Is this actually legal on a public highway?

Thu 6 Feb 2025, 13:06

Probably just the property where the cones are located ? - or like everyone else, find another space and walk !

Thu 6 Feb 2025, 11:59

I will stop whining now and refrain from commenting on this forum! 🤣

Thu 6 Feb 2025, 11:57

Jan going am I expected to knock on every door in Sheep Street to establish if its ok for me to remove the cones to park on a public highway? Seriously! The point is they are not meant to be there! 

Thu 6 Feb 2025, 09:48

Speaking as a pedant, off-topic but related to the use of the now common phrase "First world", the third in "Third world" does not denote a third-rate or third-class economy. The term was coined to denote a political category of "other countries", during the post WWII cold-war era, to differntiate them from the other two blocks of countries: East and West, rather than First or Second.

Thu 6 Feb 2025, 09:19 (last edited on Thu 6 Feb 2025, 13:04)

Looks like a storm in a tea cup ! 

The need to secure space for lorry / delivery, needs to be the day before

Otherwise the space will be occupied.

Well done Ben for not having noisy cones 

Moaning about traffic and noise in a town centre, well - this is the result of buying a property in close proximity to such establishments. 
If you don’t like the results of what the town’s amenities can offer; then don’t go in and use them or support them ! 

Thu 6 Feb 2025, 07:58

Its very strange that people have to resort to this site to whinge about cones, parking, etc.  Why not approach the owner of the offending house directly?  First world problems!

Thu 6 Feb 2025, 07:40

Thank you for you honesty Ben and I'm glad it's not because you have been saving yourself a parking space! 

Wed 5 Feb 2025, 23:03

Fair play Ben. As an issue it’s dwarfed by the impact of illegal parking by visitors to your neighbours.

Wed 5 Feb 2025, 19:56 (last edited on Wed 5 Feb 2025, 19:57)

Hello Everyone,

Apologies, I am the guilty party. We do indeed have renovation work ongoing at the rear of our property and we have had several deliveries of materials in the last couple of days (and occasionally last year), hence the cones (they are owned by our builders and not mine personally!). It is only done occasionally and certainly not to reserve a spot for our private car! Appreciate it could be inconvenient given the paucity of parking in the town centre, but hopefully people can bear with us on the odd occasion.

Best wishes,

Ben

Wed 5 Feb 2025, 15:24

Well I would like to think it was for unloading purposes but it has been like that every Monday evening for weeks, hence my questioning.I can't say that it is only Mondays but it is only Mondays when I need to collect my grandson with SEN and I can't park close by because of the cones. Now I know it's not legal, I will simply remove them and park in this enormous car parking space as there is rarely any parking spaces in Co-op or at the Community Centre at that time of the day.😁

Wed 5 Feb 2025, 15:18 (last edited on Wed 5 Feb 2025, 15:20)

I quite like the road cones. They don’t park on the pavement, they don’t rev their engine outside my house at silly o’clock, they don’t block the bus from getting through, they don’t sit with their engine idling for two hours because the chauffeur is a bit cold while his employer is having a nice meal in the pub, and they never exceed 20mph. A lot of Charlbury drivers could learn from their example. #bemoreroadcone

Wed 5 Feb 2025, 14:44

I'd like to know of any builders merchant or scaffold company prepared to deliver after 6.00 pm. which is when photo was taken?

Tue 4 Feb 2025, 21:49

There have been a lot of building materials deliveries to that house lately, presumably they had/have a delivery coming and don't want to block the main carriageway while they unload it. I don't suppose it is a permanent plan to disrupt locals' lives nor Bull customers' enjoyment of the country's '11th best gastropub'! (https://oxinabox.co.uk/breaking-news-oxfordshires-hospitality-winners-in-2025s-estrella-top-50-gastropubs-and-square-meals-uk-top-100-restaurants/)

Tue 4 Feb 2025, 18:57

If habitual, it would be the street-etiquette equivalent to the towel on the sun lounger tactic. 

Tue 4 Feb 2025, 08:14

If the situation is of a regular and repetitive pattern to ‘ reserve ‘ a parking space , then this is a different scenario. If ‘ set aside’ for a particular need , like delivery, erection of scaffold , then acceptable in the world of common sense. 

Tue 4 Feb 2025, 07:23

If people parked properly, i.e taking one space instead of two, these cones may not be necessary? Also, if people only parked vehicles that they actually intended to use and not just park for months on end without moving, this would also help.

Mon 3 Feb 2025, 23:19 (last edited on Mon 3 Feb 2025, 23:19)

I know of at least three residences in Charlbury where cones are put outside in the (public) road in order, it seems, to reserve a space for electrically charging a vehicle. 

Mon 3 Feb 2025, 20:41

Was it in the tv series, Bread, where they used to do this? Maybe the Boswells have moved in?

Mon 3 Feb 2025, 20:00

I'm not convinced it's illegal to remove the cones as they were not put there for health and safety reasons just someone's arrogance to think that they have a right to reserve a road for themselves!!

Mon 3 Feb 2025, 19:22

Obviously there for a reason !? Falling slates , Delivery or moving house ? Or reserved for Range Rover parking only ! Ask the occupants of the property to satisfy your curiosity? 

Mon 3 Feb 2025, 18:27

No, it's not illegal.
But nor is it illegal to move them if you wish to park there!

Mon 3 Feb 2025, 18:13

Is it legal to stop cars parking on a public highway ? There are no double yellows and  I'm guessing the person that does this doesn't own the road?

Mon 3 Feb 2025, 18:10