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Unfair parking enforcement....clamping
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grizzly1911 wrote: »Signs were upgraded after this event.
What is the point of having an empty car park?
If they had simply wanted an empty car park they could have put the barrier across and locked it. Giving a key to those that they might want to use it.
It is a fully surfaced car park that isn't a bomb site awaiting redevelopment. It will not get planning permission for anything else.
There is ample free car parking at present.
It doesn't really matter why they have the land unused or not. Perhaps there are certain planning rules that isn't on inactivity before permission is granted. The point is, it is their land and they can do what they like with it (within reason).The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
It doesn't really matter why they have the land unused or not. Perhaps there are certain planning rules that isn't on inactivity before permission is granted. The point is, it is their land and they can do what they like with it (within reason).
Don't dispute they can do with it what they want - there are just ways and means of dealing with it.
In the area where this is I am sure a notice and some warning notes on the cars would have done the trick.
It was done this way for one purpose only;)"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Don't dispute they can do with it what they want - there are just ways and means of dealing with it.
In the area where this is I am sure a notice and some warning notes on the cars would have done the trick.
It was done this way for one purpose only;)
To prevent unwelcome visitors from parking on their private property and it seems to have worked.
As to the clamping firms behaviour, that should be a matter for the licensing authority and the courts. They can only deal with such practices when they are reported by those who have been affected by them.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
OP are you serious? £375 to remove a clamp!!!0
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Anyone know when clamping will be outlawed? I thought it was April this year but still seems to be going on; just seems like legalised extortion as you have to pay up or lose your car and the charges are rediculous for a minor parking infringement. Sooner it is banned the better.
Careful - I remember this thread from the parking page https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3261628 and thats claiming that if the land has a barrier that can be closed then they can still clamp you when the law comes in.one of the famous 5
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There is an assumption being made that all people who are clamped are parking on private land.
There are plenty of cases where people have spotted something that appears to be a car park, driven on to see the signs, and have been blocked in by clampers.
Or vehicles with "for sale" signs being left on private car parks, so that people go on to the land to have a look, and are blocked by the clampers.
Or people who turn around in the entrances to private car parks, who find themselves blocked in.
And then there's the guy who hands his unexpired parking ticket to a driver entering a car park, who is then clamped for using a non-transferable ticket. The kindly gentleman is the clamper himself.
In the OP's case, the clamper was clearly already on the land. Why not tell her not to park there, if they want to keep the land clear?
OP, you may wish to repost this on the parking forums on https://www.pepipoo.com, for some useful advice.0 -
To prevent unwelcome visitors from parking on their private property and it seems to have worked.
As to the clamping firms behaviour, that should be a matter for the licensing authority and the courts. They can only deal with such practices when they are reported by those who have been affected by them.
Do you live in the real world?
Local authority fully aware cannot/will not do anything.
Police fully aware can't do anything. Enforcers "known" to them..."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Do you live in the real world?
Local authority fully aware cannot/will not do anything.
Police fully aware can't do anything. Enforcers "known" to them...
Guess the 'Enforcers' are not doing anything wrong if the powers that be cannot do anything.0 -
Guess the 'Enforcers' are not doing anything wrong if the powers that be cannot do anything.
Terrifying vulnerable women with children is OK then and a valid way of keeping them off property without reasonable notice.;)"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0
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