On 18/03/2020 09:14, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 18/03/2020 08:52, michael adams wrote:
"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Theo
wrote:
charles wrote:
In article , Theo
wrote:
We already have a solution for this - it's what happens with dropped
kerbs. If you want a dropped kerb outside your house you ask the
council for permission, pay the fee, their contractor comes and makes
it for you.

You could imagine the same principle for charge points - apply to the
council, council electrician comes and installs approved charge point
in the road, wired in to your electricity supply, council makes good
the pavement. You get a proper 32A (or whatever) fast charging point
outside your house.

But you don't have a reserved parking space outside your house.

But you do get a reserved space outside your house if you get a dropped
kerb installed.Â* 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

michael adams

I have had somebody park in my driveway before

If they blocked you ON your drive, you could have got the
police to deal with them, but if they stopped you from
getting onto your drive, then the plod wouldn't help.