"Theo" wrote in message
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michael adams wrote:

"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Theo
wrote:
But you do get a reserved space outside your house if you get a dropped
kerb installed. OK you aren't supposed to park on it, but it is
effectively reserved for your use (to come and go to your drive) - people
aren't allowed to park in it and so it reserves a little bit of your
street.

not so.

Indeed not. The people who aren't allowed to park on it includes
you. As dropped kerbs aren't associated with particular car
registrations or keepers only with the addresses where they're located.
Which isn't to say this isn't regularly flouted as in streets
without other restrictions, parking wardens would probably only
show up as the result of a complaint from the person with the
dropped kerb

You aren't allowed to park on it, but it is constructed for the sole use to
enter your property.

The dropped kerb is. But that part of the road isn't. Allowing people
to park anywhere on a public road is a concession. All of that road
belongs, and always will belong to the council or whoever. They may
if they see fit, restrict parking on their roads for whatever reason
they wish - including that of not blocking a dropped kerb as applied
and paid for by a householder - but that restriction by the council
on their road doesn't confer any additional rights on anyone to
make use of that piece of road for any purpose whatsoever..

It isn't reserved for you, Mr J. Bloggs, but it's
reserved to allow entrance of the property 99 Acacia Avenue, whose sole
resident happens to be Mr J. Bloggs. The law is different, but the end
result is the same.

My point being we've already have precedent for the principle of reserving a
piece of public street for a particular property (not an individual), and a
similar programme for charging points wouldn't be a major stretch.

It would be for the reason stated above. Preventing people parking outside
a property doesn't confer any rights on anyone; it merely removes a
concession of allowing people to park their cars on roads, or parts of
roads which have never belonged to them.

Doubtless in these straitened times Councils will eventually come up
with schemes covering all such eventualities - for an exorbitant
annual charge to be decided on at the time.


michael adams

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michael adams

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Theo