Advice about driveway obstructions

TrickyWicky

Equally you can sue the motorist for damage to your property.

The highway isn't just for cars and motorbikes. Likewise there is no fine for using cones either. Granted there is no legislation that says you can put them out but equally there is no legislation that says you can't.

sharnad

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Equally you can sue the motorist for damage to your property.

The highway isn't just for cars and motorbikes. Likewise there is no fine for using cones either. Granted there is no legislation that says you can put them out but equally there is no legislation that says you can't.

Section 148 and section 149 of the highways act 1980

Stoke

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Get yourself come cones off ebay and then dump them either side of the white line. One thing you can guarantee about most motorists is that they're lazy and don't want the hassle getting out of the car (esp in the middle of the road), moving something, getting back in and finishing their manouvere.

As long as it isn't the yellow no waiting cones you'll be ok (they indicate a temporary legal restriction and you could get in trouble for that). The normal bright orange ones have no real status legally, anyone can put them out and they don't imply any temporary legal restrictions that could wind you up in court.

Please don't do this. Not only is it illegal, it's self-important beyond belief. Parking problems are an issue all over the country. I experience them every day, at work, and at home. Yours are no different to mine, so what gives anyone, including yourself to right to put those idiot cones down. I used to have this argument quite regularly with someone who felt it was okay to put 4 or 5 cones outside their house using the justification "what if an ambulance comes, what if a fire truck needs to come". If a fire truck needs to come and there is an empty vehicle in the way, they will smash it out the way. It's an inanimate object. Human life is more important.

If you can get off your drive then there is no issue really.

[Deleted User]

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.

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.

Even when developers release artists impressions of what a new development will look like they only draw on a couple of cars randomly placed. Will never be like that once it's built - cars in every nook and cranny.

TrickyWicky wrote: »

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.

Police might not do anything about a bag of bricks dumped by Homebase, but most if not all planning applications for building work it will state that all materials have to be stored on private property not the road. My council put this anyway.

EdGasket

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Equally you can sue the motorist for damage to your property.

The highway isn't just for cars and motorbikes. Likewise there is no fine for using cones either. Granted there is no legislation that says you can put them out but equally there is no legislation that says you can't.

A cone, believe it or not, is a traffic sign mentioned in Traffic Signs and General Directions 2002 - Diagram 7101/2/3.

Only those in authority are permitted to put traffic signs on a road so technically the practice mentioned of coning off the highway is illegal.

force_ten

EdGasket wrote: »

A cone, believe it or not, is a traffic sign mentioned in Traffic Signs and General Directions 2002 - Diagram 7101/2/3.

Only those in authority are permitted to put traffic signs on a road so technically the practice mentioned of coning off the highway is illegal.

I hold the city and guilds NRSWA Unit 2 Signing, Lighting & Guarding card so can i put cones outside my house?

EdGasket

Don't ask me; you're the expert. I think it safe to say the majority of readers here would not be considered 'those in authority'.

fivetide

EdGasket wrote: »

Don't ask me; you're the expert. I think it safe to say the majority of readers here would not be considered 'those in authority'.

The majority of readers couldn't even be considered to be Joey Boswell