25/08/2010

The head of a national parking management firm has said a manageable alternative to wheel clamping must be established or landowners will have no control over their own property.

Grahame Rose, the director of national parking management firm, CP Plus, was speaking out after last week's decision to ban clamping on private land in an effort to rein in the actions of rogue clampers.

He said the government should make sure an enforceable system of parking charge notices (PCN) is in place before completely doing away with private clamping, otherwise there will be anarchy.

"Currently, the only method of enforcing [PCN] regulations is by way of citing contract law," he said in a letter to the Guardian newspaper. "However, contract law is surrounded by complexity and ambiguity, and PCNs are regularly ignored."

He said it was a landowner's right and prerogative to set the conditions of use of their own car park, but without being able to use clamping and not having the power to easily enforce PCNs, they could be facing a wave of rogue parkers.

The ban will be introduced in the government's Freedom bill in November and could be in place by early next year.