Clamping to be banned.

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...in the news today.

Wooo Hooo!!

But only on private land, they'll still be allowed to clamp if you park where you should't, for instance yellow lines, etc.

Part of me thinks its a good thing, part of me thinks hmmm, I wonder if it could become chaotic with people just parking wherever ..

What'll happen to places where people have parking permits to live, do these become useless, can anyone park there now if there are no deterrents? For example, I walk through a new housing development every day to work and I know until they brought in parking permits (with a threat of clamping) that the people living there had nightmares with commuters parking there (as it was near the train station). Hmm ...

I think they've took the easy option, rather than actually fix the problem of rogue clampers now they'll have to deal with rogue parkers ...

Oh gawd our managing agents we're about to introduce resident parking permits on our private land so they could clamp the school run mums and dads parking there daily blocking us in blocking us out etc and telling us to piss off if we complained and in some cases dropping litter everywhere to piss us off.

So I'm disappointed actually.The rogue parkers win as you cannot get these cars moved by council or police so they know they can do exactly what they want. We have cases that the mums all park and take the kids to school and then go off for a nice coffee.

Hooray. And good riddance.

The only time this happened to me it cost £142 for exactly seven minutes and wasted two hours of my time. I was delivering a file to my MD's flat and he then bitched when I tried to claim it on expenses.

In the end I claimed eight £20 taxi fares with faked receipts

My god your boss didn't want to pay.

OMG - but I'm sorry as we get parking hassle every single school day. The parents are more than aware and don't give a shit - they park and congregate. In fact a few months ago they were stood oustide my home sitting on our bench. I'd love them to be clamped!

I live near a small tourist town which has a notorious clamper, called Dick Turpin because of his clamping methods. The place attracts visitors from all over the place particularly Chinese and Canadians. Whenever I pass his car park there's always someone clamped - it's embarrassing. Makea me cringe - he's a weazel.

I definitely agree that there are bad, hideous clampers, but I do also think that at times (assuming the company is a good one) there is an argument for having them because of some of the terrible people who drive and park illegally.

I just wish they'd tried to fix the problem rather than get rid of altogether. I guess we'll see how it goes .....

makes me laugh when those hyper expensive cars are clapmed outside harrods but the drivers just seem to keep getting away with not paying the fines.

(know that is slightly different)

My dads church has a car park and as its in a town centre the car park was used by workers who would park there all day before going to work. Then in the evening clubbers would use it which meant people using the building couldnt park there.

Clamping did sort this problem out so Im not sure what companies are going to do now.

Police cannot remove a car on private land unless it's involved with illegal activity or dumped in a way that poses a threat (whatever that means). Who'd honestly have the time / money to instigate a court case?

Barriers wouldn't work in many places (wouldn't at ours). But I heard one solution which is these companies can use a fine system - I guess residents on private land are given tickets to issue to offending cars - you'd stick on the ticket and take a photo of the car for proof and send it off to the ticketing company.

I'm fairly confident that if we put up a chain, parkers would just remove it - they've already destroyed many times our private parking notices! In our case it parents from the local school.