Would you park across your neighbour's driveway if they don't have a dropped kerb?
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Nitrogenflux@reddit
Slow news day in Bristol then
Scooob-e-dooo8158@reddit
It is an offence under the Highways Act 1980 to drive across a pavement to access private land without a properly constructed dropped kerb.
No ambiguity. No recourse. Continue parking as usual providing sufficient room is left on the pavement for vulnerable users.
superioso@reddit
The local council can just put bollards/fences in the footpath right up against the "drive" if they really wanted to.
Easy-Bandicoot9408@reddit
Nope. No reason to be a dick just because I can.
HellPigeon1912@reddit
I'd never park across a neighbour's driveway, dropped kerb or no.
I try not to go around causing inconveniences for people. I've been on the other end of someone constantly blocking in my car. Why would I bring that annoyance into someone's life?
Ok-Leg7686@reddit
Isn't that most laws. Stealing someone's stuff or killing people isn't very considerate to others.
HellPigeon1912@reddit
Yes but I would hope that if there was no law against killing people, you wouldn't just start killing people
username-alrdy-takn@reddit
Why would you allow yourself to be inconvenienced by someone who has illegally built a driveway thereby taking up a public parking space 24/7. People are selfish and if you aren’t a bit of a dick sometimes you will get fucked over in life
HellPigeon1912@reddit
It's much less of an inconvenience for me to park my car somewhere else, than it is to block someone in, have to move it when they need to get out, and risk pissing off a neighbour long term.
Life is a lot easier if you don't go around looking for conflict
Bus8082@reddit
My neighbours driveway fits two cars, the entry and drop cub is one car wide. They’ve recently knocked down half the garden wall to make the entry appear double the width and put a “don’t block the drive” sign but the drop cub remains the SAME size. In a place short on parking, they’re trying to reduce that even further. That’s selfish. I would block the drop curb but the normal curb is fair game.
gundog48@reddit
Fucking hell thought you were talking about us for a sec until you mentioned the sign!
One of our walls has been 'eroded' by years of schoolkids so decided to just take that part down!
I'd be frustrated if someone parked there just because there's almost always much better places to park, but wouldn't complain if they did, even though I'd be blocked in, they've still got every right to park there, it's just be silly 99.9% of the time!
oscarx-ray@reddit
kerb
sihasihasi@reddit
Our driveway is the same - we widened it and knocked down half the wall, (with a one car length between our drive and next door)
The person on the non - dropped kerb pulls off over the dropped section, goes down the end of the cul-de-sac and turns round, and reverses back on the same way. Sometimes people park over the non-dropped section, and we ... just ignore it, because they're perfectly allowed to do so
Bus8082@reddit
My neighbour has a sign saying you can’t park there. I
Rastapopolos-III@reddit
Read the article, she says she never impedes access. Neighbour doesn't want anyone parked even slightly in front of her house even though it doesn't effect her at all.
Also, there's already a law in place to stop people blocking driveways, blocking access to the highway is a criminal offence.
rob-c@reddit
It’s inconsiderate ‘claiming’ a space on a public road but unofficially adding a driveway to your house. They don’t have a driveway, they have a tarmac front garden.
electact@reddit
I'm more pissed off that she's blocking the pavement for anyone with mobility issues.
AussieManc@reddit
The article says she isn’t
Unbeknownsttooyou@reddit
If the article jumped off a bridge, would you?
electact@reddit
It says that she says she isn't. She's hardly going to say "yeah I'm blocking the pavement, but fuck those disabled people I don't give a shit about them"
AussieManc@reddit
And you’ve measured it?
rkr87@reddit
I assume you have eyes?
WelshBluebird1@reddit
The photo says she is.
themcsame@reddit
I mean, sure, that's how it works.
Is it REALLY worth the agro though?
If it bothers you that much, I'm sure your local council might have something to say on the matter of their 'driveway'
sjw_7@reddit
They may have extended their driveway but they haven't widened the entrance to it. If the kerb isn't dropped then tough, anyone can park there.
Probably worth printing off the legislation around parking and dropped kerbs especially the bit about it being illegal to drive over the pavement when there is a raised kerb. Then stick it to their car when its parked on the driveway with the raised bit of kerb.
rubmypineapple@reddit
This happened to me. Was obviously a drive but people would block it all the time and at times even park on my drive.
Always had an excuse why they did it and felt in the right but it was always because they couldn’t find somewhere to park and were arseholes.
sjw_7@reddit
Were they parking infront of a dropped kerb?
HirsuteHacker@reddit
I'm not a cunt so no.
twospoons11@reddit
Of course not! Why would you be so inconsiderate?
Dr-Maturin@reddit
Only if I was posting something / dropping something off where I’d be a minute at most, and even then if there was nowhere else to park with 10 m
grepusman@reddit
A hardened lawn doesn't mean you get to remove some street parking.
Jabberminor@reddit
If it's not a dropped kerb, then it's fine to park there. Just because their driveway spans a wide width, doesn't mean it all should be clear.
We bought a house that has a driveway that is 3 cars wide, but only has a dropped kerb for one car. We have no issues with people parking on the non-dropped section, as long as the dropped section is clear.
anamazingperson@reddit
It says parking on the pavement isn't illegal. But driving on the pavement is illegal. Is she lifting the car on to the pavement?
Mediocre-Opinion@reddit
I thought it was it was legal to park across a driveway without a dropped kerb. It's also illegal to drive across a pavement that isn't dropped to access a driveway.
Bus8082@reddit
A driveway is not a driveway without a dropped curb, it’s a patio.
PennyBunPudding@reddit
We really should invent a force that dealt with issues of public wrong and disobedience. They could like arrest people and issue fines for non-compliance. I know it sounds a bit oppressive but I'm not sure why we have laws when there's nobody to enforce them.
Upstairs-Balance9846@reddit
fucking state of this country.
Faded_Jem@reddit
Afaik allowed, not great form if you've got to live near these people.
The one I'm endlessly perplexed by are all the dropped curbs in front of garden gates you couldn't fit a pram through.
Praetorian_1975@reddit
If they don’t have a dropped kerb they don’t have a driveway, what they have is a big footpath.
Deep_Banana_6521@reddit
Yes. My neighbour decided to rip out his front lawn, pave over it and park 3 cars on it rather than using the 1 and find street parking, meaning he removed 1-2 street parking spaces from the road. I will always park and encourage all the other neighbours to utilize the parts of the curb which aren't dropped. It's not for him to decide how many free parking spaces are available in the street just because he wants to switch between cars at a moments notice.
I'm lucky enough to live in an area with really nice trees. Very old and very big, provide wonderful shade to my bedroom and that same neighbour was telling me he planned on cutting down the tree - which is in the street, as that also was "blocking" his new driveway. I told him he'd have hell to pay and the police to talk to if he even thought twice about it.
WelshBluebird1@reddit
The issue isn't the blocking the non existance driveway IMO. The issue is the blocking of the pavement.
So yes, the complaining person is in the wrong. But so is the person parking there.
tvthrowaway366@reddit
“Her neighbour, who converted their front garden into a driveway last year”
This is poor reporting from the BBC. Paving over your garden is not the same as converting it into a driveway, which legally requires a dropped kerb if vehicles are expected to cross the pavement (which they are here).
The neighbour is being no more reasonable and no less entitled than people who try to reserve parking spaces with cones.
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