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Most recently answered parking questions

I was intrigued by your reply to PC, Portishead over the problem of a speed hump installed by their neighbours on a Private Road. I would suggest they certainly need to consult both their property deeds...

Dotting the Eyes

I'm writing to you as a 'last resort' but also because my local MP, Julian Brazier suggested I do so (I have copied him into this emaiI). I hope you will be able to help me. We have been in dispute with...

Number fate

Overstayed in a 'free for 2 hours' retail park car park: Fine/invoice £80, but £50 if paid within 10 days. Automatic number plating against registered keeper information.

Data Unprotected Fact

My father has been given a £50 fine by a "parking control" company for overstaying in a car park he has never been in, in a town he has never been to. His name and address was passed on by the DVLA. The...

Thug rule

I wonder if you could advise me please. On 17the October I delivered my daughter to our local Driving Theory Test centre and because she was very nervous I had to take her inside. I parked in the car park...

Obstructive attitude

A neighbour has just witnessed the removal of his own car from the road in front of his own driveway. OK, so it is an offence to park across a residential driveway - but not everybody realises this. The...

White van ban?

At our home, we often have very restricted access to our driveway due to a neighbour who parks a commercial van in the road opposite. There are no parking restrictions in this quiet, residential street...

Vaux-haul Asda

I recently visited the Asda supermarket at Shipley, which operates a two-hour parking limit policy, but unfortunately I was late in returning to my car and found a parking notice attached to my windscreen....

Parking advice

I'm prompted by PS's and AB's letters in today's Daily Telegraph motoring section to follow up my recent email re the Protection from Harassment Act. Generally, your readers will have already suffered...

Parkhump spaces

I live in Hampshire. Is it illegal to park on a speed hump? In particular one that stretches right across the road with white triangles on it and a painted, straight white line parallel to the kerb before,...