Pavement parking ban!

[MSS]

The problem is that if I had done this my name would probably have been on all the local radio stations for harrassing a helpless disabled woman. It's difficult not to lose in these situations.

[Bogbrush82]

I have no choice unfortunately. The road by me is that narrow that to not do so would mean blocking it.

I've asked the council dozens of times to either provide residents parking or even widen the road, but no such luck.

[alanaslan]

Originally Posted by macafee2

how many cars do they provide parking for?
my son in laws place has parking for 2 cars, his and my daughters.
I'm visiting, where do I park?
unusually my wife also visits our daughter but due to circumstances arrives in her car, where does she park?
A mates comes round, where does he park?

Nowadays the children also have cars.
On roads where two cars cant pass I understand why people park partly on the pavement but don't agree with blocking it so a pushchair cannot pass.

perhaps our new build houses need parking for 4 cars and the roads wide enough for 2 or even 3 cars to pass. Also garages need to be properly wide enough for a car to fit into. Seen lots of garages where you would struggle to get into and out of the car when its in the garage.

macafee2

I have just seen these posts and love them.
We live in a housing development with 127 four bedroom houses built 24 years ago the houses all have intergeral garages some single some double. Also a drive way that will in most cases take one car half on the drive half on the service strip ( monoblocked)
If you have a single garage and you want to put a 75 in it you will need to climb out the sunroof.
The building regs stated at the time of build two parking spaces per house plus one visitor bay for every three houses. Simple maths I hear you all say. Nobody other than me has a car in their garage. 56 of the houses in the estate have converted their garage into extra living space. So that is 56 less parking spaces available than planing allowed for not to mention the other 71 houses don’t use the garage. So we were 126 parking spaces short before we started.
Most houses now have three to four cars per house. It is a nightmare.
I have to time arrival home with the caravan to coincide with a quite time in the avenue so I can back the caravan straight down into the side garden beyond my drive that takes four cars three in front of the house and I front of them. If I need the extra space for a family gathering I can lift out the fence that sits in front of the caravan and slip another two or three down the side of the house next to the van. So I guess my house has parking for eight cars and the caravan counting the one in the double garage.
I wrote to the council and asked about the lack of parking and why they were allowing owners to remove the garage space by converting it into an extra room. The reply I got was that nobody used their garages for their cars and as such the conversions made no impact on parking.
I was tempted to point out their two spaces per house one being the garage and one extra space for every three houses, but thought the better of it.
Alan

[steve-45]

Very true about people not using their garages, I think that I am the only person in a street of 30 houses that actually has a car in their garage.

It’s my Saab 93, as the 75 is too long to fit !

[alanaslan]

Oh yes I should have said our pavements are called service strips, and there 4 of the seventeen houses in our street have fenced right over the strip right to the road edge. Making it impossible to drive your wheel chair down them not that you could have an away as the drives are so short that most cars parked on the drive is half on the drive half on the service strip.
Perhaps the estate should be called how to fit 127 houses on to land big enough for only 90 with proper parking.
I do wonder how many cars the council expect to be owned by each four bedroom detached property. I am so glad I bought a corner plot that I knew would meet our needs.



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[HarryM1BYT]

As (I think) I said - No problem with pavement parking where there is no other option at all, other than to block the road.



We have several large van owners in the street, one of them has a van in his front garden which is so long it has to protrude out to obstruct the pavement, he could easily reverse in at an angle where there is more space, but chooses not to. Then there is another with two large vans and a car, he has modified his frontage to make three parking places...
like this - I V He rarely uses the vans, so it makes little sense really to have them.

[topman]

Originally Posted by HarryM1BYT

He rarely uses the vans, so it makes little sense really to have them.

I see that quite a bit, people with multiple vehicles in a road with very tight parking yet they rarely turn a wheel. Strange to my mind.

[topman]

Originally Posted by steve-45

Very true about people not using their garages, I think that I am the only person in a street of 30 houses that actually has a car in their garage.

It’s my Saab 93, as the 75 is too long to fit !

I don't think out of the 40-50 houses in both the road I live in and the adjacent road no one uses the garage to put a car in. They are used for storage, gyms or workshops.

[Lancpudn]

This is the second time this year I've just read about this in the transport network news again today, No smoke with fire!!! yada yada https://www.transport-network.co.uk/...-parking/16145

[Dorset Bob]

Honest John has done a news feature on the pavement parking here

Nice looking ZT!