ChatterBank0 min ago
Parking questions
Does anyone know the answer to the following please?
* for your front garden to be classed as 'off-road parking', do you have to have a lowered kerb?
* in residential areas with no signs up about parking restrictions, can you park any where you like provided that you are not parked across someone's access to their property?
Thank you.
* for your front garden to be classed as 'off-road parking', do you have to have a lowered kerb?
* in residential areas with no signs up about parking restrictions, can you park any where you like provided that you are not parked across someone's access to their property?
Thank you.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.You should have a dropped kerb - however you only have the legal right to access the highway from your property there is nothing to prevent anyone from parking across even a dropped kerb and blocking your access to your driveway. I know this for a fact as when I lived 5 mins from the sea I would come home from work to find holidaymakers parked across the front of my driveway (once even in the driveway!) and all I got was a mouthful of abuse about their rights to park on a public highway which was backed up by the idiots in the council.Daft, isn't it? I thought about parking across the entrance to the council car park in the early hours when it was empty but in the end it was easier to move.
The council put in a dropped kerb for me when I lived in Brighton, and I paid extra to have one of those white bone markings in the road, indicating that it was a private drive needing access. Where there is no restriction, yes you can park anywhere safe, nobody has the right to park right outside their houses on a public road.
According to the following, it is an offence to park across a lowered kerb even if it is to a private drive, the owner of the drive can give permission for someone to park across the drive.
http://www.theanswerb...g/Question309343.html
http://www.theanswerb...s/Question310893.html
http://www.consumerac...27-%28dropped-kerb%29
http://www.pistonhead...07&d=11412.41544&nmt=
http://www.hounslow.g...ng/street_parking.htm
http://www.theanswerb...g/Question309343.html
http://www.theanswerb...s/Question310893.html
http://www.consumerac...27-%28dropped-kerb%29
http://www.pistonhead...07&d=11412.41544&nmt=
http://www.hounslow.g...ng/street_parking.htm