Lucy Care, the Liberal Democrat cabinet member with responsibility for planning, and parliamentary candidate for Derby North, has failed the victims of a cowboy clamping company operating in Derby’s Crompton Street car park.
The company’s dubious tactics have been the subject of extensive media coverage so she is well aware of the unacceptable way in which local people are being treated. Even after I revealed the company didn’t have planning permission for the car park, she has failed to instruct council officers to take enforcement action.
The Derby Labour Group has been running a campaign to alert unsuspecting motorists of the sharp practices at this car park. My fellow councillor, Ranjit Banwait, has even organised a number of protests at the car park to draw attention to what has been happening there.
I’ve now arranged a public meeting at the Council House at 7.30 pm on Thursday evening to discuss possible legal action against the company. The meeting will be addressed by Selman Ansari, a London based barrister who lives in Derby. If you have been affected by this company’s activities, or if you know of anyone else who has, please attend this meeting.
Lucy Care’s inertia on this issue is quite shocking. She has stood by wringing her hands like a latter day Uriah Heep implying it had nothing to do with her. What is the point of her occupying a senior council cabinet position that has oversight of these matters when she fails to use the powers at her disposal to protect the public?
Her record as cabinet member for planning and transport is shambolic. She’s tried to axe school buses, delayed works to Alvaston District Centre, allowed parking chaos to ensue in Littleover and is failing hard pressed motorists who have fallen victim to these ruthless clampers. Many of the people who have been subject to punitive penalty charges have been unemployed because the Crompton Street car park is just around the corner from the jobcentre.
Lucy really does deserve her sobriquet – Lucy (DOESN’T) Care.
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