Car Clamping in Birmingham: A More Peaceful Solution to Birmingham’s Car Clamping War
Once one of the most popular clamping hotspots in the UK, wheel clamping in Birmingham is falling due to the enforced measures of both police and the authorities. The crackdown, initiated by trading standards officers back in 2007, has lead to a dramatic fall in complaints over unfair clamping in the nations second largest city. On the one side measures appear to be bringing more positive results for landowners seeking to control parking problems.
The recent sweep, which was initially conducted by routine patrols in popular clamping locations throughout the city, measured the credentials of all clamping firms within the vicinity and took appropriate legal action confronting those whose paperwork was unsatisfactory and fell foul of the rules set in place by the patrols.
Despite such measures however, car clamping in Birmingham has still laid victim to the occasional flare-up. One such example involved a Birmingham City football game where 20 cars belonging to fans were illegally immobilised due to being parked on an industrial estate.
In that such case warning notices had only been in place two days previous to the game on a site well known to fans for a long period of time.
Spurred on by such events the Birmingham Trading Standards office backed a new legal reform that helped to bring order to the situation. The bill, brought to the House of Commons by MP David Wright, was brought to British judicial attention just over three years ago.
Fortunately today there are more sensible measures in place that ensure for timelier and fairer actions in preventing unregulated parking. Through electronic technology landowners can simply photograph offending vehicles rather than take more extreme measures like towing or locking. Not only does this ensure a reduction in the number of rogue clampers like those operating at football matches but also a more positive, peaceful, remedy to issues surrounding car clamping in Birmingham.
