Dropped Kerbs

[leahbee]

Bradford Council will take over parking responsibilities from the police on 26 March. They say that from that date it will be illegal and incur a � 70 fine to park adjacent to a dropped kerb even if this is at the end of your own drive.
Has anyone had experience of this?

[kempie]

From 26th March 2009 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council will become a civil enforcement area for parking contraventions and a special enforcement area...

http://www.england-legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/ si2009/uksi_20090326_en_1

The powers are conferred by provision of the Traffic Management Act 2004 which specifies the conditions for when parking adjacent to a dropped kerb is not an offence, such as when a vehicle is parked outside residential premises by or with the consent of the occupier of the premises (although not for shared drives)...

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/ukpga_200 40018_en_9#pt6-pb3-l1g86

[cassa333]

Legal or not you would get a ticket anyway as how is the enforcement officer supposed to know it is your car blocking your drive?

[leahbee]

My daughter recieved a warning notice for parking outside my drive (enforceable after the 26 march. When we questioned this we were told that the new wardens would not have time to knock on doors to find out who the car belongs to. I can see this causing problems for many people.

[kempie]

Bradford Council have not understood the law to which they have just signed up. Other councils tend to employ a system whereby a residential occupier consents to or requests that vehicles parked in this manner are to be issued PCNs.

If CEOs start ticketing in this blanket manner they are wasting their time and effort since all that is required for a driver to appeal the ticket is to establish that permission was granted by the occupier for the vehicle to be parked (such permission being a specific exemption to the offence).

The CEOs may not have time to knock on doors but the clerical staff will have to make time to cancel the multitude of inappropriately issued tickets.

[Panic Button]

They had better not start that silliness here, I always park our second car across the end of our drive.

[leahbee]

Thank you all so much for your help with this problem. I am new to computing and am so glad that I found this site. It's a relief to know that the law is on my side.