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What is the legal position regarding this parking situation?
rubble2
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Hi,
I would be interested (from an academic viewpoint) in opinions on the following situation.
When I visit the local shopping area I park in a side street that has free parking for 90minutes with restrictions on return visits - it's fine for what I need.
As I turn into the street the immediate area by the corner has double yellow lines before the 'parking allowed' section of the street, the Double yellows run for about 2 car lengths.
The first house in the street has a dropped kerb with a white 'I' line painted on the road to restrict parking across the driveway. There is sufficient space between the end of the yellow lines and the start of the white line for one car to park easily.
The house has just been renovated and is now up for sale, as part of the renovation the dropped kerb has been extended to the full width of the frontage of the house so that the previous on road parking space would now entail parking across a portion of the dropped kerb.
The white line on the road however has not been extended, so I wondered does the dropped kerb restriction trump the white line or is the white line (painted by the council) the defining area for restricting parking?
I have checked the council website and can see no request for extension of the dropped kerb having been made.
Thanks
I would be interested (from an academic viewpoint) in opinions on the following situation.
When I visit the local shopping area I park in a side street that has free parking for 90minutes with restrictions on return visits - it's fine for what I need.
As I turn into the street the immediate area by the corner has double yellow lines before the 'parking allowed' section of the street, the Double yellows run for about 2 car lengths.
The first house in the street has a dropped kerb with a white 'I' line painted on the road to restrict parking across the driveway. There is sufficient space between the end of the yellow lines and the start of the white line for one car to park easily.
The house has just been renovated and is now up for sale, as part of the renovation the dropped kerb has been extended to the full width of the frontage of the house so that the previous on road parking space would now entail parking across a portion of the dropped kerb.
The white line on the road however has not been extended, so I wondered does the dropped kerb restriction trump the white line or is the white line (painted by the council) the defining area for restricting parking?
I have checked the council website and can see no request for extension of the dropped kerb having been made.
Thanks
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This sounds to be a council related issue. We deal with private parking cases here, but colleagues over on PePiPoo are the council experts and I'm sure they can offer some thoughts. You'll need to register there before posting, but please note that a Hotmail address won't work and of late people have reported to be having similar issues with a Yahoo address. Hope you find your answers there.Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .
I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.#Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street3 -
You will need to check with the council, as oppsoed looking on the website to see if the dropped kerb has been dropped officially, or the builders have just done it on thier own.If it has beene xtended without approval then the council will/can charge the property owner to restore it, and from there they will need to applpy to have the kerb dropped through the propper channels.From the Plain Language Commission:
"The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"3 -
I would take a rather simplistic approach...
Parking across a dropped kerb is never a good idea.3
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