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Parking on pavements - Heather M (14th Oct 2014 - 16:00:42) Namely on hill house hill (dangerous parking on that bend !) & Headley Road. Could people please show some common courtesy & common sense to those of us with pushchairs & wheelchair users ! Next time I am forced to navigate out onto the road I will call the police to get your vehicle moved!

Re: Parking on pavements - SM (14th Oct 2014 - 17:41:13) There have been lots of delivery vans parking and unloading on double yellow lines too lately. I will take pictures and send them using the new app I've just discovered on my phone. You are causing major obstructions to the roads and pavements.

Re: Parking on pavements - Amy (14th Oct 2014 - 18:40:46) I was actually at the doctors the other day and they had to call an emergency ambulance for someone but they couldn\'t even get near the surgery as a delivery van refused to move despite being warned the ambulance was on it\'s way. It is very hard getting about with a pushchair with cars all over the place

Re: Parking on pavements - Heather M (14th Oct 2014 - 18:59:22) The vehicles parked on the pavement today which obstructed my journey on foot belonged to residents . (Sign written van belonging to a local painter & decorator)

Re: Parking on pavements - Matt (14th Oct 2014 - 20:01:28) And nobody has mentioned the continued parking on the pavement outside of the Indian Takeaway right on the roundabout and outside of Daisy's Tea Room opposite. Totally inconsiderate and against the law.

Re: Parking on pavements - Woo (15th Oct 2014 - 08:19:57) I drove down the Haslemere Road last Friday morning at 8.15 and the vehicles parked on the side of the road there was awful, just before the entrance to Malthouse Meadows.

Re: Parking on pavements - A. Ryan (15th Oct 2014 - 09:54:56) Woo, The Haslemere road has been a real problem for a few weeks now due to builders parking along the road. Why could they not park in the library car park for now and keep the road clear. Obviously deliveries would have to park there, but these vehicles are just left there while they work. It adds to the chaos in the mornings. While I am moaning, why must the dustbin lorries start in the centre of Liphook at the most busiest of times and head further out as the day goes on . If they reversed this by the time they got to the centre the traffic would have eased.

Re: Parking on pavements - eleanor (15th Oct 2014 - 14:01:19) This morning on the school run, myself, 2 children with scooters and 1 in a pushchair had to contend with a van completely blocking the pavement. We had to walk in the road and my 4 year old fell over getting back up on the kerb leaving him a dangerous position.

Re: Parking on pavements - Dawn Hoskins (15th Oct 2014 - 15:08:56) Eleanor, Well done for taking the photo. Send it to the police as well. They may have a facebook and twitter page to upload onto. If everyone does this and gets and incident number for each event then they will have to do something [despite having almost no policemen, practically no physical station buildings left and about 3 pence for their annual budget]. Now all we need is for people to take the same sort of photos of dog owners letting their dogs off to poo all over town to send to the county dog wardens. Then we really will have a clean up. Photographic evidence is all you need (and to send it the right place of course). The pic and a report has already been sent to our local crimestoppers PC

Re: Parking on pavements - tony (15th Oct 2014 - 21:25:00) I doubt that any crime has been committed here. It's a misconception that it's illegal to park on the pavement, In fact it's illegal in London, but not in the rest of the country, your guess is as good as mine! Parking offences have been decriminalised in any event, and are the responsibility of the local council, not the police. If you feel that your area should be designated a 'no pavement parking' area, you have to lobby the council, who have a procedure that needs to be followed and IF they agree to implement one, (which is a big if), then it must be followed by legally enforceable signage placement on a street by street basis. But since government has already decreed that pavement parking is actually preferable to blocking the road and have refused to change the law, no doubt with a view to ever more densely built up towns with rabbit hutch housing developments and more cars, I suspect it's a dead duck complaining. So that's the law, you have to obey it!

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