Would you park like this?

[Imyellingtimber]

For context neighbour on left is new and has recently had their full width of their house tarmaced whereas previously only in front of the dropped kerb was driveway.

Neighbour on left has 3 cars and 2 drive spaces so usually parks darker blue car next to mid blue car on driveway and light blue car is where it lives.

Dropped kerb is still as is and hasn't been extended so where darker blue car has parked IS a raised kerb. But. Black car was there first and it does seem a bit of an 'up yours' to the new neighbour on the left from the old neighbour on the right. Dark blue car has now gone out (took photo earlier this morning and needed to name change before posting for obvious reasons!) so you can see how little room black car would have had to get out.

My question is would you have parked like the darker blue car and if yes/no why?

For extra context there are no parking restrictions and it's a very easy road to park on.

Also looking again if car 2 parks right up. Black car has plenty space to get out.

Can we have a birds-eye view diagram as well please?

Fine to park there as long as you’re not covering any part of the dropped kerb. Fwiw I live in a house where the whole front is paved but the dropped kerb only covers half. It is expected that people will park on the half without a dropped kerb and it is no issue when they do.

Lol are not 2 photos enough??

Only 1 other neighbour has a double width paving but single dropped kerb as he did is as a low maintenance front garden as he's in his 90s and has no cars. So parking across his empty drive means nothing to anyone. Just wondered if you were new neighbours and your NDN parked across you rather than as a PP said, across their own drive blocking their own car in how it would make you feel.

FWIW the right blue car family mum is lovely and chatty. Dad, who I saw doing this, is not. Previous owners of our house are friends of ours and the man of the couple said 'morning' to dad across the road for years as they left at the same time. Across the road dad never said anything back 😂 Man of couple said he hadn't noticed for ages then when he did notice he just kept doing it cos he's still a neighbour even if he's an ignorant one!

I wouldn't park across or obstruct a dropped kerb but I'd certainly have parked where the dark blue car did.

So are you the house with the car park instead of a garden?

We have a similar setup in front of our house to the black car's owner. Parking is tight in our road and we have no problem with neighbours parking in front of the non-dropped bit. It isn't a driveway, as someone said up-thread, it's just that we've made part of our garden into hard standing. Sometimes when we have two cars parked up we have to shuffle a bit to get the "blocked" one out, but it's not a big deal really. It wouldn't be fair or legal to expect people to keep the kerb area in front of our garden clear.

”Just wondered if you were new neighbours and your NDN parked across you rather than as a PP said, across their own drive blocking their own car in how it would make you feel.”

They haven’t blocked black car in though.

I would have no qualms about parking where dark blue car has. It isn't a dropped kerb and black car has more than enough space to get off the drive via the dropped kerb. You could get three cars on there easily and all would be able to get off via the dropped kerb. They'd have a cheek expecting that other bit to be left clear.

A house in our road has just tarmaced their front garden and started parking 2 cars there. They haven't had the kerb dropped.

On Friday I was quite amused to see a car parked over the front of their house. In the evening there was a note on it saying they'd been blocked in and ending "no parking!". No dropped kerb and people can park there. Don't know why they think they are entitled to drive over the kerb and pavement and don't have to pay to drop it like everyone else.

Without the dropped kerb they are 'entitled' to park there but it isn't especially polite if there is plenty of other space.

Perhaps they are peed off at the ugly tarmac drive and the assumption that because they've covered their front with tarmac, no one should park outside their house anymore, despite not dropping the kerb.

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”Just wondered if you were new neighbours and your NDN parked across you rather than as a PP said, across their own drive blocking their own car in how it would make you feel.”

They haven’t blocked black car in though.

As in, blocked their own blue car in rather than parked in front of the black car.

”As in, blocked their own blue car in rather than parked in front of the black car.”

But by parking in front of the black car they haven’t blocked anyone in at all!

I'd be more pissed off that both blue cars are parked on the pavement rather than whether one of them was parked in front of an imaginary driveway.

Pavement parkers are wankers...if there's no room to safely park without mounting the pavement then there's no room to park except for those special marked pavements that exist in some places

@Dychmygol Absolutely!! It's a popular dog walking and buggy pushing road so it's particularly annoying.

@Imyellingtimber I'm projecting a little because my mother relies on a wheelchair to get around so things like this bring out the ranting version of me!

I'd park there if it was the nearest available spot to my destination. It's not dropped kerb so I wouldn't have any qualms, and you're not supposed to drive across a footpath to access a property if there's no dropped kerb.