Wheel clamping continued……..  

Here is my column, published yesterday in the Ham & High,  on the government’s decision to ban wheel clamping on private land. Denver booted out! When the Denver boot (wheel clamp) was introduced in this country – I remember wondering what the logic was of this new ‘solution'. A car is parked illegally or dangerously – so let's make sure it stays in its illegal or dangerous position for much longer – by immobilising it! Ever since then – this poor solution (albeit to a very real problem) – has caused untold misery. The horror stories abound: from the disabled man who was frog marched for twenty minutes to a cash point on a freezing November evening to a disabled man who had his wheelchair actually in the car that was clamped who had no money and so was left, stranded, by the clampers. However – it's not just the extreme...