Police Camera Vans

[Denton]

Are The above LEGALLY allowed to park on pavements when in use? Although a blind-eye is turned for us Plebs,it is technically illegal.

[Canary42]

I don't believe it is illegal per se, but only if you are causing an obstruction. No doubt we will be enlightened by someone more expert.

[Cloverjo]

Going through somewhere in the SE yesterday, there were parking spaces in residential areas painted half on the road and half on the pavement. I assume these were legal, but I couldn't see how anyone in a wheelchair or pushing a pram could get past them without going onto the road.

[10ClarionSt]

I've seen them half on, half off, on double yellow lines, which doesn't seem right to me. In particular on the A58 between Heywood and Castleton, in Rochdale. I've often wondered if they were illegally parked.

[ubasses]

London is the only place where it is illegal to park on pavements, for the rest of England, in the highways code it only in the advisory category. Government are looking at it at the moment and will probably bring the country in line with London.

[Denton]

If that happens,ubasses,then Camera Vans on pavements will be illegal then?

[Buenchico]

>>> then Camera Vans on pavements will be illegal then?

Quite possbly not. There are already exemptions in the laws about speeding and going through red lights (etc) which mean that emergency service vehicles can do such things when it's operationally necessary, so similar exemptions (covering vehicles involved in law enforcement activities, irrespective of whether they're operated by the police, a local authority or a contractor) might be written into any proposed legislation banning pavement parking.

Possibly relevant:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44466813