People parking on the pavement blocking the path

JustAnotherSaver

I've no idea which forum this belongs in so i'll put it here as it could be seen as a vent.

Basically looking to find out who we can go to about this to get it sorted.

We live on a busy main road. There are houses on the opposite side of the street which have just been moved in to. The one on the end is the only one with a drive.
These people have a couple of cars but for some reason aren't using the drive (possibly because it'd require reversing off the main road & it's just easier to slip on to the pavement).
What they're doing is parking on the pavement, but not on the pavement/road - totally on the pavement so you can't get past without walking on to the road.


They've been asked to not take up the pavement but they say they're doing no wrong & will carry on.

So where to from here to get it sorted?

hollydays

Where's the difference in attitude coming into this??they say they are doing no wrong you say they are making it impossible for one single person to walk past( I presume it is a pavement that is regularly used?) my neighbours have to part park on the pavement , but never fully on.there is nowhere else for them to park.
I wonder how they were approached when spoken to , was it rudely?were they " told" what they should do..

Does it affect you personally? Presumably not if its on the other side of the street?
How would you like him to park?

bod1467

The Motoring or Parking forums might be better for this question.

As I understand it, there's currently no law (except in London I believe) that prohibits parking on a pavement (where there are no yellow lines to prohibit parking on the road ... if there are then parking on the pavement is [usually] also illegal).

There IS a law however that prohibits driving on a pavement. Of course someone parking on a pavement would have to drive onto it to be able to park. However the law requires that the act of driving on the pavement is observed by someone with authority to issue penalties for so doing ... this is unlikely to happen.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmtran/writev/parking/m01.htm
http://www.itv.com/news/central/2014-09-12/new-law-could-ban-parking-on-pavements/

Poppie68

Contact your council highways department.

lukerichardson40

You dont happen to be in E.Yorkshire somewhere do you? This happens near me quite often.

GwylimT

I know how frustrating it is, in our last home my wife had to take her wheelchair onto a 40mph road as our neighbours seemed to be incapable of using their driveway, she had to go on the road for 40 yards unless I was home to get to the next dropped kerb.

Nothing was ever done about this by the council.

Bennifred

Many years ago, one was able to obtain very sticky labels from the local police station which said "Pavements are for people", for inconvenienced pedestrians to put on the offending vehicles. Seemed to work quite well - pity they're not available now

nickcc

I don't think I'd risk parking on the pavement in my area as I would almost certainly get my car keyed or the mirrors broken off. Pavements are for pedestrians not cars.

hollydays

Being law abiding doesn't involve damaging someone's car out of a misguided idea of being" in the right"

GwylimT

hollydays wrote: »

Being law abiding doesn't involve damaging someone's car out of a misguided idea of being" in the right"

So because someone else is likely to damage the posters car, then the poster is also guilty by association, how odd.

hollydays

GwylimT wrote: »

So because someone else is likely to damage the posters car, then the poster is also guilty by association, how odd.

Hypothetically the poster wasn't talking about himself
But remember " pavements are for pedestrians'.
Personally I don't condone damaging cars, but these threads always deteriorate into that suggestion.