EXTRA Parking spaces will be allocated at Jungle Mania in Bourne End following last week’s Bucks Free Press report about a mum who was clamped in a dash to hospital.

Tonia Wyncoll was shocked when a clamper refused to take a clamp off her car while she parked outside the play centre.

Her five-year-old daughter, Katie, fell and hurt her head as she dropped her off for a children’s party and within minutes, as she ran inside for help, her car was clamped as she was not stopped in a correct bay.

The mum-of-three said she pleaded with the clamper from Parking Control Management to stop putting on the clamp as she needed to take Katie to hospital but he insisted she paid £130.

Chris Coleman, owner of Bourne End Jungle Mania says he has now agreed to rent the remaining eight spaces outside the centre from Comland PLC who own the land.

He said: “I am relieved. No matter how many signs or notices you put up you will always get people parking in those eight spaces.

“Once the clamping company is gone it is one less thing for us to be concerned about.”

He said Jungle Mania has nothing to with the clamping company and Comland Plc employ the clampers.

Mr Coleman said he asked to rent the extra spaces before but it was too expensive and it is now a more reasonable price.

He offered Mrs Wyncoll a family ticket at Jungle Mania.

Mrs Wyncoll, whose daughter is now fine, thanked him for the tickets and said she was delighted there were more spaces.

She said: “It is something that’s been ongoing. I think the signage could be better.”

She said she has not heard from the clamping company or Comland.

Comland PLC said it was too early to comment at this stage and it was being investigated.

SINCE the story ran, readers have written in with similar stories about clamping companies.

Naida Crystal, of West End Road, High Wycombe, said her car was clamped by Regional Clamping Service based in Iver, when her car was parked outside her flat.

She had forgotten to leave her permit in the windscreen and just two hours later they were lining it up to be towed away. They told her to pay £320, which is the charge to release it from the depot, and not the clamping charge which is £150.

Darren Hayday and his friend were clamped when they were visiting friends at Alexander Court off Queen Alexandra Road, even though they both had visitor permits displayed.

They both had to pay £130 to have the clamps removed. The Slough based company Parking Control Management dismissed his appeal and said they were not displaying correct permits as they were out-of-date.

Corinna Whitfield was clamped a number of times by the same company at flats in Queen Alexandra Road when she was visiting her elderly husband.

She bought a visitor permit after being clamped and then while she was on holiday she was fined £1000 even though the permit was displayed. She was clamped again as she went to work over the road at the university but when the clampers saw her coming out of the flats they did take it off.

Eddie Mckenzie says he was clamped when he parked in a lane off Maxwell Road, Beaconsfield for no longer than eight minutes. He said had to pay £300 in cash to the Uxbridge-based towing company Central Parking Middlesex Ltd.

The Government announced in August plans to make wheel clamping illegal in the Freedom Bill but it is yet to come into effect.

Parking Control Management said it was researching the allegations and could not give a response, while the other two clamping companies involved did not respond to our request for a comment.