Dropped Kerb - unusual question

kiddy_guy

Hi all

Lots of questions, so I'll try and respond to them all.

How could I get onto my driveway if next door did not have a dropped kerb? With great difficulty is the answer, but given the joint dropped kerb was installed many years ago to give both access, it's a fair, but ultimately moot point.

Why do I not stop parking on my driveway and park elsewhere instead? 2 small children doesn't help. However the reason the neighbour is parking over the driveway is due to lack of space. Me parking on the road would be just making the situation worse.

To clarify the neighbour has a driveway and then there is pavement in front of it, then the road. They are parking a car on the driveway, then another on the road - in a T shape formation. There is no parking on the pavement, so there is a gap between the 2 sections of the "T" where the pavement is.

Also to clarify - reversing off a driveway onto a major road puts you at risk of an accident and facing driving without due care & attention.

However !!!!!! has pretty much come to the same conclusion I have, having spoken to the DC. It's not an offence per se. If I was being blocked in completely, I could ask the police to come out and then there would be a discussion. However making it difficult for me to get out isn't an offence, so I'll have to go nicely next door and ask them to be helpful

Thanks everyone for the help.

Iceweasel

!!!!!! wrote: »

As the neighbour parks in front of his own dropped kerb then there can be no offence.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/18/section/86 2nd exception

I just read that link carefully and as it does not apply in Scotland or Northern Ireland and I apologize if my earlier posts may have been misleading.

In Scotland we commit no offence by blocking access to a driveway with a dropped kerb - white line or no white line.

An offence can only be caused by blocking access to the highway form a driveway.

Of course that's a dropped kerb that has no yellow lines going past it.

Coupon-mad

Also to clarify - reversing off a driveway onto a major road puts you at risk of an accident and facing driving without due care & attention.

Which is why we suggest reversing in. Easier to then leave each day, perhaps? Maybe you could ask them to make sure they shove up a bit but that's all!

Wayne_Kerr

Redx wrote: »

the H bar for your driveway only protects that roadway space from being obstructed , the H bar in front of their driveway protects their driveway from being similarly obstructed

What is a H bar?
Maybe you (or anyone) can help with this question;
Where is the boundary of a drop kerb, is it the start of the drop or the bottom of the drop?

Coupon-mad

It's the bottom, the flat bit only is the bit where a vehicle could be in contravention.

An H bar is like this and you CAN park overlapping the edge of the white line, as it means nowt.