Question follow-through · 64902

Pedestrian Areas: Parking and Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans her Department has to (a) reduce pavement parking and (b) encourage the removal of obstacles for pedestrians with visual impairments.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 3 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 7 Jul 2025
Answer: 11 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans her Department has to (a) reduce pavement parking and (b) encourage the removal of obstacles for pedestrians with visual impairments.
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government fully understands the serious problems that vehicles parked on the pavement, and other obstacles on the pavement, can cause for pedestrians, especially people with mobility or sight impairments and those with prams or pushchairs. The Depart...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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