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

Barny1979

muffingg said:

 How is that the council's business whether I park in front of my own house?

As obstructing a dropped kerb also affects pedestrians, people with pushchairs and those with mobility issues from crossing from one side to the other.

orangecrush

OK, you need to determine if this is an actual shared drive, or it's just two drives next to each other without a fence down the middle.

You also need to determine if there's row/roa.

Until you have certainty over both those things nobody can tell you what the implications are.

trex227

If you don't have the paper copies of your title documents pay £3 for the title register of your property from the Land Registry, this should show if they have a ROW.

https://eservices.landregistry.gov.uk/eservices/FindAProperty/view/QuickEnquiryInit.do?_ga=2.108280779.831778617.1598449741-902984342.1581111910

muffingg

Barny1979 said:

gingercordial said:

For those querying parking on payments, as the OP says there are roads where that is permitted/required, for example this road near me in the north London suburbs.  It is a real pain as in this one there is no room left for pedestrians, but the cars are parked legally.



But OP you should not be blocking any of the dropped kerb.  Maybe they are not quite as confident at manoeuvres as you are.  Give them space.

There would be if the golf had been parked within the bay and the garden shrubs weren't encroaching into the Highway.

You would've been right if it was a Golf, but it's a Polo.

Barny1979

muffingg said:

Barny1979 said:

gingercordial said:

For those querying parking on payments, as the OP says there are roads where that is permitted/required, for example this road near me in the north London suburbs.  It is a real pain as in this one there is no room left for pedestrians, but the cars are parked legally.



But OP you should not be blocking any of the dropped kerb.  Maybe they are not quite as confident at manoeuvres as you are.  Give them space.

There would be if the golf had been parked within the bay and the garden shrubs weren't encroaching into the Highway.

You would've been right if it was a Golf, but it's a Polo.

Pedant, ok the Polo and what looks like the Zafira, which is too far over to the left of the bay marking.

muffingg

Barny1979 said:

muffingg said:

Barny1979 said:

gingercordial said:

For those querying parking on payments, as the OP says there are roads where that is permitted/required, for example this road near me in the north London suburbs.  It is a real pain as in this one there is no room left for pedestrians, but the cars are parked legally.



But OP you should not be blocking any of the dropped kerb.  Maybe they are not quite as confident at manoeuvres as you are.  Give them space.

There would be if the golf had been parked within the bay and the garden shrubs weren't encroaching into the Highway.

You would've been right if it was a Golf, but it's a Polo.

Pedant, ok the Polo and what looks like the Zafira, which is too far over to the left of the bay marking.

It was quite obvious that the cars weren't fully in their bay and that they needed to be. So there was no need to point that out either. The point was that they are correct in parking half on, half off, not that they were slightly too much on.

Barny1979

muffingg said:

The point was that they are correct in parking half on, half off, not that they were slightly too much on.

Nope, as the person said they were legally parked, they are parked outside of a bay, so could be issued a PCN.

gingercordial said:

For those querying parking on payments, as the OP says there are roads where that is permitted/required, for example this road near me in the north London suburbs.  It is a real pain as in this one there is no room left for pedestrians, but the cars are parked legally.

SootySweep1

Hi
I can see that your neighbour may struggle to park two cars side by side. Can't you just discuss & agree with your neighbour where would be the most convenient place for your visitors to park ?
You could get kerbs dropped or lampposts but that would cost you both money.
Jen

Heres_the_deal

The vast majority of residents on the 6,000 house estate where I live park half on the pavement. The local council allow it as parking was not fully considered when the development was planned. Two parking spaces for a 4/5 bed home and the rise in HMOs have all added to the issue. I thought the rule of parking on the pavement only applied in London?  I'm lucky as I own one car and have space to park three, but for those with wheelchairs and children it must be a nightmare taking them to and from school.

AdrianC

muffingg said:

allconnected said:

Where are the dropped kerbs? i.e. what is the actual legal access point from the road to the drives? Because it looks like your visitors are parking on the public highway and partly on the pavement, and not on private property. If so, what is relevant is whether they are parking across the dropped kerb or not.

AdrianC said:

Another vote for showing on the diagram where the drop kerbs are.

I can't believe there's a lamp post in the middle of a drop kerb...

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.

So as long as the visitor parks as they should do, nobody is blocking anybody.
HC243 - DO NOT stop or park

• in front of an entrance to a property
  

...and that means across a drop kerb.

It's certainly going to be easier to access that second parking space without somebody parked like a numpty across half of the drop kerb, isn't it?