Parking question

[StarCourt]

Just wondering if anybody has done similar and if so were there any consequences.
I live in a rented ground floor maisonette and have to park on the public road outside. The front garden comes with my property so is also my responsibility to maintain.
I have looked into getting a dropped curb put in and the garden turned into a driveway ( my landlord is fine with this ) but it's very expensive when the property is not mine.
I live on the corner of my road and a service road. There are double yellows that start outside my house and extend just around into the service road.
I live in a circular road and there are a number of these throughout. Last year the council extended the existing double yellows and that took away parking space for 8 or so cars in total so parking is worse than ever and there is no longer a space directly outside my house.
Also as parking is free there and in the centre of my village by the shops, pubs and school, when not in lockdown parking is very difficult
I am thinking of getting a couple of lines of wide slabs laid in the front garden,( done properly, not by me ) just enough to park my car on. As there are double yellows directly in front nobody will be blocking me in.
Has anyone done similar?

If you are driving over a pavement you have to have a dropped kerb.

Do you mean without having the drop curb put in?

It is illegal to drive over the pavement without a dropped curb.

For a start do not pay for anything like a driveway or dropped kerb in a rental property, that’s just nuts. Just putting a few slabs on top of dirt will likely sink under the weight of a car and to do it anywhere near properly will cost a fair chunk. You will also likely damage the kerb driving over it if it’s not dropped, I don’t know what the rules are where you live and whether the council could charge you to fix it but I’d look into it. Honestly I’d move (easier said than done I know) or see if the landlord is prepared to add parking.

Nope it’s illegal to drive a car over the pavement without a dropped curb. People down the road to us tried and council were into them pretty quick.

I am thinking of getting a couple of lines of wide slabs laid in the front garden,( done properly, not by me ) just enough to park my car on.

I believe what you are referring to is not a parking space it is a Patio with Aspirations.

@SoupDragon

I am thinking of getting a couple of lines of wide slabs laid in the front garden,( done properly, not by me ) just enough to park my car on.

I believe what you are referring to is not a parking space it is a Patio with Aspirations.

@SoupDragon I've never parked on a patio

[quote StarCourt]@SoupDragon I've never parked on a patio [/quote]
That is exactly what you are planning to do.

It’s not a drive without a dropped curb - it’s a patio? It’s illegal to do park like that.

@SoupDragon not really, a grassed front garden with a couple of lines of slabs at tyre width isn't really a patio.
And reading responses it seems illegal so I won't be doing it

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I see the joke went right over your head.