The end for kerbside car sales in Bognor Regis

Kerbside sellers around Bognor Regis could have their vehicles taken away by the end of the year.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Aug 2008, 16:22 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 17:43 BST

A new power to allow Arun District Council to remove vehicles for sale parked along roads is to take effect within the next three months.

Councillors are due to approve a change in the local authority's consititution in October to give them the legal ability to enforce the power.

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It will enable the council's officers to use the Highways Act 1980 to rid the streets and cul-de-sacs of a seemingly endless procession of the vehicles for sale. The ability for Arun to tackle the sales is being eagerly awaited by Bersted Street resident Carole Dowling.

The cul-de-sac's block end alongside the A29 Shripney Road has been filled with various cars for sale since at least the start of this year.

Some weeks have seen the space filled with three or four. There can be just one for sale at other times.

Carole (58), who has lived in the road for ten years, said the presence of the vehicles took away much-needed space for drivers to turn around in.

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The cul-de-sac was busy with visitors to the Art of Dance and Fitness entertainment school.

It also contains St Mary Magdalene Church and a residential home is also sited in the area where the cars are parked. South Bersted Primary School is just around the corner, in Church Lane, to add to the pressure on parking spaces.

"The situation here is dangerous. The cars for sale are causing an obstruction," said Carole.

"Somebody is going to get killed or hurt because of them.

"The dark nights are coming, and the lighting in this road is not good, and there is no room now for people to turn round safely."

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She has approached the district council and her local police community support officers. All have been sympathetic to her complaints. But none can help her if the vehicles have a valid tax disc and MOT certificate and have been serviced.

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