Council putting double yellow lines outside my house

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As suggested, try complaining at the consultation.

My road has the most horrendous spring snapping, spine shattering speedhumps, except outside one house, where the owner complained about the likely noise from all the springs breaking. You can clearly see where the hump foundation was marked out, but never put in.

You might be lucky, and get a gap in the double yellows outside your house.

But be careful what you wish for, as if that is the only gap in the whole street, there will be someone else's work van parked in it all the time.

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interstellaflyer wrote: »

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.

Yes I know

[Deleted User]

I wish they would put yellow lines down the ends of my street as cars park all over the junctions making it impossible to see whats coming when turning out. That and make the street one way. But council aren't interested, they only do schemes like this near the town centre to stop shoppers and commuters from parking on residential streets instead of the carparks out of laziness as the carparks are actually free.

AdrianC

Deleted_User wrote: »

I wish they would put yellow lines down the ends of my street as cars park all over the junctions making it impossible to see whats coming when turning out.

Which is obstruction, and already illegal - even without lines.

Robisere

AdrianC wrote: »

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

https://!!!!!!!.com/y9a2tbjf


You may park on single or double yellow lines for up to three hours if it is safe to do so but not within 15 metres of a junction or where there are restrictions on loading or unloading – indicated by yellow kerb dashes and/or signs on plates.
You are not entitled to park on yellow lines in ‘off-street’ car parks.


(My bold Italics): not if it causes a traffic hazard, which on such a narrow street, could be considered to be so. It's a grey area and often at the discretion of councils and parking wardens. In my town, which is a Georgian centre of narrow streets, one certain wealthy Blue Badge holder regularly stops traffic by parking her huge old Mercedes on yellows, opposite parking bays, to go in to one shop. She must have accumulated so many fines by now. As another BB holder, I see this as annoying others and giving us all a bad rep.

AdrianC

You can never, ever park where it may cause a traffic hazard - no matter what else. So if a blue badge or unloading there causes a hazard, then the double-yellows are irrelevant.

dannyrst

The problem you will find is people with 2 cars in the household are buying houses with 0 or 1 allocated parking space. That's exactly what people on my new build development are doing. Parking half on the pavement, half on the road because they have more cars than parking spaces.

I bought a house with 2 parking spaces right outside the house. We picked that one for many reasons including the parking arrangements.

Hopefully the yellow paint comes out for us soon!

gingerdad

AdrianC wrote: »

You can never, ever park where it may cause a traffic hazard - no matter what else. So if a blue badge or unloading there causes a hazard, then the double-yellows are irrelevant.

see that's interesting as one of my staff was told by a traffic warden to block the main road and cause chaos rather than use one of 20 empty disabled bays for 10 minutes to unload.

AdrianC

gingerdad wrote: »

see that's interesting as one of my staff was told by a traffic warden to block the main road and cause chaos

I bet they weren't really.

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Robisere wrote: »

https://!!!!!!!.com/y9a2tbjf


You may park on single or double yellow lines for up to three hours if it is safe to do so but not within 15 metres of a junction or where there are restrictions on loading or unloading – indicated by yellow kerb dashes and/or signs on plates.
You are not entitled to park on yellow lines in ‘off-street’ car parks.


(My bold Italics): not if it causes a traffic hazard, which on such a narrow street, could be considered to be so. It's a grey area and often at the discretion of councils and parking wardens. In my town, which is a Georgian centre of narrow streets, one certain wealthy Blue Badge holder regularly stops traffic by parking her huge old Mercedes on yellows, opposite parking bays, to go in to one shop. She must have accumulated so many fines by now. As another BB holder, I see this as annoying others and giving us all a bad rep.

Parking on Yellows will almost always cause an obstruction. It's usually the reason why the Yellows are there in the first place.