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Residential Parking Problems

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  • unforeseen
    unforeseen Posts: 7,433 Forumite
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    edited 23 May 2016 at 5:54PM
    If you are preventing a vehicle being moved then you are obstructing that road user in his lawful right to use the road
  • unforeseen
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    There again there is always anti social behaviour legislation to fall back on as well
  • mchale
    mchale Posts: 1,886 Forumite
    In your opinion
    ANURADHA KOIRALA ??? go on throw it in google.
  • mchale
    mchale Posts: 1,886 Forumite
    unforeseen wrote: »
    If you are preventing a vehicle being moved then you are obstructing that road user in his lawful right to use the road


    Any official links to that or examples of prosecutions.
    ANURADHA KOIRALA ??? go on throw it in google.
  • rich13348
    rich13348 Posts: 840 Forumite
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    EdGasket wrote: »
    I do exactly what the OP is complaining about. Although I have a driveway, I pay full road tax (or whatever you want to call it) and am entitled to park on the road. If at all possible I will park outside my house or elsewhere in the road and leave the driveway empty for my second car when it returns home. If I don't park there then someone who doesn't even live in the road will!
    OH NO how awful for you.
  • unforeseen
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    mchale wrote: »
    Any official links to that or examples of prosecutions.
    Not in the exact words that your are looking for

    My mistake but it should have been Section 42 Road Traffic Act 1988

    http://www.cabinet.leicester.gov.uk/documents/s63157/Evidence%20-%20Police.pdf
    Unless the vehicle is causing a very real and unnecessary obstruction to other road users and somebody has made formal complaint, then prosecution action should not ordinarily follow.
    It is a very real and unnecessary obstruction to another road user AND somebody will have made a formal complaint so it is prosecutable

    I am sorry but I do not have an encyclopedic knowledge of the S42 offences dealt with by the courts in the last 10 years so am unable to give specific instances.
  • Silver-Surfer_2
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    unforeseen wrote: »
    Not in the exact words that your are looking for

    My mistake but it should have been Section 42 Road Traffic Act 1988

    http://www.cabinet.leicester.gov.uk/documents/s63157/Evidence%20-%20Police.pdf

    It is a very real and unnecessary obstruction to another road user AND somebody will have made a formal complaint so it is prosecutable

    I am sorry but I do not have an encyclopedic knowledge of the S42 offences dealt with by the courts in the last 10 years so am unable to give specific instances.

    You don't need a formal complaint to prosecute that offence.
  • unforeseen
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    Silver-Surfer wrote: »
    You don't need a formal complaint to prosecute that offence.
    Makes it even easier to get action taken then
  • Silver-Surfer_2
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    unforeseen wrote: »
    Makes it even easier to get action taken then

    It's easy enough to prosecute without.
  • arcon5
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    nath81 wrote: »
    Can't see anything wrong with what he is doing, I would also have "no shame" in doing it, and wouldn't care who was watching. Life is short, I wouldn't get stressed about such trivial things.

    But you'd get stressed having to walk a bit further if there was no spaces and you had to park elsewhere. Ironic really
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