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[zirk]

Some more good news for England and Wales.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/9578849/Wheel-clamping-banned-on-private-land.html

[tunnie]

They clamped people here at work, if you were not in a bay. So good news!

[feeutfo]

Seen this on pistonheads earlier.

We had a company remove vehicles that parked in "our" bays. Lifted onto a flat bed. If the vehicle didn't have a permit sticker it wasn't ours, so it was towed.

Until the blatantly obvious happened, and somebody turned up in a hire car for the day.
...and our own company toed away one of its own employees cars.

A sign of the totally moronic management we had at the time.

I dread to think what would have happened if they'd towed mine. I guess I'd be working somewhere else... If not in jail. 

[Kevin Wood]

Yep. Whole industry motto was "drag knuckles first. Ask questions later", so just deserts.

Guess the worst we can get now is a "Pretend Charge Notice" to pay file shred.

[twiglet]

Yep. Whole industry motto was "drag knuckles first. Ask questions later", so just deserts.

Guess the worst we can get now is a "Pretend Charge Notice" to pay file shred.

Wipe one's arse on before posting... 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Yep. Whole industry motto was "drag knuckles first. Ask questions later", so just deserts.

Guess the worst we can get now is a "Pretend Charge Notice" to pay file shred.

I think I heard on the radio that they'd changed the law on parking tickets, giving private land owners (ie supermarkets, retail parks etc) the right to issue and pursue tickets.. 

[tigers_gonads]

Yep. Whole industry motto was "drag knuckles first. Ask questions later", so just deserts.

Guess the worst we can get now is a "Pretend Charge Notice" to pay file shred.

I think I heard on the radio that they'd changed the law on parking tickets, giving private land owners (ie supermarkets, retail parks etc) the right to issue and pursue tickets.. 

That sounds more like it tbh
A private land owner must be able to enforce who parks on his land

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Yep. Whole industry motto was "drag knuckles first. Ask questions later", so just deserts.

Guess the worst we can get now is a "Pretend Charge Notice" to pay file shred.

I think I heard on the radio that they'd changed the law on parking tickets, giving private land owners (ie supermarkets, retail parks etc) the right to issue and pursue tickets.. 

That sounds more like it tbh
A private land owner must be able to enforce who parks on his land

That's my understanding - from today, registered keepers are responsible for any parking tickets on private land.

[waspy]

Have a read of this. I got the e-mail today so it's up to date

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/private-parking-tickets

[Bionic]

Can't see it making any real difference cos all it has done is give the clampers the authority to chase the ticket fines they hand out which they could not do before. Shot in the foot springs to mind..............Just means they cannot apply a clamp BUT they can ticket at will

[Kevin Wood]

Yep, you can't use the defence that it was not the registered keeper driving, but, at the end of the day, if you refuse to pay, there's still nothing they can do apart from take you to court.

You just don't have to pay under protest to get the clamp removed, because, if anyone does clamp you, you can just call the police, or nip home for your angle grinder. Who would chase you for grinding the bejeesus out of a clamp that they shouldn't legally have used?

[Entwood]

Yep, you can't use the defence that it was not the registered keeper driving, but, at the end of the day, if you refuse to pay, there's still nothing they can do apart from take you to court.

You just don't have to pay under protest to get the clamp removed, because, if anyone does clamp you, you can just call the police, or nip home for your angle grinder. Who would chase you for grinding the bejeesus out of a clamp that they shouldn't legally have used?

Whilst I agree with you on principle ... the law differs .... if you are clamped and you use the angle grinder technique .. you can be liable for criminal damage ...    Better option is to call the police as you have been illegally clamped, and the perpetrator can be fined up to £5000

[tigers_gonads]

You could always do what a mate of mine did last year.
Got clamped in a carpark so he got his brother to bring him a spare front strut that he had in the garage, his trolly jack and some tools.
30 minutes later, he drove off leaving the clamp sat in the middle of the parking spot