This one takes entitlement to a new level. Imagine being so important that you have to not only park on a public pavement, but then you have to string a high voltage electric cable across it.
Electric cars might help with reducing pollution, but it’s a bit of a safety issue if you’re going to force pedestrians onto the street, let alone parents with strollers or people with mobility issues.
Have you reported it Clausy?
It is a clear offence. Actually two. The reg is clear and its a fair bet the registered keeper is at the same address. Its not as if there are not a fair number of available chargers nearby that would charge it much faster.
Many 13A chargers won’t reach from the house to the road. He wasn’t using an extension lead perchance? That’'s potentially dangerous too.
The plate is a bit odd. Registered in Birmingham in 2005. But the first prototype Tesla didn’t take to the US road until 2006. Not an obvious vanity plate transferred from another car. But it’s legit - I checked.
Report it to whom - Police, Council?
This seems a bit antiquated. Something like ‘fixmystreet’ with a photo upload would be better. The council would make a fortune over time - why not let motorists committing obvious violations pay for the huge shortfalls in funding eh.
https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report/ - is it a ‘crime’ or a ‘road traffic incident’
I do agree though - why an '05 plate? Seems odd - It’s a model X and they came out late 2015.
I may have overstated the cable offence. It depends on the local authority. Some do:
I don’t know the Lewisham situation with their enthusiasm for legalising pavement parking. It’s about time pedestrians started claiming their pavements back.
What’s the betting the bins are there, kept handy, to secure the space. 
I don’t think you have.
It’s total disregard for anyone - without even putting a rag or some kind of marker to warn of the trip hazard at least.
Unless it’s bin day, leaving the bins outside is naughty in itself.
Difficult to imagine either of them being very interested, somehow.
To prevent patrons of JK Banquets bottlenecking the entire road
A great use of Lewisham Council time and resources. Preventing people parking on their own land…
I don’t think anyone objects to people parking on their own land or have I missed something.?
May be he thinks he owns the pavement, a lot of drivers round here seem to. 
You’d surprised at how many people do in fact own the pavement in front of their property but don’t realise it. My brother lives in Guildford and it wasn’t until an amicable discussion with his neighbour with regards to Thames Water accessing a manhole on his property that our dad found out through the deeds that he owns the pavement in front of his property up to the kerb line.
There is a conversation within this thread where Leo says private driveways without dropped kerbs should be reported to the council.
@GotDeletedOnce seems to think that people should be allowed to build private driveways requiring access across the pavement without paying the due fees /getting permission for a dropped kerbs without council enforcement.
The black bricks are clearly in line with the chain link fencing that starts next to next to the station and also with the boundary wall around the rear of Waldram Place. If the entirety of the land out front of FH Cars was with that grey Council paving then I think there might be a case. Would like to see the boundaries on paper tbh.
I think the comment is referring to the pavement parking in front of FH Cars on Perry Vale. The point of my original post was to respond to the ‘cycling on pavements’ to point out that cars drive on pavements too, and in this case right in the middle of town. The original post title was in fact ‘driving cars on pavements’.
The comment is suggesting that FH Cars are parking on their own land which is on the pavement and the real question is why… is there even a dropped kerb that gives them access to drive across the pavement (doesn’t look like it from the map link), and also I’d add why drive onto the pavement when they have a giant car park next door.
From what I can recollect, the section of pavement outside the offices there do drop down fairly close to the road compared to the rest of the pavement on that side of Perry Vale. Also the gates to those car parks are locked more often than not so I imagine they are storage units for the garage instead. I will check when I do my daily Pantry run later. I might even poke my nose into the parking situation with the staff when I book my cab for tomorrow.
No one wants to see bicycles or cars going down pavements for any stretch. But surely we have no issue with either of them bumping up a pavement to get to their front door provided no one is injured or inconvenienced in the process?
God I’ve lived on Perry Vale for too long and used that cab office far too often…
Depends on much damage to the kerb and pavement there is. There is a reason why you have to have a drop kerb installed if you want to park on your drive. If drivers cause damage that everyone else has to pay for then I do have an issue with it (or I would if I still lived there!)
Do you think that would apply to very many houses in inner London though?
Whether there is a dropped kerb or not, this particular offender that @clausy posted a photo of is clearly parking illegally because he’s parked at a fire hydrant.
