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Blimey, fancy being clamped outside your house! - Dawn Hoskins (13th Feb 2009 - 10:31:44) Just read this article about these poor people down the road in Greatham.(Wolfmere Lane). petersfieldpost.co.uk/... [editor - also our friends in the Daily Mail www.dailymail.co.uk/news...] Imagine living in your little house, then some little oik buys the field at the end of the cul-de-sac and starts clamping your cars! Holding villagers to ransom and clamping at £150 each for release – may be a good source of income but not a very good way to get on with your neighbours methinks….. “The land had originally been a cart track to the field, and was also used for access by the homeowners in the 1940s properties in the days when cars were still a rarity. when a field on the opposite side of the lane was built on, a modern Tarmac lane was laid running parallel to the cart track. Householders gradually incorporated the old cart track into their driveways or front gardens. That was until October, when they received a letter from Mr Shea's solicitors informing them that 'you have no right to park on the land ... between your property and the roadway of Wolfmere Lane itself…Our client may be prepared to sell you the area of land immediately in front of your property and invites offers”

Re: Blimey, fancy being clamped outside your house! - Chris Taylor (13th Feb 2009 - 11:40:27) Hopefully common sense will prevail and this person will be told that what he is doing is entirely illegal. You cannot purchase land and then do what you want with it if what you plan to do adversely impacts an already established residential area/community. I am sure that the council will have powers to bring him down to size.

Re: Blimey, fancy being clamped outside your house! - P Weyland (13th Feb 2009 - 16:36:11) Even if he is within his rights to get cars clamped I find it incredibly uncivilised to exercise that right when the previous landowner hasnt had a problem with it for the last x amount of years. As the new owner intends to use the field for livestock then what problem would cars parking on a grass verge outside the fenceline pose to him? However I am enjoying the irony of someone from 'travelling roots' going through legal channels to stop people parking on his land (sorry residents of Wolfmere Lane ;-)

Re: Blimey, fancy being clamped outside your house! - Paul Robinson (13th Feb 2009 - 17:09:34) Just a thought . . . If this man were to run, say, a car boot sale from this piece of land it would constitute some form of earned income and would therefore incur tax on earnings derived from the rent he charges the car booters. In levying parking fines to motorists who park on the land surely the same applies and the money he collects is taxable. Paul Robinson

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