A pavement parking odyssey

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classic33

Leg End Member
He "owns the pavement opposite his house"!
And doesn't want to block access for parking his cars.
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Virgin Fibre broadband box and council fence to the right. Employer not bothered.
 

Alex321

Guru
Location
South Wales
Report the use of a work vehicle for commuting to the revenue as an undeclared BiK.

What makes you think it is likely to be such?

Though it isn't even classed as a BIK if you normally start or finish by going direct from home to your first job or from your last job to home. That vehicle is going to be a service vehicle, so the driver will be travelling from site to site, servicing the tractors etc that the company covers.
 
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Drago

Drago

Legendary Member
What makes you think it is likely to be such?

It may be, it might not be.

Let the revenue investigate and decide either way because, unlike you, they'll make a decision based on evidence and not speculation as to the precise use the driver makes of the vehicle.

They'll also have a better understanding of the regs that you appear to have, the matter regarding taxation being not quite as straightforward as you suggest, there being several other factors to consider before the taxation status is determined.

But ultimately you're making an assumption and we all know what they are the mother of, don't we?

Im not making an assumption - I don't know either way. So I'd let the revenue climb up their backsides for a good root around. Whatever they ultimately decide it won't be a pleasant experience for the driver.

I'd then email a photo diredtly to the chief constable (firstname.lastname@forcename.pnn.police.uk) and ask if he'd or she'd be happy with it parked blocking the footway outside his house.
 

Alex321

Guru
Location
South Wales
It may be, it might not be.

Let the revenue investigate and decide either way because, unlike you, they'll make a decision based on evidence and not speculation as to the precise use the driver makes of the vehicle.

They'll also have a better understanding of the regs that you appear to have, the matter regarding taxation being not quite as straightforward as you suggest, there being several other factors to consider before the taxation status is determined.

But ultimately you're making an assumption and we all know what they are the mother of, don't we?

Im not making an assumption - I don't know either way. So I'd let the revenue climb up their backsides for a good root around. Whatever they ultimately decide it won't be a pleasant experience for the driver.

I'd then email a photo diredtly to the chief constable (firstname.lastname@forcename.pnn.police.uk) and ask if he'd or she'd be happy with it parked blocking the footway outside his house.

Not sure what assumption you think I've made?
 

gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
I don't think I've contributed to this thread but apologies if I'm repeating myself....
Locally we have a lot of wide parking bays, drive or reverse in, several cars wide. What really irks me are the amount of people that leave 1/3 of their bonnet or boot overhanging the paths which are often thin anyway.
School up my residential street throngs with idiots who park on the zig zags, too lazy to walk 20 yards, blocking the view of everyone else's children who cross the road . I've complained to the school and local councillor...they've all suffered abuse when confronting people about it.
Funnily enough, our area has gone through a massive influx of people from (I assume) London or similar, it happens every 10 years or so...gentrification fallout perhaps..but the problem has definitely got worse since that influx.
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
Funnily enough, our area has gone through a massive influx of people from (I assume) London or similar, it happens every 10 years or so...gentrification fallout perhaps..but the problem has definitely got worse since that influx.
Unlikely to be London. Pavement parking is a simple offence there and easily ticketed, unlike the rest of England stuck with a Hanoverian law about carriages.
 
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Drago

Legendary Member
Unfortunately that would be an offence, but reporting to the various bodies might cause longer-term hassle :okay:

Walking over it ... hmmm.

Wait until all their vehicles are out, and then park across their entrance.

It's an offence to obstruction a highway (ie, to stop them getting out) but there no corresponding obstruction a driveway or private land offence, ie, to stop them leaving the highway.
 
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