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"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

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!
*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".
  • 3 weeks later...

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 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.

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....

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