To be annoyed by this parking?

[LilyOfTheValley33]

Am I being unreasonable to be annoyed by this parking? We live quite near a school which has no parking and so parents use our road to park on when dropping off/picking up. We get a lot of people parking by/across our drive as per the attached picture. It’s debatable whether it’s actually across our drive, but it makes it tricky to swing out of the drive especially if there is a car parked the other side of the drive too.

You don't - you reverse in and then drive off forwards, unless you particularly enjoy making things more difficult for yourself and more dangerous for everybody.

Yes, their wheel is overhanging the dropped kerb but the lawn also appears to extend into the dropped kerb so I don’t think they are blocking you from getting out. However, your view of oncoming traffic could be limited so you would need to be careful, as you should anyway in an area of school parking.

Usually on MN you will be told to reverse onto your drive so you can go out forward facing which will make it easier for you.

However, I would be mildly annoyed especially if such parking is a regular occurrence - but then I would never buy a house close to a school!

It's annoying but there's probably very little you can do. School run parents are a selfish and entitled group imo, desperate not to have to walk a few extra steps so parking ridiculously, on top of the school. Their justification here is 'everyone does it' as though that somehow makes it OK. I feel for you

Yes!
We always reverse on because it is much more difficult to reverse off with cars parked on the road next to/opposite the drive

It’s fine. Yes a bit more awkward than no vehicle there but perfectly doable.
Theres often a van by my drive which makes visibility more tricky but as long as I’m careful it’s fine. There are way more vehicles than parking and that’s just the way it is.

The bit of the drop curb that should be avoided is not the sloping bit but the part completely level with the highway. It’s hard to tell from your photo if that’s the case here. But if it’s a driveway dropped curb you’d have to apply to the council for enforcement and in reality a single offence isn’t going to be followed up with.

Parking anywhere else is fine, so it could be annoying but it is legal and sadly if it’s anything like our road the parking is at a premium so hard to get worked up about, (although some neighbours do!) unfortunately even new housing developments don’t seem to take into account that most family homes have two cars now, let alone parking around schools.

This would piss me off too. OK so they're not parked massively over the dropped kerb but they are still over it which is illegal.

School parking is very challenging. But there is no problem here. They have left your drive free.

Completely agree

Wrong. They should not be parking past the dropped kerb.

How long were they there? Probably about 10 mins max if it was for drop off this morning?

Get residents' parking?

I get a little anxious pulling out because it's difficult to see beyond the parked car, but other than that, no I don't feel annoyed.

People are absurd about parking. They worry more about parking than war or poverty or any number of actual issues. If you go somewhere like Vietnam you will actually die of shock by how they drive and park - yet no-one there wastes a moment's energy getting angry at anyone else. They get that space is for sharing.

I am intrigued by the 2 conflicting diagrams! Which is correct.

If you can. We have to drive in and reverse out of the drive as it's a shared drive, just enough room for two cars and I have to park as close to the house as possible on one side. If I reversed in that would be the drivers side and I couldn't get out.

It's not brilliant, but it's not something I would worry over, you can easily get in and out. They seem to have parked level with the edge of the lawn which I think is okay, especially for a few minutes. I would only be annoyed if it stops you actually getting onto, or off, your drive, which it doesn't.

Have they actually left space for the car in front of them to get put (or is it then another driveway so that car can drive away?)

I’m surprised by how many people think this is fine. Unless I’m looking at it wrong, the entire back wheel plus some is in the dropped kerb.
in practice if it’s twice a day for short periods of time i would grit my teeth and wiggle round them, but to my mind it’s the same as parking slightly over double yellows - you might get away with it, but can’t claim you were in the right if pulled up on it!

Mine:
https://www.drivingtesttips.biz/dropped-kerb-parking.html

That will never be approved by a school. Parents need to get their kids to school and then carry on to work. They should park considerately but in any area where parking is at a premium everyone needs to maximise every inch available.

It's anoying, but not really blocking you completely so I'd chalk it up to "irritating, but bearable" myself.

Yep, was told the same by my driving instructor.

I think it's any part of the car, not just the wheels.

Sure I mean be annoyed. They're parked fine.