Careful! I used to live on Westwood Park. I lobbied to stop the pavement parking there. In response, Lewisham Council gave the residents on the street a vote on whether or not to permit footway parking, and, not surprisingly, the vote was in favour. So now there are parking bays marked on the pavements...

Interestingly, the vote caused real debate in some households, with requests for additional votes for each resident - parents and children were voting against each other! And the vote in favour was surprisingly modest - I reckon with a determined campaign it could have gone the other way. Still, if it had, I very much doubt the rabidly "Freedom to do just exactly what I choose with my car" brigade would have taken the result lying down.

I thought it was outrageously unfair of the Council to only give votes to the people who lived on Westwood Park - after all, the street belongs to everyone, not just those who live there. So I again lobbied for change, and the Council eventually put a moratorium on introducing any new footway parking schemes.

This doesn't mean they aren't continuing to turn a blind eye to footway parking infringement, of course...

And Hi! Big Julie, Baggy Dave...