Can people park over your driveway?

mgarl10024

custardy wrote: »

You have no rights of access to your drive,however I believe you have right of exit from your drive
doesn't mean it has to be easy though
I deal with the same at ours

G_M wrote: »

It is illegal to park on or partially on the pavement.

It is illegal to park across, or partially across, a dropped curb.

I was at a community meeting a few years back in an area under Avon and Somerset Police. The chappy there responded when asked this question that it was all about whether you could "go about your business".
So, if your car is in the drive and someone is blocking you in, you cannot "go about your business" and so the Police will attend.
However, if you arrive home in your car to find that someone is blocking your drive and you cannot get into it, this is not stopping you from "going about your business" and so they wont attend.

I did once have a neighbour threaten to move my car forcefully and a different officer indicated that if my car was not where I left it, depending on the situation it could fall somewhere between criminal damage or theft.

Hope this helps.

lucywillow

It depends where you live. My local council (London borough) has a facility where you register your address on their website. Then if anyone blocks access to your dropped kerb they will attend and issue a parking ticket to the offending vehicle.
Might be worth checking your councils website.

ging84

It is illegal to park across, or partially across, a dropped curb. - If it is a designated "special enforcement area" by the local authority
if it is not, then it is only illegal if it cause an obstruction, you can debate about if making it more difficult but not impossible to access a drive counts as causing an obstruction or not

benjus

G_M wrote: »

It is illegal to park on or partially on the pavement.

I thought that only applied in London - and that outside London it was legal unless otherwise signed.

YoungBusinessman

Parking on pavement must be legal in Scotland, see it all over the place. The ones that annoy me most are the folk who insist on parking on the street when they have a driveway that could easily hold 3 or 4 motors.

HB58

YoungBusinessman wrote: »

Parking on pavement must be legal in Scotland, see it all over the place. The ones that annoy me most are the folk who insist on parking on the street when they have a driveway that could easily hold 3 or 4 motors.

Some years ago we lived in a street that had off-road parking on one side only - the other side to ours. Those of us on the 'poorer' side had to fight for on-street parking and the situation got worse when I went to live with my soon-to-be-hubby and had my own car.

Down the road a little, on the other side, was just one house with a curved drive, 2 gates and a dropped kerb for each. It was easy for the owners to drive in one side and out the other. We carefully left both dropped kerbs clear but had no compunction about parking on the road in between. Then a man knocked on the door and started slagging us off for parking outside his house, his wife was pregnant and it wasn't right that she had to walk etc etc. We pointed out that we left both dropped kerbs clear for them, but that wasn't good enough because the wife didn't like to park on the drive...

Some people will never be happy, whatever you do!

Kirri

benjus wrote: »

I thought that only applied in London - and that outside London it was legal unless otherwise signed.

Some London Boroughs are remarking pavements to make cars park on the path, to allow more room for vehicles in the road, even where it makes it more difficult/dangerous for people/prams/wheelchairs etc.

DRP

In oxford, almost the entire city has residents only parking bays painted onto the streets.

in narrow roads they have painted these bays half-on, half-off the pavement. Thereby officially sanctioning parking on pavements and leaving very narrow inconvenient strips for pedestrians, oaps, baby buggies to get by...

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

My council say this:

It is an offence to park across a dropped kerb, which results in a resident being unable to drive on/off their drive. Should this occur we will endeavour to ensure our Civil Enforcement Officers (CEOs) attend the location to issue a penalty charge notice, upon the resident's request, on any vehicle parked across the dropped kerb.
Please note that the resident's own vehicle is liable to a penalty charge notice if they park across their own dropped kerb.

PollyOnAMission

My previous council will enforce parking across a dropped crossing without the driveway owner's permission.

From their website:
If a vehicle is blocking my drive what do I do?

1) If your driveway or home is blocked by a vehicle parked over a dropped crossing, please call Parking Services hotline to complain.
2) Parking Services will need to see if a Civil Enforcement Officer is available to attend.
3) A Civil Enforcement Officer will need to see a vehicle parked over a dropped crossings for 20 minutes, checking that the property has the correct dropped kerb and recording details of the vehicle parked and those of the person who is complaining.
4) A Penalty Charge Notice (fine) will be issued and the vehicle could be towed away.
Are there be any exceptions?
There are certain exceptions to enforcing dropped crossings, they cover:

• Vehicles parked wholly within a designated parking place and / or other part of the road where parking is specifically allowed;
• Passengers getting in / out of a vehicle;
• Vehicles used by the Fire, Ambulance or Police services;
• Loading and unloading; and
• Vehicles used for bin collections, building works or road works.
• A vehicle parked outside a residential property with the occupier's consent (but it does apply if that consent has been paid for) or where the driveway is shared.