People who don’t use their drives. Why? 😆

Oh dear. As ever, the point escapes the posters with something anxiously to protect, against everyone else’s interests.

If there’s enough room to allow off-street parking then of course it’s fine. I have a friend who lives in a rural place who has space for probably 20 cars on his huge gravelled, country pile drive. He isn’t removing parking from anyone else. But that’s not the point.

You might pay for a dropped kerb. But if you live in a town I would stop you having the opportunity to have a dropped kerb. Park on the street like everyone else and when you’re using your car, anyone else can use the parking space. The rest of the world wouldn’t have to search around for a space while you’re away.👍

I still think Japan has it right - no parking space, no car (or no car registration)

Dropped kerbs are an access for wheelchairs and buggies to cross the roads, so there's no real solution. We can't ask for permit to park (and block) our own drives which would solve a few problems.

It’s an outrage that householders can alter the rights of everyone else to park on a public highway. Don't be ridiculous. People pay more to have somewhere to park, you pay less and have no allocated space, it's your choice.
Of course people need access to their home.

What's next? Private gardens alter the rights of everyone to access green spaces? 😂

I can't make a diagram to show my point, so I realise I am being BU

But when there's space for ONE vehicle in front of a house, and parking at the very edge of the dropped kerb doesn't free any space for another car, yes, it's people behaving like idiots. So I park there instead and they lose the spot.

It's common sense, and idiots as usual penalise everyone else.

So you want more protected space than your dropped kerb? To allow you easier access in and out?

This is why permission for drives/dropped kerbs should be be much more difficult to get, and many dropped kerbs should be rescinded and general parking restored. It’s an outrage that householders can alter the rights of everyone else to park on a public highway.

If you have enough land to accommodate off-street parking without interfering with others’ parking rights, fine. But in most urban places it doesn’t work like that.

I know several people who park on the street rather than their drives.

1 person is a very nervous reverser and won't reverse onto or off their drive. Even when shopping she will drive through spaces so she doesn't have to reverse out.

My BIL and SIL live on a street with almost all street parking, their neighbours have converted their fronts to a drive, however as the road is double parked and there is so much street parking it is very difficult with sight lines and turning circles to get on and off the drive and the neighbor now just street parks.

1 person just hates playing car jenga, they have a long drive with space for 2 cars one behind the other and they just don't like shuffling them about.

An elderly couple near my MIL park on the road rather than their drive as they have carers coming 4 times a day and street parking is limited (live close to town so lots of shop workers park on their road and walk in rather than pay all day car parking), the carers park on their drive when they visit.

1 person lives on free parking street close to train station and park on the street as they have found themselves blocked in on their drive due to selfish commuter parking.

Some workers at the care home down the road from us street park rather than use the car park. The care home car park is very tight (for modern cars) and also involves playing car jenga at shift change if they all park in the car park. It is a very contentious issue on the street as when the care home expanded no provision was made for the extra staff needing to park and the way many staff park (on the pavement) make it very dangerous for pedestrians and wheelchair/ pram users and also block sight lines for getting on and off drives safely (road is 40mph coming down from national speed limit, most of the cars coming past the care home are doing around 50mph and lots of cars parked on the road get clipped as other drivers try to squeeze round them at speed).

I have a double drive, and park on it.
All fine except 3 houses up have 5 cars and a double driveway...3 adult kids st home it seems. So they have taken to parking opposite my driveway, meaning its a struggle to get off my drive.
Nothing except common sense to tell them not to park there, and knocking to say pls move your car i need to get iff drive in my huge van (wheelchair van), then return from the shops 5 mins later and need to ask them.to move again.
Simpletons.

1962 Garage Act in Japan...

The main reason why I don't park on my drive are idiots who try to block me in.
It's obvious the drive is much wider than the drop kerb, or we wouldn't be able to fit more than 2 small cars with a tight squeeze. The amount of drivers who make a point to park right to the very edge of the drop kerve. It doesn't magically create more space to park another car behind them, but it blocks or at the very least annoys me.

Fine, I just park on the street. Complete non-issue. It leaves a free space for visitors who come at time when the street is busy.

If I had my way, anyone with a drive would have to pay to park onstreet

that means everyone would have to pay full stop - which is already the case in many places, parking permits are not free.

Happy to pay, but then that means if I pay, I am completely entitled not to park on my drive.

I have a double drive with a double dropped kerb and double yellow lines in London.

I rarely park on the road but the double dropped kerb means that Ambulances, and delivery vans often park fully on the pavement, or recycling trucks park on the dropped kerb, so I am sometimes blocked in or out of my drive.

When I park on the road to leave a space for guests or trades to park in, it definitely feels weird, like the car is out of sight.

My God, people need to learn to reverse park if they’re concerned about it being a driving issue for not parking on their drive. It’s really easy! Position the ring mirrors correctly!

I would happily pay, although I suspect the collection of cars one of my neighbours had would rapidly reduce and solve the problem in our street immediately

Fine by me. An long as everyone with more than 1 car per household also has to pay

How silly !

'If I had my way, anyone with a drive would have to pay to park onstreet'

Yes I mentioned this earlier it'd be very easy to implement, councils could charge £100 a year to get an on street parking permit. I bet suddenly everyone would be more than able to use their drives .

If I had my way, anyone with a drive would have to pay to park onstreet.

My current peeve...I live "up north" near a big flat main road, with hilly side streets. So if snow is forecast, people living on the side streets park on the main road, in case they can't get up/down their own street. Fair enough. However, if there are more than a few flakes of snow, they're too scared to drive at all. This means the road is reduced to half its width until the snow clears by parked cars both sides and the snowplough/gritters can't clear the whole road. Stupid idiots.

I agree, use more public transport!

Looks more pleasant?!

In our previous house we had no drive, it was a dead end cul de sac and parking was a nightmare. Our quite new car was written off in the middle of the night by teenage joyriders in a stolen car (I never knew that if there is no one to claim from its an at fault claim on your own insurance!)

Moved shortly after, large driveway for our cars plus visitors was a priority.

My drive slopes up from the road and is narrow, so you have to reverse into it or you can't open the door on the driver's side. There's only a tiny gap between the car and the edge of the lawn, which is about a foot higher than the drive. It's like getting out of a very low sports car.

My knees are knackered (arthritis) and I simply can't get out of the car if I park in the drive, so I park on the road.

My NDN always parks across their drive as they don’t like other cars parking in front of their house. Insane

Oh interesting!

We have 2 cars and 1 drive, I always park my car on the road because it's smaller. So it might look like I'm parking on the road when the drive is empty but DH will park on it later in the day 😄

But you can park it - on the street! Which would be a lot easier if drives didn’t remove parking spaces.

I think the opposite, people should only be allowed to buy a car if they can prove they have a space to park it - it would solve so many problems