Mobility scooters are exempt but it is still illegal to park cars on pavements - and if patrolling policemen were around they would be enforcing the law.
However, only last week, my husband (retired Police Inspector) remarked on a car parked across a pavement which prevented anyone from walking past it.
And ... guess what? Twas a police car!
If at first you don't succeed, sky diving isn't for you!
Believe it or not, it isn't. It is only illegal to drive on the pavement! The police/enforcement officers have actually catch you in the act.
That's why there's a bill going through the Scottish Parliament at the moment to make it an offence.
Once passed the local traffic wardens will be on speed dial!
I don't just have to reverse every time I go out, but two or three times every time I go out (only to find, all too often, that a car is parked across the pavement drop and I have to go 200 yards or more!).
Parking on or partially on the pavement is not permitted in Greater London unless there is a notice specifically stating that it's allowed. Having lived there for 40+ years, I found it very depressing how little this was enforced and yet, for the cost of a couple of hours overtime for the parking wardens, the local council could have made a mint in parking fines any evening along the residential roads!