Car insurance customers to get new clamping law
23 August 2010 08:20:00
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| Car insurance customers will be protected against private clampers. |
Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone confirmed that measures to outlaw so-called 'cowboy clampers' will be introduced in the freedom bill later this year.
"Landowners have a right to protect their property and they can either put up barriers or they can switch to ticketing," she revealed.
"There will be an appeals tribunal. There will be powers for the police to tow away, but towing has been banned for clamping companies."
Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said that unscrupulous clampers have been extorting money from motorists for too long.
"At last that is going to stop and there will be many who will breathe a sigh of relief after years of outrageous behaviour," he added.
Paul Watters, head of public affairs at car insurance provider The AA, described the move as a "momentous decision".
He noted: "All authorities must now work to make this work in practice so that cowboy enforcers know they will be caught and prosecuted."
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