READERS are calling for a ban on “inconsiderate” pavement parking.

We recently asked for your photos of bad parking in the city... and you really delivered.

But one street featured heavily in the pictures you sent.

That was Locks Crescent in Portslade. We received more than 20 pictures from people living in the street calling for a ban on pavement parking. A selection of these pictures are shown on this page.

One resident said: “It’s a complete nightmare there every single day and you can’t walk down the path with a buggy.

“It’s an accident waiting to happen and we want it banned.”

Another said: “Traffic wardens have been seen two or three times in the 14 months since our daughter has been at nearby St Nicholas. Also because of this no one gets a ticket so no one is put off. Really they need to either make the pavement wider or put bollards in the way.”

As it is, there is no national ban against either on-street parking or pavement parking. The only exception is in London, where you would not be allowed to leave your vehicle on a pavement.

However, it is an offence to drive on to the pavement – with the intention to park or not. Because this is a criminal offence, as opposed to the vast majority of civil parking offences, it is enforceable by the police, not councils.

It’s possible that a ban on pavement parking could be introduced in the future.

MPs on the transport committee criticised Government inaction in a new report, with witnesses telling the committee’s inquiry that the worst case of pavement parking was effectively trapping disabled, elderly and vulnerable people and making them “afraid to leave their homes”.

MPs on the committee have published The Pavement Parking report which has recommended a ban on pavement parking.

The Pavement Parking report said: “Pavement parking affects everyone who uses the pavement.

“Pavement parking puts pedestrians in danger when they are forced to move into the road to get around a vehicle or where there are trip hazards due to damage to the pavement.

“People with mobility or visual impairments, as well as those who care for others, are disproportionately affected.

“It exacerbates, and is a cause of, social isolation and loneliness for people who feel unable to safely leave their homes or are physically prevented from doing so by pavement parking.”

The cross-party group said blocked off walkways were also exacerbating the issue of loneliness in Britain.

They have recommended that ministers ban pavement parking across England, and hand local councils the powers to crack down on what they dubbed “anti-social parking behaviour”.

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