On Feb 19, 6:27 pm, MIG wrote:
On 19 Feb, 18:21, Adrian wrote:



Boltar (Boltar ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

Then parking in the road is illegal, as it would cause an
obstruction.
So they can't park on the road and they can't park off it.
Correct.
Are you an awkward sod who thinks he's got a god-given right to park
immediately outside his front door?
Are you the type of awkward sod who wouldn't let people park on the road

If to do so would cause an obstruction, yes. Absolutely. You think that's
a bad thing?

or off it on their own drives

Who's saying that people can't park in their drives? Nobody. This isn't
about whether people can park in their drives or not - but whether they
can park in their front gardens which they'd like to call drives but
haven't actually got vehicular access to.

but expects them to park in the next street?

If that's the nearest, yes.

Or course too bad if the next street is full too with the cars of
people who live in it.

Hiho. Don't like it, don't live in a city. That simple. Or do you think
that absolutely every London resident should be free to park wherever
they like, with no controls or regard to obstruction, in the street they
live in? How's that going to work, then?

I am wondering what legislation allows street parking anyway. I mean,
you can't store other furniture in the street that you can't fit in
your house, so parking cars seems to be a special case, which must be
well defined somewhere.

I've thought that there must be a market for "motorized sheds" that
you could just park outside your house.

Obviously there would be costs involved, at the very least, VED,
insurance and MOT. But presumably they could be electric vehicles with
very little range so probably no VED. Given that they're going to be
very low mileage there's probably the opportunity for a cheap
specialist insurance. And surely it can't cost all that much to get
them through an MOT each year given that they're hardly ever driven.

Tim.