• DIANA W @DianaW Dalston - updated 2y

    Commercial vehicles parking overnight in residential streets

    Not being a driver, I know practically nothing about what restrictions there may be on parking what vehicles on our streets overnight. Very occasionally, something like a caravan appears briefly but usually disappears very soon.
    Some selfish person parked a huge, dirty-white van outside my house before Christmas, overflowing the parking space there at both ends and blocking the view from both my and my next-door neighbour's front windows; then another, identical van appeared on a single yellow line next to it last night. Neither shows any parking lights but the traffic wardens haven't done anything about them yet, so there they maddeningly remain.
    Talking to unreliable, barely adult children at both my neighbours' homes suggests that someone in each family who doesn't live there permanently may be responsible for each of these vans but catch them removing obstacles to other people's view!
    As this is a quiet residential street, not an industrial vehicle park, can anything prevent such intrusion?

    The AA claims that "Parking rules in London mean that parking commercial vehicles in residential streets overnight is banned in boroughs across the city. [They cite] Rule 244 of the Highway Code" but I can't substantiate that claim by reference to the Highway Code, let alone the legislation said in it to underlie that provision or any other possibly relevant one.

    Does anyone happen to know how to stop this kind of abuse in practice? I need an irrefutable way to stop the selfish tweenager next door from doing this again (such as a criminal offence which would put points on his very new HGV licence) - or from leaving this eyesore parked there any longer, this time - but I can't find anything clear enough.

Anything !

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