Local pub claiming unauthorised cars will be removed.

hoohoo

Blocking is allowed, as long as a fixed barrier was in place when the car arrived. So as post #3 suggests, posts and a chain across the entrance are fine, but you could not block the entrance with, for example, a car.

But, where the restriction of the movement of the vehicle is by means of a fixed barrier and the barrier was present (whether or not lowered into place or otherwise restricting movement) when the vehicle was parked, any express or implied consent (whether or not legally binding) of the driver of the vehicle to the restriction is, for the purposes of subsection (1), lawful authority for the restriction.

Guys_Dad

Blocking in a car in the car park may be illegal, but a badly parked customer's car park at service-ending time could, unfortunately, trap a churchgoer in the car park and might have the mirror effect of hoohoo's suggestion causing the churchgoer to have to ask the landlord to find out which customer parked badly.

That could take some time if the customer didn't hear him or was having lunch and, of course, the landlord might not wish to upset his paying customer for a free loader.

PopeSock

PopeSock wrote: »

I think it was 'may be' - I've changed the title. I'll double check when I go past again.

Actually, it's 'will be'. I've just checked!

EDIT: As for the car park, I've never seen it full, though the pub does seem to be more successful than it has been before - previous landlords have struggled to make the pub work.

I did see someone get what was presumably a notice left under his windscreen wiper yesterday. Though this was one of the prats who actually parks on the exit ramp from the pub, not in the carp park itself.

ampersand

Illegality of nonsense notice aside, how long do Services last?

Our rural Benefice Communion today, full version, took 60 leisurely mins, including drinks, biccies and washing up after.

Let pub patron chat with Vicar, so church warden can mention something when notices are given out[ours are at start]. I wouldn't have thought patron would want to antagonise possible clienlèle when trade is picking up.

A notice inside Church too? Courtesy call in pub by arriving parishioner?
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p.s. op - this, 'carp park', I like. If it's a typo, leave it :-)

The_Deep

At one of my flats we have a rising bollard. Anyone who parks there without a key to lower the bollard takes their chances.