Beau9999

Hello Mr Barber, It is well and good that one can call parking enforcement. I am sure the weekly frequency, if not daily, would have been too much for everyone even the parking enforcement. Who would have the time to wait for the parking enforcement to come out to resolve the situation? Not to mention that you still have to find the culprit driver to move his or her car. Once or twice maybe. Eventually, even the parking enforcement would not even want to respond. I am afraid the parking enforcement system is not really efficient. Direct confrontation with the culprit drivers, whether by property owners themselves or by parking enforcement/police can escalate things. One also has to take into consideration that culprit drivers know where the complainants live. Best regards Beau

Re wheelie bins on the road as mentioned by 1921, I can see the point of view of the bin and driveway owners. Some driveways are not wide. There maybe a space in between two properties or driveways big enough for just a small car to fit in. However, once there is a small car parked there, this will make getting in and out of a tight driveway into and from the narrow road difficult as the visibility of the oncoming traffic on the road is significantly reduced and there might be risks of touching if not hitting the parked cars when trying to get in and out of the driveways. But when a normal size or big car van truck parked there, as this is normally the case by the desperado car parkers, the front or back of their vehicles or both front and back sticking out effectively blocking the driveways no matter how little which make manoeuvering in and out of the driveways more difficult. Therefore, driveway owners resort to putting bins out on the road on this small gap, as this would be the case if on a refuse collection day, trying to discourage people park their cars there. However, most desparados would shift the bins on to the pavement in order to park their cars but they would never put the bins back on the road when they have their convenience and just simply drive off. This make the wrong impression to the pedestrians thinking that why the bin owners put their bins on the pavement. Unless the council is willing to do something, or even put double yellow lines in between this small gap of space, desparados with big vehicles will continue to park there blocking driveways, and driveway owners will continue to put their bins on the road to discourage parking in order to have risk free access to their own properties.