Consultation outcome

Managing pavement parking

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 31 August 2020
• Last updated: 8 January 2026 — See all updates

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

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Pavement parking options for change: government response

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Pavement parking options for change: government response (PDF version)

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Pavement parking options for change: government response (Easy Read version)

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Detail of outcome

We received 15,381 responses to this consultation from individuals, local authorities, businesses and other organisations.

This document summarises the responses and provides the government response to the consultation.

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Original consultation

Summary

Proposed options to tackle pavement parking at a local authority or national level.

This consultation ran from
12:15am on 31 August 2020 to 11:59pm on 22 November 2020

Consultation description

Consultation asking whether a change of existing pavement parking legislation should occur.

We are proposing 3 options:

1. Improving the Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) process, under which local authorities can already prohibit pavement parking.

2. A legislative change to allow local authorities with civil parking enforcement powers to enforce against ‘unnecessary obstruction of the pavement’.

3. A legislative change to introduce a London-style pavement parking prohibition throughout England.

Documents

Pavement parking: options for change

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Annex A: impact assessment, pavement parking restrictions

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Large print interactive questionnaire

PDF, 1.22 MB, 20 pages

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Easy read: parking on the pavement questionnaire

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Published 31 August 2020

Last updated 8 January 2026 + show all updates

1. 8 January 2026

   Consultation outcome published.

2. 29 June 2023

   We are evaluating the feedback we received and will provide further information in due course.

3. 30 October 2020

   Large print interactive questionnaire and audio file of consultation text added.

4. 31 August 2020

   First published.