Camden Council van clamped

"Oh, Sweet revenge" was the cry from the street.

The Camden New Journal reports

Renegade road warrior turns tables on clampers

Illegally parked traffic wardens jeered after rogue clamping.

THE tables were turned on parking wardens when a maverick “motorists’ champion” took the law into his own hands and put the clamps on the clampers. More ...

Camden's Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) and the legislation

Regulation 4

Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002

"controlled parking zone" means either -

(a) an area -

(i) in which, except where parking places have been provided, every road has been marked with one or more of the road markings shown in diagrams 1017, 1018.1, 1019 and 1020.1; and

(ii) into which each entrance for vehicular traffic has been indicated by the sign shown in diagram 663 or 663.1; or

(b) an area -
(i) in which at least one of the signs shown in diagram 640.2A has been placed on each side of every road; and

(ii) into which each entrance for vehicular traffic has been indicated by the sign shown in diagram 665;

Parking Appeals.co.uk will show you how to successfully appeal Penalty Charge Notices issued in CPZs.

Sunderland case submission may collapse Controlled Parking Zones across the country

A submission made to the National Parking Adjudication Service adjudicator in the case of Herron v Sunderland on 12th September 2007 has the potential t collapse every CPZ in the country.

The crux of the case relied on the validity of the CPZ due to incorrect / missing / unlawful signing within the CPZ.

Remarkably, after over 6 hours worth of submissions by signing expert Richard Bentley the adjudicator decided to adjourn ... for TWO MONTHS!!!

Meanwhile, the DfT has confirmed that they are currently re-drafting the guidance on CPZs as the case has national implications.

Trouble for Camden is that a large percentage of their signs and lines also do not comply with the legal requirements and this could lead in a massive increase in the number of drivers appealing ... and winning. We will be posting the arguments on the Camden section of the www.parkingappeals.co.uk website within the next two weeks.

Location Map of Camden and all London Boroughs

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Click here to view an interactive map of the Camden area

Parking Appeals now has a Camden Blog

Any news, views and comment on parking matters in Camden will be posted here.

The motorist is now beginning to fight back against the lawless and the unaccountable who are maskerading as 'parking enforcement.'

Any stories, news, gossip ... e-mail us at enquiries@parkingappeals.co.uk

Tax Farming ... Parking in Camden

The Ham and High
The nitty gritty of Camden Council's iniquitous tax farming regime
23 May 2007
Written by Alex Henney of the London Motorists Action Group

One reason why Labour lost the Camden election a year ago was dislike of the council's unpleasant parking enforcement. I leafleted all of Highgate ward against Cllrs John Thane and Maggie Cosin, who were responsible for enforcement policy, and they both did badly and lost their seats; someone leafleted 8,000 cars in marginal wards; parents campaigned against school run tickets. More ...

Is this the real reason why councils issue parking tickets?

Is this really what it's all about?
Tax farming?
Stealth tax?
Hatred of the motorist?
Or is it the exploitation by private enforcement companies and the need for councils and 'the industry' to generate the revenue to keep 'the industry' which also includes the 'independent' adjudicators well fed at the parking trough?

Parking fines are the new instrument of the left against the middle class


Intransigent wardens chasing targets and bonuses are hated by car owners and are a PR disaster for councils

Simon Jenkins
Friday June 16, 2006
The Guardian