Legal requirements for signage for yellow lines

sweetiepie1666

HI there,

I am asking this question on behalf of residents that have a yellow lines outside their houses, which were put in temporarily 10 years ago when a large construction project was underway nearby. The local council agreed at the time that residents would never be targeted and that when the building had finished they would be removed. I have yet to find anyone that has this in writing but many of the residents say the same thing and my partner has lived in the house all his life and also has the same recollections.

They have never been enforced in the 10 years until a few weeks ago and the residents never felt it necessary to push to have them taken away because they were never enforced. They believed that the agreement remained in place and that there was no reason to.

We have made the local council aware and are fighting the issue, through local Cllrs / MP etc however, it has been mentioned (by a police man) that the signage on our street is out of date and doesn't meet current legislation.

The steet is a very quiet residential area not near anywhere really. It is not part of a controlled zone (although I confess I don't know what that is the local Cllr has suggested it as a resolution and I don't want us to agree to anything until we understand the implications fully) and we have nowhere else to park at all if they continue to enforce the yellow lines and issue tickets.

Can someone tell me what the signs should say, how many there should be and what height they are meant to be on the lamp posts? Currently they just say between 9 and 10am. Nothing else.

If anyone has any legal / support information they can send me I would be very grateful. Most of the residents in the road are retired and have lived here for many many years and as you can imagine are veryupset about this.

Many thanks Karen

Conor_3

The regulations and signage requirements are in here:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2002/20023113.htm

Crabman

This site is pretty good, not as detailed as Conor's link but a good starting point:

http://www.ticketfighter.co.uk/parking.htm#parkingregulations

peter999

sweetiepie1666 wrote: »

They have never been enforced in the 10 years until a few weeks ago and the residents never felt it necessary to push to have them taken away because they were never enforced. They believed that the agreement remained in place and that there was no reason to.

Why are they enforcing now ??

Why should the council take control of public roads unnecessarily to make money.

I would get them removed & not agree to any compromise with the Councillor which is just a cop out.

peter999

sweetiepie1666

All,

Thanks for the replies - the ticket fighter link was nice and simple and by the time I have been at work all day and then put my 2 year old to bed it needs to be simple..... however I like a good fight and won't let the [EMAIL="bast@ards"]bast@ards[/EMAIL] win!!

The tickets have been set aside for now and there will be no further tickets until such time as this is resolved.... so we have time on our side now. I have that in writing!!! So I don't mind how long it takes now.

Am waiting for Surrey County Council to come back to us with their take on the options and then we will consider and the meet with the Cllr. I think we should also go for removal but it's not just my decision although given we have about 50% retired residents I can't see them accepting anything else given they need to park all day as do their visitors etc!

I cannot believe a quiet side street has a 7 day a week parking restriction.

They have started to enforce now "apparently" as they have had conplaints in the road local to ours... the email inferred complaints from our road too... I refuted in writing and they had to retract and say no one from our road has complained.... money maker... yes!!! Great council making money out of OAP's!!!

Wish me luck... and anything else anyone can think of then all help greatly appreciated...

BR Karen

calleyw

peter999 wrote: »

Why are they enforcing now ??

Because on 1st june the council took over parking enforcements all over the country.


Yours


Calley

sweetiepie1666

Hi Calley

This started ebfore 1st June but worth knowing...... who was responsible before that? And does that mean that any profit is now individual councils rather than a central area? Or am I getting confused?

Ta,
K