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Dropped curbs
Hi,
I was reading another post on someone putting cones outside there gate and wondered about dropped curbs.
If you had a dropped curb no one is supposed to park in front of it or block it. If you parked your own car across it and a traffic warden came along would you get a ticket? or indeed would anyone that blocked it get a ticket?
Thanks
I was reading another post on someone putting cones outside there gate and wondered about dropped curbs.
If you had a dropped curb no one is supposed to park in front of it or block it. If you parked your own car across it and a traffic warden came along would you get a ticket? or indeed would anyone that blocked it get a ticket?
Thanks
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If the car is causing an obstruction, whether it be parked across a dropped kerb or not, it then can be an offence under various pieces of legislation e.g. Section 137 Highways Act 1980 (wilful obstruction of the highway) or Regulation 103 Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (causing or permitting a vehicle to stand on a road so as to cause an unnecessary obstruction).
Civil enforcement also exists for those vehicles which contravene the provisions of Section 86 Traffic Management Act 2004 applicable to England and Wales...
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegT ype=All+Primary&PageNumber=6&NavFrom=2&parentA ctiveTextDocId=1606563&activetextdocid=1606675
Enforcement action (such as a Penalty Charge Notice) for vehicles parked across a single occupancy driveway of residential premises can only be instigated at the request of the occupier of the premises, therefore unless you direct an Enforcement Officer to ticket your own car (!) it will not be ticketed.
Civil enforcement also exists for those vehicles which contravene the provisions of Section 86 Traffic Management Act 2004 applicable to England and Wales...
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegT ype=All+Primary&PageNumber=6&NavFrom=2&parentA ctiveTextDocId=1606563&activetextdocid=1606675
Enforcement action (such as a Penalty Charge Notice) for vehicles parked across a single occupancy driveway of residential premises can only be instigated at the request of the occupier of the premises, therefore unless you direct an Enforcement Officer to ticket your own car (!) it will not be ticketed.
Yes, wingnut, if in London or if the relevant Act has been enacted by local authorities.
It never used to be the case, but is now covered by s.86 of the Traffic Management Act 2004
86 Prohibition of parking at dropped footways etc.
(1) In a special enforcement area a vehicle must not be parked on the carriageway adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge where�
(a) the footway, cycle track or verge has been lowered to meet the level of the carriageway for the purpose of�
(i) assisting pedestrians crossing the carriageway,
(ii) assisting cyclists entering or leaving the carriageway, or
(iii) assisting vehicles entering or leaving the carriageway across the footway, cycle track or verge; or
(b) the carriageway has, for a purpose within paragraph (a)(i) to (iii), been raised to meet the level of the footway, cycle track or verge.
This is subject to the following exceptions.
(2) The first exception is where the vehicle is parked wholly within a designated parking place or any other part of the carriageway where parking is specifically authorised.
A �designated parking place� means a parking place designated by order under section 6, 9, 32(1)(b) or 45 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27).
(3) The second exception is where the vehicle is parked outside residential premises by or with the consent (but not consent given for reward) of the occupier of the premises.
It never used to be the case, but is now covered by s.86 of the Traffic Management Act 2004
86 Prohibition of parking at dropped footways etc.
(1) In a special enforcement area a vehicle must not be parked on the carriageway adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge where�
(a) the footway, cycle track or verge has been lowered to meet the level of the carriageway for the purpose of�
(i) assisting pedestrians crossing the carriageway,
(ii) assisting cyclists entering or leaving the carriageway, or
(iii) assisting vehicles entering or leaving the carriageway across the footway, cycle track or verge; or
(b) the carriageway has, for a purpose within paragraph (a)(i) to (iii), been raised to meet the level of the footway, cycle track or verge.
This is subject to the following exceptions.
(2) The first exception is where the vehicle is parked wholly within a designated parking place or any other part of the carriageway where parking is specifically authorised.
A �designated parking place� means a parking place designated by order under section 6, 9, 32(1)(b) or 45 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27).
(3) The second exception is where the vehicle is parked outside residential premises by or with the consent (but not consent given for reward) of the occupier of the premises.
I got fined �30 for 'Unecessary Obstruction' whilst visiting a friend in a quiet little town. Apparently my back bumper was about a foot in obstructing a dropped kerb. To be quite honest I didn't even notice the kerb as it didn't go anywhere because the property was fenced off. No yellow lines or signs either. It wasn't a traffic warden who did me, it was a copper in a patrol car who apparently sat on his arse for thirty minutes watching before running out and slapping a ticket on the windscreen. I am rather bitter about it all.
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