Tickets for parking across unused driveways

[James Barber]

Please email me and I will ask why you were given a ticket - I'd hope from what you described it would be cancelled.

[peckham_ryu]

I saw a parking enforcement chap getting set to ticket a car parked across the dropped kerb in front of my garage door. Explained that the neighbours are fine to park there as I don't need the access, and they've left cars there alone ever since. I'm pretty impressed that they remember, it can't be easy.

My neighbour came into the road when I was having the conversation. She gave the fellow a right old ear bashing for the fine she had just been sent for the same thing. Anyway I wrote her a letter and the fine got cancelled, so it's definitely worth appealing if it has happened to you.

[Charlie Smith]

Dear Edanna, I asked Council officers for an answer to this problem. Here is their reply.

Enforcement of parking adjacent to dropped kerbs was decriminalised in 2003 in line with "London Local Authorities Act 2003" (section 14) (This was later added in the Traffic Management Act 2004)

This has become the responsibility of local authorities within London to enforce the dropped kerb.

Southwark Council has been enforcing dropped kerbs since 2006 within the Borough. However there are procedures in place to issue parking tickets (PCN)

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES

Dropped kerbs leading to a single occupancy property is only enforced if the resident contacts the parking services to complain about a vehicle parked on the carriageway in front of the dropped kerb leading to the property.

The telephone number residents need to call is 0207 708 8587 which is staffed between 6am to 8pm Monday to Saturday.

A mobile Civil Enforcement Officer (CEO-traffic warden) will attend the location to issue the PCN.

Southwark does not have a car pound anymore, however occasionally a truck is hired to re-position persistent offenders.

BUSINESS PREMISES OR MULTI OCCUPANCY PROPERTIES

Vehicles parked adjacent to dropped kerbs leading to a business property or multi occupancy properties (such as a block of flats) are ticketed without receipt of a phone call.

I hope this has been useful.

Yours Sincerely

Councillor Charlie Smith

East Dulwich Ward Labour Member

[edanna]

Thanks Charlie. That's useful but I think sometimes it's hard for enforcement officers to tell the difference between gates for businesses and for residential properties.