parking on pavement now banned ? (anyone know if this is true?)

I'm a member of a group called Parked Like A **** in Stoke where there are some amazing ones but this one put on today I don't get.
The poster said there was nothing to stop it going on the road.
I can understand some streets where there's loads of cars and the street isn't that wide.


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LiE said:
Another example of how the mosque visitors take the absolute pee.

Parked right along the dropped kerb where you'd cross a busy road.


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The law on yellow lines applies either side of the line I believe.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Don't buy a ****** house that has no parking.
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Pretty much everyone has two spaces here,which was probably fine years ago, but now their kids have grown up and still live at home because houses are so ******* expensive they now have 3-4 cars to park.
Of course that doesn't excuse the ones who just park anywhere just because they can.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
I'm a member of a group called Parked Like A **** in Stoke where there are some amazing ones but this one put on today I don't get.
The poster said there was nothing to stop it going on the road.
I can understand some streets where there's loads of cars and the street isn't that wide.


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Either those houses are tiny or that car is massive.
Our old house was a terrace in a town, parking was a nightmare the whole street was cars parked on the pavement both sides, if you were late home you'd have to park 1 maybe 2 streets away.
 
Uther said:
There's no traffic wardens and no police presence where I live so people pretty much do what they like here. Parking on double yellows, blocking pavements, speeding. Zero enforcement.
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Not like it would make any difference if there was, this traffic warden just walked past...

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SexyGreyFox said:
I'm a member of a group called Parked Like A **** in Stoke where there are some amazing ones but this one put on today I don't get.
The poster said there was nothing to stop it going on the road.
I can understand some streets where there's loads of cars and the street isn't that wide.


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You should see where my dad lives, cars on grass, across dropped kerbs. Everyone is blocked it, its madness
 
LiE said:
Doesn't deter those attending the local mosque at pray time. The only way they sorted this was blue cones along the entire length of the path at pray time.

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And it'll never be enforced outside these establishments, especially if you're in a Labour/Liberal controlled council area because they're too scared of being called racist.

Nasher said:
There is no point to it where I am. It's all 2+ bedroom houses and all have driveways, plus there are "visitor" spaces. Yet people with 3-4 car driveways park insist on the road, including opposite junctions. They are just lazy
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TBF if I'm in and out all day I will park on the road, usually over my own dropped kerb. My road is quite a wide road (about 4 cars wide) so it's not like it causes an issue.
 
Pavement parking has been an issue around here for decades, and is only getting worse. With a few exceptions there is also no excuse for it as the roads are wide enough to park on sides and still leave ample space for a vehicle to pass, added to which a significant number of houses have now converted their front gardens into driveways yet still park on the dropped kerb semi-blocking the pavement. The Police do nothing about it and blame the Council; the Council do nothing about it and blame the Police, and we do not have any traffic wardens though there is a web form that can be completed for Hampshire residents which will inevitably be too late by the time they actually respond (assuming they bother).

There's also the Road Traffic Act 1988, section 34 which states at the top:

Prohibition of driving mechanically propelled vehicles elsewhere than on roads.E+W

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, if without lawful authority a person drives a mechanically propelled vehicle—

(a)on to or upon any common land, moorland or land of any other description, not being land forming part of a road, or

(b)on any road being a footpath, bridleway or restricted byway,

he is guilty of an offence.

(2)For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above, a way shown in a definitive map and statement as a footpath, bridleway or restricted byway is, without prejudice to section 56(1) of the M1Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, to be taken to be a way of the kind shown, unless F2. . . the contrary is proved.
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As none of the authorities care about pedestrians I, like a few others in this thread, have no problem with accidental damage to vehicles where the owner has made it difficult for pedestrians to actually walk on the pavement. I'm certainly not going to walk in the road because of an ignorant driver.
 
Bug One said:
Ah, don't be poor. Of course.
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It isn't that simple is it? Many houses without sufficient parking are not cheap and some of those with sufficient parking are no more expensive.

People would rather just leave all their cars on the pavement than compromise some of the other things they want in order to have sufficient parking. You see plenty of houses with double garages converted into rooms like a gym and cars parked on the pavement outside.

Most houses which were genuinely built without any parking provision at all don't have pavement parking either, see London for a perfect example of this.

It's often places built with off road parking but now occupied by residents who want 5 cars and a works van parked outside. So they use the pavement...
 
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I feel so lucky I live in a house with room to get 4 cars in the drive and I've got a Blue Badge.
I have friends who are constantly fighting for space.

My cousin lives in Leek in a terraced house street and the only way to park is to put half your car on the pavement so other drivers can get past.
A few months ago every one of them was ticketed so they all got together and parked their cars normally causing havoc and the Police were called out.
They now have an amnesty to park how they originally did.

My street can sometimes be bad during high end Stoke City matches and a couple of years ago a house caught fire.
The Fire Engine couldn't get to the house and the Police were taking car numbers and owners were made to come back from the ground with multi announcements.
Of course it was too late for the home owners but the motorists were taught a lesson.
 
I personally think all houses should be built with at least 2 parking spots, even if it's a one bed flat. My parents used to own a coach house rental and it had 1 spot, but even most couples have 2 cars.
 
Infidelus said:
Pavement parking has been an issue around here for decades, and is only getting worse. With a few exceptions there is also no excuse for it as the roads are wide enough to park on sides and still leave ample space for a vehicle to pass, added to which a significant number of houses have now converted their front gardens into driveways yet still park on the dropped kerb semi-blocking the pavement. The Police do nothing about it and blame the Council; the Council do nothing about it and blame the Police, and we do not have any traffic wardens though there is a web form that can be completed for Hampshire residents which will inevitably be too late by the time they actually respond (assuming they bother).

There's also the Road Traffic Act 1988, section 34 which states at the top:



As none of the authorities care about pedestrians I, like a few others in this thread, have no problem with accidental damage to vehicles where the owner has made it difficult for pedestrians to actually walk on the pavement. I'm certainly not going to walk in the road because of an ignorant driver.
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So your answer to a crime is to commit another crime?
 
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