#27760
Austman
Flatchatter

    @Sir Humphrey said:

    A space can be narrower where it is presumed that a car’s bonnet would be than in the middle of the sides where it is presumed the doors will be. So, it might be OK to place an obstacle against the boundary if it is only in the bonnet region. The standard, which I don’t have here, I am relying on memory, has a complex diagram of what can be where along the sides of a space. This is to accommodate posts and columns that might support roofing, bollards and the like. 

    It’s AS2890.1.

    For parallel parking, at the far (closed) end of the parking space, columns, walls and “other obstructions” may encroach on each side of the parking space as follows:

    They may encroach up to 200mm on each side, for the last 1.2m to the far (closed) end of the parking space. This increases to 250mm on each side for the last 300mm to the far (closed) end of the parking space.

    It would mean that over bonnet storage systems would most probably not violate the AS, as far as restricting a neighbour’s parking space, even if their legs were on the dividing line, as long as they were standing within 1.2m from the far (closed) end of the parking space.