parking prohibitions, I believe the industry I have worked within since 2006 is in a far healthier position today than it has ever been 18 PN Sept 2023 pp18-21 Scotland Expo.indd 18 24/08/2023 13:19