What happened to clamping being banned?

angel_islington

It must be well over a year since clamping being banned was in the news but I've heard nothing since. Is it yet another one of this governments broken promises?

I can't wait until the management company here is forced to take the PPC signs down!

We emailed our management company with our concerns when they got the PPC involved. They told us not to worry as the PPC had a valid appeals process! :rotfl:

Coupon-mad

Search the forum for 'Freedom Bill'.

Clamping is due to be banned but the BPA have managed to wheedle their way in and lobby for 'schedule 4' which suggests that PPCs will be allowed to pursue a registered keeper for a fake PCN even if they weren't driving. So, a person being responsible for a made up fine relating to a contract they were not a party to...

Write to your MP and complain. You will see from other threads on the subject of the Freedom Bill that many of us here have done this and I also wrote to the Transport Minister, got a rubbish reply. Keep meaning to respond again but have been busy at work. The reply, from the Government minion, even called a parking charge a fine!

Kite2010

It's a shame you couldn't get other like minded residents together to sack the management company and replace one which thinks that PPCs are scams.

esmerobbo

angel_islington wrote: »

They told us not to worry as the PPC had a valid appeals process! :rotfl:

angel_islington

I should have emailed them back with that photo! Bit late now though, the guy who was involved has left the company. Probably because he was getting annoyed at dealing with all the complaints from the residents.

The PPC concerned is Aspire Parking Solutions. They don't crop up much but when they do they make it a big one. There was a story in The Sun (which I don't normally read!) where they had clamped a heavily pregnant lady, who had a complicated pregnancy and needed to rush to the hospital at a moments notice, in her own space outside her home! She even told them the situation but they were having none of it. "We can't just remove the clamp, there are procedures" they said. Luckily she managed to sort it out. I dread to think what the PPC would have to deal with if that was my partner, it would not be a pretty sight!

RENEGADE_2

Coupon-mad wrote: »

... but the BPA have managed to wheedle their way in and lobby for 'schedule 4' which suggests that PPCs will be allowed to pursue a registered keeper for a fake PCN even if they weren't driving...

So, a person being responsible for a made up fine relating to a contract they were not a party to...

Not quite. It will be "unpaid parking charges" and you know exactly what this means. Legitimate parking charges are only too well defined, those as stated on ticket machines. The attempts to exact big money will still be subject to Contract Law and its protocols. You know them. Landowner's losses?

RENEGADE_2

Schedule 4 simply gives the landowner and its excrements a face to hunt: one that cannot divert the blame.

This is no different to when a driver initially appeals and then becomes wise to the facts in time. Here the PPC have their target as he has admitted it, but they don't get anything out of him when he ignores do they? We all know why. That will remain the same.

john539

What's happened to clamping being banned on private land ?

Wheel clampers face private land ban

What stage is at ?

bargepole

john539 wrote: »

What's happened to clamping being banned on private land ?

Wheel clampers face private land ban

What stage is at ?

Currently in parliamentary committee stage, then it will go to the Lords, probably early 2012.

bromsgrovebarry

Lets hope that a few of their lordships get clamped in the meantime.

HO87

bromsgrovebarry wrote: »

Lets hope that a few of their lordships get clamped in the meantime.

No chance. Weren't you aware that there are no private car parks at White's, Boodle's or The Athenaeum. In any event, it would be Harris who drove the Range Rover down to Fortnum & Mason and Waitrose to get the groceries so how the hell would 'is Lordship know anything about such working class issues? Not for them getting stuffed by a PPC using El Cheapo VNPR at Aldi's or Lidl's.

Please. For goodness sake, these old chumps (and chumpettes) have as much connection with the real world as I do with Jamie-Lee Curtis. (And do I wish?) Precisely zero. As a result, their views of car parking will be moulded by reading the annual reports of the big nationals or listening to their colleagues who sit on the boards of such companies rather than any first-hand experience. Their fond imaginings will be that the hoi-polloi buy tickets to park and that "enforcement" deals with those who don't.

And who can blame them for that view? It is the commonly held paradigm and until such time as people are educated to the fact that their rights and privileges are being usurped by chancers and cowboys - who effectively hide in the slipstream of the larger multi-national parking concerns (and they are not necessarily blameless either) - everybody will be swept along by it.

I know this is the 21st century but if something is to be done to stop this shameless practice then its about time we employed 20th century tactics and actually wrote to our MP's now before the Bill arrives back in the Commons.

The reality is the a good number of PPC's are acting like a law unto themselves and their owners are making shamefully lucrative livings in so doing.

Private parking forms part of an integrated transport policy and therefore deserves to be properly legislated for? Oh p'leeaase pass me the sick bucket. Yeah, and Father Christmas just crashed his sleigh into the swimming pool annexe of my Burgundian chateau but fortunately missed the other half's and mine matching helicopters on the pad next door. What absolute cobblers.

The desire for legislation is about MONEY, LUCRE - and nothing more.