Towaways - Letter July 2010

Dear Sir,

Certain small parts of Camden have single yellow lines and residents' parking bays which apply for only a couple of hours each day. These are quiet residential areas a fair distance away from shops and tube and rail stations. Two hours parking control a day is sufficient to deter commuters with normally very little impact on the lives of residents living in these roads....

Normally, that is, until Camden sends in the towaway trucks! Towaways are primarily aimed at removing illegally-parked vehicles causing an obstruction.

It is difficult to understand how, when a car can be legally parked on a single yellow line for 22 hours in a day it suddenly becomes a perfidious obstruction that needs urgently to be removed on the remaining two hours of the day. Parking tickets for cars parked illegally in this way are perfectly reasonable, just not the towaways.

Apparently there's a review going on at the moment into parking enforcement, although I haven't seen any consultation announced on Camden's website. I'd hope this particular injustice will be simple and straightforward to adjust, but in case any other resident has an issue with parking they would like to see addressed in the review, I'd suggest they send an email to the new Labour Parking Czar Cllr Sue Vincent at sue.vincent@camden.gov.uk and ask her to confirm that it's within the scope of the review.

Yours etc