Pavement parking
Pavement parking is not permitted across London unless the area is specifically exempted. Where it is allowed it is indicated by white bay markings and appropriate exemption signs. This is explained within the Highway Code, which all motorists are expected to be familiar with.
- The pavement parking ban applies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Vehicles parked on pavements can be issued with a penalty charge notice.
- Do not park opposite another parked vehicle if it would cause an obstruction. It is the registered keepers’ responsibility to ensure they do not park opposite another vehicle or on the pavement and to find alternative legal parking.
- Residents do not necessarily have a right to park outside their homes and if legal parking is not available then alternative legal parking must be sought in the surrounding area.
Dropped kerb parking
Parked causing an obstruction to pedestrian dropped kerbs is not permitted and is enforced by the London Borough of Hounslow.
By parking in this manner you:
- Cause a hindrance to members of the public with wheelchairs and pushchairs
- Make crossing the road difficult to the elderly and infirmed
- Obstruct the view of motorists when turning
As well as receiving a Penalty Charge Notice your vehicle may also be removed to the council's car pound.
Pay and display
- Pay and display machines and meters in the main town centre areas and at other locations throughout the Borough enable parking in “shared use”, pay and display, and meter bays.
- The charges and lengths of stay are advertised at the ticket machines and on meters.
- Parking attendent known as Civil Enforcement Officer will issue penalty charge notices to vehicles illegally parked (under the provisions of the Traffic Management Act 2004 (as amended).
- Pay and display tickets must be clearly displayed, so that all details on the ticket are clearly visible from outside the vehicle.
Public and bank holiday parking restrictions
- The on-street, off street 'pay and display' charges and controlled parking zones do not apply on public and bank holidays
- Yellow lines and loading restrictions are an in force during the times shown on the relevant sign, even if this falls on a public or bank holiday
- Like yellow lines, bus lanes, disabled bays, bus stops, taxi ranks and loading bays are in force during the times shown on the relevant sign, even if this falls on a public or bank holiday
- Footpath parking restrictions and white pedestrian crossing zig-zag restrictions apply all day, every day, including public and bank holidays
- The council is closed on public or bank holidays including the period between Christmas and new year