Shared drive with neighbours - Am I not allowed to block my own half of the drive?

roddydogs

Why would the council put a lamppost  in a place blocking a dropped kerb? And if the lamppost was there first, why allow a dropped kerb?

AdrianC

roddydogs said:

Why would the council put a lamppost  in a place blocking a dropped kerb? And if the lamppost was there first, why allow a dropped kerb?

Read the thread.

The lamp post is just outside the dropped kerb.

UnderOffer

I’d love to know, can Car 1 on your neighbours side and Car 2 on your side leave the drive with the other vehicle beside you in place? If you can drive in and out without having to move the other parked vehicle then I’m surprised your neighbour is having issues, as that would indicate that there is plenty of room to manoeuvre. 

molerat

The problem though is not getting on and off their own property, it is the inconsiderate guest car parking half way across the single width centred on the boundary dropped kerb

seradane

Sea_Shell said:

Going by that diagram, kindly posted, Is there any way that the guest car could just pull up where the dropped kerb is, and then back up a bit to go "up the kerb", thereby giving the neighbours a bit more space???    At the end of the day, we're probably only talking about a foot or so of extra space needed to manoeuvre in, surely.

Do they need to pull up right to the "boundary"?

From a previous comment by OP, they've said this whole palava only occurs when there is someone else who is parked in the communal parking spot immediately behind, so the car can't be moved further back.

This whole thread is going around in circles but my favourite suggestion is for OP to move one of their own cars out onto the street ahead of when their less-mobile parents come over so they can park at the front of the house. If they time it right they could even take the communal parking spot to the right, and then everyone's happy.

seradane

UnderOffer said:

I’d love to know, can Car 1 on your neighbours side and Car 2 on your side leave the drive with the other vehicle beside you in place? If you can drive in and out without having to move the other parked vehicle then I’m surprised your neighbour is having issues, as that would indicate that there is plenty of room to manoeuvre. 

I suspect not

bouicca21

11 pages and we still don’t know whether there is an ROW or ROA!

seradane

molerat said:

The problem though is not getting on and off their own property, it is the inconsiderate guest car parking half way across the single width centred on the boundary dropped kerb

It's a double-width entry though - single width on neighbors side, single width on OP's side and just combined into one wide entrance.

Barny1979

bouicca21 said:

11 pages and we still don’t know whether there is an ROW or ROA!

Very much doubt it's a ROW 

sheramber

That is not clear from the OPs description
The dropped kerb part spans only half the total drive. So roughly from just next to the lamppost to the middle of my drive (so half in front of the neighbours, half in front of my house). And It's roughly 2 cars wide. So the neighbours are parking half on the kerb and half on the dropped kerb.
 
The  confusion is the OPs statement that it is 'shared drive.'
 Also, is he describing   'half the total drive'  as the double width or the original single width that runs from the dropped kerb.  
  
 Perhaps he could post a photograph to clarify the position.