We received a petition asking:
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make it illegal to park in a parent and baby parking spaces without a baby/toddler.”
Details of Petition:
“I think parking permits should be issued in baby pack on the birth of yor child? Then, like disabled parking bays, you would need a permit to park in parent and baby spaces. Some places thankfully provide larger parent/baby spaces in their car parks but they are not policed in any way. They are there for a reason. Its very difficult to get your child in and out of car seats without the room to open the car doors sufficiently. Car seats are now law - so therefore making it easier to use them should be. Its very frustrating to see someone without children using these spaces and there’s nothing that can be done about it. The issue over disabled parking bays has been in the press a lot recently. Parent/baby spaces should be treated in the same manner with the same respect! Please bring in new laws in relation to parent and baby parking spaces.”
· Read the petition
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Read the Government’s response
Responsibility for traffic management on local roads rests with the relevant local authority as they are best placed to consider how local needs can most effectively be met. It is a matter for individual authorities to decide on the nature and scope of parking controls and to balance the needs of residents, emergency services, local business and those who work in and visit the area.
The local authority has a wide range of powers under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to regulate traffic and to introduce traffic management measures such as ‘parent and baby’ parking bays if there is a heavy demand for off-street parking in a particular area. The decision whether to introduce such a scheme is entirely a matter for the local authority. The authority also has the flexibility in deciding how the scheme should work. For example, they are able to decide how to share out parking spaces between bays set apart for ‘parent and baby’ and spaces where all other motorists can park. Where the local authority has obtained Civil Parking Enforcement (CPE) powers under the Traffic Management Act 2004, it is able to enforce its own parking schemes.
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