Parking today in Peckham Rye - beware ensure you park correctly

[Maria Mac]

Hello - I would like to say how typically calculating it feels that the Parking Services swopped on cars parked on Strakers Road earlier today (between 11-1240pm). Many people were attending a children's charity fun run around the round flower beds near the gates at the cafe end. The car park was full so people parked along both sides of Strakers Road. Unfortunately (we now have the knowledge) it is an offense to park with wheels over the kerb. Many of us checked that there were no parking notices to say it was an offence to park there but mounted the kerb to ensure adequate passage of cars on the road. What a mistake!!! I even asked someone on a bike with a Southwark jersey was it fine to park there and was told yes... but wasn't told ensure yopu don't think it is best to park bumped off the road on the kerb.

In future make sure you park on the road and block any cars getting in and out of the park, particularly emergency services! Is that the position we should take. This is probably something that regularly occurs and Parking Services are taking advantage of the public in thinking it is better to make the road clear for passage.

Instead of the day being a happy event to raise cash for needed charities we have all been out of pocket to the Council. I would urge that the Councillors lobby to add notices to the site to explain the parking regulations... there are no lines along the road at all and no notices to say it is an offence to mount the kerb. Preying on people's ignorance has meant that Parking Services have milked in a considerable revenue today which is ill spirited to those attempting to do good for others.

[Carbonara]

It's always a contravention, everywhere, to park half on the pavement - unless there are lines marked on the pavement to allow for it. I know it's hard sometimes but as drivers the onus is to find somewhere that is safe to park without obstructing access for emergency vehicles, and without obstructing the pavement for prams / wheelchair users etc.

All parking services do you if you have a wheel on the pavement. Most give you a ticket if you have a wheel out of a dotted-line parking space, too, but Southwark are quite lenient ab out this, and don't seem to issue a ticket unless a certain percentage of the car is outside the box. But please do not park like this on my say so - it's not official!

Sorry you got a ticket, anyway.

[Renata Hamvas]

Hi Maria,

Sorry that you have received a ticket. I have checked the regulations surrounding Strakers Road with Council Officers. This is a normal highway, just like any other road and therefore it was a contravention for you to have parked with your wheels up on the pavement. I would suggest in future parking elsewhere and walking to the park. I have asked about notices, this is being looked into. But it would not be standard to put such notices up.

Renata