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17/7/2018 at 12:20am
Location: Isle of Mull
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The Scots Gov't is thinking about introducing such a law but it's going to be fraught with difficulty. Take our local road. This was once a Council housing estate but properties were sold off when right to buy came in. Many of the properties are actually 3/4 bed flats. When they went into private hands, the new owners could not use the parking area provided for Council tenants of which there are still a few who do use the site. Answer is that they park on the pavement and they have to because the small local bus couldn't provide the service if they parked full on the road and the bus service is vital as it serves the local Doctor's and Dentist's surgery.
That means that anyone pushing a pram, buggy, is visually impaired or in a wheelchair cannot use the pavement on one side of the road so you have to walk in the road. My Mum was in a wheelchair for six years and I hated having to take her on the road - and the surgery is next door but one from the exit of my drive but everyone, by dint of common sense, parks on the side of the road my drive exits onto.
Yes, it annoys me but I'm also sanguine enough to realise that these people need cars to be able to work (public transport being limited and dire in the winter) and there's a shortage of affordable homes with parking spaces and, locally, no space to provide them. Local topography on our road means that creating even one parking space for any resident is going to cost £ooo's in a) excavation of solid rock on one side of the hill and b) same £s, plus issues of drainage as well, for those downside of the road. It's cloud cuckoo land if you think that the landlords are going to pay - I know some of them!
A lot of our housing stock was built in times when people didn't have cars, worked locally and didn't need them. The world has moved on but our infrastructure hasn't. Personally, though I doubt it will keep going many more years, I like what happens locally - if you cause problems, it's community peer pressure that shames you.
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