Well done Londoncass, I'm really glad to hear you won! When I wrote the appeal, I sent a copy to the property management company and BPA too. Did you make your claim jointly against CES and the property owner too? I can see the point of doing it so as many people suggest it too, just not sure if this would be the property management company or if not, how can I find out who is the land owner? (Unfortunately the property management company is not very helpful either, they seem to be a bit on the slow side...)

Hi there, My weekend visit to my sister in London became a nightmare when CES towed away my car. I was displaying a temporary parking permit number with my sister’s full address and car. reg. number as instructed by CES not so long before. I was also parking in one of the visitor’s bay as my sister was told to do so by the property management company. I reported my car as stolen first, as neither trace line nor the police had record of my car as clamped or towed away. After the police suggested to look around in the private car park and search for any sign possible displaying warning, we found one displayed very high up (somewhere between the second and third floor) where we could only read the word warning and a contact phone number. We also found two other signs on the next property, but that does not belong to the property my sister lives and also were displayed pretty high up, carefully placed where no driver would see when entering the private car park and looking to park. I had to pay £455 to get my car released and when I tried to convince the guy at CES over the phone about that I had the right to park there and they did not have the right to remove my car at all, as it was not causing obstruction, he was quite rude and even said, that I do want my car don’t I and with a slightly threatening voice he told me, that if I don’t pay the release fee and don’t collect my car, they will sell it on auction after 30 days and if that will not cover the cost of towing away and parking (£1265.00) they will take court action against me. I don’t think they can do that legally, but he definitely had no right to talk to me like this. (Maybe he thought as I’m a woman, he can just scare me, get my money, and job done.) The property management company was not very helpful either, I tried to talk to them to get the release fee waived, but they rang CES and passed me back to them. Obviously they have financial benefits from this situation; otherwise they would have done something to solve this by now, as apparently many residents complaint about CES before, but nothing happened. Unnecessary to say, that my sister sent an appeal letter to CES today which I know either will be ignored or rejected, but then we will take them to court too. If nothing else, at least we can have our say there. I did a bit research for statistics on this subject (taking court action against parking fines, clamping, removing). Only 1% of drivers appeals , takes court action and 57% of them wins (that’s including public and private roads). I found this link too: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/4755159.WALTHAMSTOW__Car_clamp_protestor_declares_victory/ That gives some hope for all of us I think. J Anyone won at court?