Is anyone here annoyed at the parking for Bottelinos? I live opposit the Mirage and find card all the way down harbour road, even crossing the juncion entrance to Waitrose? Why does the council not put double yellow lines to stop this as there isnt enough room for 2 cars to pass when there are cars parked here.

Parking in Portishead generally seems out of control, Harbour road is one of many areas where people block up the highway. There is plenty of free parking yet people seem too lazy to walk a short distance. Selfish. So in answer to your question, I agree with you. It is annoying! I have even seen cars parked on both sides of the road by Bottelinos making it a very tight fit and bottle neck to get through. Some folks are short on common sense too!

I am supprised with the poice station so close they dont do something. Esspecially with people parking accross the juntion to waitrose. When I was learing to drive I was told it was illegal. I guess it would be too much paperwork for the Police to issue a warning or something. I dont even know if its worth petitioning Bottelinos. I would have thought for someone to be able to open somehting they should have made sure that there is sufficiant off road parking available, not where it becomes and inconvenience and possibly a danger to other road users and pedestrians.

Agree with AllNamesTaken ( like the username!) do you mean the one by the roundabout as that is awful too and a bus stop opposite for good measure- there is an accident waiting to happen as you pull off the roundabout then have to brake suddenly as cars are in the middle of the road coming at you! By the way for the restaurants on the marina I don't think many people are aware that out of office hours there is free parking available by the commercial units next door. There is a sign in the car park saying so! You can just walk through to the marina front from the car park - easy! They probably had to offer it for the build, but don't think it is advertised well...

Major Al, I think the point was not about the number of cars on the road, more the laziness of not parking a two minute walk away where the are plenty of spaces. It's the same kind of people that park in the pick-up drop off area at Waitrose and cut the corner through Sheepway in the morning. Just inconsiderate, lazy, self-important people.

And anyway, I don't use my car when I don't have to, I cycle so I hope my opinion counts!

Weekends and evenings there is plenty of free parking by the commercial offices on the same side of the road, as Bottelinos ( Newfoundland way). A stride away! Unfortunately it is not signed up off Harbour road - why not? Bottelinos ought to let its customers know where to park, or it could suffer the consequences of locals not wanting to dine there...

Contact North Somerset Council through their website (http://tinyurl.com/3ommfb5) and use Council Connect = Report issues = Road problem.
Keep the pressure on the District Council to introduce parking restrictions on Harbour Road.
Out of office hours, there is ample free customer parking at the adjacent NS Housing offices.

North Somerset Council are currently reviewing new road markings and waiting restrictions (yellow lines to you and me) across our district in 2011-12, for implementation in 2012-13. This is a rare opportunity to introduce such restrictions for the benefit of the considerate road using majority.
The outgoing Town Council with the support of the local Police recommended Harbour Road for consideration. Perversely the new Town Council has decided to stick its head in the sand over the traffic nightmare that is Harbour Road, and is actively against introducing waiting restrictions. The Councillors must not need to use Harbour Road or like me avoid it as an unviable route for road travel between Quays Avenue and Station Road.
If you believe that Harbour Road or a street near you, perhaps in Port Marine, needs waiting restrictions, to improve safety or traffic flow, then put it in writing, including full details and reasons for your request, to Streets and Open Spaces at North Somerset District Council (Email: streetsandopenspaces@n-somerset.gov.uk or Address: Streets and Open Spaces, North Somerset Council, Weston Court, Oldmixon Crescent, Weston-super-Mare BS24 9AU).
The last thing we need is a repeat of the fight to have the Cabstand traffic lights put right.
For the record, Yatton Parish Council is willing to pay North Somerset Council £3,000 to speed up the process of trying to get waiting restrictions implemented in their village.

I've reported an issue using the link provided. Not sure I found the right form, I filled in an incident regarding road markings, highlighted the issue being that there aren't any and that it is a danger to the public.

Its the sort of thing you read about in the paper, where someone is killed and then it turns out that local people have been complaining about the particular issue for years.

Seems to me the only lazy people around are the ones to walk.
Perhaps if they did or were more observant they might realise that the vehicles parked up near to Waitrose during the working week are mainly owned by builders and not by customers of nearby eateries.
I think any sensible person would accept that the situation is therefore unlikely to change for some foreseeable time, so it might be pertinent to get over it and accept it or simply go by a different route until the building work is completed. Also the sign directing drivers to the nearby carpark cannot be seen i nthe evening when its dark!

This is getting very similar to the Avon way/Slade Rd saga. Apparently we all know there is a problem, we all know something is likely to happen soon, we all know someone might die, yet we still insist on driving through these locations 'knowing' an accident might occur because we are too lazy to go a slightly longer and perhaps inconvenient route.

The yellow line debate has already been completed at Portishead Town Council and no surprise that once more in total opposition to local feeling the council have decided yellow lines are not necessary. I'd put my money on them being painted if the problem existed outside a local councillors home or in the vicinity of one of his family. But I guess thats how democracy works in this town, it's who you are and who you know that matters and I have actually got out of a taxi to visit Bottelinos and watched two local councillors park up in the exact location opposite Waitrose entrance road whilst they spent a good hour or more in the restuarant. Says it all really.

Are you sure Councillor Terry walked? .....and not used his illegal-for-pavents-transport-mode! HaHa

Yes, sorry you are right Truth24. I noticed after I had posted, so sorry if there's been any confusion!