Council putting double yellow lines outside my house

AndyMc.....

patman99 wrote: »

Maebyjade try involving your local Councillor. If they back the Council rather than you, then all you need to do is find one other person prepared to write to the Council's Electoral Officer to complain that the local Councillor has failed in their duty to represent their constituents.

This will invoke a law dating back to the 1300's and will force a local election to take place. Fancy being a local Councillor?. Then such an event would allow you to stand (and possibly overthrow the current Councillor).

Btw, to be lawfully enforcable, DYLs need to be two continuous and unbroken lines beginning and ending in 'T' bars, so if someone was to shuffle back and forward along a section of the DYL enough that it wears away the paint enough to make it invisible, then bingo, there's your park for free card right there.

As for the road 'looking narrow', my parent's house is on a street that is just 4m wide and was built in the 1960's.

That's not necessarily true.

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I thought a condition of planning permission for building new properties was that provision for off-street parking had to be included? Is round here anyway.

Are you sure you don't have drive or allocated parking space round the corner, but choose to be lazy and park right outside on the road?

interstellaflyer

Deleted_User wrote: »

I thought a condition of planning permission for building new properties was that provision for off-street parking had to be included? Is round here anyway.

Are you sure you don't have drive or allocated parking space round the corner, but choose to be lazy and park right outside on the road?

There is apparently, a municipal car park about a 5 min walk away, so useless for loading, unloading vehicles or for those who are disabled, like I hinted at, I'm surprised the solicitor was not made aware or didn't pick up on the parking arrangements, I find it hard to believe that you can by a new build house and with in a year, the council suddenly decide they are going to paint double yellows outside your block of houses, this would've been pre planned and should've been documented as I'm sure it would be an important factor for many in their decision to buy or not, it certainly would for me.

unforeseen

It sounds more like an anti-commuter measure if there is a municipal car park so close.. if commuters can get away with not paying for parking they will, regardless of how dangerous their parking makes things.

Without lines they will park both sides of the road, on pavements etc. Residents will lose out of time.

lush_walrus

Le_Kirk wrote: »

I presume you mean consultation but it may be that a consolation session is about right because someone who worked in Local Government for a long time told me that a consultation session is "we've decided already to do [insert whatever] and we are going to give you a chance to talk about it but we are doing it anyway!"

Yes that is exactly right. It's really there for the design team to box tick, and gauge whether planning will be an easy ride without many objecting or if it's controversial. To be fair it's a good chance for those affected to also ask questions about the development rather than interpreting application documents all of which are public.

Nothing changes between consultations and application in 99 percent of cases.

AdrianC

interstellaflyer wrote: »

There is apparently, a municipal car park about a 5 min walk away, so useless for loading, unloading vehicles or for those who are disabled

Right, but... and? People can park on double yellows for loading/unloading, or if they're disabled with a blue badge.

[Deleted User]

interstellaflyer wrote: »

There is apparently, a municipal car park about a 5 min walk away, so useless for loading, unloading vehicles or for those who are disabled, like I hinted at, I'm surprised the solicitor was not made aware or didn't pick up on the parking arrangements, I find it hard to believe that you can by a new build house and with in a year, the council suddenly decide they are going to paint double yellows outside your block of houses, this would've been pre planned and should've been documented as I'm sure it would be an important factor for many in their decision to buy or not, it certainly would for me.

What I mean is the planning permission usually states that parking has to be included onsite e.g driveway or shared driveway or allocated carpark space if it is a flat. Not some council carpark 5min walk away.

gingerdad

i think the lesson here is to read and understand as much as possible at the purchasing stage - to assume you can park near your house is a bit daft.

you have no right to park outside and from a safety point of view on a thin road it's far better to keep it clear as people tend to take the !!!! and park on pavements etc.

still can't quite believe that they would build new houses without parking - round here it is a condition of planning that they provide parking and even then its never enough.

a local newish estate of 4 bedroom houses with 2.5 spaces per house one being the garage which you could never park a modern car in.


regards loading/unloading you usually have 20 minutes unless its otherwise marked.

good luck, i wouldn't hold out much hope for not getting the lines and if it was near me i'd be fighting to put them down, but then i'd rather buy a smaller house with parking than any without.

interstellaflyer

Deleted_User wrote: »

What I mean is the planning permission usually states that parking has to be included onsite e.g driveway or shared driveway or allocated carpark space if it is a flat. Not some council carpark 5min walk away.

I wasn't disagreeing with you or pulling you up on a point just saying that the OP did say that the council proposal was that they use the municipal car park which, depending on what end of the street you live, could be between 2 mins and 5 mins walk away.

debtdebt

Personally, that road looks narrow enough to warrant parking controls on it. I'd imagine if there were cars parked down at least one side of the road, there wouldn't be room for two cars to pass each other at the same time. Also, bin lorries and fire engines would find it difficult to get down that road with cars parked down one side too.