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Parking Over Driveway
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getmore4less wrote: »Looks like someone bought a hose with a rubbish drive.
Don’t think I would have spent that much on a hose!
pinkteapot wrote: »Does your drive come out at a funny angle to the road? Doesn't look like your car emerges at anything like 90 degrees to the pavement/road.
That aside, as others have said, he's not parking over your dropped kerb so nothing you can do legally.
Do you have two cars on your drive, one behind the other? Also wondering why the VW is parked across the pavement.
Most people in our street drive fowards onto their drives and reverse off, even though that's not what you're meant to do. Don't really see the problem as I'm assuming your estate road isn't busy, so you can reverse off safely....
Modern estates are all horrible for parking - I don't know of any in my town where the parking isn't a nightmare. Too many houses without enough parking spaces.
It’s around a 45-50 degree angle, hence giving the interpretation of being able to drive straight off.
We have one on the drive and that’s all there is space for. Garage at the end. Couldn’t fit two fully on the drive at all. Polo usually parked to the side.
VW is parked there to illustrate what would happen if we drove straight off our drive.
Reversing off safely can be a pain; do sometimes get people parked outside the flats to the left of the picture
And agree, I could go down the whole of our estate and it’s all bad. Just up here, with the cul de sac, the planning was changed at the last minute and 3 allocated spots were removed (a second set of flats were to be built but they decided not to as the first met the ‘affordable living’ criteria and the second would have been a detrimental to revenue…so made 7 houses instead) so they have people jammed in everywhere. And, due to that, the pavements were set out like they are.0 -
If that's how you park, I'm afraid I have no sympathy. Blocking pavements, even if only to your house, just isn't on - it's not your space.0
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camptownraces wrote: »The VW is parked partly on the pavement, partly on the road, and about three inches into the driveway. Presumably because wife's car occupies the rest of the driveway. Not legal parking.
Why can't you park wholly on the road, parallel to your front garden?
Why can't you park wholly on the road parallel to somebody else's front garden?
Down the side of our house is just a bit of road which has two “allocated” parking spaces. Never intended to be but since they changed the planning too much, they had to be able to put them somewhere. Was just meant to be a communal bin store with access…has been left for 8 weeks once when lorry couldn’t get the bins out!pinkteapot wrote: »The Vauxhall over the other side isn't much better.
His is bad too…he’s had plenty of complaints.0 -
Why doesn't the car on the driveway park in the garage? That way the other car can be kept on the driveway instead of parking illegally. From the pictures it doesn't look difficult to exit the driveway.0
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park a little further down the street then?
That's where the rest of the street park haha!If that's how you park, I'm afraid I have no sympathy. Blocking pavements, even if only to your house, just isn't on - it's not your space.
Was done to illustrate the point. Wasn't going to move two cars just to post up on t'interweb!0 -
Why doesn't the car on the driveway park in the garage? That way the other car can be kept on the driveway instead of parking illegally. From the pictures it doesn't look difficult to exit the driveway.
Have you seen the size of a garage for a new build? Or that a garage isn't for cars but for everything else!
And, as said, that is tame! Can be another 2 feet back sometimes.0 -
To be fair, OP has now said that they put the VW there for the purposes off the pictures, to show what would happen if they reversed straight back while the Toyota was parked where it is.
I'm afraid it's a poor design of the site OP. Toyota is parked perfectly legally. With your drive at the angle it is, the builder should have given you a wider dropped kerb to enable you to come straight off.0 -
Did you post on the parking board and have it deleted?
(very familiar problem)
Trying somewhere else to find people that agree with you?
If you have a scan of the site plan that might make it easier to visualize.
one solution will be to get the lamppost moved and open up the front.
a lamppost in front of a house can effect resale0
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