Use of bollards at locations to prevent parking on the pavement (Although these can, in themselves cause an obstruction, especially for visually impaired users of pavements. Also, they can be seen as clutter in the physical environment, thereby detracting from the quality of the environment).

Use of traffic orders and double yellow lines to try and control inappropriate parking. Obviously this approach does require enforcement by the Police or Traffic Warden Service, but in cases, for example, where people may be parking half-on / half-off the pavement, simply because there is no other deterrent, a parking restriction can be an effective means of visually highlighting a parking concern. This Authority is looking into the possibility of introducing Civil Parking Enforcement, in which case we may then have the powers to enforce on certain on-street parking offences. Traffic orders always involve extensive consultation, including with the Police and local community.

Good design in new highway schemes - to deter parking on pavements, or, by provision of appropriate parking facilities, the encouragement of considerate driver behavior. Examples include: Tenby Street Enhancements, Haverfordwest town Centre Enhancements.

In some cases we have undertaken parking schemes to provide additional parking. This is related to parking on Council owned estates where the majority of houses are still publicly owned.

For house owners who wish to have an off-street parking space, and have the room / resources to carry this out, there is a procedure in place to enable them to install proper drop-kerb access. We are able to enforce against those who create accesses without the requisite consents. This also encourages appropriate parking and respect of the highway.

New housing estates are designed in accordance with the “Manual for Streets”, which again encourages good design and appropriate consideration to parking and pedestrian facilities.

We have a number of education, training and publicity programmes in place. Whilst many of these are aimed at speed management, or other vehicle related matters, general education of drivers, particularly young drivers, in terms of good driver behaviour is an important theme, as well as providing general education to young pedestrians, and cyclists. We have done a number of safety schemes involving installing physical measures, such as improved footways, traffic calming, etc. We have also worked with Schools in terms of pupils getting involved as unofficial traffic “officers”, with pupils trying to encourage either their parents, or other drivers, to be more considerate in their driving style adjacent to schools.