The issue here is that there will be nothing done by the police and the council as they do not have the manpower. Apart from the parking officers on their scooters handing out tickets to those parked over the half hour allowed or people parking in CPZ's they do not do anything else.

I rang the council to ask if they could send traffic enforcement to stop our neighbors crossing the pavement and parking on the front lawn of their flats meaning we were unable to park on our CPZ (for which we pay quite a bit) and the response was "sorry, we don't have the manpower".

Don't hold your breath.