If you have your kerb dropped, can you then park on your drive and in front of your drive?

Question

My neighbour has had his dropped kerb widened taking up an off road parking space. He now chooses to park across the front of his drive as they have 2 cars. This means my husband has problems getting his truck off our drive in the morning. Our neighbour has 2 spaces on his drive but chooses not to put both cars on the actual drive. He seems to want to park one on the road in front of his new widened kerb. Is he entitled to do this?

Answer 1

A dropped kerb has to have permission from the council.

The kerb has no relevance when it comes to parking on the road - if it is allowed he can park on the road but he must not cause an obstruction. If you are obstructed from accessing your own drive then you can take out proceedings or politely ask him not to obstruct your access as any damage to his car will be at his own liability!!!!

I suggest you contact your local roads authority and ask them to check if he has permission to have the drop kerb and also if they can line off the accesses along the road so that nobody can park without penalty - including you.

Try good neighbourliness first then go for the jugular

Answer 2

If you have a dropped kerb in front of your drive, you are NOT allowed to park in the road.

Answer 3

yes he can, as its his drive. my friends have a drop kerb and when ever i go to see them, i always park on the drop kerb. i haved asked this if this is ok with a traffic warden and he said yeas, as its their drop kerb and they have paid for it

Answer 4

Yes , that will be his entrance or exist area and must be constantly clear, you cannot obstruct him gaining access to his drive. he can park there he is not obstructing him self,

you can also pay the council to have the pavement lowed to gain legal access to your front garden

Answer 5

You are not allowed to alter a droppwd kerb (or install one) without council permission.

You are not allowed to park across one at any time - even if it is your own and the vehicle is your own.

Try negotiate a solution first, use your new found knowledge to put a little pressure on if he won't co-operate. If you inform the council, they will make him make good the kerb at his expense - that should make him see sense!

Answer 6

If he did it himself without permission from the local council - NO - he's in trouble.

He could be prosecuted - you aren't allowed to make changes to the highway -

You need to find out whether he did it or the council - if he did do it himself then the council can come along and change it back and make him pay the bill.

Answer 7

Not without the council's permission.

Answer 8

Bet he didn`t get permission to do that. Check it out.

Report to the highways dept that your drive is somewhat restricted. They`ll sort it out.