Residential Parking - no road markings

Tonkat

Hello,

I need some advice please.

I live in a central area, with the back of the terraced house facing a residential dead end road. It is "controlled" by UKPC. There are bays (marked quite unclearly in a different shade of the rectangular stones) on one side of the road, where there are some UKPC signs. Now the other side of the road does not have any road markings (yellow line starts only around 10m leading up to the junction).

Can I park on the side of the road with no markings? Do parking restrictions apply to only bays or the whole private road/close (it is quite small)?

Thanks!

TrickyWicky

Why don't you ask UKPC?

We're not really going to be able to advise you are we. We don't know the area, we can't see it.. I don't see how you expect us to be able to tell you.

Trebor16

Do you know if the road is private or comes under the local authority?

Lum

What do the signs say?

Private parking tickets are, however, unenforceable as many many threads on this forum have said time and time again, so if you happen to own a shredder and a pet hamster, parking there will just get you lots and lots of free bedding for the hamster.

shown73

Just keep a very careful lookout for clamping notices, however small or obscure.

Flyboy152

Or you could just not park in someone elses parking space.

Lum

The OP was not asking or suggesting parking in the marked bays.

Florenceem

Hi, we have a dropped kerb to our driveway/garage. Cars are always parking over our drive - are they allowed to ?

Lum

There is another thread going on where this is being discussed.

Basically it is not illegal to park in front in front of a driveway specifically, however it is illegal to obstruct "lawful access to the highway".

What this means in practice is that if your car is on your driveway, in your garage, or somewhere else on your property where it can only reach the road via that driveway then whoever blocks it in is breaking the law, however if the driveway and garage are vacant then the person is not breaking the law.

Actually getting the Police to do anything about it is a separate issue. Good luck with that one.

Tonkat

Ok well, I just wasn't sure if there was a law that said that you can legally park where there is no yellow/red lines or marked bays or that parking tickets can only be issued where there are clear parking bays.

It is a publicly accessible road but I dont know if it is private or controlled by local authority. I realise it would be more helpful if I provided the location, but I have good reasons not to do so and I apologise for being so vague.

I cant remember exactly what the signs say and I can't check right now as I am not at home but it is something along the lines of "parking without a valid permit is not allowed" and the sign is only on the side where the bays are marked.

Also, my flatmates got parking tickets that were given out at 6am and 11pm (for parking in the bays) so I am not really sure what kind of parking attendant works at these hours.

TrickyWicky

Tonkat wrote: »

Also, my flatmates got parking tickets that were given out at 6am and 11pm (for parking in the bays) so I am not really sure what kind of parking attendant works at these hours.

The fact is it doesn't matter what 'kind' they are or when they work. You need to contact the company as I said to you earlier.

If you choose to ignore useful answers and trust people on the internet who can't even see what they're advising you on then you're shooting yourself in the foot. You've no idea who anyone here is and you've got no come back on anyone here.

RING the company and ask THEM.