And the 5th one from last night...
Our favourite, Sainsbury's. Hazards on again
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Bad parking pics?
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eddie_h The stonemasons van on the previous page blocking the pavement - I know him, he lives up the road from me !
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eddie_h and nellie - I like the way that they've put posts / bollards up to stop people driving into the pavement, but he's still managed to angle himself to get between them!
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I imagine that nearly every little express/metro/local supermarket in central Edinburgh can only be visited by artic lorry through acts of parking infractions. The planners seem to turn a blind eye to the fact that nearly all these places don't have loading bays of their own but require fairly constant visits of lorries to top up their small small but high-throughput shelves. This is magnified by the negligible storage space within the stores, the supermarkets' business model being that the lorry is the warehouse, the stock always rolling.
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South Clerk Street/Nicolson Street/Whatever it is called bus lanes during operational times. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
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Not parking, but on my walk home from college today I had to walk out onto the road on two separate occasions due to workmen dumping their gravel/mud/pallets of bricks on the pavement.
The mind boggles.
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This car is constantly parked like this. I find it unbelievably irritating, far more than I should allow it to.
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Last night a Tesco Home Delivery van was completely blocking the contraflow cycle lane on Eyre Place heading towards the Rodney street Junction'o'hell. He was sticking out a further metre beyond the lane which meant there was absolutely no way anyone could cycle round him, unless they wanted to play chicken with oncoming traffic. He was parked on the bit where they repaired the road, and didn't repaint so no markings. He obviously just assumed that the cycle lane magically stopped for a few metres...
Quite annoyed that I didn't stop and take a picture actually.
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Mr Ediworstdrivers has asked me to remind you that you're all very welcome to submit pics to:
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Nice to see that Google's cameras caught some of the stupid parking you always see on Craigleith Crescent.
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@edd1e_h they were parked in a different formation this morning when I passed but still on the grass ;)
This chap is almost always parked just across the road on the pavement when I pass
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I pass a nursery school when I cycle or walk to and from work. Most evenings there's someone parked on the zebra crossing:
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This morning at 8:45, foot of Marchmont Road, Tesco home delivery lorry double parked in the cycle lane outside of no parked cars for 100 yards. Didnt stop to take a photo but I did ask them as I passed 'could you really not park in a space?'
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This was a week ago on a Sunday, York Place. Some kind of "do" at a club adjacent. Parked on double yellows AND the pavement! I was incensed at the blatant disregard for pedestrians and other road users, so took these pics (click on thumbs for full size):
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Jeepers I could fill a few pages with the way my missus psrks our family bus outside our house if you really wanted to see bad parking.
Dons raincoat of bullet proof steel and hids. ;@)
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I have distributed the title adjective to give a bad pic of bad parking - apologies for the terrible quality. I am including it as it almost caused the non-shoulder-checking pootler in front of me to have an accident with an inconsiderate motorist... carefully parked only to prove an obstacle for cyclists and pedestrians.
Buccleuch Street at 5ish on Friday...
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From the "George Street Improvements" thread:
(I'd tweet it to @EdinburghsWorstDrivers if I could work out how to tweet pictures!!!)Posted 9 years ago # -
This was a week ago on a Sunday, York Place. Some kind of "do" at a club adjacent.
Looks to me to be right outside the police social club.
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perhaps you can't get a ticket for parking on the pavement.... lots of buggies having to negotiate this. I understand if things have to be dropped off, but these have been here for a while apparently not that full...
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is that rankeillor st? cars parked there on street view as well. if i recall correctly, we were told that nothing can be done about it as chemist owns the land. baffling.
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that's the corner of Marchmont Road and Spottiswoode Road... in front of what used to be Freeman's but is shortly to become another similar venue too hip for me to show my face in.
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SRD - Not entirely baffling:
1. Rankeillior Street is included in the Council's list of public roads (including the footways).
2. The ownership of a road makes no difference to traffic enforcement. In Scotland, a road is a way over which there is a public right of passage. A public road is one which the Council is required to maintain, a private road is one which the landowner is required to maintain. A vehicle obstructing people from exercising their right of passage along a road can be moved by a police officer, regardless of whether it is public or privateHowever, I doubt these restrictions would apply to cars parked in the "garden" outside the chemist at the corner with Clerk Street, as this is unlikely to be considered part of the footway. The cars can legally cross the footway to get to this area, the same way cyclists can cross pavements to access cycle tracks.
The cars in algo's picture are clearly causing an obstruction and could be required to move by a police officer (or taken to the pound if this wasn't possible).
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@algo
I've spotted the 'Petit Forrestier' van on the pavement there before.
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I complained to everyone I could think of about parking outside Cargo in Fountainbridge. The answer I received was that this was private land, no official body had any power. Only way to park there was to cross a pavement
Edinburgh planning suggested I raise an official complaint with them for an "authorised change of use". I've tried that before about a separate issue and they replied saying they basically had no idea what the previous planning permission allowed so nothing they would do.
Seems somebody at South West Team had a word though and parking has greatly reduced.
I've taken many photos of pavement parking, some very similar to ones in this thread. Some must have been taken within an hour of each other.
This is what I've worked out or been told:-
Absolutely no parking here (Between Sheraton and old Standard Life building) - Private land and private sign. It's often used as a builders compound anyway.
Fountainbridge cars on grass / pavement - this is private land and nothing anybody can do about it (some council owned).
Sainsburys Fountainbridge - There's no restriction plates marking the hours of operation. I raised a separate complaint with South West team about the cracked pavement due to lorry's parking on it and they said it was still covered by the builders warranty and world arrange for it to be fixed (not done yet).
Fountainbridge Canal / Apartments - privately owned land. I guess these cars belong to Canal staff or boat owners
Soco pavement parking - I'm saving this explanation for a rainy day
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Fountainbridge - Cars can legally cross a pavement to park on private land (Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, Section 129(5)(a)). If they couldn't, then anyone trying to park on their driveway would be committing an offence.
I'm assuming you meant an "UNauthorised change of use". While you can report breaches of planning permission to a planning authority, it is up to them to take action. Planning enforcement action is discretionary, normally only being taken when it is in the public interest. Why not have a look at the Council's planning enforcement charter and then get back to them, reminding them of what they are committed to actually doing:
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/2839/planning_enforcement_charter_2013pdf
Simply say that this site is being regularly used as a car park. It's up to the council to decide whether this is in breach of the permission and then what action to take. I wouldn't hold your breath though.
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Craiglockhart Terrace
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