Just to add to the confusion, try reading this [urlhttps://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmtrans/1982/1982.pdf][/url] . It is part of a document that also covers Yellow Lines. While parking is a problem, I suspect the Government will recommend a Ban on Pavement Parking, but will leave it up to local councils and local police to decide if they want to enforce it. How many hours of politicians and Civil Servants time has been spent on this?
All that would do would be to bring the rest of the country in line with Greater London where this is already the case.
And it has to be done on a pragmatic basis.
I used to live in the London Borough of Merton. And like many places, they have roads where if you banned pavement parking, and people parked on both sides of the road, the road would be blocked.
But pavement parking (the ban of which wasn't enforced) meant blocked pavements. So the council instigated a pragmatic policy. They'd enforce pavement parking rules for most streets. And some streets would have a partial exemption. They published a list of streets where you could pavement park BUT you had to leave a 1m gap on the pavement. If you didn't, you'd get fined.
There's no good having a central government edict that all pavement parking must be banned. Councils should be the ones responsible.