cster

Where I live there are terraced houses where the owners have taken away the fence and tarmaced their garden to create an offstreet parking space into which you might paralell park a Nissan Micra with about 6" either end.
They have dropped kerbs and basically park in front of the house on the road as it is obviously impractical to use their "parking space" for which the dropped kerb provides access.
What I want to know is that if there are no other restrictions on parking, can I park in in their space on the road (ie "driveway")when they are not parked on their cement garden?
I hope this makes sense.
It just seems to me that otherwise, the council is encouraging people to destroy their gardens in order to decrease available parking

Midlife......

iTrader: (2)

As I understand things you can park on the road and stop them getting access to the concrete garden .......what you can't do is park on the road and block them in.

Our council is getting a bit uppity about permission to drop the kerb as it reduces drainage and promotes flooding (half the city was flooded in 2005)....I also think they are going to raise the cost to make it a hit in the wallet as well.

HTH

Shaun

Graz

As far as I know the whole not parking where there are dropped curbs thing is just out of courtesy to your neighbours. Provided there are not actual parking restrictions (i.e. double or single yellow) you can park where you like. You'll soon be making enemy's for yourself though if you block peoples drives.

BURTON

I no if some one parked infront of my dropped kerb i would tow there car out of the way . or it would misterously burst into flames

OllyK

RE: Parking laws changed by stealth

cster

Hmm, looks like you can park as long as you aren't obstructing a vehicle using the space.
As there is never a vehicle in the very small space, I guess there is no problem to park across the dropped kerb