Pavement parking is never "supposed to be encouraged". When most cars park on the pavement in one street there is a compromise - lines are drawn to try and contain this abuse. OK, if you are going to do it only do it up to this point.
Should it be made easy to park on the pavement?
No, I don't think so. Pavements are for pedestrians.
According to Lewisham:
Pavement parking is allowed under certain circumstances and signs and white boxes on the ground show where and how far on the pavement it is permitted to park.
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Where pavement parking is permitted, markings on the footway will indicate the extent of the area where you can park, and 'pavement parking area starts' and 'pavement parking area ends' signs will be displayed.
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you may only park on the footway where there is a signed exemption from the footway parking ban. In other words the signs will be displayed and there will be markings on the footway indicating where you may park.
Sounds like official policy and not a compromise exercise to me. This clearly applies on the streets in question which are too narrow otherwise. The remaining footpath is plenty wide enough for pedestrians, prams, buggies, wheelchairs, etc. Parking on the footpath where it is not formally permitted is obviously idiotic and inconsiderate. People who do so deserve to be ticketed but that does not apply on the streets concerned here.
The original question is, where it is official council policy for parking to be partially on the pavement, shouldn't they adjust the kerbs to make this achievable without damaging your vehicle?
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