Driveways without dropped kerbs

[Peppapigsandwich]

If someone is using their garden as a driveway but doesn’t have a dropped kerb, do you park there or do you treat it as a real driveway and find somewhere else?
If you have a driveway without a dropped kerb do you get blocked in often?
Im in the middle of a debate over this and curious to what others do or would do if ever in that situation?

😂 I now really want to remove my garden fence and put up a sign with this on it!

it’s a good shout for those who have said it keeps cars off the road, I also didn’t consider the factor it would be damaging the path. Like others I wouldn’t park there although it would be legal to just because I wouldn’t know if they had an emergency then they couldn’t get out.

Where I live the council mostly refuse dropped kerbs and the ones they give permission to can take months. When there isn’t a road to park on what are they expected to do? I don’t agree with the costs involved either, although I’m sure there is a reason I’m unaware of.

How did they get their car out!?

Sometimes they install removable bollards so the council let them out at some point. Other times a car crane.

It would be petty to deliberately block them in or deny them access. They could be elderly or disabled and awaiting their dropped kerb.

In my London borough the council have put bollards to stop the non-driveway situation.

No dropped curb, not a driveway. Chap 4 doors down parked on his paved front garden,county council told him to stop. We are under east Sussex CC. As well as having a dropped curb made of specific curb stones,we had to pay for a licence to drive across the pavement. My oldest DS house shared, this was West Sussex CC, he parked on the paved front garden.. woman from the council paid him a visit,told him to remove it otherwise he would be fined. I personally wouldn't park over someone's drive, but it's a very grey area. There are yellow lines up to our property,so people park across our drive to deliver and shop. In the next road,there is a family with one of the old land rovers, they cross a wide grass verge which has all been completely chewed up into mud, over the path,into their unpaved front garden, and somehow have got away with it for 10 years.

Where I live the council mostly refuse dropped kerbs and the ones they give permission to can take months. When there isn’t a road to park on what are they expected to do? I don’t agree with the costs involved either, although I’m sure there is a reason I’m unaware of.

Of course there are costs. The labour and materials required to reinforce the pavement and create the dropped curb have to be paid for.

As PPs have said, if the curb isn't dropped then they don't have a driveway. If they are storing a car on their front patio, anyone is free to park on the road.
A busy body on our street takes joy in walking around neighbouring streets and reporting to the council if anyone is driving over a pavement onto their property without a dropped curb, I don't go that far myself though!