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In a pickle with parking, need advice....
TabiG
Posts: 2 Newbie
Hi,
This is the first time I've done this as I'm not sure who to go to for advice and I don't know if anyone will be able to help me but here's my situation.....
We recently moved to a village in Staffordshire and we live in a small terrace cottage which has no parking. (The only one on the road that doesn't) Across the road and down a bit there is a grassed area which we and a few other residents that lived opposite used to park on. The parish council decided that they were going to turn this into a village green and stopped all parking on it.
Fair enough we thought and we began parking outside our home on the road. I have a small 306 and my husband has a white Vito van (he's a window cleaner) We don't block anyones driveways when we park here. To begin with, as the road isn't the widest in the world, we slightly mounted the pavement to make more room.
Within a few hours we had a community support officer round saying he'd had complaints we had parked on the pavement and were obstructing it. He said the council had provided parking at the village hall down the road, this is a 6 minute walk away from our house, with no street lights and we could park there. The CSO also said we were well within our rights to park on the road, so we did. We moved our vehicles and parked them fully on the road as close the pavement as possible, wing mirrors in.
We have been parking there for about 2 weeks and last night the same CSO came again, by now I'm pretty sick of seeing his face, and said we were going to have to move our vehicles as he's had a report of a vehicle which had to mount the kerb the other side of the road to get round them, (this could have only been a tractor or a big lorry as the road is not that small, neither of which we get a lot of.) He said we would have to park our cars at the village hall. He said if we were parked there tomorrow morning we would get a fixed penalty parking ticket. There's no signs, road markings or any other means of communicating that there is no parking allowed.
So now we have to park a 6 minute walk away from our house!
What I want to know is, can the CSO stop us from parking there when there's no signs or markings?
Anyone got any other ideas as to what to do, I don't know who to appeal to or anything! I feel like we've been victimised as this isn't effecting anyone else!
Any help would be much appreciated.
This is the first time I've done this as I'm not sure who to go to for advice and I don't know if anyone will be able to help me but here's my situation.....
We recently moved to a village in Staffordshire and we live in a small terrace cottage which has no parking. (The only one on the road that doesn't) Across the road and down a bit there is a grassed area which we and a few other residents that lived opposite used to park on. The parish council decided that they were going to turn this into a village green and stopped all parking on it.
Fair enough we thought and we began parking outside our home on the road. I have a small 306 and my husband has a white Vito van (he's a window cleaner) We don't block anyones driveways when we park here. To begin with, as the road isn't the widest in the world, we slightly mounted the pavement to make more room.
Within a few hours we had a community support officer round saying he'd had complaints we had parked on the pavement and were obstructing it. He said the council had provided parking at the village hall down the road, this is a 6 minute walk away from our house, with no street lights and we could park there. The CSO also said we were well within our rights to park on the road, so we did. We moved our vehicles and parked them fully on the road as close the pavement as possible, wing mirrors in.
We have been parking there for about 2 weeks and last night the same CSO came again, by now I'm pretty sick of seeing his face, and said we were going to have to move our vehicles as he's had a report of a vehicle which had to mount the kerb the other side of the road to get round them, (this could have only been a tractor or a big lorry as the road is not that small, neither of which we get a lot of.) He said we would have to park our cars at the village hall. He said if we were parked there tomorrow morning we would get a fixed penalty parking ticket. There's no signs, road markings or any other means of communicating that there is no parking allowed.
So now we have to park a 6 minute walk away from our house!
What I want to know is, can the CSO stop us from parking there when there's no signs or markings?
Anyone got any other ideas as to what to do, I don't know who to appeal to or anything! I feel like we've been victimised as this isn't effecting anyone else!
Any help would be much appreciated.
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I would ask the question in this 'FPN queries' section of pepipoo forums:
http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=5
Register and start a new topic there. They are the experts.
I think the PCSO can issue an FPN for 'obstruction' - that is the problem here. Ask on pepipoo if there is anything you can do.PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
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I'm trying to start a topic on Pepipoo but it keeps saying
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I'm trying to start a topic on Pepipoo but it keeps saying
'Sorry, you do not have permission to start a topic in this forum', is there something else I have to do to post?
You have to register then await an email to clear you to post (same day usually).PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
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