Legally should you have a path outside your home before the road?

Mickey666

What are the parking arrangements for you and the neighbours.  Imagine each house having two, maybe more cars - what are the chances of having cars parked right outside and so close to your house?

A_Lert

Assuming those curbstones mark the edge of the road (and they're not going to be dug up and more tarmac laid), that's not "step out of your front door straight onto the road"!

It's closer than I'd like, and I'd want to know exactly where my land boundary is, but it need to be a deal breaker. If the space between the curb and the building was paved, and you could put higher curbstones in, it would be little different to loads of houses in cities.

There is in general no law forcing streets to have pavements, and no law preventing a house being built right up to the boundary of its land.

robatwork

Is there room to park outside your front door? Modern estate have ridiculously narrow roads, but that would give you a bit more peace of mind if there was a car there as a barrier.

comeandgo

Part of our estate has no pavements though the houses have large front gardens.  It was thought that cars would go slower if pedestrians had no dedicated areas.  Works fine, nobody hurt yet.  What sort of speed or traffic calming is there on your streets?  

stevenbecca

if you own the space from the house to the visible curd I'd be laying a path all the way round to the driveway. 

davidmcn

What's "legal" (and what the builders are meant to be providing you) is whatever the planners have approved - you have checked the approved drawings, haven't you? As mentioned, it is popular road design these days for drivers to be slowed down partly by realising that they're sharing the space with other users. 

davidmcn

A_Lert said:

curb

stevenbecca said:

curd

Kerb!!!

gozaimasu

I think the OP wants to know if she can sue the council (or whomever) if she hasn't trained her child to not walk out of the front door without looking.

LittleMax

Lauren479426 said:

The road is an entrance to a cul de sac car park 

for how many car parking spaces?

daveyjp

Are the roads being built to adoptable standards?  With no full width footpath I suspect not.