Parking Ticket

[roverv8]

I recieved a ticket on Friday Night. First one in over 15 years, but hey ho. The road, a busy main road into Romford town centre was marked with Single yellow lines, but this was at 7:30pm. I parked the cars 4 wheels onto the dropped curb of the house I was visiting as I didnt fancy my chances leaving it in the road. The pavement is a good double width of a car, so no obstruction there. My question is that if it was a dropped curb, is that still classed as a footway? Also, according to an article in the sun on Friday (it must be true then!), the ticket has to state the date of the offence as well as the date the date the ticket was issued. Without this this extra detail the ticket is rendered invalid.
Anyone got any thoughts? Worth challenging the ticket perhaps.

[Peter Ward]

Try looking here: http://neilherron.blogspot.com/

This guy's doing a grand job fighting the parking powers that be. There may be something on his website that helps.

IANAL, but I would have thought that parking on the pathway should be considered parking on the pathway, not parking on a single yellow line. It would therefore be a police matter rather than a street parking offence. It may be that the warden/"parking attendant" considered that you could be another scalp for him if you gave in, rather than that he seriously thought that he had jurisdiction over parking on the path.

[roverv8]

The wording used on the ticket states that the following contavention had occured "624 Parked with one or more wheels on any part of an urban road other than a carriageway (All Wheels On Footway) I always assumed, maybe wrongly, that you were not allowed to drive across a pavement to gain access to your drive way unless the curb had been lowered. when does a dropped curb cease to be a pavement and vica-versa? I guees that debate could run on and on. I am hoping that I more likely to get off by arguing the lack of detail on the ticket.

[eliminator]

You can drive over it, but not park.

[gridgway]

given that it's somewhere where the car shouldn't have been parked, is it worth the effort of contending?
Graham

[Dwight Vandriver]

Romford?

That's Lundun innit?

Footway parking

Never park with one or more wheels on the pavement or a grass verge. This has been banned throughout Greater London for many years as it creates a hazard to the blind and partially sighted, the disabled, children in pushchairs and causes damage to the pavement and verges.

Crossovers (where the pavement dips to road level at drive entrances) are just as much part of the footway as the pavement itself - even if leading to your own house! There are, however, streets where parking is permitted and they are shown by pictorial signs:



permitting parking with 2 wheels on the pavement
permitting parking with 4 wheels on the pavement
When parking on the pavement in these streets please leave sufficient room on the footway for a wheelchair to pass.

Looks like the moths in the wallet should see daylight.

dvd