To be the CF who parks in front of a driveway with no dropped kerb.

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Just that really. I pulled into a street to answer my phone and realised I was blocking a driveway, I knew I would only be a minute. I noticed that there was actually nodropped kerb, just a narrow wooden ramp that had been placed on the road in front of the kerb. I wondered what the legal implications of this would be, as the household had obviously not had council permission, or indeed payed for the privilege. I read in the paper recently that a council somewhere were fining a homeowner who was parking on their driveway, but had failed to install a dropped kerb. Apparently it undermines the pavement if you drive over it( not to mention causing havoc to car tracking) FYI I was just after opinions as I would not actually park there as I am not really a CF!

We have that outside our house. The house is 200 years old and the gateway into the drive is presumably the same age. A couple of years ago the council randomly built a pavement all along the side of our road and across the entrance to our drive. They refused to fix it unless we paid so we just put a wooden block in so we don’t wreck our tyres. I don’t know how common that is though.

There was a great thread on this recently where someone did this in front of a MNers designated parking space and expected then to stop parking their for their makeshift drive. The consensus was generally, if it's not actually a Drive then you're free to treat it as somewhere to park

Blob That was a bit cheeky of the council, as they were effectively blocking your right of way, so I don't blame you.

If there's no dropped kerb, it's not a driveway. Therefore you did not stop across a driveway. HTH

We have that outside our house too. We live on a hill and its to prevent run off from the stream flooding us out in extreme weather. It's pretty obvious it's a drive though.

Some one here described a drive with no dropped kerb as a patio with aspirations

If there's no dropped kerb, it's not a driveway.

^This

"Patio with aspirations."

We have a non-driveway drive, i.e. paved front garden. Super old house, and there's no dropped kerb, because the kerb/pavement is the same level as the road already, iyswim. The road and pavement are a bit blurred into one. Quite a few of the houses on our cul de sac have the same, it was like that when we bought it. Both our cars can fit on the non-drive, whereas if we parked on the street we'd end up taking up a lot more room. I am unrepentant but if it was a normal height kerb that i had to drive over then i wouldn't park on the non-drive.

Ooh, I'd always wondered about this. A house on a narrow part of our street has added a cement slope down to the road rather than pay for a dropped kerb. People have generally avoided parking in front of their house since.

Spaghetti I can see why you would park in your front garden/non drive, but I am not sure if you would have any legal recourse if someone blocked your car in. Not that I would do this obviously!

I just found this on good ole Google. May explain the real legalities.

I know, i was thinking about this the other day actually because next doors handyman blocked me in (which was fine, he moved it as soon as i asked), but it made me wonder whether i should park on the street instead, just to prevent that inconvenience. But then I'd be blocking either my neighbours non-drive, where they park, or I'd be talking the usual space of my other neighbour (who have no non drive). If i parked right outside our house on the street then dh wouldn't be able to get his car on, so he'd have to block someone else.