Interesting comments above about people exercising common sense and not parking too close to corners, or in places where there might be an obvious danger.

I think that the sad fact is that a lot of drivers in the UK, and particularly London are now so conditioned by PCN's etc that they can't see beyond the "is there a restriction here?" bad man view of parking. Which means that they park right up to corners/drives etc. with no thought as to the danger/inconvenience they might be causing.

As pessimistic as it sounds, I don't think it's going to change anytime soon either. Around the streets south of HOP where I live we have a real problem with this sort of behaviour, and I have yet to see anyone ticketed for it. Interesting that the Highway Code still says you ought not park within 32 feet of a junction, though I suspect that if the constabulary spent their time enforcing this there wouldn't be time for them to do anything else.