Clamping and parking charges

[tbourner]

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/146/11146.37-41.html#j800pge

And:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/146/11146.101-107.html#j800s

 

So no more clamping, BUT it does seem to give more power to the 'contract' (sign stuck up on a post) and it gives power to the landowner to chase the registered keeper if the fine isn't paid - so you can't just say you don't know who was driving any more.

[marbleapple]

Its a shame they are banning it. I don't think people should get away with parking on someone else's property without permission. It should just be regulated better like night club bouncers now are.

[AJI]

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/146/11146.37-41.html#j800pge

And:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/146/11146.101-107.html#j800s

 

So no more clamping, BUT it does seem to give more power to the 'contract' (sign stuck up on a post) and it gives power to the landowner to chase the registered keeper if the fine isn't paid - so you can't just say you don't know who was driving any more.

 

Is this a new change in the law or something? Or is it just a link to the existing law?

 

AFAIK clamping is still legal on council property done by authorised personel. Clamping is banned on private property, unless agreement is contracted so that the council enforce the parking regulations on it.

 

I think from the text in the first link that the keeper may not be the one who entered the so called 'contract'. So even though it is now part of this 'freedoms bill' how will that ever play out in court?

I still think that the court may fall in favour of the keeper if it were put to the test.

(But then I'm no expert on this).

[tbourner]

It's a new law just being put in today (I think).

[edge]

I took my mum to the shops one day and parked in a pub that we had done since i was born and used to leave the cars there as they done the weekly shop as it always had plenty of spare spaces.

I left the car running with my mum sat in the passenger seat as it was nearly empty and the cash point i stopped for was just on the other side of the road and i didn't risk parking outside the cash point as it was double yellows.

The guy must have crept to the drivers side and fitted the clamp on the rear wheel, my mum was shocked when all of a sudden the guy knocked on the window saying to switch the engine off and not to move the car as a clamp had been fitted.

I kept cool somehow and paid the £60 or £80 and left. I did notice small signs after i realised what had gone on so technically i'm in the wrong etc.

The pub was rough and always changing owners and closing etc for years so i think it was a money making idea.

Funnily enough shortly after this someone had set fire to two old bangers to lock the pub entrance. Must have been early hours of the morning as this person also wanted the car park to be empty just incase more got clamped.

A few weeks later the signs went and the pub closed again.