Here is the County Council’s response to a wheelchair-bound resident who had to wheel into Windmill Road traffic to avoid inconsiderately parked cars in front of the shops:

though pavement parking is inconsiderate and potentially dangerous when pedestrians are pushed out into the road, fortunately, this does not appear to result in road casualties.  With funding reductions we’ve had to prioritise our resources where they bring the greatest casualty reduction benefit.

This is unacceptable. We are discussing this with the police and the Council. It’s a problem for families with buggies and for our less mobile residents driving motorised buggies too. We have considered printing off Pavements are for Pedestrians stickers but

TVP advised us to not give out the stickers to be used by residents as we could be seen to be assisting ‘criminal damage’.  We asked if we could still use the stickers but place them under the wiper blades but were advised the same – that a car owner could accuse us of damaging their car (and making the car illegal to drive if wiper blades not working properly).

To be continued…  If you have any suggestions about other ways to resolve the pavement parking in London Road and Windmill Road, we’d like to hear from you