Unfair parking ticket?

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Tue 6 Sep 2011 22:43
Unfair parking ticket? - PeterMclean
My daughter parked on a stretch of pavement adjacent to a garden wall, on one side, and a road with double yellow lines, on the other. Although she was fully off and clear of the road she has been given a ticket saying that she was within an area with parking restrictions. Surely the parking ticket could only apply if she had been physically on the road itself? Steaming!!
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Tue 6 Sep 2011 23:13
Unfair parking ticket? - RT

It's an offence to park on double yellow lines (subject to conditions) and parking on the pavement, in itself an offence, simply isn't an acceptable way to get round the restrictions inposed by the double yellow lines.

Your daughter is clearly due a penalty for parking where she did - how would you like it worded?

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Tue 6 Sep 2011 23:34
Unfair parking ticket? - Bobbin Threadbare

Courtesy of the Highway Code:

Reg. 244: You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs.

I'd check out Regulations 238 to 252 as well.

She was naughty, and you've not got a leg to stand on.

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Wed 7 Sep 2011 01:23
Unfair parking ticket? - jamie745

It specifically says in London? So if i get outside London i can park on the pavement?

Rights and wrongs aside im interested to know why paying £60 after its happened is supposed to help anybody. Maybe all those innocent people in wheelchairs who've been held up as a result of this parked car are glued to the pavement until its paid? I dont know.

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Wed 7 Sep 2011 09:35
Unfair parking ticket? - RT

Outside London, it's simply the offence of causing an obstruction - which I think requires a court hearing.

Forcing able-bodied pedestrians to walk in the road is as bad as obstructing those in wheelchairs or pushchairs.

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Wed 7 Sep 2011 11:34
Unfair parking ticket? - martint123

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-yellow_line

Double yellow lines along the edge of the carriageway indicate that parking restrictions apply to the road (which includes the carriageway, pavement and verge)

www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digital...f (PDF)

Waiting restrictions indicated by yellow lines apply to the carriageway, pavement and verge.

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Wed 7 Sep 2011 11:41
Unfair parking ticket? - Bobbin Threadbare

Read it! 'and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it'. No sign, no permission.

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Thu 29 Sep 2011 19:58
Unfair parking ticket? - alan1302

It's not meant to help anybody who could not get past the car. It's meant as a deterrent to get you to not do it again.

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Fri 30 Sep 2011 01:51
Unfair parking ticket? - Ben 10

Its a good job I wasn't walking along that section. I would not have had to endanger myself by walking into the road. I would have walked over your daughters car, causing more than £60 worth of damage. Did she think she had pavement tax or what? Deserves all she gets.

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Fri 30 Sep 2011 02:13
Unfair parking ticket? - jamie745

Pavement tax. I like that.

To be fair we dont know the exact situation or whether the car blocked the entire pavement, i say that because theres some places near where i live where people have been parking all four wheels on the pavement for years, typically the business owner of the nearby shop, that sort of thing but it doesnt cause anyone any trouble as the pavement in question is wide enough to fit three cars side by side and still open the doors and Plod tend to ignore it anyway.

Im not saying if its a wide pavement it should be exempt from the rules but lets not assume the daughter in question was forcing people into the road and endangering pedestrians due to blocking the pavement.

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Sun 2 Oct 2011 00:48
Unfair parking ticket? - HF

Same here, people park on the pavement where I live all the time, but truly, you'd have to be really anal to report/get worked up about something like that. Be better if the councils reversed their recent policies of charging you to park anywhere that isn't your own garage.

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Tue 4 Oct 2011 16:40
Unfair parking ticket? - concrete
Sorry Peter, I am afraid your daughter committed an offence, albeit unwittingly but nonetheless it has attracted a penalty charge notice. Parking on any pavement, unless expressly allowed, is an offence of obstruction. It may be worth scanning the surrounding area for some signage that indicates what the current regulations are. Otherwise, bad luck. Pay up and move on with another of lifes' lessons learned. Cheers Concrete
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