Can I park here?

roddydogs

So what happens when his car is not there, and someone parks in the road?

patman99

All this fuss over whether or not you are entitled to park in front of your neighbours' house when he is parked on his front garden.

What about if he were parked on the road?, you wouldn't be able to park outside his house then would you?.
As for the 'driving of a vehicle on a footway', how the hell do you think you get in an out of a driveway then?. For a good example of the local Council getting it wrong, and forcing people to drive on the footway to access there driveways, go to google earth, type in 'kingsland church, lexden' into the search bar, then scroll the map slightly to the left before zooming-in. You will see that Colchester Borough Council have erected a safety barrier that runs across at least 4 properties. The most farcical thing about it is the fact that the same council granted permission to eeach of these properties for change of use from front garden to driveway.

Also, look up 'Sheepen Place, Colchester'. Not one of the properties has PP for a driveway, yet almost all of them have dropped kerbs. These were put-in when they re-laid the path. The houses who had cars parked on the lawn got free dropped-kerbs, whilst the 2 that didn't got normal kerbs.

peter_the_piper

I think that councils, when they put a DK in actually strengthen the kerb and footway as its not laid normally on a suitable surface to take vehicles. Thats why planning is needed and why it costs so much. Its only a matter of time before the pavement is damaged and there will be a bill to pay and guess who will be liable.

forgotmyname

They need to do what my bro in law did, They resurfaced the road and pavement replacing everthing, He had double gates but no drive.
Sneakily got some old slabs laid them out then waited for the workers to remove the old kerbs.
Then queried why they had missed marking out the dropped kerb for his driveway.

He got away with it they added a dropped kerb.