Cars parked on pavement

sizzler1893

In my area the Police have told us TO park up on the pavement after problems with vehicles being obstructed!? :eek:

spenderdave

This is frequently discussed at our local Neighbourhood Action Group that I attend. The police will not normally take action unless the vehicle is causing an obstruction, which is defined as making it impossible for a pushchair to pass or blocking an entrance. Even so they tend to only do anything if somebody complains. I get annoyed at people parking half on the pavement in our street, which is done because it is a quite narrow street, but it is unlikely anything will be done.

paddedjohn

Invalidation wrote: »

Its already Illegal.
Classed as driving on the footpath

No its not unless in London. There may be some other areas with their own bylaws but on the whole its not against any law.

Invalidation

paddedjohn wrote: »

No its not unless in London. There may be some other areas with their own bylaws but on the whole its not against any law.

It is an offence to drive a vehicle on a pedestrian footpath. To park a vehicle on the footpath you must drive on the footpath. Therefore by Parking you have driven on the pavement, therefore committing an offence.

That the police choose to ignore it due to local conditions/problems doesnt negate the fact that it is still an offence.

antrobus

Invalidation wrote: »

It is an offence to drive a vehicle on a pedestrian footpath. To park a vehicle on the footpath you must drive on the footpath. Therefore by Parking you have driven on the pavement, therefore committing an offence.....

Would be one argument.

Other people however, such as HMG, take a different view. See, for example; https://www.gov.uk/government/news/freeing-pedestrians-from-pavement-parking-blight

adouglasmhor

Chorlie wrote: »

I used to play sport with a guy who had some very very sticky stickers, with a not so overly polite massage on it, basically telling the owner what he thought of there inconsiderate parking etc etc etc.....

He'd stick the said sticker right in the eye line of the drivers view and when you tried to peal it off it tore. He stuck one on my car for a joke and it took ages to remove it with soap and warm water....

Not sure where he got them from, but his view was that the driver had inconvenience him, so he was doing the same....

WD40 - seriously spray it on the sticker before attempting to remove it leave it for 3 or 4 minutes and it just peels of in a oner, (don't do it if you don't have decent screenwash in your wiper spray).

cottyh24

I think there's a difference between people parking on a pavement because they live on a relatively narrow road and do not have driveways versus those with driveways who are too lazy to park their car on their property. Our road has cars parked on the pavement on both sides because if we parked on the road we'd block access for emergency vehicles, bin wagons, lorries, vans etc.

TRace

Agree about polite notes in the first instange, though you will always get some thoughtless people unfortunately so then its on to the council.

Annoys me just when I'm walking and I have to walk in the road to get arround cars blocking the pavements so I can only image the problem it causes the Op.

*zippy*

If you have a community police team I would contact them. It used to be a problem in a street we lived in a few years ago, but the police would come round now and again in the evenings and issue warnings.

There was a van parked outside our house last week that took up the whole of the pavement, nothing could pass by and it is a wide road so no need, it amazes me people are so thoughtless.

Mojisola

Something that has started around here recently and seems to be spreading is having a drive that can only fit one and a half vehicles on it but parking two there "to get them off the road". It doesn't seem to bother the drivers that the extra half a car completely blocks the pavement and that all pedestrians have to walk out into the road to get past.