Dulwich Hi-Fi Station / Car Forecourt

[SimonM]

Try section 184 of the Highways Act 1980

[macroban]

Thanks, SimonM, but Section 184 does not make this illegal except in the limited circumstances of Section 184 (17).

[SimonM]

"Under section 184 of the Highways Act 1980 if you want to construct a vehicular access (also called a 'dropped crossing') to your property across a public footway then you need permission from the Highway Authority to do so. If the road is classified (an A or B road) you will also need planning permission, which you will need to apply for separately. There are two main reasons for building a vehicle crossing. Firstly, pavements are designed and constructed for pedestrian use. Persistent driving over or parking on a pavement may cause hazardous potholes or may damage underground cables and pipes, which can be dangerous and costly to repair. Secondly, it is an offence to drive a vehicle over a pavement or verge which is not part of a properly constructed vehicle crossing and the Council has powers under the Highways Act 1980 to serve a Notice on offenders and recover all reasonable costs for building a vehicle crossing.

It is against the law for a vehicle to cross a footway other than via a properly constructed crossing."

That is from http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/DroppedkerbsCrossings_index.htm

[Carrie]

I used to prosecute people for driving/parking on the pavement when I worked at Camden Counci - it was many years ago so my memory is quite hazy but I think we used Highways Act 1835 - obviously no cars around at that time but the legislation referred to carriages of any kind so cars were caught by it!

[blinder999]

this from section 72 of the 1835 Highways Act?

"...a person shall be guilty of an offence if he ...shall wilfully lead or drive any carriage of any description upon any such footpath or causeway."

[macroban]

SimonM - Section 184 is largely about getting permission to build a dropped kerb, and only in a limited sense about driving a vehicle across a footpath.

Carrie / blinder999 - this may be it. Do you know where we can see the text?

[PowerCorruptionLies]

*Bob* spot on with your dry wit observation! Personally I wouldn't buy a car from the kerb-side (the eBay generation!) but I'm all in favour of a little enterprise and the man's ingenuity in working round the endless strings of local authority red tape! As George Orwell said "if there is any hope, it lies with the proles".

[templeton]

Proles?? He runs his own business, hardly proletariat material.

[Rarm Strarm]

What is moo 2 blah blah?

Meanwhile, Sebastian Media has just bought a plush 4-bedder on Friern. He invites his Islington pals down to wow them with the delights of Moo 2 blah blah.. only to turn the corner and see a crumbling Almera plonked on the pavement with ?599! stuck on the front, hand-written in a black marker pen. He's not happy.. his pals laugh.. he looks like a right plum.

[Muttley]

Until the early 90s, the shop that is now Mrs Robinson sold used cars, which I'm pretty sure were all parked up on the pavement. Oh how times change.

[giggirl]

Muttley Wrote:

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> Until the early 90s, the shop that is now Mrs

> Robinson sold used cars, which I'm pretty sure

> were all parked up on the pavement. Oh how times

> change.

Yes I remember that. Always had about four to six cars parked up.

[macroban]

What is now Ralon Stationers used to be a car salesroom too.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

I pass his little forecourt every week on my way to sing and sign and I find it awfully amusing, a little enclosed space! I have never seen anyone enter that shop either, I find it bizarre like that Ravlon Shop and the arcade....