Disabled parking sign

BargainGalore

Check with your council to get a sign putting up an unofficial sign I believe people can still park and you may get into trouble

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/messageboards/F3611783?thread=7173444%3Blatest=1

Mupette

i bought car stickers in motoman..

please keep back wheelchair user..

sunnyone

GlynD wrote: »

If the council put a sign and bay outside your house and a non disabled person parks there you can have the police come along and ticket them. Or a Green Meanie.

Wrong, 99% of the bays that are put in for residents asking for a BB bay are not enforcable by law because it costs a lot of money to make them lawfully enforcable via the applicable bye law's etc. so they are just it paint on the ground with a sign that anyone can park in, home made signs or illegal signs can cause the person which displayed them to be fined because you cant just go around deciding who can and cant park where or when, the law does that.

We were going to get a bay put in where we lived before but as said above any BB holder would then be able to park in it, instead we did away with the front lawn and had parking put in for all three of our very large cars which had the added bonus of extra on road parking for our families when they came to visit us too.

bored_at_home

sunnyone how did you get round the lack of drop kerb for access to your new spaces on what was your lawn?
i ask because iv recently heard of someone else who did this and then was refused the drop kerb for ir by the counil. without the drop kerb people can still park in front of where he needs to get across to park there.
i wonder is that cos he should have got planning permission or something first?

sunnyone

bored_at_home wrote: »

sunnyone how did you get round the lack of drop kerb for access to your new spaces on what was your lawn?
i ask because iv recently heard of someone else who did this and then was refused the drop kerb for ir by the counil. without the drop kerb people can still park in front of where he needs to get across to park there.
i wonder is that cos he should have got planning permission or something first?

You dont normally need planning permission for dropped curbs and when the pavement gets accidently broken when the block paving contractor is working they give permission over the phone for the drops for public safety so it was quick and easy for me, the contractor did the drops for under £500 for huge lenght of nearly 50 foot.

We did park one car on a kind of drive before we had the lot done and you are right, legally anyone can block you in as only dropped curbs have legal rights, its well worth doing and improves the saleability of the home too, especially where parking is at a premium.

bored_at_home

i would knock down the wall outside mine and make my access to the drive wider just to stop getting sealed in like a sardine in a tin .
i live extremely close to a high school and 6th formers are a total nuisance, they park dead level with my gateposts, allowing absolutely no vision to pull out into the road, just the gates width to get out of grr....

iv been onto the school and the local policeman about it and theyv sent a memo out but a week later were back to the same.

carlislelass

we had to have planning permission for a dropped kerb, maybe councils have different rules

nannytone_2

unless you have a dropped kerb. you can make the gap in the wall as big as you like!
without the dropped kerb, it's perfectly legal to park right in fromt of the gap.