Car Clamping in Cornwall and Devon
The prospect of car wheel clamping in Cornwall and Devon to deter unauthorised parking is not one of the things that springs immediately to mind, just as this particular region of the United Kingdom seldom springs to mind when thinking about the country – except when planning a family holiday.
Taking Cornwall first, the people here are, to a certain extent, culturally and racially distinct from the English to the West. It is still Celtic and has a deep sub-culture exemplified by St Piran’s flag, he being the patron saint of Cornwall.
Unhappily, this is one of the poorest parts of the United Kingdom; surveys indicate that about 99% of the population is ‘white’ (much higher than the national average) and unemployment and general deprivation cause it to be one of four regions in the country receiving special EC development money.
Tourism, agriculture and fishing are the top industries. Many of the ‘tourists’ are from the rest of the country, as opposed to from abroad.
The rapidly rising population, the general economic depression that affects the world impacting tourism, the government imposing stringently enforced fishing limits concerning the types and sizes of fish caught, and agriculture having to compete with fierce competition from overseas, all make for serious challenges in the parking enforcement matter as well as in other avenues of life.
Consequently, there is a great deal of penny-pinching going on and seeking to save on local authority parking charges on public streets is one way of saving money.
Owing to so many of these ‘local tourists’ turning up in their family cars and wanting to park them in and near sightseeing centres leads to the temptation to use private property, especially if the indications are that the property owner can do nothing about it.
This is in addition to local people using third party private property when parking the family chariot on shopping visits to places such as Cornwall’s only city – Truro.
This makes car wheel clamping in Cornwall especially valuable to private property owners, including farmers who definitely do not want their precious grounds to be churned up by holidaying stockbrokers from Surrey parking without permission.
Therefore, we say consider car wheel clamping in Cornwall if you are a property owner in this most westerly of English counties and want to deter unwanted parking.
Devon which borders Cornwall to the east is slightly more fortunate; however, like Cornwall, the county is heavily dependent on tourism, farming and fishing. All three sectors are economically depressed.
One bright spot is that work that does not have to be geographical can and does get relocated in Devon for cost reasons.
Persons interested in car wheel clamping in Devon might be interested to learn that the Met Office employs about a thousand staff in Devon, most probably partly for that reason.
As in Cornwall, car wheel clamping in Devon is justified by the private property owner not wanting third parties, whether local or from outside, taking liberties by parking on their land, thinking that the victim can do nothing about it.
As in Cornwall, farmers in Devon want to deter holiday makers and locals parking their family chariots on their grounds on shopping and sightseeing tours and shopping expeditions.
All this makes car wheel clamping in Devon important and we say that this recourse must be considered by all persons with private property thereabouts.
