Parking management
Cars can be parked in the road, or on a pavement or verge.
Yellow lines can prevent all types of parking - both on the road or on verges and pavements. Yellow lines can be expensive as there is a lengthy legal process before installation.
To prevent cars parking on pavements and verges, physical measures can be used. They cause an obstruction so cars can not pull onto pavements or verges.
Parking deterrents
Parking restrictions
Cost warning: These costs are rough estimates only. Costs will vary over time, and between different locations.
Bollards
- Good deterrent
- Different designs available
- Can look unsightly
- Can become maintenance liability
- Risk to partially sighted people
Cost: £220 (1 x metal bollard)
£160 (1 x plastic bollard)
£160 (1 x plastic bollard)
Placement: 2m - 2.5m (max)
Verge
Pavement
Planters
- Can be quickly installed or removed
- Can be owned by the community, or sponsored by an organisation
- Adds to street 'greening'
- Can become a maintenance liability if not looked after
Cost: £350 (small planter)
£1000 (large planters)
£1000 (large planters)
Placement: 2.5m apart (max)
Verge
Pavement
Tree planting
- Not effective on their own, as trees must be planted further apart to grow correctly
- Visually enhances the street
- Could be issues with soil, roots and drainage
- Long term maintenance required
- Can be sponsored by local organisations
Cost: £350 upwards
Placement: 3.5m apart minimum
Verge
Pavement
Boulders
- Little / no maintenance
- Very effective
- Sometimes considered unsightly
- Also useful for preventing forced access to land
Cost: £270 (1 x 1m boulder)
£280 (3 x 0.65m boulder)
£280 (3 x 0.65m boulder)
Placement: 2.5m apart (max)
Verge
Pavement
Posts
- Relatively cheap
- Suitable for rural areas
- Easily damaged
- Can become maintenance liability
Cost: £50 (1 x 1.5m high post)
Placement: 2m apart (max)
Verge
Pavement
Low level planting
- Long term maintenance required
- Visually enhances the street
- Only likely to be effective once established
- Could be issues with soil and drainage
- Can collect litter and other debris
Cost: £140 /sq.m
Placement: continuous
Verge
Pavement
Raising existing kerbs
- Unlikely to be effective in isolation
- Could be useful where kerbs are currently very low
- No maintenance
- Very little visual impact on the street
Cost: £35 /m+
(raising a 50mm kerb to 160mm)
(raising a 50mm kerb to 160mm)
Placement: continuous
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Verge
Pavement
Stepped Kerbs
- Extremely effective
- Can be considered unsightly
- Not suitable in residential areas
- Probably only suitable in industrial
areas with existing HGV problems
Cost: £100 /m+
Placement: 2m - 2.5m (max)
Verge
Pavement
Pavement parking ban
- Enforceable with a fine
- Still permits parking in the road
- Keeps all pavement space reserved for pavement users
Cost: £7,000 (15m section)
£9,000 (60m section)
£9,000 (60m section)
Placement: 7m (parking signage)
Alternative Use: Instead of placing many individual signs by pavements to ban pavement parking, entry and exit signs to an area can be used to display the ban.
- Can be easily ignored by motorists
- Requires enforcement patrol
- Requires a TRO, which can be a lengthy and costs process
- May send the message it is 'okay' to park on other pavements
Verge
Pavement
