Pavement Parking Prohibitions FAQ's

All roads within Glasgow will need to be assessed to determine whether an exemption to the prohibitions should be considered.

This assessment will not just focus on each road individually, but it will assess the road in its context with its surrounding area.

If you feel that all the following criteria can be applied to your street, then you can make a request for consideration of an exemption to be made to the prohibitions:

1. The parking availability in your surrounding area is not sufficient to allow you to fully park on the carriageway, and;
2. The width of the road is insufficient to allow emergency service vehicles to pass when vehicles are fully parked on the carriageway, and;
3. The footway is wide enough to host the parked vehicle and have an unobstructed space of 1.5 metres between the vehicle and the edge of the footway furthest from the carriageway for pedestrians.

However, it is acknowledged that each road may present a particular situation and a request can be made where this is the case also.

Each request will be logged and assessed, therefore there is no need to make more than one request for the same street to be exempted.

The outcome of the assessment will be published on this webpage along with the associated decision-making explanations.

Please note that where parking on the pavement will be proposed then a statutory process will require to be followed and if pavement parking is introduced at the end of that statutory process then lining and signing will be installed on the pavement, in line with national legislation, to formally identify the area with an exemption.

If you think you have a valid reason for a location to be considered for an exemption, and it meets the above criteria, you can complete the online form.