To be annoyed by this parking?

Wrong. They should not be parking past the dropped kerb.

Completely agree

School parking is very challenging. But there is no problem here. They have left your drive free.

This would piss me off too. OK so they're not parked massively over the dropped kerb but they are still over it which is illegal.

The bit of the drop curb that should be avoided is not the sloping bit but the part completely level with the highway. It’s hard to tell from your photo if that’s the case here. But if it’s a driveway dropped curb you’d have to apply to the council for enforcement and in reality a single offence isn’t going to be followed up with.

Parking anywhere else is fine, so it could be annoying but it is legal and sadly if it’s anything like our road the parking is at a premium so hard to get worked up about, (although some neighbours do!) unfortunately even new housing developments don’t seem to take into account that most family homes have two cars now, let alone parking around schools.

It’s fine. Yes a bit more awkward than no vehicle there but perfectly doable.
Theres often a van by my drive which makes visibility more tricky but as long as I’m careful it’s fine. There are way more vehicles than parking and that’s just the way it is.

Yes!
We always reverse on because it is much more difficult to reverse off with cars parked on the road next to/opposite the drive

It's annoying but there's probably very little you can do. School run parents are a selfish and entitled group imo, desperate not to have to walk a few extra steps so parking ridiculously, on top of the school. Their justification here is 'everyone does it' as though that somehow makes it OK. I feel for you

Yes, their wheel is overhanging the dropped kerb but the lawn also appears to extend into the dropped kerb so I don’t think they are blocking you from getting out. However, your view of oncoming traffic could be limited so you would need to be careful, as you should anyway in an area of school parking.

Usually on MN you will be told to reverse onto your drive so you can go out forward facing which will make it easier for you.

However, I would be mildly annoyed especially if such parking is a regular occurrence - but then I would never buy a house close to a school!

You don't - you reverse in and then drive off forwards, unless you particularly enjoy making things more difficult for yourself and more dangerous for everybody.

A bit thoughtless leaving part of their car over the dropped kerb. But can you still get off your drive? If you can, consider it doing this person a small favour.

Indeed. You haven't actually parked; you've just stopped in traffic!

YANBU how are you supposed to reverse and get off the drive safely

Also, I presume that you're parking according to the Highway Code and reversing in to your drive?

If you're one of the many people who prefer to make it much more difficult and dangerous for themselves by driving in, so they then have to reverse out, you can't really complain that another driver's parking is restricting your vision when leaving your drive, when that was your own choice.

They’re on the dropped kerb, so yanbu.

Cannot abide lazy school collection parking.

Some here think we should give them more leeway when it’s raining - not a chance.

No. Why would you want to be that far from the kerb?

Their wheel shouldn't be over any part of your dropped kerb but it's such a small difference and such a generous dropped kerb that I'd find it hard to care about this.

Is everyone saying there’s nothing wrong missing that the wheel is completely over the dropped curb?
I mean it’s mildly annoying and I wouldn’t do anything more than huff internally to myself, but it is still a parking offence.

@Atishooo i was taught to park ‘1 drain’s width’ from the kerb so this photo looks fine to me. Is that not the general advice everyone is given…?

They are parked with their wheel well over the dropped kerb, so technically they are blocking you. Your drive is massive by the looks of it though, so you should have no issues getting on and off it.

Nothing wrong there. Having a drive guarantees you access to your property (as long as nobody blocks it illegally), but that doesn't mean you get as much space as you might like to be able to sweep in and out at leisure; you may well have to manoeuvre your vehicle in order to use the access.

By having a drive (and no beef with that; so do we), you're already taking out of action a potential public parking space on the street (in front of your drive); you can't expect to take out two additional spaces, either side, just to make it super convenient for you.

Not really an issue.

Part of driving is navigating and negotiating other vehicles. Just how much of the public road do you demand be kept clear so that you can ‘swing out’?

There are so many cars on the road. All car owners are to some extent an inconvenience to someone else.

Nothing wrong with this parking, understand it makes it more difficult to swing out but I live on a road like this and you just have to edge out slowly.

They've clearly made an effort not to block your drive, so unless there's parking restrictions on your road I can't see what the problem is.

Park forwards?