ah good find, good info to know!PerryGunn wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2017 2:10 pmUnfortunately not - quoted from elsewhere...
The Highways Act 1980 – Section 184, makes it an offence to drive a vehicle across a footway, or verge, where there is no proper vehicle crossover. It allows for the Highway Authority (or its Agent) to agree to a new vehicle crossover to be constructed. New drop kerb vehicle crossings were historically called carriage crossings. They include both the physical lowering of the kerb (the dropped kerb) and a permission to allow a vehicle to cross the public footway.
i.e. it doesn't matter how long/wide your driveway is, legally you're only allowed to drive onto your driveway via the dropped kerb
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I would either leave a note on their windscreen asking to not park you in or jump in the car and blast the horn until they get out and more their pos.
I dont get people like that. They can't be that oblivious.
I dont get people like that. They can't be that oblivious.
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Can he or she not park in front the van, as the van is parked on the diagonal he can still
Get out with the red car parked there.
Get out with the red car parked there.
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This, have a word they genuinely may not realise they are doing it.DPG wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 8:06 pm Can you not pay for the council to drop the curb for the full width of your drive? Then they wouldn't be able to block it.
They are being an arse but legally entitled to park there.
I'd just have a quiet word and ask them why they don't park outside the neighbors
Not defending them as i would never do it but if you ask them to stop and they do problem solved, if they don't then get the kerb dropped then they won't be able to park there in the future
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Don't ever discount how dumb some people can be , I have a double width dropped kerb in front of my house and I came out of the house one day to find a guy not only blocking my drive , he was also half on the pavement so blocking that and it's a yellow line , no parking during the day restriction . I asked him to move it and the moron got out and started arguing with me , it turns out he was waiting for his wife who was visiting my neighbour , who lives on the other side of the road and had an empty drive