Parking Over Driveway

pinkteapot

If you're prepared to pay for the work, you can apply to the council for a widening of your dropped kerb yourself. Normally this is done where people expand the width of their drive, or need a drop because they've added a drive. Not sure if the council would grant it for your reasons, but might be worth looking into?

If the drop was a bit wider, problem solved as he'd have to park a couple of feet further forward...

cootuk

Why didn't you consider buying a house that had sufficient parking?

fozzeh

tunnel wrote: »

This has to be a wind up, why would anyone in their right mind train their CCTV on that, its a 13 year old Toyota.

:rotfl: I kid you not! Can you imagine what he felt when my BIL came round…in his 54 plate Celica!

pinkteapot wrote: »

If you're prepared to pay for the work, you can apply to the council for a widening of your dropped kerb yourself. Normally this is done where people expand the width of their drive, or need a drop because they've added a drive. Not sure if the council would grant it for your reasons, but might be worth looking into?

If the drop was a bit wider, problem solved as he'd have to park a couple of feet further forward...

I think it would get rejected or put to the back of the queue. I contacted our council and spoke to the head of road planning about getting some double yellow lines at the entry to the estate (people parking on the corners, making visibility very poor) and that wasn’t given a timescale…and that’s putting lives at risk

cootuk wrote: »

Why didn't you consider buying a house that had sufficient parking?

Trollololol.

totallybored

It's a good thing I don't live in the OPs house. I'm rubbish at reversing and I'd probably hit the neighbour's car every time I went out.

goonarmy

Clamp his car or scrape it everytime you park.

Sparx

I think your best bet is to keep bugging the council for double yellow lines OP.

fozzeh

Sparx wrote: »

I think your best bet is to keep bugging the council for double yellow lines OP.

That, I think, may be the best option for everyone. Getting it approved would take a while though.
Not just me but those across the road too. There is loads of space around...but people don't even use their allocated spots (which are out of the way) and park on the main road. Can get very silly at times.

jamie11

FGS, Just park the car on your drive at the correct angle to reverse out with manuovering around the other car, I could get a 'bus through there.

tunnel

fozzeh wrote: »

...but people don't even use their allocated spots (which are out of the way) and park on the main road.

There's going to be a new housing estate of just 93 houses to be built in my village. I've checked out the plans and not one of them has a garage, only allocated parking. With ever increasing vehicle numbers its only going to get worse. I'd image the estate in question will soon be very much like your own, and people will still buy them:eek:

pinkteapot

fozzeh wrote: »

I think it would get rejected or put to the back of the queue. I contacted our council and spoke to the head of road planning about getting some double yellow lines at the entry to the estate (people parking on the corners, making visibility very poor) and that wasn’t given a timescale…and that’s putting lives at risk

Totally different if you want to make your dropped kerb wider.

You have to pay the council an application fee, to apply for permission t do it. When it's a service from them that you pay for, they're a bit quicker.

If they approve the application (bit like planning permission), then you pay for the work to be done, but have to use a council-approved builder to do the work to the kerb/pavement.