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Anyone ever reported someone for pavement parking outside their own house?

93 replies

MistressMary · 12/06/2005 23:50

Well someone has done this to me.
Fair enough if it was in town or heavy built up area and with only one pavement on the road.
But outside in a quiet cul de sac with narrow road with pavement on either side of the road?
Hmmmmm..
So now park on the road and difficult for neighbours to reverse out of their driveway.
Fair cop gov though a bit petty maybe?

OP posts:
Blu · 13/06/2005 10:39

Oooh, I could be so busy reporting EVERYTHING...if I wasn't on MN all the time!

Fio2 · 13/06/2005 10:40

my neighbour had her hedge reported lastr week

QueenFlounce · 13/06/2005 10:42

MM - Could you convert your front garden into a driveway? Lots of people round here have done that.... saves on grass cuttinfg too.

Gwenick - You always get so het up about issues!! As Frankie used to say... "RELAX, Don't do it!"

SaintGeorge · 13/06/2005 10:42

Blu - use email to do your reporting, then you can keep flicking back to MN really quickly

suedonim · 13/06/2005 10:43

We visited friends yesterday who live in a narrow road with limited parking. Some norty people had parked on the pavements but we chose to park further away and walk back to our friends, even though we were laden with b/day presents and it was chucking it down with rain. We didn't melt.

Gwenick · 13/06/2005 10:43

"218: DO NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs, the visually impaired and people with prams or pushchairs."

From the highway code - interestingly according to their website

"Many of the rules in the Code are legal requirements, and if you disobey these rules you are committing a criminal offence. You may be fined, given penalty points on your licence or be disqualified from driving. In the most serious cases you may be sent to prison. Such rules are identified by the use of the words MUST / MUST NOT."

This isn't a 'must not' rule............

We don't have signs on this street saying it's alllowed BUT I've just called my local council - and they've informed me that pavement parking is LEGAL where we live

Original poster
MistressMary · 13/06/2005 10:45

Yep will do that, we think.
Would keep everyone safe and happy then.
Still would have like the person to talk to me though as it it a very small cul de sac.
Never mind it was a problem to them and now it will be dealt with.

OP posts:
SaintGeorge · 13/06/2005 10:46

Wow Gwenick, QF is right you do get het up about stuff!

You've bothered to ring your council to find out even though it doesn't effect you? That is true dedication to the cause of Mumsnet discussions

Fio2 · 13/06/2005 10:47

some people are just pathetic and obviously think they themselves are perfect

Gwenick · 13/06/2005 10:47

You've bothered to ring your council to find out even though it doesn't effect you?

Well DH park on the pavement - as we live on the side of the street that does that.......... so it DOES affect me

Not 'het up' at all - quite happy - just like to get my fact rights (and I do have a phone RIGHT next to the computer so hardly an effort LOL)

Blu · 13/06/2005 10:50

That's interesting Gwenick. I wonder on what grounds our council are slap-happy with tickets for a minute amount of tyre on a pavement in a deserted street at 4.30 a.m? (that's what happened to a friend of mine), no controls in the street or anything. But i do live close to the Most expensive Street in the Country, in terms of parking tix issued!

Gwenick · 13/06/2005 10:53

I guess it depends where you live. When I rang up I rang up as a 'concerned' resident (PSML) and she informed me that some areas pavement parking is legal..............there's supposed to be signs but they're pretty hopeless round here for road signs (it took nearly a year for them to remember to put the 20mph sign at going INTO the estate we lived on - when you left it you saw "end of 20mph zone".......but as you entered it nothing LOL

Flossam · 13/06/2005 10:53

Umm, Gweinick, it would be a traffic warden or the police who would fine you. Not the council. They would decide if you were causing an obstruction. It is not the pavement parking in itself which is illegal, but the causing of an obstruction. I will ring DP to clarify if you like.

edam · 13/06/2005 10:55

Ooh Gwenick, that's made me so mad that I'm going to start reporting pavement parkers. Can't believe your council says it's legal to risk the lives of disabled people and children! If I lived in your area, I'd be harassing my councillor about it (actually reminds me must send snotty letter about something completely different today. Think going freelance and not having time used up on office politics is bringing out my Victor Meldrew tendencies...)

Gwenick · 13/06/2005 10:57

As part of the de-criminalisation of parking enforcement the police are no longer responsible for enforcement of the parking restrictions. The traffic wardens are employed by the local council...........

Blu · 13/06/2005 10:58

LOL Victor Meldrew!

Flossam · 13/06/2005 11:01

but police still can if they decide it is worthwhile.

Gwenick · 13/06/2005 11:01

Can't believe your council says it's legal to risk the lives of disabled people and children!

CALM DOWN!!! We live NEXT to a school, and even THEY are happy with the situation on the street. There was a HUGE review of traffic safety/parking on this street about 1yr ago, lots of meetings with residents and the school. The agreement was made to put a speed bump near the school (not much of a bump but hey LOL), and paint lines near the school to stop people parking right outside it.

EVERYONE - parents, the school, residents alike are all HAPPY with the situation (although if we'd have been living here 1yr ago I've have pushed for a oneway street......)

Gwenick · 13/06/2005 11:01

but police still can if they decide it is worthwhile.

Well they obviously don't.............

Gobbledigook · 13/06/2005 11:02

Outside our old house everyone parks fully on the pavement - it's a main road and the pavements are so wide you can park your whole car on the pavement and there is still a normal pavement's width left. Nobody has ever said a thing in the 5 yrs we lived there. Everyone does it - even members of my family who are police officers!

I don't honestly see the issue as long as you can get buggies, wheelchairs etc through as well.

But if it is 'illegal' then fair enough.

Flossam · 13/06/2005 11:03

just because you don't know of an example ?

Gwenick · 13/06/2005 11:08

oh and no-one has answered my question about the 'legality' of rubbish bins left on the street waiting to be picked up.

Flossam · 13/06/2005 11:09

obstruction obstruction obstruction. if people can't pass then same applies

Gwenick · 13/06/2005 11:09

But if it is 'illegal' then fair enough.

But that's the issue - "Pavement Parking" isn't always 'illegal' - depending on the parking restrictions on that street.........Obstruction is.....

Still find dog poo on the pavements more annoying than parked cars though....................

Gwenick · 13/06/2005 11:10

LOL - so by rights every 2nd wednesday when we have to put TWO big wheelie bins out (supplied by the council) therefore completely blocking the pavement we should all look out for the fines in the post

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