Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 29 June to question 11865, on Parking: Pedestrian Areas, when her Department intends to lay secondary legislation on pavement parking.

The Department intends to introduce secondary legislation on pavement parking in two stages.

First, we intend to introduce powers in January 2027 enabling local authorities with civil parking enforcement powers to issue penalty charge notices where a vehicle is parked in a way that unnecessarily obstructs the pavement.

We then plan to introduce powers as soon as possible to enable local transport authorities to prohibit pavement parking in their areas, subject to appropriate exemptions. The timetable for the secondary legislation has not yet been finalised.