"markzoom" wrote in message
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"Rusty" wrote in message
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rusty

That would be good, thanks.


There might be a chance that the "89 Private..." sign
would give a future owner of my house posession of the parking spaces
next to the house (adversly?). Again, from the point of view of
neighbours using the access, that would be the least of evils since it
would at least be clear of cars when the new owner wasn't in.



If your house is #89 it must be on the corner of the main road and the side
road which rings a lot of bells. From experience here, one way you could
get a no parking order would be if traffic was finding it difficult getting
off the main road due to persistent bad parking in the side road and backing
up or obstructing traffic in the main road as a consequence. But the police
would need to investigate and support the application with evidence from
neighbours and the application needs to go via the parish/town council and
get approval by the county inspector of highways. There will be a queue of
hundreds of such applications and yours will be a small scale one at the
bottom of the list so you could well be waiting for 4 to 5 years as it
grinds on its way through the system, so its a major project.

And the downside is, while it's hard to get a parking order, it's even
harder, if not actually impossible, to get rid of one. So if you
succeeded, you or a new owner would effectively be prevented from parking up
at the side of your own house for generations to come.

Tricks used here are (a) to find some red cones and put those out (probably
illegal) (b) get a smallish old banger and park it outside your own house
permanently (probably legal). This would cost you the tax disk and MOT per
annum.

rusty