driveways

[fishyboi]

hi can anyone help with this.we live in a small close and a neighbour has put in a driveway no one blocks the entrance but he has now told everyone not to park near it as it is difficult for him to get in and just to make sure no one does he is parking on the road,so now there is a driveway he does not use part of the road we cant use as it would block the drive enterance and everyone stracthing their heads as to where they are supposed to park.what is the law reguarding this.

[buildersmate]

Is the close actually part of the public highway? Many more modern ones are not. You can usually tell because the road in the close will be much narrower, and / or some method of segmenting is put across the road - for example a line of cobbles set in the surface. If it is not part of the highway, you will probably also know, because that section of close will be jointly owned by all the residents. Once we have established this, we can answer you better.

[dusty1]

you can park either side of the dropped kerb, there is no rules on how far away from it you should be

[Compostella]

I am considering doing exactly the same.

If we took our garden wall down you could just about fit a small car in, I want to do this so we can drop the kerb and use that section of the road as our own parking.

More and more people on our road are doing this and I think its a good way of protecting your parking space.

What I don't know is how easy will it be to get the council to drop the kerb.