To want a resident's parking permit scheme in my street?

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I live in a terraced house on a street with about 9 other terraces all with on street parking on our side of the road. The other houses (over the road and up the street) have off street parking. I know for a fact there are only 6 cars belonging to residents of the terraces, with a couple having regularly visiting cars.

The thing is, there's a pub at the end of the terraced houses. This means that from 4pm each day there are at least 4, usually many more, cars parked along the road which makes it difficult and often impossible for residents to park anywhere near their homes unless they get home before the pub opens. It's the same on weekends if / when the pub is open. The pub customers often park haphazardly, blocking pavements and making it dangerous to pass on the road. Tonight I had to park two streets and 5 minutes away from my house because of the number of non-resident vehicles on the street. I'm at my wits end!

AIBU to ask the council to consider a resident's parking permit scheme on our street? I understand once you raise it with them they conduct their own investigations and decide if it's appropriate. I don't mind not being able to park directly outside my house but not being able to park on the street I live on, just so half a dozen to a dozen idiots can booze up and then drink drive home 4 hours later, pisses me off. It's also a concern for when we start a family (in the next couple of years). Juggling the weekly shop is hard enough but I'd really struggle with a little one!

Yanbu but it can get costly in some places and depending how the scheme works it can be tricky for people who have a lot of visitors.

Definitely NBU. You can even get your off-street-parking neighbours onside, since even the couple with visitors probably struggles to find spaces for their visitors, whereas the ability to buy guest parking permits would probably be included within any CPZ!

Hmm...be careful what you wish for. The problems with residents parking can be manifold. Council then can charge you (and they will) and those charges tend to go up year on year. It's also a real pain for your own visitors - where will they park?

Agree that idiots using up all the parking is pain - I used to live opposite a church and the attendees were appalingly bad and inconsiderate, parking across driveways, boxing people in and being verbally abusive if politely asked to move.

You might be better contacting your local police team and working with the landlord to sort something out...

I would love this for our street too. We don't have a pub but we have various random people who park here and walk into town. Also some people have huge motorhomes that take up about 3 spaces each (and use their own stolen cones to save said spaces) and some people park atrociously and selfishly as well.

More than a permit scheme I would like them to paint some defined spaces on the road so that people have some guidance when parking.

If you have a genuine and sound reason for wanting residents' parking, then speak up your council Parking Office, they were very helpful when my street was choked with school traffic every day.

Go for it. Always had residents' parking here. Where I used to live we had on-street parking that wasn't controlled and it could get very petty at times.

My jaw drops at the pettiness of parking threads on here - you know, like with people reserving spaces with bins and cones and insisting on parking right outside.

People don't argue about that here. They argue about other things - it's not paradise - but just not parking, because everyone can park in their street.

As it happens I don't have a car any more so it doesn't matter to me.

There are plenty of meters round here for visitors and you can park on single yellows after 6pm or at weekends, so that's not a problem.

Skiptonlass, in our controlled parking zone (Zone 3, under 15 mins to a London mainline station), residents had the right to buy discounted parking vouchers - 4 hours, 8 hours, 1 week. We used the one-week one for my mother when she came to stay for a week after DS was born.

It does cost, yes, but pricing is a form of rationing, and residents start to be able to make better use of their transport, while outsiders who want to visit the area still have options: friends with the right to discounted vouchers, paying to park, or coming (to the pub) by public transport.

It is a bit alarming that the pub's customers are driving! Maybe some Police Community Support Officers could patrol a bit and gather data?

Thanks everyone. The landlord doesn't give a proverbial... Every Tuesday the hgv that comes to restock the pub parks on a very dangerous corner blocking the road for 45 mins because it would be too much effort moving their car from outside the pub further up the road.... sigh.

Ours started out costing 20 a year. I currently pay 140 a year. Careful what you wish for.

Yanbu but we had a similar situation where we used to live. Our neighbours gathered together all the residents signatures and letters supporting parking permits.

But because the pub didn't want the surrounding streets to be permits only, it didn't go through. Although, we lived close to town as well, and a lot of council workers used our street as a car park so that may have had something to do with it too

If the deliveries to the pub are disruptive or dangerous and customers are a nuisance I agree with pluck on contacting the police. I think you want the Safer Neighbourhoods Team. It's called something like that.

Sorting out problems like this is what they do. When I had a problem, my local ones were brilliant.

I can't believe the pub landlord is being so stupid. The police can and will object to the renewal of his licence if they get enough complaints. And if that happens he loses his livelihood.

I have a pub on one corner, a restaurant next door and another pub about 200 yards away with five restaurants with alcohol licences in that street. They are no trouble.

When the indoor smoking ban came in 10 years ago we had people standing outside my door late at night smoking, chatting and flicking dog ends into my garden. I spoke to the manager about it and he immediately put up signs telling people they couldn't do it and it stopped overnight.

He sounds more reasonable than your local pub landlord though .