Illegal parking or highway obstruction
Information and contacts for you to report this type of anti-social behaviour.
Currently, outside of London, there is specific no law to prohibit parking on pavements, but if the pavement parking coincides with other enforceable parking issues, the council or the police will deal with them.
Parking issues are handled by a mixture of local authority and police powers, depending on the situation.
Your county or city council will deal with issues where a vehicles is parked in, or on:
- limited waiting bays
- double and single yellow lines
- on street pay and display bays
- residents’ parking zones
- Blue Badge bays
- loading bays
- bus stops
- taxi bays
- school keep clears
- clearways
To report vehicles to Derby City Council, telephone: 01332 640000.
To report vehicles to Derbyshire County Council:
Derbyshire police will deal with illegal parking, where the vehicle is parked:
- on zig zag lines
- dangerously
- in a way that would prevent emergency vehicles from accessing
To report vehicles to Derbyshire police: