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Did you see the comment someone left last week<\/a> about her car being clamped and towed away after she parked in the Approach, Rayleigh? If not, have a look ; it’s well worth reading.<\/p>\n

The Approach is the road that goes behind Rayleigh Station. Just to summarise what happened, the driver left her vehicle on the highway at the very end of the road, near where the car is parked in the photo below. There was some clamping warning notices nearby – but they were adjacent to the block-paving of the homes there. However the clampers towed her car away, and she ended up paying about ?560 to get it back, in what was clearly a very bad experience.<\/p>\n

So what’s going on here? Well, the very end of the road is an unadopted highway. So County Highways can’t put yellow lines here. As a consequence, it seems that the residents here have been troubled by conatant parking outsie their homes, and have invited in the clampers to solve their problem.<\/p>\n

But before we get 100 messages from residents in Priory Chase, which is also unadopted, to be able to bring in clampers, the road has to be a private road,<\/em> as opposed to being an unadopted public highway.<\/em>. Priory Chase is an unadopted public highway <\/p>\n

Chris Black took senior Conservative councillor Keith Hudson down to look at the location (nice bit of inter-party co-operation there, Keith , thank you)<\/em> and Keith agrees that it isn’t clear at all<\/em> that the clampers are referring to the highway as well as the block paving. We have asked for some signing to go in as a matter of urgency.<\/p>\n

The question is, is this bit of road in the Approach actually a private road? We have asked the question and are waiting for a response.<\/p>\n

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