Parked in front of Driveway

iliko

I do appreciate your views here and the issue is not in this specific limo blocking it is in PSCO's understanding of drive way and his attitude.

Like I said before I would be issue a FPN even if I parked it here or here which would not be obstruction or a driveway.

iliko

mumps wrote: »

Is there a reason why PUBLIC has to written in capitals?

I don't understand about equal rights? Do you mean equal rights to block other people's driveways? I don't think you do have a right to do that but that is equal with everyone else.

Public is written in capital to accent the fact that it belongs to all and not private. I meant an equal right to drive/park on legally allowed parts of the public road for which we pay our part of the road tax. Hope it helps.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoP will now interrupt your reading pleasure for the hard of concentrating.

OP, whos children are too lazy to walk or cycle to school, parks inconsideratly on a neighbourhood street, causing an obstruction. After months, and years of abuse by lazy childrens parents, the natives quite rightly got a little fed up with this, and got their local authority to take action. And action they have action.

OP was issued a FPN for causing an obstruction. They feel they are in the right.

We now wait for the beak to ratify OP's inconsiderate parking and attitude in this matter.

esmerobbo

iliko the dropped kerb is irrelevant as the police and PCSO's can nick you for obstruction for anything they see as an obstruction.

I think we all agree it is not a dropped kerb were you parked, but by any stretch of the imagination you obstructed the Limo, it never moving is also irrelevant as they may have wanted to move it at the time you had parked.

As I said earlier in this post a police/PCSO officer can nick you for obstruction if they believe you are causing an obstruction anywhere.

iliko

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

BoP will now interrupt your reading pleasure for the hard of concentrating.

OP, whos children are too lazy to walk or cycle to school, parks inconsideratly on a neighbourhood street, causing an obstruction. After months, and years of abuse by lazy childrens parents, the natives quite rightly got a little fed up with this, and got their local authority to take action. And action they have action.

OP was issued a FPN for causing an obstruction. They feel they are in the right.

We now wait for the beak to ratify OP's inconsiderate parking and attitude in this matter.

Are we discussing here laziness of parents and child and the benefit of exercising and healthy life or if the non dropped part of the kerb is driveway or not? It looks like it is a grey area in the legislation hence it is nobody's fault.

If the obstruction was a real issue natives would ask council to extend the single yellow line like other neighbors have in front of their houses. IHMO, council did not do it for a reason.

mumps

iliko wrote: »

Can you please tell me how that approval looks like? Is it a public document obtainable from a council or a verbal thing?

I don't know if all councils are the same but this is our situation

We live on an estate on the edge of town, it is about 20 years old. When it was built there were various conditions and one is that we need planning permission for just about anything, can't remember what it is called but some sort of protected area. We don't have pavements in the cul de sacs just on the bigger road through the estate. We had a driveway and front garden, basically quarter drive and three quarters garden. When DD came home from uni it was a pain parking her car as the cul de sac is narrow and pretty well anywhere you park you are making it hard for other people to get off drives or turn round so we decided we needed to make the front of the house half garden half drive.
We contacted the planning dept and they said we didn't need planning permission but needed to contact the highways dept. There is an area sort of where the pavement would normally be that had restrictions about how you covered it as the highways dept could access it for utilities. We got highways out and they agreed we could make a drive as big as we wanted, no need for dropped kerb and I assume this is because we didn't have a big kerb, just a bit higher than the original drive, more or less like the photo you showed. We had to use them or an approved contractor to do that bit of the drive, obviously it would be sensible to use the same person for the whole drive but we didn't have to.

We had a letter confirming it all and giving us a price for various options.and names of approved contractors. I don't know if this is something that is available somewhere but had ours so weren't really bothered to find out. They were really helpful, if your council is the same it might be worth phoning them and asking for advice.

In our cul de sac there are two parking spaces and if people park anywhere else it make things difficult due to narrowness. None of our neighbours have had an issue with it as it is easier for them as DD isn't competing for one of the two spaces and isn't parking, legally but awkwardly, so all are happy except the parents from the local school who park really badly even on neighbours lawn, they got stroppy when he asked them to move. Cheek.

Traffic has been pushed down to us due to people closer to the school getting parking restrictions to stop the chaos right by the school. My immediate neighbour is a police man and I think seeing him coming and going in uniform means our little corner has escaped the worst of the parking situation but it is a worry for the old lady who is really vulnerable and although it might not seem long to moms who park, walk up to the school, and stroll back with kids but for her those 20 or 30 minutes could be critical.

Sorry for the essay, thought it might be useful to explain the situation.

iliko

Thanks to all again for suggestions.

I decided to pay it of and not to dispute it at court.