New telegraph pole installed, would like it moved - please help!

deano2099

Section62 said:

deano2099 said:

And indeed, the entire parking infrastructure in the UK is based on people sharing cars to the exact same extent they share homes: one car per household.

Is it?  How did that happen then?

Sorry, I thought that bit was obvious. Most houses have roads going past them. Your average house is about as wide as two cars. So you can fit two cars in front of it, but can't park on both sides. Hence on street parking will generally allow for one car per household.
Obviously less with flats, or very tightly packed terraces.

deano2099

Section62 said:

In areas where there is no express prohibition on footway parking it is not illegal to park on the footway.

No, but it's illegal to obstruct the footway. By default this is managed by the police but councils can take on this enforcement on specific roads if they wish.

Section62

deano2099 said:

Section62 said:

deano2099 said:

And indeed, the entire parking infrastructure in the UK is based on people sharing cars to the exact same extent they share homes: one car per household.

Is it?  How did that happen then?

Sorry, I thought that bit was obvious. Most houses have roads going past them. Your average house is about as wide as two cars. So you can fit two cars in front of it, but can't park on both sides. Hence on street parking will generally allow for one car per household.
Obviously less with flats, or very tightly packed terraces.

Not really, because the "entire parking infrastructure in the UK" doesn't consist solely of on-street parking.

In many places people cannot park on-street.  In post-1970 residential development off-street parking was almost always provided, if not a requirement, unless the location was unsuitable for private off-street provision (e.g. town centres).

I don't understand what you mean by "can't park on both sides".  Some roads aren't wide enough for parking on both sides, but I'd like to see evidence that this is a neat 50% figure.  Whether parking on both sides is possible depends on vehicle flow/speed, and the overall width of the carriageway. Residential road carriageway widths have varied over time, and there is no 'rule' that only half the total available kerb length can be parked on.

As per the OP's street.  The design didn't take into account future car ownership and the roads were made just wide enough for normal traffic.  This is why the OP's street has a parking issue.

deano2099 said:

Section62 said:

In areas where there is no express prohibition on footway parking it is not illegal to park on the footway.

No, but it's illegal to obstruct the footway. By default this is managed by the police but councils can take on this enforcement on specific roads if they wish.

No, it is illegal to obstruct the highway. That may seem a bit like pedantry, but is fundamental to understanding the law on parking, including on the footway.

Could you please quote what legislation you think allows councils to take on enforcement of vehicular obstruction of the highway on specific roads.  As I said in my previous post, there are specific obstruction offences that are included in the decriminalised regime, but vehiclular obstruction of the highway is not supposed to be one of them.