Can I park here or would it make me a CF?

[MaryPoppinsPenguins]

Visiting DH parents... its park here or park most of the street away.

DH chose far away. But come on, that is not a driveway.

I am confused!

I said, it was either park here, or a street away. I fail to see how alongside a picture that wasn’t clear.

Or is that your house?

It’s not a dropped kerb so you wouldn’t be doing anything wrong if there was no car parked on the drive. However you can not prevent vehicles accessing the road so yes, you must leave it free for them to exit. Your DH is right. If there was no car there, you would be fine to park there.

I am confused!

But there’s a PICTURE!

I don’t see how in any way it is confusing.

We drove to PIL’s.

This is their neighbours a couple of houses down. They are parked on their ‘drive’ but have no dropped kerb, so I really don’t consider this ‘a drive.’

DH wouldn’t park there, choosing instead to park about 400 houses away.

I get that it’s not a monumental distance, but it just annoyed me that everyone else pays for a dropped kerb but these people don’t and somehow it’s a driveway.

Surely park up to unload, you take kids and everything else in then DH moves car? Then you’re both happy!

Don't be an arse of course you can't block them in. The law may be on your side but you'd be a monumental asshat to do it.

I would park and unload, then move as there is a car on it. If it were unoccupied I'd have no hesitation in parking there.

Although if they are neighbours of your parents, knock and ask if they are going out as if they aren't, you can park there.

That is not a dropped kerb. It is perfectly legal to park on that bit of the public highway.

However that car has obviously illegally mounted the kerb & driven across the pavement to park in the paved garden.

No drop kerb.

I'd park there.

It's not a fucking drive and I'm parked legally on the highway.

Just because they choose to use it as a drive doesn't make it one.

I live in London, I wouldn't even think twice about parking there.

They can't complain.

It is not a fucking drive.

Pay to have a dropped kerb and I won't park there but until you do it's not a fucking drive.

Obviously, we didn’t park there. I feel like I said that a few times??

If they didn’t park on their non-drive, they’d have parked on the street outside their house, so you wouldn’t have been able to park there anyway.

This is outskirts of London. Parking is a nightmare. We were lucky to find the other space even.

Hobbes, it doesn’t necessarily mean that. Someone else could have got there first?

Took me ages to work out why it wasn't obviously a drive. Eventually realised you meant the lack of dropped kerb.

I agree with your DH. It's obviously a drive, and if you parked there you'd be blocking someone in. I think that technically you may be correct, but I wouldn't have parked there either.

But it isn’t a drive. They haven’t paid to have the kerb dropped..

You would be a massive twat to block them in because you don't want to walk from a couple of roads away.

It’s not a drive but it’s a vehicle on private property and you can’t block access to the road.

Emma198
DH should have parked there for 2 mins emptied the car then one of you moved it to a less controversial space.

Way too easy! No drama or photos then.

I agree it’s not a driveway if there’s no dropped kerb, but I still don’t think it’s okay to park so that the neighbours (illegally parked) car is blocked in.

Although I don’t see any major problem with stopping there quickly to offload presents, cake, DC, dog and one adult and then having the adult who’s driving go find another space.

Why don’t you just bloody explain properly instead of a series of half-arsed posts dripping information.

That's bonkers. It was perfectly clear from the first post.

And I do have sympathy with your point of view OP, although I doubt I'd have the guts/brass neck to park there myself

I'd park there. It's not a drive, it's a paved over garden they've put their car on. If I was feeling bad about it I might leave my number in the window for them to call if they wanted to go out.

MaryPoppinsPenguins
But it isn’t a drive. They haven’t paid to have the kerb dropped..

Yeah, we got that bit the first 20 times you said it.

Still a dick move to block them in.

I agree with another poster: you should have parked there, unloaded the car, and then move the car to someplace you're not blocking in (an unlawfully) parked car.

There isn’t a dropped kerb; but you would be blocking someone in. So it would be a shitty thing to do.