I have just had a leaflet through my door and it includes an advert from Glasgow Caravan Storage Ltd. It states "Be prepared for the new law in regards to parking of caravans and motorhomes".
This might just be advertising hype but it started me wondering if there is any change in the law happening and if so what.
It might be specific to Scotland or all over the UK
------------- We camped for years. In 2019 we bought an Elddis Avante 454. We like it as it is short (6.9m) and fits in our driveway and has a fixed bed.
We had 127 nights away in the caravan in 2023.
Quote: Originally posted by James Watt on 05/7/2018
Didn't take long to find this :- Look here
Regards James
Thanks but that is about parking on the pavement and does not seem to stop me parking my caravan on the road outside my house if I want to (I keep it in my driveway apart from when I need to work on it or wash it then it is in the road).
------------- We camped for years. In 2019 we bought an Elddis Avante 454. We like it as it is short (6.9m) and fits in our driveway and has a fixed bed.
We had 127 nights away in the caravan in 2023.
The link refers to parking on pavements, not parking of caravans.
For several years it has been illegal to park a caravan or trailer without lights on a public road, and some councils have local bye-laws banning them being parked on public roads when not hitched to a vehicle.
Thanks James,
They had that statement on their advert on a flyer that came through my door. There is nothing similar on their web site.
They say they do valeting and mechanical work so I emailed them and asked if they will valet my caravan which I store at home (about a mile from their place) so easy for me to take it to them. Three days and no reply so I am not impressed.
John
------------- We camped for years. In 2019 we bought an Elddis Avante 454. We like it as it is short (6.9m) and fits in our driveway and has a fixed bed.
We had 127 nights away in the caravan in 2023.
Quote: Originally posted by John4703 on 05/7/2018
Thanks James,
They had that statement on their advert on a flyer that came through my door. There is nothing similar on their web site.
They say they do valeting and mechanical work so I emailed them and asked if they will valet my caravan which I store at home (about a mile from their place) so easy for me to take it to them. Three days and no reply so I am not impressed.
John
About 10 days ago I phoned the local Truma agent who also happens to be a AWS workshop with a view to purchasing an air con and having them fit it.
I left a message on the cell phone and to date they have not replied. So it seems it is common practice not to reply to emails or messages.
Quote: Originally posted by John4703 on 05/7/2018
Thanks James,
They had that statement on their advert on a flyer that came through my door. There is nothing similar on their web site.
They say they do valeting and mechanical work so I emailed them and asked if they will valet my caravan which I store at home (about a mile from their place) so easy for me to take it to them. Three days and no reply so I am not impressed.
John
So your issue is not about a potential new law, but about your issue with the lack of response to your enquiry, then? Plus the possible misleading ad? As regards the latter, report them and tell them why and find someone else to do the job. Your initial post was just as alarmist as theirs.
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Parking on the public highway is a concession. With or without indicated restrictions, at any time the council/police can deem a parked vehicle to be an obstruction and apply fines as they see fit.
Whilst a caravan is really a trailer, for the purposes of taking action it would probably come under "immobilised vehicle".
Bertie.
I would add that vehicles with hazardous damage to them, and parked in such a way (close up to or partially on the pavement) that a passing pedestrian could snag themselves in the process of passing, then the vehicle owner could well be liable at law for causing injury.
Bertie.
Our council have just put up signs allowing people to park half on and half off in some areas and on the same pole on the back of the sign there is another sign banning it, talk about confusing.
Quote: Originally posted by nora on 16/7/2018
If they stop cars parking on pavements . No one will be able to drive down many of our streets they are just too narrow.
So people need to find a better place to park People in wheelchairs need to be able to get along pavements safely.
My wife is disabled and uses me as a walking stick, we walk hand in hand and we sometimes need to walk on the road as the pavement is blocked by cars,
I wonder what those car drivers would think if we walked down a main road or motorway? Cars should stay on the road and pedestrians should walk on the pavement.
------------- We camped for years. In 2019 we bought an Elddis Avante 454. We like it as it is short (6.9m) and fits in our driveway and has a fixed bed.
We had 127 nights away in the caravan in 2023.
Quote: Originally posted by nora on 16/7/2018
If they stop cars parking on pavements . No one will be able to drive down many of our streets they are just too narrow.
if people stopped insisting on parking right outside their house on their side of the street and everyone parked on the same side on the actual road and not on pavements then you can easily get passed
The Scots Gov't is thinking about introducing such a law but it's going to be fraught with difficulty. Take our local road. This was once a Council housing estate but properties were sold off when right to buy came in. Many of the properties are actually 3/4 bed flats. When they went into private hands, the new owners could not use the parking area provided for Council tenants of which there are still a few who do use the site. Answer is that they park on the pavement and they have to because the small local bus couldn't provide the service if they parked full on the road and the bus service is vital as it serves the local Doctor's and Dentist's surgery.
That means that anyone pushing a pram, buggy, is visually impaired or in a wheelchair cannot use the pavement on one side of the road so you have to walk in the road. My Mum was in a wheelchair for six years and I hated having to take her on the road - and the surgery is next door but one from the exit of my drive but everyone, by dint of common sense, parks on the side of the road my drive exits onto.
Yes, it annoys me but I'm also sanguine enough to realise that these people need cars to be able to work (public transport being limited and dire in the winter) and there's a shortage of affordable homes with parking spaces and, locally, no space to provide them. Local topography on our road means that creating even one parking space for any resident is going to cost £ooo's in a) excavation of solid rock on one side of the hill and b) same £s, plus issues of drainage as well, for those downside of the road. It's cloud cuckoo land if you think that the landlords are going to pay - I know some of them!
A lot of our housing stock was built in times when people didn't have cars, worked locally and didn't need them. The world has moved on but our infrastructure hasn't. Personally, though I doubt it will keep going many more years, I like what happens locally - if you cause problems, it's community peer pressure that shames you.
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Topic: New Parking Law?
