Access only road sign = no parking??
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Some advice here please.
Parked up today in a typical type residential road with old victorian houses on either side and no driveways, the road had the no motor vehicles sign (old red circle sign with the motorbike jumping over the car- pic attached below if ive got this to work)
Below the sign it says 'Access only'.
No yellow lines, no time plates on lamp posts etc & no signs that this is a private road, & no no stopping clearway signs etc, so i figure its fine to park in just as the hundred or so cars have done so on both sides. My thought being as its a relitively narrow dead end road that is why the sign is there as its a sod to turn round.
I get back to the the car and have a nice 'note' on the windscreen stating that the access only sign means its residents parking only and that I am up for a police issued £30 fine if I continue parking there.
As far as im aware this is wrong, but Im a bit hazy on what the access only part of the sign actually means as the sign alone should mean NO motor vehicles as far as im aware? and with no driveways to have 'access' to, how do the residents have more right to park on the road (excluding unloading etc)than than I do?.
So am I right or wrong?
Edited to add- hurrah got the pic to work
>>> Edited by iguana on Monday 8th September 18:47
Parked up today in a typical type residential road with old victorian houses on either side and no driveways, the road had the no motor vehicles sign (old red circle sign with the motorbike jumping over the car- pic attached below if ive got this to work)
Below the sign it says 'Access only'.
No yellow lines, no time plates on lamp posts etc & no signs that this is a private road, & no no stopping clearway signs etc, so i figure its fine to park in just as the hundred or so cars have done so on both sides. My thought being as its a relitively narrow dead end road that is why the sign is there as its a sod to turn round.
I get back to the the car and have a nice 'note' on the windscreen stating that the access only sign means its residents parking only and that I am up for a police issued £30 fine if I continue parking there.
As far as im aware this is wrong, but Im a bit hazy on what the access only part of the sign actually means as the sign alone should mean NO motor vehicles as far as im aware? and with no driveways to have 'access' to, how do the residents have more right to park on the road (excluding unloading etc)than than I do?.
So am I right or wrong?
Edited to add- hurrah got the pic to work
>>> Edited by iguana on Monday 8th September 18:47
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