A pavement parking odyssey

[Drago]

And as a parish councillor I can confirm how difficult itmis to obtain a penny of developers CIL cash from the district councils hands in order for us to spend it on qualifying infrastructure. They've a raft of regulations and rules to navigate, few of them with a foundation in any law, just to makemit as difficult as possible. Its criminal, really, possibly literally.

 

[Oldhippy]

Not surprised @Drago KCC have been given 29 odd million for active travel improvement and not a word has been mentioned about as far as I can tell.

 

[DCLane]

We'll see whether West Yorkshire Police take it any further.

Notification from the police - action is being taken against the driver/owner.

Maybe they will learn. Maybe not.

 

[classic33]

Delivery/collection to the dentists just down the pavement. Any further down and he'd have to come off at a set of lights.

 

[classic33]

A closer view of the green sign, you can just make out the wheelchair sign on the paving slab, next to the black car.

None of the three had a blue badge on display

 

[mjr]

And as a parish councillor I can confirm how difficult itmis to obtain a penny of developers CIL cash from the district councils hands in order for us to spend it on qualifying infrastructure. They've a raft of regulations and rules to navigate, few of them with a foundation in any law, just to makemit as difficult as possible. Its criminal, really, possibly literally.

Sadly probably not criminal: Community Infrastructure Levy was brought in shortly before Localism, so your elected district councillors have pretty wide ability to set whatever conditions that they like on CIL payout. Those conditions don't have to have any foundation in law. They only need not to break any laws, which is a far lower bar.

As long as they do that, if your community doesn't like how little infrastructure they get to support all the new homes, then it's the fault of the entire district for electing those councillors, but good luck getting enough people to vote in local elections on local issues and commitments about something as niche as CIL, rather than what they think of the current PM or MPs.

It could be worse. Your district could have re-imposed minimum parking requirements in 2022 like Norfolk did, which has strangled new businesses in the villages (no new business can afford the land for its shop's car park, nor the distance that puts it away from neighbouring shops and passing customers) without doing anything to reduce pavement parking. Why be surprised they're farking up other community infrastructure too?

 

[mjr]

regs for new build housing limiting the amount of both on street parking and private off street parking such as driveways. They did this to encourage active travel.

It clearly did no such thing and the narrow streets and footways of many new build estates from that period became giant car parks, so the coalition actually did one useful thing and repealed the regulation making it a guideline only, one which most LA's ignore.

As I mentioned in another post, my local car-brainiacs took advantage of this change to reintroduce minimum car parking requirements for homes and businesses outside of urban core areas. That seems to have had no effect on pavement parking. Even people living in homes with more spaces than cars routinely leave one on the pavement to make it slightly quicker and easier to drive to the corner shop than having to get it off the drive and back on... and every shop also now has to provide a minimum huge car park if built since the rule change, which also halved the minimum amount of cycle parking many shops must provide, and even that isn't enforced effectively, with applications to provide less cycle parking allowed and even useless "cosmetic" bike racks allowed. You know the sort of thing: it's a fun shape, but you can't lock a typical bike to it properly. Strange how the car parking spaces are always dull rectangles and never amusing shapes that few cars can fit in, isn't it?

What's needed is the London anti-pavement-parking law expanded to the rest of the country. Without that, the pavements in new build estates will be used for car parking no matter whether car parking spaces are limited, required or whatever. Car parking probably should be limited for other reasons (flooding due to the higher runoff rate, heat island effects, and so on) but it's basically irrelevant to pavement parking at the moment.

 

[Drago]

Id also introduce a £1000 tax surcharge for vehicles stored overnight on the highway that aren't in a marked parking bay.

I don't get to use the street outside my house to store stuff, and Imdknt see why motorists should do so.

 

[Windle]

Id also introduce a £1000 tax surcharge for vehicles stored overnight on the highway that aren't in a marked parking bay.

I don't get to use the street outside my house to store stuff, and Imdknt see why motorists should do so.

I've heard an old phrase from somewhere back in time 'if you don't have a field, don't buy a cow'.

 

[Dadam]

A closer view of the green sign, you can just make out the wheelchair sign on the paving slab, next to the black car.


None of the three had a blue badge on display

Piece Hall?

 

[classic33]

Piece Hall?

South Gate of, aye.