Has anyone got a dropped kerb in front of their house?

[annoyednow]

If you have, can you please tell me where you regard as the prohibited area for other motorists.

Is it
(a) Where the kerb is flush with the level of the ground
or
(b) The other side of the sloping area that joins the flat area to the normal pavement.

Have you an official source for this?

You should park such that the drive owner can get out comfortably and safely.

Generally that means not over the slopes on single width drives. I worry less with some local houses with wide double gates and small cars.

Large vans should not park tight up to drives because they are impossible to see round, sadly they are often the worst offenders.

We have terrible problems and hassle over this. We have a shortish drive - just enough to park a cars length on , then a garage (usually shut obviously so no-one knows if they are blocking a car in or not iyswim. We have a white painted H line and a dropped kerb (our predecessors had both done).

Well everybody has a bloody excuse especially the womenfolk of the travellers who have taken residence on a local farm and visit the nearby nail salon in their big fancy cars and we are sick of it. Yesterday big row with neighbouring business again about their customers/deliveries etc Delivery vans actually park half over the white line as it gives them more room to open back doors (and that is my problem how exactly ). Their stock answer is 'I 'll only be five/ten minutes'. Mine is 'No you wont- cos you're not parking it there !'

So DH now drafted one of his mates who lives up a nearby street to park his car right up to our white line on one side while he is at work in the day and DH parks his car on the other side anyway as he gets picked up for work (both builders so go in a van). Mine is usually in garage at night but always keep it on the drive during the day otherwise some bright spark will always park over the white line and have even been known to do it when my car is actually on the drive. So that at least will prevent the large delivery vans going across ours but we still may get the odd die hard 'rules dont apply to me' reverse parking into the space between the two vehicles now flanking our drive and so right across the white line/our drive. Yes folks they actually do that !

We have both said we will never ever buy a house on a main road again ! It's sad really as we both love our house/area we live apart from this.

Bunting x posts - yes big vans - tell me about it !

Sorry on my novel long post l meant to say 'Yes folks they actually do that even with my car in the drive'