Parking questions

[sherrardk]

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.

[tigerlelly]

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.

[daisya]

I think the answer is yes to both (though parking in bays could be restricted of course) but someone will come along and put your straight I'm sure.

[TonyV]

You need a dropped kerb to access your garden for parking.

You can park anywhere on a public road, without parking restrictions, providing your vehicle is not causing an obstruction.

[Toureman]

Read this.................

http://www.direct.gov...dLighting/DG_10026223

[boxtops]

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.

[tigerlelly]

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?

[boxtops]

It was an indication that it was a drive in regular use and access was needed - it didn't have the same legal clout as, say, double yellow lines.

[hc4361]

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.

[AlBags]

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!

[tigerlelly]

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.

[AlBags]

Shame eh? Ridiculous.

[mumsie_wumsie]

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.

[Lborobrewer]

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