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

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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.

How is that blocking them in have I missed something? you want to park at the kerb but not across their car, so ok its not ideal but that's not blocking them they can simply reverse back

have I missed something?

OP, I think you had a moral duty to park in front of the raised kerb as you would have stopped that person committing an offence by driving over the pavement according to the Highways Act 1980 S84

I understood the op perfectly first post b

People don’t understand because in the first place you weren’t clear whether you would
Park ON the drive
Park ACROSS the drive
Park partially across leaving them space to get out.

You didn’t reply to questions asking if you thought it was reasonable to actually block them in,

You have not taken on board observations that they haven’t really inconvenienced you because if they were parked in the road they would still be taking up the place.

Best not come to London very often. Parking is scarce and consider it normal, not a ‘nightmare’ to park round the corner or in the next street.

I also don't understand what people aren't getting about this.

The people with the "driveway" have just paved over their front garden and are parking on it - and are the ones being CFs as they don't have a dopped kerb so are running the risk of being blocked in if someone legally parks across the entrance to their garden. For what it's worth, I think it also looks like that pavement has been redone fairly recently (without a dropped kerb) as well.

I'm with you OP and would happily have parked there confident that I wasn't being the CF. DH seems to be nicer than me though, and says he wouldn't.

Goodness me. All this upset because of a dropped curb. I thought op didn’t explain because she wanted us to see it. YANBU to have wanted to park there but you would have been u to actually do it.

I don’t understand why so many seem intent on being arseholes just because they legally can. What small minds.

Normal people wouldn't even consider the dropped kerb or lack of it. There's a car park somewhere, you naturally don't block it, common sense, common courtesy, basic responsible driver. I am amazed that people even take time to consider it.

This.

Also, I have no idea wtf people didn’t understand about the original post, including the marks on the picture - was perfectly obvious they were to hide address and number plate etc.

Your husband sounds nice. He could probably do better.

Why would you park there? It's a dick thing to do! Just get DH to drop off you and the kids. He can find somewhere to park and bring the dog and bits from car. It isn't fucking hard.

My husband is very happy to be with me, don’t worry ;)

Apologies to those who didn’t understand the very simple thread. Some did. Takes all sorts I suppose... it’s just an Internet forum. There’s really no need to get upset.

I bet your husband wishes he had dropped you off somewhere 100miles away from him.
He sounds decent.
You come across as a nasty bitch.

You were NOT clear in your opening post - you understand it because you wrote it. Not everybody on mumsnet lives in London so we don’t all have the same parking problems. I couldn’t work out from the OP if the car in the picture was yours or not. You have been horrible to BettyPitts who did nothing wrong.
I bet you won’t be showing all of these comments to your parents in law and your decent sounding husband while you are ‘ having such a lovely day’.

I think it was bloody obvious what OP meant.
I wouldn’t have blocked them in. But as they’re only 2 doors away, I’d have knocked and asked if I could, and if out I’d have chanced it with a note under the wiper saying “knock at #32 if we need to shift”. I would not leave a note for a proper dropped kerb, but I’d knock.

I read most out actually... it was baffling to us all that so many people were confused. We laughed, they’re nice people, I’m nice too ;) it’s just a thread about a kerb. Take a real life break maybe.

Your DH sounds like a decent bloke. He was probably thinking of his parents who have to live in the street. You could cause a whole lot of animosity and then go home. Sometimes doing the right thing is more important than being in the right.

Two wrongs don't make a right.
It's not a legal driveway, but there's clearly a car parked there, they may need to get out.

well this has been a shit CF parking thread

Sorry 😂

“There’s really no need to get upset.”
Haha, from the person who has actually been deleted! On a parking thread

This thread is a prime example of why Mumsnet gets a bad rap everywhere, the opening post was perfectly clear.

Your husband sounds nice. He could probably do better.

What the actual fuck?!

People are crying? Really? get a grip.

OP, I wouldn’t park there even if there wasn’t a dropped kerb because it’s not worth the hassle. However, I would have parked there to unload the kids/dog etc before going back to move the car.

If you can afford to live in London (even on the outskirts) you can afford the £2k for a dropped kerb. Cannot bear people who are able to actually buy houses cry poverty. You’d rather spend the money elsewhere, and that’s fine. But don’t pretend you’re in the right.

“If you can afford to live in London (even on the outskirts) you can afford the £2k for a dropped kerb.” Not if living in London has taken you to the brink of bankruptcy, exactly because it is so expensive.

So if you’re almost bankrupt living here, why continue to live here?

When you buy a house (renters notwithstanding; if your LL won’t pay out that’s another issue), do you look at things like the boiler, or whether you might need a dropped kerb, or the condition of the windows and factor that in... or do you just blindly move in and hope for the best? If paying for a dropped kerb after moving in would break you, you probably couldn’t afford the house in the first place ¯\(ツ)/¯

I don’t live anywhere near London.

I skim read (had a very stressful week & read just before having to take Ds somewhere)

I understood.

We’ve applied for a dropped kerb at my workplace as the small entrance to our car park is inadequate & requires complicated manoeuvring.

We’ve been refused.

So we don’t park in a way that we can’t get out if someone parks across (even though it’s double yellows).