More inconsiderate parking
Discussion
Seeing as I'm already on the forum for another matter, I may as well post this while I'm here.
I live in a relatively small village, however the main road through it used as somewhat of a "rat run" for surrounding villages to access the motorway.
Our house is set back off of this main road via a dropped kerb through double gates that run between two other houses. The house to one side is no problem at all, however the other is another matter.
Routinely, people park on the opposite side of the road. I have no issue with this as there are no parking restrictions, though it reduces said rat run to a single lane which can be a pain in the backside to negotiate when buses come along, but the neighbours to the other side of us has have taken to parking their vehicles wholly on the pavement outside their house.
The council have acknowledged that in order to do this, someone has removed the posts which used to line the kerb edge and has concreted over it, the vehicles aren't "on the road" so they can't be ticketed, but they are entirely on the pavement, meaning that:
A. Anyone with a double buggy can't get past.
B. They have a combi-van type thing that is completely opaque, so the other day my wife went to pull onto our driveway and nearly flattened a pedestrian who was walking past and obscured by the combi.
C. They like to try and fit as many cars as possible on the pavement, so they routinely get within 1 inch of the drop kerb, so to turn right out of our property is a veritable nightmare as one can barely see past their vehicle to observe what may be coming up the road, then, in combination with the legally parked cars on the other side of the road, it's a work of art not to take the offside of our car off while trying to not rub the opposite vehicles with the nearside corner.
What can be done? The council is doing nothing and while it's been shouted about repeatedly in the village news bulletin, they are paying no attention at all. They could easily park over the other side of the road, not more than 50 yards from their house.
Quite frankly, the obstruction is dangerous for people with buggies who have to walk in the road to get past and one of these days I'm going to end up rubbing my car on theirs. I know they can't be ticketed as not parked on the highway, but the obstruction of a pedestrian footpath must be illegal?
Why aren't the council doing anything when they've acknowledged the illegal removal of bollard posts?
I live in a relatively small village, however the main road through it used as somewhat of a "rat run" for surrounding villages to access the motorway.
Our house is set back off of this main road via a dropped kerb through double gates that run between two other houses. The house to one side is no problem at all, however the other is another matter.
Routinely, people park on the opposite side of the road. I have no issue with this as there are no parking restrictions, though it reduces said rat run to a single lane which can be a pain in the backside to negotiate when buses come along, but the neighbours to the other side of us has have taken to parking their vehicles wholly on the pavement outside their house.
The council have acknowledged that in order to do this, someone has removed the posts which used to line the kerb edge and has concreted over it, the vehicles aren't "on the road" so they can't be ticketed, but they are entirely on the pavement, meaning that:
A. Anyone with a double buggy can't get past.
B. They have a combi-van type thing that is completely opaque, so the other day my wife went to pull onto our driveway and nearly flattened a pedestrian who was walking past and obscured by the combi.
C. They like to try and fit as many cars as possible on the pavement, so they routinely get within 1 inch of the drop kerb, so to turn right out of our property is a veritable nightmare as one can barely see past their vehicle to observe what may be coming up the road, then, in combination with the legally parked cars on the other side of the road, it's a work of art not to take the offside of our car off while trying to not rub the opposite vehicles with the nearside corner.
What can be done? The council is doing nothing and while it's been shouted about repeatedly in the village news bulletin, they are paying no attention at all. They could easily park over the other side of the road, not more than 50 yards from their house.
Quite frankly, the obstruction is dangerous for people with buggies who have to walk in the road to get past and one of these days I'm going to end up rubbing my car on theirs. I know they can't be ticketed as not parked on the highway, but the obstruction of a pedestrian footpath must be illegal?
Why aren't the council doing anything when they've acknowledged the illegal removal of bollard posts?
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