Parking On Pavement

[GypsyGSD]

Advice please I know its a offence to park on pavements, a elderly couple live in a narrow street there neighbour constantly parks on the pavement outside there front door, making it very hard for them to get there mobility scooter out of there front door she leaves a space of a few feet very difficult for a 91 year old to manoeuvre ,they have asked a few times for her to give them space but she says all cars park on the pavement who do they contact police, council or some other dept to help solve this issue thanks gypsy

[EDDIE51]

If the person is registered disabled and needs to use a mobility scooter it should be possible to get the council to put in a 'dropped curb' to allow access. It is illegal to block a dropped curb, the police would have to remove a car that blocked a dropped curb and the owner can be prosecuted.
As an aside I find that people who 'can not speak much English' suddenly find they can understand perfectly well when it suits them!. They seem to suffer from a 'selective' problem!

[Old_Geezer]

Clearly the cause of the issue are the town planners. So effectively the council for failing to make the roads wide enough. Causes everyone problems as all try to find ways to compensate. It causes conflict between folk with different needs both pointing out they are doing their best and it is unfair to criticise them. What needs to happen is a compulsory purchase at market price for front part of the gardens, both sides of the road, to allow a road widening project.

[Old_Geezer]

Since the description implies no gardens then this is a no real solution situation. It sounds like the area is due for redevelopment and meanwhile the houses really only fit for those without motorised transport of any sort.

[EDDIE51]

^^It's a common problem, not town planning as the areas effected were built before car ownership was common. Most of my home town was built before the 1950s and all the roads are narrow, car parking is a constant problem.

[GypsyGSD]

asking the council for a dropped curb may help but tbh by the time the council approve i doubt the old gent would still be with us im not being cruel in any way the street is the old style built a long time ago the area was modernized a long while ago by knocking the area down at last minute council decided to leave this street alone my father was born in the house this women lives in and he would have been 96 now so i presume the houses are over 100 yrs i admit quite a few cars park a little way on the pavements as the car owner pointed out but there outside there own propertys and not as full onto the pavement as hers her excuse again today i dont want my car damaged by passing vehicles so iwill park on pavement

[GypsyGSD]

Very interesting pied piper will quote that when I hopefully speak to someone tomorrow on there behalf and also other advice I have been given xx

[stocksman]

In Mansfield, Notts. last year a number of residents were summoned to court and fined for leaving their wheelie bins on the pavement for too long( until the day after they were emptied).