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afternoon everyone
We recently paid a fine isued by the local council when my son had parked as close as possible to the back doors of his work place.
This is a service road to various shops in the high street which has a fair amount of traffic / buses but virtually no pedestrians.
The shops are old so of all different depths & the curb behind the shops is no more than a couple of inches high in places. Many shops have their bins & the pubs their barrels stacked behind so encroching on the supposed pavement, which varies in width between about 3 or 4 feet &, in places no more than 18/20 inches.
Now, another colleague also has a ticket for the same offence.
So, my questions are these
1) is their a minimum height to constitute a footpath/pavement?
2) is their a minimum width to constitute a footpath/pavement?
We appealed the ticket but got nowhere with the council , but as I am now thinking this is used frequently to catch motorists - is there any recourse?
thanx for looking
Hector
We recently paid a fine isued by the local council when my son had parked as close as possible to the back doors of his work place.
This is a service road to various shops in the high street which has a fair amount of traffic / buses but virtually no pedestrians.
The shops are old so of all different depths & the curb behind the shops is no more than a couple of inches high in places. Many shops have their bins & the pubs their barrels stacked behind so encroching on the supposed pavement, which varies in width between about 3 or 4 feet &, in places no more than 18/20 inches.
Now, another colleague also has a ticket for the same offence.
So, my questions are these
1) is their a minimum height to constitute a footpath/pavement?
2) is their a minimum width to constitute a footpath/pavement?
We appealed the ticket but got nowhere with the council , but as I am now thinking this is used frequently to catch motorists - is there any recourse?
thanx for looking
Hector
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