Proposed 30 min parking

arthurx1234

I live just off a main road and 3 years ago the council constructed a layby with room for 5 cars to park, my son parks his car in it.

There is a post office on this main road and the owner has submitted a petition to the council asking for parking to be restricted to 30mins as he says his customers cannot park in the layby for other cars and his takings have suffered and he might have to close.

If the council does this then the car owners that use this layby will have to find other places to park, I live on a single carriageway road and despite the claims by the Post Office owner his customers do not use the layby but park outside my driveway and block my acces while they go in the post office for stamps etc

I have numerous photos of cars blocking my access whilst the lay by is empty

Any advice on how i can make the council see sense?

thanks
Arthur

Coupon-mad

Sorry, I don't get it.

Why doesn't your son just park his car in front of your driveway instead? Then the layby might be kept partially free during the day and you can come and go as you please, using your son's car as a movable barrier.

Unless of course you live in a Special Enforcement area where your son's car would get a ticket even if permission was granted for it to be in front of your drive.

I am not very sympathetic because people who take photos of cars committing what they perceive as 'offences' make me laugh. Don't get me wrong, I do not block driveways. But how come you have 'numerous photos' of cars, what's the point?

e.g. last year a woman came rushing out of her house with a camera to take a pic of my car on a double yellow near her house - she stared straight at me & my car and raised the camera like some sort of weapon! Thing is, I was legitimately loading my son's cases from a school trip, taking only 5/10 minutes (more than one case to collect from a coach across the road, plus my young son himself). No offence committed and even if I had been contravening the rules some old bint with her camera would not have been much use. So I stood by the car, held up one of the cases and smiled & waved madly! She rushed back indoors...still makes me laugh when I drive that way now!

arthurx1234

Just a few additional points to clear things up (coupon mad please note)
I would have to send you a plan of the area to help fully explain the problem.
The "driveway" is a shared access for my and 2 other properties so parking a car in front is not an option.
The photos were taken to prove that people would rather park outside my house than use the layby as the layby was empty when they parked outside my house, so imposing a 30 min waiting time seems pointless.

The manager of the post office claims his takings are down and blames it on customers not being able to park due to the full layby---aren't all businesses takings down? he must not know about the credit crunch + the post office make many of their services available on line.

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arthur

peter_the_piper

The additional items posted make it much clearer, had CM known this she would have posted differently. The benefit of full info.