Parking on pavements

calleyw

Down my road we are starting to have an issue with people parking on the pavement.

It is just out side my house. This has only started up in the last few months and I have been living here for over two years. We do have a few more cars in the road now.

Sometimes they are right on the edge of my dropped kerb. When I want to leave it means that I have to reverse over another person drive which is flanked on either side by cars. It concerns me that one day someone is going to get hurt as I can't see past the cars when reversing. And I leave for work earlier them in the morning.

Tonight is not because there is no spaces but because of pure laziness as there are plenty of parking just a few feet on the other side.

It would make it very hard to get a pram or a wheelchair around the corner. And my husband on bad days needs a wheelchair. Let alone a fire engine want to get up the road.

There is not just one culprit. There are several. I have not said anything to them yet. As I hoped that they grasp the concept that it is not a clever idea to park there.

I am not sure what to do now. I don't want to kick up to much of a fuss as we are most likely want to move in a few years. And don't want to get in to dispute that I will have to declare.

I know that parking on the pavement is illegal but how is treated when it is cul-de-sac by the council or a police.

I have been tempted to park on the corner myself to try and stop it. I know that makes me no better then them. Bollards would stop this happening.

I also thought about leaving a note asking them nicely if they would not do it.

I also thought about having white lines painted across my dropped kerb and further up the road to maybe stop this.

Any further ideas apart from contacting the local council.

I know this sounds petty to a lot of people. But I don't enjoy driving at the best times. But then having to struggle to get of my own drive to go to work in the morning hardly starts the day off to good start.

Also it drives me mad that people are so selfish that they don't think about any one else but themselves. And fact that they might have to walk an extra few feet.

Yours


Calley

vikingaero

Contact your local Police Community Support Officer if you have one. They are the pseudo-coppers with blue bands around their hats and they are normally very effective at issuing parking tickets.

calleyw

vikingaero wrote: »

Contact your local Police Community Support Officer if you have one. They are the pseudo-coppers with blue bands around their hats and they are normally very effective at issuing parking tickets.

I know the ones we have them on estate where I live.

I did suggest to my husband when he was out and about walking if he saw one just to have a quick chat with them.

We have a local newsletter as well where they put down about things that have gone on.

Yours


Calley

tomstickland

I'd start by talking to the people and explaining what the problem is. Or leave a polite note on their windscreens. People are exceptionally lazy with parking as close as possible to their front door, something I've never quite understood.

Poppy9

We have PACT meetings locally. The police and local councillor attends and you can raise such issues. Took my DD with me to one and she raised the point about people parking on pavements on her route to school. She told them how she had to walk onto the road to get past or how people blast their horns at them to move as they are driving off the pavement.

The police said they would write to the residents in the streets concerned to ask them not to park on the pavements as a first step. They also said they would increase police presence on the school routes where possible. People are still parking on the pavements though 6 months later.

SimonT

Its also a problem with people having too many cars.

Some friends of ours live in a cul-de-sac with space for one car up the drive and one on the road - but he works as a taxi driver and has a car just for that as well as the big family car, then there is his wifes car, then there are the two daughters at college that each have their own cars.

Total of 5 cars and unhappy neighbours!

zappahey

My sister-in-law had this problem with people parking on the kerb outside their houses. She just walked through their gardens with the pram and explained why if anyone got stroppy about it.

The pavement parking soon stopped.

calleyw

SimonT wrote: »

Its also a problem with people having too many cars.

I agree with that. We only have one car. And do have off road parking in the good months as it is down to grass until we can afford to get a drive put down.

But my neighbour in the corner has off road parking but his cars seem to spend as much time on the road as they do on the drive. Plus add to the fact that they have two extra cars that they have to do up making even less space on the drive.

Right next door to me has 3 vehicles for two adults. The another one across the road has 3 cars one each adult but one of them can't even drive.

Let alone that two of my neighbours work locally no more than a 10 min walk and both have cars and partners with cars.

And it is just so petty. To me you park where there is the space. Oh no not around here. You park in "someones space" and the moment you drive off they come and move there car to what they think is their space even though it does not exist.

I knew parking was tight around here but did not know it was going to get this. And is not helped when people who have off road parking, park on the road for days on end. And there are families with children that are just-pre-teen. So it is not going to get any better.

Me thinks it time to do-up and move. As it drives me mad that people just so selfish. Let just hope it is not there house burning down when the fire engine can't get down the road one day.


Yours



Calley

crispeater

at my previous address there was a boiler company at the end of my road and in the mornings there was about 8 transit vans all parked on both sides of the pavement which meant i had to walk in the road with a toddler and a pram. i got so hacked off in the end that i contacted the council and needless to say within the week we had traffic wardens patroling in the mornings which soon sorted that out.
i wouldnt mind but they could all see me out the window having to walk in the road and couldnt give 2 hoots. im sure they would of been bothered if it were their kids though..

ok rant over have you considered contacting your council? i know you wont get traffic wardens in a cul de sac but maybe you could discuss about having some lines put in where the problem is?

sorry for hijacking!

Garnet_Gem

My street has "on pavement parking" too. One of the culprits is a serving policeman!

anewman

Put a note on their windscreen saying you cannot legally be held responsible for any damage to their cars caused by obstructing your driveway. I.e. you reserve the right to reverse straight into whatever's in the way (I wonder if in fact an insurance claim for such damage was made that it would go in your favour, as in fact based on the highway code you should not expect people to park accross your driveway.