The Council is being demanding

Zandoni

Have you bothered to look at the pictures http://img256.imageshack.us/i/img7968q.jpg/

There is plenty of room for dustcarts, most of these modern estates do not have room for enough cars.

Yes I am on the consumers side, we are the customers and should be looked after.

Freddie_Snowbits

Room or not, OP still parked inconsiderately.

Zandoni

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Room or not, OP still parked inconsiderately.

Maybe, but the OP doesn't deserve to come to a forum for help and get abused.

Foggster

Zandoni wrote: »

Maybe, but the OP doesn't deserve to come to a forum for help and get abused.

This isnt abuse Zandoni - keep some perspective. :rotfl:

The OP is parked on a pavement, if it was you trying to get passed with a pushchair or wheelchair you would soon moan and complain. Vehicles exiting the junction the OP has parked his car next to now have a blind spot due to his inconsiderate parking.

He came here for advice, he got it - move the car and stop being awkward.

Blooming simples!!!!!

unholyangel

Well lets see, he's parked within 32 feet of a junction, within 3 feet of a lowered kerb AND on the pavement = illegally parked. So as others have said, he's lucky it was a letter and not a ticket or a big looooong scratch down the side of his car.

We had a similar problem with a guy parking on a "no waiting" sign, double yellow lines, within 32 feet of a junction, on the pavement and causing cars entering our estate to mount the other kerb in order to get by.......all because he was too lazy to walk a extra 20ft or so.

When learning to drive i was told it IS illegal to mount a kerb UNLESS it is to gain access to a property (for example a driveway). And at no other times is it allowed. Its also an automatic fail if you do so on your test.

sarahg1969

Foggster wrote: »

This isnt abuse Zandoni - keep some perspective. :rotfl:

The OP is parked on a pavement, if it was you trying to get passed with a pushchair or wheelchair you would soon moan and complain. Vehicles exiting the junction the OP has parked his car next to now have a blind spot due to his inconsiderate parking.

He came here for advice, he got it - move the car and stop being awkward.

Blooming simples!!!!!

What has the pavement got to do with it? Some of you seem to be missing the point.

However, there clearly is a problem with the OP's parking, or the council wouldn't have taken issue with it.

sarahg1969

unholyangel wrote: »

When learning to drive i was told it IS illegal to mount a kerb UNLESS it is to gain access to a property (for example a driveway). And at no other times is it allowed. Its also an automatic fail if you do so on your test.

Maybe where you are it IS illegal because of local loaws. However, parking on the pavement is not, per se, illegal.

And in any event, the council have not taken issue with the OP's car being on the pavement. They've taken issue with the parts of the car that are on the road.

Judas

You are parking directly opposite an access road/drive way which means large vehicles cannot manouvre in or out. I agree with the letter on that point.

At the moment it is a friendly warning but I am sure if you continue to ignore it they will make it a bit more formal and involve the council/authorities to prevent it.

Why not park in a more appropiate manner further down the road or on your drive.

As said at the moment its a bin lorry, what happens when it is a fire engine!

unholyangel

sarahg1969 wrote: »

Maybe where you are it IS illegal because of local loaws. However, parking on the pavement is not, per se, illegal.

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You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs.

From directgov website btw. So unless a sign permits it, you're not supposed to.............regardless where you are in the country.
Cant ever recall of hearing a driving test being tailored to that specific area. Basically a pavement is for people, roads are for motorvehicles. You mount a kerb and they treat it like you hit a person (on your test).

sarahg1969

You have missed a bit, unholyangel. The law quoted by the Highway Code is the Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1974, which, surprisingly, relates to London only. If you have managed to read s44 of the HC, you would have seen that footnote. The rest - "and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it" - is not the law. Unless you can find something in the RTRA that forbids parking on pavements nationally? As far as I'm aware, there ARE other councils that ban pavement parking, but they have done so by issuing specific TROs.

In the case of obstruction, a police officer can, of course issue an FPN.