Council Parking

Hamid

Hey there,

This isn't a question about tickets or parking in general. It's to do with my local council and it's parking restrictions on my road.

I live down a very short road - about 15-20 metres in length and just about big enough for one car to drive down the entire length of road though for about 6 metres at the mough of the road there's space enough for two cars to squeeze in. The road is closed off at the end. I'm not sure what the status of the road was before the council adopted it this year but then again neither was the council. We faced 15 years of limbo where the council warned us against making any changes to the road outside our property and at the same time refused to do any maintenance because the road wasn't adopted and ownership was unclear.

So they eventually adopted it. And we've had som more problems. We're quite close to the town centre and because of this people love exploiting the road for parking so they can go to the DVLA or Argos etc My mum's disabled and requested that the council put double yellow lines down the road so that she could have access to our property at the end and so that the commercial units could get their deliveries in. Instead, the council has decided to 'try out' for the next year a policy of a 20 minute waiting restriction. This has had the effect of almost completely blocking our access to our property. It's also often disgusting squeezing past commercial waste-bins (at entrance to road) and dirty cars.

We've tried to speak to the council about this repeatedly, including speaking to the people in charge of parking and the council in general but we've now been having problems getting direct communication with them and we were most recently fobbed off with what was effectively 'deal with it'.

I'm just wondering if anyone knows if we have any rights in this situation - ie right to access our property, health and safety issues (access for ambulances etc would be impossible because you can't coordinate 8 different drivers across the town centre and it's impossible to bring someone across on a stretcher when road is full)? Maybe something under the Human Rights Act?

wealdroam

OP, how about speaking to your local councillor?

Hamid

Judas wrote: »

You dont make sense. If the road is only large enough for one car then how can people park on it?
Do you have a streetmap link?

It sounds to me that you want the best of it all and get in maintained etc free but still get your free parking on it without others getting access.

I think you misunderstood. We don't want to park there. We want to have free access to the property. There are commercial properties there too, so it's understandable that they need to do deliveries etc, but during the day the entrance and middle parts of the road are packed which means access from our place is sometimes entirely cut off and we have to exit our via the pub next door. I mentioned that my mum's disabled and potential health and safety issues because if God forbid something happens to her and she needs an ambulance during the day it'll be very difficult to get through to her.

I've got two pics from google images (don't want to put the address on internet for obvious reasons) but that should clear things up - you can see entrance to road is wide enough for more than one car but as soon as you get to the shop bins it narrows dramatically - there's just about enough room at the mouth of the road for two cars but not enough for a third to pass through safely

maninthestreet

If that road is now adopted by the council, those bins are obstructing a public right of way, and should be removed.

skiddlydiddly

maninthestreet wrote: »

If that road is now adopted by the council, those bins are obstructing a public right of way, and should be removed.

To where?A lot of bins so you would assume a lot of rubbish to suddenly need somewhere else to store.

To the OP- contact your MP and the local rag, that's what people do where I live.Pull your best sad face, point at your house with your MP looking concerned next to you for the photos and it will get sorted pronto.