parking ticket for parking across my own drive

Mark_Hewitt

If any part of your car (not just the wheels) are above the pavement then you are committing and offence.

People have been ticketed for the back end of their car just sticking out of the drive slightly.

DaveF327

richp999 wrote: »

an earlier posts suggests I am quite within my rights to park in front of my own dropped kerb, but not actually on it. I see this as a 'stupid' situation.

The difference is, with parking at a dropped footway, you are parked wholly on the road. This is perfectly legal. The principle behind the legislation prohibiting parking at a dropped kerb (but on the road) is to protect residents from being blocked in (or out) and to assist wheelchair / pushchair users to access footpaths.

Your alternative proposal of parking with 2 wheels on drive and 2 on the road would totally block the footpath which is technically part of the highway. This is an offence contrary to section 137 of the Highways Act 1980. If the location and layout are so special that you claim there would be no public detriment, then this law would be extremely unlikely to be enforced, but you cannot assume that nobody in the future may want to exercise their right to walk along that footpath. If the council or police want to be anal about it and make an example of you, they have the legal authority to do so. If they do, you can't say you haven't been warned.