Advice about driveway obstructions

custardy

Im surprised many dont realise this can be a genuine issue?
We are in new builds and the driveway is narrow.
I cant turn right(the way out of our dead end street) if a car is parked to the right of the lowered kerb.
So have to turn left.
If there is a car to the left then I need to take a couple of swings going up the neighbour on the opposite sides driveway entrance.
If it wasnt a lowered kerb my drieway would be near impossible to leave practically.
Most days I dont even use the drive to avoid the hassle in the AM.

Inch_High_2

custardy wrote: »

Im surprised many dont realise this can be a genuine issue?
We are in new builds and the driveway is narrow.
I cant turn right(the way out of our dead end street) if a car is parked to the right of the lowered kerb.
So have to turn left.
If there is a car to the left then I need to take a couple of swings going up the neighbour on the opposite sides driveway entrance.
If it wasnt a lowered kerb my drieway would be near impossible to leave practically.
Most days I dont even use the drive to avoid the hassle in the AM.

If the kerb wasn't lowered you'd have no rights to drive across the footpath.

custardy

Inch_High wrote: »

If the kerb wasn't lowered you'd have no rights to drive across the footpath.

Yes,which means nothing in the context of my post?
So why point it out?

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Inch_High wrote: »

If the kerb wasn't lowered you'd have no rights to drive across the footpath.

Yes you would have a right to. To park on ones land if the footpath is under a certain width I believe.

Lum

EdGasket wrote: »

We had someone doing that once. When questioned she said it was to leave maximum parking space for other people; nothing deliberate or sinister at all and quite logical though not very considerate of us trying to get in and out of the driveway. But basically if they are not over the dropped curb then they are fine and you'll just have to either ask them to leave you a little more room or make do with the width of the driveway.

This. The lines may be doing you a disservice here as people will park up against them.

Consider the opposite when there is enough on-street parking for 3 cars but someone has parked 3 meters away from the line, not quite leaving enough room to get another car in and reducing the spaces to two.

EdGasket

stevetuk wrote: »

Suggestions so far are:

1. Put cones down. Risking a visit from a copper.
2. Speaking with neighbour over their relative. Easy enough and will do. Doesn't solve issue if they refuse or for other drivers I don't know and haven't spotted who they're visiting down the road.

Any other options?

Option 3. Just park on the road and use the driveway as a patio area.

Lum

custardy wrote: »

Im surprised many dont realise this can be a genuine issue?
We are in new builds and the driveway is narrow.
I cant turn right(the way out of our dead end street) if a car is parked to the right of the lowered kerb.
So have to turn left.
If there is a car to the left then I need to take a couple of swings going up the neighbour on the opposite sides driveway entrance.
If it wasnt a lowered kerb my drieway would be near impossible to leave practically.
Most days I dont even use the drive to avoid the hassle in the AM.

What is it with new builds and developers pulling this kind of crap? Every new build estate that springs up around here, you get tiny driveways that can barely fit a Ford Focus, and the pavements filled on both sides with people parked half on the curb since the road is barely wide enough for two cars.

Do the developers forget that most families have 2 or more cars these days, or do they just not care since giving adequate room for them cars means they can't cram quite so many houses into the space.

System

Lum wrote: »

What is it with new builds and developers pulling this kind of crap? Every new build estate that springs up around here, you get tiny driveways that can barely fit a Ford Focus, and the pavements filled on both sides with people parked half on the curb since the road is barely wide enough for two cars.

It is not the developers causing the problem it is the councils with their planning guidelines for new developments. Most will only allow 1 parking space, be it drive/garage or on road, for a 2 -3 bedroom house. When it comes to flats then you are not even guaranteed 1 per flat.

TrickyWicky

stevetuk wrote: »

I'm reading online though that people can shop you for putting cones on the road because they are considered an obstruction on the highway?

So a big bag of bricks off a homebase lorry that gets dumped at the side of the road isn't an obstruction?

Seriously the police won't really care about this. Sure they might turn up and speak to you at some point if they're incredibly bored but they're not going to arrest you and put you infront of a magistrate. Besides, who said you put them there? - Teenagers today huh? - Putting cones either side of peoples driveway.. whatever next?!

Seriously if you worry this much about cones I wonder just how real this problem really is because you've shown a photo with minimal detail and you're claiming to be terribly inconvenienced by it all yet you're making a huge fuss about a couple of cones.

EdGasket

You can't cone off a piece of public highway and claim it for yourself; it is asking for trouble either with a fine or worse, liability for causing an accident with illegal obstruction. I know because I had an accident caused by someone illegally placing objects in the road. I won my claim against them.