Pavement parking

Yes, it became illegal here in Scotland in December, I think. We've had a problem with it here in my street for years, because the nature of the ways the houses were built means that many can't have their own driveways. We are lucky, as we have parking at the rear of our house. Since the ban came into force, we have seen the traffic wardens out quite a few times, and I know a couple of my neighbours received parking tickets.

Is it illegal in Scotland? I didn't know that. There are cars parked on the pavement outside my house, daily, here in Scotland.
If I catch them I politely point out that the pavement is for pedestrians and sometimes they move or say they'll move.

The pavement gets very hard to navigate especially with a wheelchair or for the disabled people who live in the house next door.

I agree in theory. But here the roads in new estates are so narrow that parked cars, even on just one side of the road, would mean that a fire engine couldn’t get past without cars parking half on the pavement .The houses I’m thinking of where DD2 used to live, are terraced with no garage or parking space. A real problem.

Definitely! Pavements are for pedestrians, or they were when I was learning to drive. I see so many vehicles obstructing pavements, often meaning that wheelchair users, mobility scooters, people pushing prams etc have to walk in the road to get by. Add overgrown shrubbery and it makes it almost impossible to use the pavements at all. Thoughtless behaviour by the motorists