Pavement parking leading to £70 fine

knightstyle

So where should people park???? It is all very well talking about fining people for parking on the pavements but FIRST we must provide parking on all new builds!
We are in a new build, 9 years old, 12 4 bedroom houses and 16 1 and 2 bed flats at the end of a cul de sac. Just 1 parking place per dwelling, no visitors parking and the road is too narrow to park on unless you put 2 wheels onto the pavement!
Nightmare situation if we will not be allowed to park on the pavements.

nickcc

Retrogamer wrote: »

That'll be sad news for some of the residents in my area. A lot of the streets are so narrow that it's not possible to park on them without blocking them unless you use the pavement.

Police have to do it if they're ever there as do council workers.
But more importantly there are a lot of disabled pensioners here with mobility issues and without being able to park in the local streets they would have some problems getting transport around.

I would imagine the disabled pensioners would be really upset if they had to drive their mobility scooters in to the road because some other disabled pensioner had parked their car on the footpath.

neilmcl

I think Johno100's quoted post (post #7) summed it all up really. Parking on the pavement and obstructing the pavement are 2 different things. I feel I have to park with 2 wheels on the pavement in my street, however there is still plenty of room for mobility scooters, double prams etc to get by. There is already legislation to "target" offenders, we don't need any more.

At my parents house they park fully on the pavement, but that part of the "pavement" used to be a grass verge many years past that was subsequently tarmacked by the local council, specifically to allow cars off the main road and to prevent the verges from being dug up. There's still a full sized pavement for pedestrian use alongside. Should my parents be penalised by the very same council?

Norman_Castle

This is a bit worrying for me as I always park wholly on the pavement at home and have done for decades. It doesn't cause a problem as there is still enough pavement to fit another car alongside. It actually feels safer for pedestrians who have a line of parked cars between them and the moving traffic. At times lazy idiots park next to my car blocking the pavement. These are the people who should be fined as motorists clearly shouldn't block pavements which as stated in a previous post penalties already exist.
Intelligent enforcement of current legislation is needed rather than potentially opportunistic councils penalizing people who are causing no harm.

dacouch

The parking adjudicator in London tends to adopt a common sense approach and will cancel tickets where the wheel is just on the kerb.

Traffic Wardens tend to be aware of this and will not issuem tickets where just a wheel or two is on the kerb.

marty2be2000

neilmcl wrote: »

The majority of older, residential streets in the UK are simply not wide enough to accommodate full on-street (completely off pavement) parking.

Whats happened where my mum lives, narrow road with the no pavement parking restrictions applied is worrying to say the least.

Everybody used to park 2 wheels on and 2 wheels off the kerb, there was no problem and you could drive past easily. Today you have 2 park 4 wheels on the road, and the result is that you now have to drive 2 wheels on the road and 2 wheels on the pavement past front gates where people leaving home could step out right in front of you.

boliston

Parking on pavements is pretty annoying and often just because people are too lazy to walk a few extra yards after finding somewhere NOT on the pavement to park.

knightstyle

boliston, it is NOT a few yards, it is over a mile from our house to a place where you can leave a car for more than 30 mins without parking on the pavement in our close.

agrinnall

knightstyle wrote: »

boliston, it is NOT a few yards, it is over a mile from our house to a place where you can leave a car for more than 30 mins without parking on the pavement in our close.

So do without a car or move. Or be prepared to pay the fines if they are introduced by your LA.

Barny1979

Marktheshark wrote: »

Someone has to pay for those gold plated retire at 55 pensions.
Where do you expect them to get the other 85% of the contributions from ?

If they are so good, why don't you jump on the "gravy train"?