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| What in the name of Bl**dy Hell...?!! |
I could theoretically come and go at any time, so the entrance to my property should really be left clear at all times. And there's absolutely no excuse in this instance, as there's plenty of room behind the black car.
So I'm afraid that set me back for a while. As I sailed past the entrance to a customer I was trying to deliver to, not realising that I had reached the point where I should turn in, and not doing it once but twice, taking three attempts to effect the delivery, it's questionable whether I should have been driving after I had encountered this latest problem yesterday...
But the last place I wanted to be was at home, so I carried on and somehow got through the afternoon.
I did manage to present the problem to Hedge End Town Council yesterday evening, who noted the issue and promised to take it up at Borough Council level. That was a good way of "dealing with the stressors", and recovering again. We'll wait and see what happens.
I also emailed Parking Services in Eastleigh yesterday evening.
It seems that they didn't read that Email carefully enough, or maybe I wrote in a rush and wasn't quite clear enough, or maybe they only want to tackle the easier problems, as the reply I received today reads;
... I have studied the two photographs and assume that the red Astra is parked across your neighbours dropped kerb. If this is the case the vehicle is not in contravention as the white line across the dropped kerb is advisory only and not enforceable except at the request of the resident. I appreciate that the road in ..... is quite narrow and does make exiting a driveway difficult with other vehicles parked close by but from an enforcement point of view there is nothing that our department can do.
Have Parking Services not noticed that the problem is actually the black Astra...?
Update 20/1/12: I have had a further email from Parking Services today which reads;
Apologies Mr Turner, afraid I got the wrong end of the stick! If you ring us when the vehicle is parked across your dropped kerb we can enforce and issue a penalty charge notice to the vehicle. You do have to be in attendance when the officer arrives to confirm that you asked for enforcement.
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This is the kind of parking story you don't read about in the Echo.
The parking story meme they like to perpetuate involves 'rogue clampers'.
In Ray's tale we see inconsiderate parkers as villains..in the Echo stories they are portrayed as victims.
Regardless of painted lines or other signs, it is a criminal offence to wilfully or negligently obstruct free passage TO or FROM or ALONG the highway, including the pavement and the verges, unless ordered to do so by a police officer in uniform or for reasons of medical emergency or mechanical breakdown. The Astra driver would be committing an ACTUAL obstruction unless he has a very good reason for parking there. Enforcement is a mere technicality.
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