Dropped curb opposite drive

Grumpy_chap

justworriedabit said:

widen your drive as we did at one of our previous proertys from about 9 fret to 17. Therefore, increase the width of your drive and you are good IMO unless you have a telegraph pole one side of the drive and a post/lightpost/sign post on the other then its a lot more expensive.

That is not always possible, especially to 17 feet wide - that is a very wide vehicle crossover.  The rules may vary between Local Authorities, but where I live the permitted width for a dropped kerb vehicle crossover is 2.4 m to 3.5 m (equals 8 feet to 12 feet).  A vehicle crossover 17 feet wide is over 5 m and, in my experience, very uncommon.  I suspect the type of road where very wide vehicle crossovers can sensibly be incorporated in scale to the properties would not be so narrow that parking directly opposite is creating the type of issue the OP is experiencing.

AdrianC

Grumpy_chap said:

justworriedabit said:

widen your drive as we did at one of our previous proertys from about 9 fret to 17. Therefore, increase the width of your drive and you are good IMO unless you have a telegraph pole one side of the drive and a post/lightpost/sign post on the other then its a lot more expensive.

That is not always possible, especially to 17 feet wide - that is a very wide vehicle crossover.  The rules may vary between Local Authorities, but where I live the permitted width for a dropped kerb vehicle crossover is 2.4 m to 3.5 m (equals 8 feet to 12 feet).  A vehicle crossover 17 feet wide is over 5 m and, in my experience, very uncommon.  I suspect the type of road where very wide vehicle crossovers can sensibly be incorporated in scale to the properties would not be so narrow that parking directly opposite is creating the type of issue the OP is experiencing.

I haven't measured on the ground, but where our driveway joins the road, the measure tool on google maps reckons just north of 8m wide.

The road itself is less than 3m wide, verge to verge.

poppasmurf_bewdley

Isn't it illegal to park and obstruct a dropped kerb?  Period?

No private house owns the dropped kerb, just like no private house owns the pavement, so how can one car blocking it be ok whilst it's not for another.

AdrianC

poppasmurf_bewdley said:

Isn't it illegal to park and obstruct a dropped kerb?  Period?

No.

It's illegal to park and block a vehicle from leaving a driveway.
(If there's no drop kerb, then the vehicle can't leave that way legally, so it's not an issue.)

If the car is parked opposite a drop kerb, then is that obstructing? Probably not, assuming a normal-width suburban road.

HansOndabush

You can park your own car across your own dropped curb legally. I am not sure if that applies to visitors but presumably so with the dropped-curb owner's permission.

peter_the_piper

Be aware that even parking over your own drive is frowned upon by wardens, chances are they won't know its your own drive and you'll get a nice little visiting card fromhim.

justworriedabit

Grumpy_chap said:

justworriedabit said:

widen your drive as we did at one of our previous proertys from about 9 fret to 17. Therefore, increase the width of your drive and you are good IMO unless you have a telegraph pole one side of the drive and a post/lightpost/sign post on the other then its a lot more expensive.

That is not always possible, especially to 17 feet wide - that is a very wide vehicle crossover.  The rules may vary between Local Authorities, but where I live the permitted width for a dropped kerb vehicle crossover is 2.4 m to 3.5 m (equals 8 feet to 12 feet).  A vehicle crossover 17 feet wide is over 5 m and, in my experience, very uncommon.  I suspect the type of road where very wide vehicle crossovers can sensibly be incorporated in scale to the properties would not be so narrow that parking directly opposite is creating the type of issue the OP is experiencing.

I never said it was possible. It was just an idea to help the OP and I'm sure the OP will decide if it possible/feasible etc as I was only trying to help the OP and I do not know what the layout is like. We had a 17 foot wide crossover at one of the previous addresses.

HTH.

lemondrops69

peter_the_piper said:

Be aware that even parking over your own drive is frowned upon by wardens, chances are they won't know its your own drive and you'll get a nice little visiting card fromhim.

And it depends where you live of course. Where I live unless someone dobbed you in you'd never see a warden around the streets, only in car parks for easy pickings 

EmmyLou30

Of course you pay your taxes and are entitled to park on the road too, be a shame if you kept beating them to the parking spot outside their house daily....

This is a sure fire way to rile them up further and get your car vandalised so it depends what kids of car you have and if you care! Failing that a nice taxed/MOT'd legal banger left parked there and never moved also has the same effect without giving away it's you who had a mate drop it off and leave it there. 

Norman_Castle

viola13 said:They had trouble where they used to live as a van parked over their drive so seems she understood Seems it's the husband who doesn't want to and now, out of spite just park further and further over.

Are they avoiding using this drive due to being blocked in at the previous property? The husbands an idiot, treat him accordingly.