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The new government’s first piece of parking legislation has got the public jumping with joy as clamping on private land is banned. But Patrick Troy warns of the adverse effect this may have on landowners
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o the government is planning to ban clamping on private land. We anticipated this as the idea was set out in the Liberal
Democrat manifesto, but now we have to address the reality of the situation. Like consumer lobbies, it is easy to make
a generalised response to this and support the ambition of the government to meet
Landowners must have recourse to a last resort to prevent abuse of their land
the concerns of consumers, who all too often have been on the sharp end of bad and roguish antics at the scrag end of the clamping fraternity. But to do so would rather miss the
point. Who is looking after the interests of the landowner wanting to protect his property? How do you stop a persistent motorist who wants to abuse your private land and who ignores tickets issued to his vehicle? How do you deal with someone whose vehicle is not registered properly at DVLA, who knows he cannot be pursued by operators who issue tickets? And there are many landowners among
us. If you have a drive or parking area in front of your house you are a landowner. If you have a car park connected to flats in which you live, you are a landowner. If you own a shop or business premises where your customers or staff park, you
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are a landowner. Indeed if you are a shop customer or a member of staff, this change to the law affects you. In short, banning clamping will affect
most of us, and landowners must have recourse to a last resort to prevent abuse of their land. I see nothing in the government’s proposals that addresses this simple common sense issue, so we will need to fight this corner with vigour and determination. Clamping should be regulated so that the
rogues are eliminated, but to ban clamping in all circumstances is too blunt a solution and will surely backfire. Te BPA’s proposal to regulate the whole private parking sector must be the right way to protect the interests of both consumer and landowner.
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