Can a nursery do anything about people parking on the pavement outside the nursery

Flyboy152

Alter_ego wrote: »

PCSO's issue tickets in your area? Must be a new law.

No new law necessary. PCSO have been handing put parking tickets for some time around our way. I think it is up to the individual local authority.

ETA:

For Example:

http://www.met.police.uk/pcso/roles.htm



PCSO Roles

• Safer Neighbourhoods PCSO
• Safer Transport PCSO
• Traffic PCSO
• Counter Terrorism PCSO
• Royal Parks PCSO
• Aviation Security PCSO
• Station PCSO
• Victim PCSO
• Safer Schools PCSO

Traffic PCSO

• Visible, accessible and familiar uniformed presence
• Gathering criminal intelligence
• Maintaining a free flow of traffic on red and priority bus routes
• Assisting in traffic and pedestrian control
• Issuing of fixed penalty notices and parking tickets

Flyboy152

home_alone wrote: »

£70 fine for parking on pavements.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3423313/Drivers-to-be-hit-with-70-fines-if-they-park-with-two-wheels-on-pavement.html

About flipping time.

Flyboy152

thescouselander wrote: »

Whats the problem here? Parking on the pavement is illegal - report it to the police. The police are quite good round here, if someone parks on the pavement and blocks it they'll be towed or issued with a fine. Either way, its for the police to sort out not the nursery.

Acdtually, unless it is London, I am afraid it isn't. For it to be "illegal" the vehicle has to impeding the easy access of pedestrians.

Flyboy152

patman99 wrote: »

If some ar5e-wipe did that to my car, I would call the Police and have them charged with criminal damage.

People tend to forget that if a vehicle is taxed, tested and insured then it can park on any part of the highway, so long as there are no restrictions in force.
This of course also applies to the residents who, if they so wished, could leave their vehicles on the road, thus stopping the srm's from parking there.
Could also ask for a residents parking scheme to go-in.

Btw, parking on a footpath is not an offence. The offence is actually 'the driving of a motor vehicle on a footpath'. This was talked-about on radio a couple of years back, and a Chief Inspector phoned-in to clarify the law.

That only gives them the right to be on the road; not to be a selfish git. Residents' parking schemes cost the residents money, why should they have to pay because of some selfish, lazy beggars.

d123

avstar wrote: »

Its against the law to park on the pavement .

No, it isn't, unless you are in London

home_alone wrote: »

£70 fine for parking on pavements.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3423313/Drivers-to-be-hit-with-70-fines-if-they-park-with-two-wheels-on-pavement.html

Read the story properly, it is more to do with obstruction

Local authorities will get permission to put up new signs warning it is an offence.

Those who ignore them will be clobbered with fines of £70.

Mr Baker is writing to council chiefs today to tell them they can use special traffic regulation orders to ban pavement parking in busy streets where it forces pedestrians to run a gauntlet of traffic.

He also suggests raising the kerb or using bollards to stop people driving on to footpaths.

But he will stress his plans are not a blanket ban.

The minister conceded: "I know that sometimes parking on the pavement is the only option."

thescouselander wrote: »

Whats the problem here? Parking on the pavement is illegal

Again, no it isn't.

Why do so many people perpetuate the same incorrect fact?

Obstruction is an offence, parking 2 wheels on the pavement is not illegal unless certain other criteria are met, and probably never will be on the average residential street outside London.

Flyboy152

d123 wrote: »

No, it isn't, unless you are in London



Read the story properly, it is more to do with obstruction




Again, no it isn't.

Why do so many people perpetuate the same incorrect fact?

Obstruction is an offence, parking 2 wheels on the pavement is not illegal unless certain other criteria are met, and probably never will be on the average residential street outside London.

You don't get out of London that much, do you?

d123

Flyboy152 wrote: »

You don't get out of London that much, do you?

You have lost me there, I don't live in London.

I mention London in my post as it is the only place in England to specifically prohibit pavement parking.

Flyboy152

So, how do you know what the parking is like on every "average residential street outside London."

unholyangel

d123 wrote: »

Why do so many people perpetuate the same incorrect fact?

Obstruction is an offence, parking 2 wheels on the pavement is not illegal unless certain other criteria are met, and probably never will be on the average residential street outside London.

Possibly because if you mount a pavement while on your driving test its an automatic fail as it is a pedestrian area and i distinctly remember my driving instructor saying its a fail because a) you're not in control of the vehicle b) driving without due care and attention which c) would be seen as potentially killing someone. Yet apparently when you pass your test they no longer apply! What i mean is that if a test indicates that you doing so means you are incapable of driving to a standard that permits you to drive unaccompanied, surely doing the same after passing your test equates to the same thing.

Highway code states that you should not (except london of course) park partially or wholly on a pavement unless signs permit it.

System

'Should not' is advice only. It is not an offence but MAY lead to a possible charge of obstruction or similar (in this case).

'Must not' is backed up in the Highway Code by the relevant Act that prohibits that action.