Clapham: Huge rise in tickets and tow-aways
Last autumn, Clapham Conservatives exposed how Labour Lambeth was making almost £6,000 from suspending parking bays in Clapham for utility companies.
We can now show how Lambeth have used these suspensions to massively increase the number of tickets and tow-aways in the Clapham ‘C’ controlled parking zone, using figures obtained from Lambeth Council under the Freedom of Information Act.
Clapham campaigner Matthew Jupp said: “This is just daylight robbery. First they double the cost of parking permits, then they suspend the bays at short notice so residents who have gone on holiday come back to find their car towed away and end up hundreds of pounds out of pocket.”
2007 - 266 tickets / 111 tow-aways
2008 - 959 tickets / 231 tow-aways
