Is there anything that says your car must not stick out of a parking space?

[giggles321]

There is a designated space for parking 4 vehicles at the bottom of the road. People need access past these parking spaces to get to the garages at the end. Whilst people yet again, decide to park on the grass verge/pavement on the opposite side to the parking spaces, it makes it difficult to gain access to the garages.
ALSO....one person has a rather large old style rolls royce that they park in one of the designated parking spaces, it sticks out a few foot into the road, which again, makes it difficult to pass, especially when cars are parked on the grass verge/pavement.
Are they any laws or anything that state your car MUST be IN the parking space and not sticking out. How far is allowed to stick OUT of the parking space??
Many thanks.

[giggles321]

According to Gosport council, it is not private land it belongs to the highways.

[Buenchico]

Nobody has ever yet written a law which states "It is an offence for a vehicle to extend beyond the end of a parking bay".

However Section 137(1) of the Highways Act 1980 (as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1982) states:
"If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale" (which means £1000).

Chris

[tigwig]

Sorry to gatecrash your thread giggles I have no idea of the answer but it got me thinking about a problem I often have. Across from the street where I live there is a paved area where further houses are and then a path that leads down to the park. There are 3 cars that constantly park at the top of this path and sometimes there is just room enough to squeeze past if you are walking on your own but if you have a buggy or a child on a bike you cannot gain access to the path at all as there are bollards at either side and it is fenced off surrounding it. This means when I have a double buggy (I'm a childminder) I have no chance of getting through and have to walk quite a way further down the street to join another path which leads to the same place eventually. The land is not adapted to the council so I don't really know what to do about it. I have thought about leaving notes on the cars but I don't think they will stop doing it as parking is limited in the area.

[cassa333]

tigwig,

If the path and road aren't adopted yet find out who owns it. It will likely be the developer.

If you then contact the technical department they will be able to help you more.

[ABerrant]

Where the designated parking is under the auspices of Civil Parking Enforcement (as per Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004) it could be the case that a Penalty Charge Notice may be issued for such a contravention.

Code 24 - Not parked correctly within the markings of the bay or space