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I saw a $car this morning watching the school zig zags outside St. Catherine's on Watling Street just east of the Erith Road Junction. He was enterprising enough to have parked in one of the few parking bays so as to reduce the number of places parents could legally park. I got a shot from google maps as there were a lot of kids outside the school and I thought people might get the wrong idea. I don't mind being labelled a nonce but I would be mortified if parents thought I was employed by Parking Services! This school run thing is a nice little earner when you think about it. A forty-five minute window of intensive $camming, twice a day, before setting off to brighten up some other lives around the town.
Nice one Pep, Seggsy is my brother, I'll make sure he has a read of the above.
Seggsy is my brother.
I'm pretty sure that any vehicle is able to load/unload if no specific vehicle is specified on the warning sign. It would be ridiculous to expect someone to carry, say, two A4 boxes a distance of half a mile by way of an example. That is the whole point of a loading bay. I'm not sure where PATAS would stand on this second point, but you should be able to set down/pick up passengers. Whether you are carrying cargo or people, it must still amount to loading/unloading.
I don't know about Bexley, but in the Met., the guideline is 5 minutes observation for cars, and 10 minutes for vans. If no loading/unloading is seen within those times, then a PCN is issued. Your Zafira would be classed as a car.
Quote from: DastardlyDick on 23 October, 2011, 10:34:24 AMI don't know about Bexley, but in the Met., the guideline is 5 minutes observation for cars, and 10 minutes for vans. If no loading/unloading is seen within those times, then a PCN is issued. Your Zafira would be classed as a car.I wasn't given the ticket for loading or unloading or being in the bay for what they consider too long. I was given it for being a in a place not designated for my class of vehicle. There is no information, painted on the road or on a sign, qualifying what vehicle can park there, therefore any vehicle can use the place. In Nigel's very helpful post a precedent has already been set that my type of vehicle, a Vauxhall Zafira is classed as a goods vehicle so even if there was a goods vehicle sign I still had the right to park there.I will win the appeal
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