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?
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.
boxtops, did the 'bone' mean that it was actually illegal for people to park across your dropped kerb, or was it just an indication that you wanted access?
As far as the council and police are concerned there is a huge difference in obstructing the highway by parking on yellow lines, and one individual obstructing a householder trying to access his own drive.
That's unbelievable Sher
Shame you couldn't block in the parked car (in the driveway) and charge a hundred and fifty pounds release fee .. and clamp it!
Albags, If I'd blocked them in on my own driveway I would have been the one in the wrong as I was blocking access to the public highway! A friend who lives near the ferry to Studland Bay has this problem all the time.
Might be law that you can park anywhere, obstructing drive ways etc, but common courtesy says you don't do it. Some people are so thoughtless, really annoys me.