"Loading" on a residents parking space

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Wed 20 Aug 2008 11:31
"Loading" on a residents parking space - Mapmaker
I was (un)loading the car this morning which was on a residents' parking space (on the road). As I returned to the car and drove off, I noticed a traffic warden 15' from the car scribbing on his pad.

No doubt I am in for a ticket, but is loading permitted on residents' parking spaces?
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Wed 20 Aug 2008 11:55
"Loading" on a residents parking space - VR6
When I used to live on a street with residents parking the following applied:

You can park without a permit for loading / unloading a small number of large heavy objects, or multiple small objects to a house on the street.

You should write to the highways department of the local council for clarification

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Wed 20 Aug 2008 12:07
"Loading" on a residents parking space - Optimist
I live in a residents' parking street.

If someone has something substantial to deliver to us we give them a visitor's permit to display on the car.

If someone is near the car unloading without a permit and explains, the warden will use his discretion. If the car looks as though it's parked, he'll ticket it. Quite right because I have to pay to park there.

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Wed 20 Aug 2008 12:18
"Loading" on a residents parking space - movilogo
If it is obvious from logo outside the van that it is a delivery van and hazard lights are blinking and someone is actually loading something then it is clearly a loading and it will be unfair to issue a ticket for that.

However, if the van is shut and parked without lights etc. (eg. driver went somewhere to drop a parcel by locking the van, it will be very difficult for someone to judge where it is parked or loading.

Edited by movilogo on 20/08/2008 at 12:20

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Wed 20 Aug 2008 12:56
"Loading" on a residents parking space - Mapmaker
Silly me, should have googled. It tells me to appeal.
www.southwark.gov.uk/YourServices/transport/parkin...l

Anyway, movilogo, hazard lights are not a substitute for parking legally - see link.
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Wed 20 Aug 2008 17:30
"Loading" on a residents parking space - Dwight Van Driver
Under the old system M you would have got away with it as he didn't stick a ticket on the vehicle or hand it to you thereby serving it.

Now once they start making out a ticket then they can send by post.

As far as loading/unloading goes then one would have to see just exactly was in the
Traffoc Order covering the area involved.

dvd
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Wed 20 Aug 2008 17:41
"Loading" on a residents parking space - Mapmaker
Thanks, DVD, yes I'm on the lookout for the brown envelope. As it was five minutes after the penalty time began in the morning, and I got going before he'd finished writing the ticket, it's fairly persuasive that I'd only been breaking the law for five minutes, thus with luck it was indeed loading.

Where should I look for a Traffoc Order, and what should I look for in it?


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Wed 20 Aug 2008 21:15
"Loading" on a residents parking space - b308
Could he not have just been noting your number to ensure that you were gone quickly after unloading? Round our way the wardens write the car numbers in their book with a time and then check that the cars gone when they come back later. Think you may be fearing the worst when it may not be the case!
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Thu 21 Aug 2008 08:20
"Loading" on a residents parking space - Dwight Van Driver
M

Local Authority of area - Traffic Management Section.

Plod used to keep copies but now with decriminalisation doubful.

dvd
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Thu 21 Aug 2008 11:45
"Loading" on a residents parking space - Mapmaker
Round our way the wardens write the car numbers in their book



Let me know where such a bucolic idyll continues to exist and I shall move in next door!
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Thu 21 Aug 2008 13:44
"Loading" on a residents parking space - b308
Kiddy, at least thats what I thought they were doing - they had a book and go round the limited time road parking making a note of numbers than later on go back and check them... how do the others do it then?!
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