To be annoyed by this parking?

This! I can’t believe all the responses so far!

I don't drive. I can't get out in the middle of the road with the door swung wind open. It takes me a bit of effort to get out of a car

It doesn't look so bad but if it makes life difficult I think you can pay the council to paint a white line that extends past the white line. Our nearby neighbour had one and screams at anyone who parks near it. I never do because I'm bored of her but she tells at parents and delivery drivers all day long. Its annoying but to be expected if you live near a school

Could you not park facing in the other direction?!

My neighbour used to have 2 cars so permanently parked like this, just meant I got reallly good at reversing onto my drive :D

There is LOADS of space here, nobody can park directly opposite your drive from what i can see. Unless your car is an actual bus this is no problem at all.

I have to be that far away from the kerb, or I can't get out the car. There needs to be enough room for my size 9 shoes on the road if there is a raised kerb

True. The angle of parking suggested someone who saw a not quite big enough spot, tucked up close to the other car so as not to overhang the driveway, and then just abandoned it. If there'd been a spae when they'd arrived, I'd have thought they'd have pulled a bit further forward. Of course they could have parked behind and even smaller car which left and was replaced by one which parked too close.

I would be annoyed by this too, though strictly speaking I believe it's only a parking contravention if the vehicle is physically over the point where the footway meets the road (i.e. the totally dropped bit).

You could apply to the council to have white h-bars across your drive way, which would encapsulate the dropping part (I think).

They're not enforceable, but they might "encourage" people to park more carefully.

We don’t know which car arrived first or how much space there is behind the other car, do we?

I sympathise as it is annoying. We got a H-bar (and double yellow lines) painted by the council in front of our drive and it’s made a big difference. Could you do something like that?

They shouldn’t be parked over a dropped curb but equally I really couldn’t get worked up about this, it’s not impossible to get off your drive so YABU.

looks fine to me - looks like they parked in a rush, probably couldn't find anywhere else to park and late for school pick up. I empathise!

If you don't like that parking, you would hate mine😳

Where we used to live, the traffic wardens were all employed by the council and would ticket anything they could - sometimes somewhat too enthusiastically!!! Any car overhanging a dropped kerb even for private driveways, white H bar or end of a parking bay wand be ticketed.

We get this all the time and we’re not even near a school. That car is fine, annoying to get off the drive I know, but it’s one of those things. YABU to be annoyed.

Moral of the story - don’t live near a school if you want your road to be clear for you to park on. So many of these threads about, yes parents picking their kids up have to leave their cars somewhere and no they don’t give a shit where. What exactly are people hoping for though, the kids to teleport to school or the parents to suddenly care about a foot of space near someone’s drive?

There should be a white line marking the area where they shouldn't be parking. I can't see whether there's one or not.

My original image was from a London borough’s enforcement pages one I used to work for so I haven’t named it. (These below are from Thurrock and Bromley). I appreciate different councils may have different thresholds but I haven’t come across one that uses the sloping part of the kerb. Yes H-Bars cover it but H-Bars aren’t enforceable. Traffic Warden’s don’t enforce residential access without a complaint being made (they can’t tell on the face of it if the owner of the vehicle is a resident at the property).

Thankfully I didn’t do this job for very long as phots like the one the OP sent are actually quite hard to use. As you can see there is already a plethora of opinion on how far from the kerb it is. I’d assess the wheels and front and rear are touching the kerb and that it’s near impossible to tell if the rear bumper is in the enforcement area from the angle. But I could be wrong.

If they are parked legally you’re being unreasonable as I’m afraid the rest of the highway doesn’t belong to you or your needs but is governed by laws and bye-laws. Even if it’s a pain in the arse which I agree this might be.

if they are Parker illegally then report and see if you can get a CEO sent down quickly enough to catch it.. not easy.

Annoying but to be fair there needs to be a compromise as to how much ‘pavement length’ should be reserved for a single household just because they have a drive. Parking right at the end of the dropped kerb is fine IMO.

Even though it's left zero wiggle room for the car in front? It's virtualy touching the bumper.

Which is why h bar markings are advisory and not enforceable. It’s very irritating I’m sure but… much of life on this island is 😂

Absolutely not!!

thankfully

I'd love to do this but unfortunately I arrive home whilst the school run chaos is going on, meaning I'm always being tailgated by someone and it's therefore impossible to undertake the 4 pt manoeuvre required to get to the right angle to back onto the drive through the tiny gap left between parked cars - all whilst also trying to avoid hitting oblivious teenagers meandering along the pavement. I go out later when the road is clearer to back off, turn around and park "properly"

Annoying when this happens to me with my drive as obscures my vision (I reverse in and have a t junction opposite so people shouldn't park outside my house anyway but do).

I don't say anything because it falls on deaf ears and just manoeuvre past. So sigh internally.