A drinking water inspectorate spokesperson said: “While there are difficulties at present with laboratory capacity well that is the understatement of the year! There are no laboratories, zero, none!

Exactly. You're going to work around them to 'please god'. Good point.

So if, as a council, we want to ban pavement parking around a bunch of terraces... or even just seriously restrict it, like to one side, can we make sure that there are cycle paths and bus routes then ban it and work stepwise across the town? 'asking for a friend (Cheltenham)'

Interesting that it mentions London specifically. How do they cope? There are loads of terraced streets. Do they pay for nearby parking lots or is it just that they, unlike everywhere else, kept their public transport network