Parking grace period - will it really happen?

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Fri 6 Mar 2015 10:51
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - oldroverboy.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2981794/10-minute...l

From previous experience of this and showing a warden that my ticket was within 5 minutes of the time on the machine allowing for the 2 minutes arguing about it before walking to the machine to check machine time (ticket not issued after that) (but i stayed polite) I have noticed sometimes that "wardens" still hover to catch people out. Not me anymore so out of town it is, (have you tried to get on a bus with a 10 litre tin of paint. not allowed, so use the car to go where there is free parking.

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Fri 6 Mar 2015 11:06
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - Ben 10
Take anything Eric Pickles has to say with a pinch of salt. He promised to end the war on motorists at the last election. He's had 5 years to do this. Just another election stunt.

Remember he promised to end two weekly bin collections. Well that's not happened either. Read into it how you will, but I think it's a gimmick.
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Fri 6 Mar 2015 11:18
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - Bromptonaut
Take anything Eric Pickles has to say with a pinch of salt. He promised to end the war on motorists at the last election. He's had 5 years to do this. Just another election stunt. Remember he promised to end two weekly bin collections. Well that's not happened either. Read into it how you will, but I think it's a gimmick.

A government committed to 'localism' that micro-manages bins and yellow lines from Whitehall. You couldn't make it up.

The grace period is, as Ben says, a gimmick. First of all there will be a subset of users who simply treat the grace period as extra time. Twelve minutes late and they'll argue it's only two. And secondly there will be zero tolerance for other infringements spotted waiting for the ten minutes to elapse.

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Fri 6 Mar 2015 12:40
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - Gibbo_Wirral
Remember he promised to end two weekly bin collections. Well that's not happened either. Read into it how you will, but I think it's a gimmick.

Don't blame Pickles for that, councils didn't bother to sign up for the extra money to restore weekly collections.

Maybe because it was the minority whinging about wanting weekly collections? Considering a wheelie bin is twice the size of an old metal bin, and we have recycling and other waste bins, if you fill a standard wheelie bin in a week you're doing something wrong.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2908907/Pickles-b...l

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Fri 6 Mar 2015 13:03
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - Ben 10
It's not who didn't sign up or who can do with or without weekly collections it's about the promise Pickles made which he didn't live up to. Another lie, as with the possibility of his latest offering. Proves my point about him, bluff and bluster. I don't know how he's kept his ministerial position longer than anyone in the cabinet.

Edited by Ben 10 on 06/03/2015 at 13:04

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Fri 6 Mar 2015 13:14
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - Ben 10
If you want to talk about rubbish GW, I do have trouble filling my rubbish bin over two weeks.

I placed food waste in its own bucket. On a number of occasions the collectors have not emptied it. I've phoned the council and they just tell me to place it in the normal rubbish sacks. Not my fault.

The recycling bin is always full, so I don't think we are doing anything wrong. For a family of four, the two weeks is just too long for the normal rubbish collection. They will not take the odd sack I can't fit in or leave the lid up. I do my best, but the food package manufacturers need to use less packaging or use more bio degradable stuff that I can put in the recycling.

So not everything is as rosey as you think it should be. Just because you manage doesn't mean we all can. My MIL local council have given her a slim rubbish bin, but they still get weekly collections. I would prefer that.

And when we are away on holiday, the collection can be a month. Not good.

Edited by Ben 10 on 06/03/2015 at 13:16

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Fri 6 Mar 2015 13:56
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - Bromptonaut

Trouble with comparisons is that there is significant difference in what Councils provide. Here in South Northants we have three wheely bins, black (landfill), blue (recycling) and green (garden waste). All three are full size - 240litres. We also have a caddy for food waste.

Collection cycle is week 1 green and blue, week 2 black. The food waste is collected both weeks. If we're away neighbour is holds key looks after bins. We reciprocate when they're away.

The blue bin can get overfull but only 'cos we drink quite a lot of wine/beer. Provided we crush cans and plastic bottles and flatten card boxes we normally get by. We'd struggle though if the bin was reduced to 140 or 180 liters as some councils are apparently doing.

If there's a surplus bottles/card it just gets boxed dropped off at the council's tip when we're passing. Excess garden waste, no reasonable bin would cope when we're pruning shrubs, justifies a special trip to tip.

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Fri 6 Mar 2015 15:58
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - Dwight Van Driver

The luure......

The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General (Amendment) Regulations 2015
wef 6th April 2015.
These Regulations amend the Civil Enforcement of Parking (England) General Regulations 2007 to introduce a ten minute grace period before a penalty charge is payable and a penalty charge notice can be served in relation to a parking contravention where a vehicle is stationary in an off street or on street permitted parking place and the vehicle has been left beyond the permitted parking period.

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Fri 6 Mar 2015 19:51
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - gordonbennet

What a non story, if this is supposed to make us feel all gooey towards a certain political party in the run up to the election, then my worse fears for this country are truly realised....fiddling while Rome burns (or the country sinks in our case) springs to mind.

Where's the face palm smiley when you need one.

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Fri 6 Mar 2015 20:41
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - dan86

We don't get bins our local council Bromley provides boxes for card and glass cans ect and a food waste container but every two week we have to put put all our black sacks (only allowed 6). It's a way to force people to recycle and on the whole it works because if you don't put the food waste in the correct container the foxes will make a mess of your front garden.

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Sat 7 Mar 2015 00:30
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - grimep
Yeah, its a cheap vote winner. Never mind the country fast going down the toilet, here's an extra 10 mins on your parking!

Are the electorate really that stupid?
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Sat 7 Mar 2015 09:27
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - dan86

Are the electorate really that stupid?

Sadly yes

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Sat 7 Mar 2015 15:08
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - jamie745

The electorate is very stupid yes so they get what they deserve ultimately, but I thought this thread was about parking? Not wheelie bins?

This is just a bit of nonsense to get on the telly really. Being able to park on yellow lines for 5 minutes won't do anything for the town centre. Getting rid of the yellow lines, parking charges, shared spaces and other parking restrictions might help though.

Mind you, the towns always seem jam packed full of people whenever I go to them. God knows where they keep coming from. Romania probably.

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Sat 7 Mar 2015 19:17
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - hillman

Did anybody else notice that the politician got it wrong again, he fined for being tardy putting the ticket , not overstaying. If the 'operatives' were instructed to wait ten minutes after the driver had disappeared to get change for the machine then their bonus would be decimated.

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Sat 7 Mar 2015 20:26
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - Sofa Spud

On the face of it this seems like a good idea but, motorists being what they are, they'll just mentally add 10 minutes to their parking time and complain when they get a ticket for being 11 minutes late.

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Sat 7 Mar 2015 23:03
Parking grace period - will it really happen? - brum

Its more likely that councils etc will just make the parking period ten minutes shorter, protect their revenue, job done and keep schtum.....

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