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Come on, be a sport
• THE car park at the Sobell Leisure Centre in Holloway has changed to a new payment system, but the bright yellow bollards which signify the old system were not removed immediately, so as you went into the car park (especially after dark) it appeared the old system was in place.
So on June 11, I did not pay-and-display but after my football game I saw my car was clamped. I didn’t have any cash or cards to pay the fine. I phoned the number and got a computerised message. I was cold and sweaty after exercise so I walked home instead.
London Parking Control’s paperwork said I had 28 days to pay the fine of £85. When I returned in the morning the car had been towed. I had to retrieve it the next day from Edmonton after paying a £410 fine.
When I complained I was told that, because mine was the first case notified, most people were aware of the new system. This ignores the people who have suffered in silence: I saw an upset woman in the car park in the pouring rain as I cycled home, with children in her clamped car. I notice the bollards that caused my confusion have since been removed.
Would it not have been fairer if the company had administered £40 fines, as its own paperwork allows? When the paperwork says “28 days to pay clamp fine” cars should not be impounded after several hours.
GUY KING
Address supplied
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