MSE News: Wheel clamping to be banned on private land

AlexisV

You've lost me. I don't park in disabled space, or parent and child bays.

I've never been clamped.

I'm happy to see clamping go, but I would also have supported a law where signage has to adhere to fixed guidelines and clamping release fees were capped at £30, with towing banned.

Rolandtheroadie

In Scotland they put a really really sticky sticker on your side window warning you that they have your registration number and you better not do it again. Or else.

Bashy

It wasnt just the clamping that brought this in, Its been about greed and thats it.

Yes i too am glad to see clamping go, but they have brought this on themselves for been to gready.

If the signs were correct and the charge was like the other poster said around £30 then that still would have stopped folk parking where you the landowner didnt want folk to park.

Now clampers have brought this on themselves for being gready thats it

geordieracer

AlexisV wrote: »

You've lost me. I don't park in disabled space, or parent and child bays.

I've never been clamped.

I'm happy to see clamping go, but I would also have supported a law where signage has to adhere to fixed guidelines and clamping release fees were capped at £30, with towing banned.

This is what i was alluding too earlier - would have been much better. but as i have outlined earlier about the towing - just what should i/we as a company do for when people block and entrance and clamping would cause more of a hazard then towing which would be easier?

King_Nothing

I haven't been clamped or recieved a parking ticket, it just boils my blood that these have been going for so long and get away with what they get away with, and have gotten away with such things as saying, you can't pay by card, cash only, aye that so you can't chargeback, and that there is very little papertrail, or that there's an extra £150 fee now, because we've had to cancel the tow truck, aye mate, you no doubt own the tow truck, great that, that 1 minute phone call to your other meathead mate telling him not to come can cost £150.

trets77

liam8282 wrote: »

People have only suggested alternatives to a small specifically chosen number of circumstances.

How can you feasibly distinguish between parking irresponsibly?

The impression I get from this thread is, if there is a space, you can park in it. After all, nothing can be done about it.

So that now goes for all parking spaces in private car parks, such as mother and child spaces, disabled bays etc.

One person may truly believe that parking in a mother and child space or disabled space is not irresponsible. So now it is a question of what a person thinks is right and wrong......... But at the end of the day, nothing can be done about it.

You can't pick and choose where it is relevant, to suit your current argument.

Parent and Child Bays . I think it was Peter Kay who pointed out , that there is no age limit on these . me ( 38) and my mum (66) often go shopping together at Asda and park there . :rotfl:

joking aside i agree there may be cases where moving a car from private land is required. but this should be done by people who are accountable . i.e your local authority , or Police . and the fine or costs should limited to something sensible ( £20 for example)

But giving any low life the authority to clamp and charge what they want has to stop .

it's going to be lean Xmas for them this year , and so it should be .

King_Nothing

trets77 wrote: »

Parent and Child Bays . I think it was Peter Kay who pointed out , that there is no age limit on these . me ( 38) and my mum (66) often go shopping together at Asda and park there . :rotfl:

No legality in them anyway. I think some supermarkets are now putting age limits on them now, I could be mistaken though.

trisontana

King_Nothing wrote: »

No legality in them anyway. I think some supermarkets are now putting age limits on them now, I could be mistaken though.

And how are they going to verify the age. Ask to look at somebody's passport? Don't forget that P&C spaces are just a marketing gimmick. Just like loyalty cards and BOGOFs.

BLT_2

MDE wrote: »

And I thought the government where trying to cut unemployment!

Yep but they are also trying to cut crime - and getting these thugs off the street goes a long way towards that :-)

liam8282

trisontana wrote: »

And how are they going to verify the age. Ask to look at somebody's passport? Don't forget that P&C spaces are just a marketing gimmick. Just like loyalty cards and BOGOFs.

& by the same reckoning so are disabled spaces, positive discrimination & all that.