Pavement Parking: An Unhappy Fifth Birthday

About this episode

The episode discusses the lack of government action on pavement parking in England and features an interview with Tanya Braun from Living Streets.

Last week marked five years since the previous government's pavement parking consultation ended and in that time, no action has been taken. Despite cross party, and public support, no decisions have been made by any of the intervening four prime ministers’ governments. In the meantime local authorities in Scotland began enforcing its pavement parking law, passed in 2019, with some success. There, drivers can be fined £100 for these parking behaviours; reduced to £50 if paid within 14 days. To discuss what went wrong in England, we have Tanya Braun, Living Streets’ Director of External Affairs and Fundraising. Living Streets has long campaigned to ban pavement parking; for decades, in fact - see March 2025's episode, interviewing veteran walking campaigner Terence Bendixson. Ned, Laura and Adam discuss with Tanya the way forward - and the impact of the hiatus on action, which hits very close to home for Ned. Living Streets has produced a map of ‘pavement parking hotspots’, which people can add problem locations to. More than 1500 people have added photos of vehicles left parked on pavements in a new campaign organised by the charity. Manchester and Oxford are among the worst…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ned, Laura, Adam

Guest: Tanya Braun

Topics covered

• pavement parking
• government action
• disability rights
• local authorities
• public support

Keywords

• pavement parking
• Living Streets
• government consultation
• disability
• local authorities
• fines
• campaign

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Living Streets

Places: Scotland, England, Manchester, Oxford

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