Manchester City Council is today launching a new parking enforcement operation against motorists who repeatedly evade parking tickets.
The council's parking services contractor, NSL, is set to start clamping vehicles found parked illegally if they are already subject to three or more unpaid penalty charge notices and if the owner has previously ignored all attempts to contact them.
As well as deterring repeat evaders, the policy aims to catch out motorists who are driving unregistered cars and cannot otherwise be traced, or untaxed vehicles.
Drivers whose cars are clamped will be faced with a £40 release fee, on top of a parking ticket for the offence which prompted the enforcement action. Clamped cars will be towed away if the owner does not contact the council within 24 hours.
Executive Member for the Environment, Councillor Rosa Battle, said: “This is a simple, efficient way to catch the small minority of drivers who believe that the law does not apply to them. It will help to prevent people with unregistered cars from getting away with persistently driving illegally in our neighbourhoods - reducing the nuisance and inconvenience they cause to the vast majority of law-abiding drivers.”
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