Question follow-through · 67784

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she is taking steps to ban pavement parking.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Department for Transport
Tabled
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
16 Jul 2025
Answer
21 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she is taking steps to ban pavement parking.

  2. 16 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Department held a consultation on pavement parking in 2020 and has been considering all the views expressed in response to the consultation and is currently working through the policy options and the appropriate means of delivering them. We will annou...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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