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 should reverse onto your drive where you can, it is not the law to have to reverse.

Looks fine to me. They are not across
Your drive.

They shouldn’t be blocking any part of the dropped kerb so they are parked incorrectly.

But like a lot of drivers they give no fucks as long as they are parked where they want.

They shouldn't be across your dropped kerb but they're not bothered. Think you're going to have to live with it tbh 😏

But aren't their back wheels and back half of car still over the dropped kerb? Which, technically isn't allowed and surely the size/placement of that dropped kerb was to allow full and safe movement of the car(s) in and out?

That's what I would make of that particular photo, tbh.

That doesn't look like it's causing too much of an obstruction other than being so far away from the kerb.
You should still be able to get on and off drive as needed
I live by a school and the cheeky fuckers park in my allocated parking space and get shitty when told to move. They park on double yellows, the grass verge, the corners of the access road then the parents also complain that their little darlings are at risk from all the cars driving on the wrong side of the road because of these badly parked cars.
The best of it is a lot of the drivers live less than a 10min walk to the bloody school.
Parking wardens attend regularly and ticket vehicles but it makes no difference

Looks perfectly fine.

Yeah, I can see it's a little bit annoying because it requires a bit more effort to use the driveway. But it's not an obstruction that should cause an issue to a skilled driver. If you were a learner, I'd understand you might be worried you'd clip it.

I wouldn't feel comfortable parking that close to someone's driveway myself though so I understand your feelings on this matter.

If it was near me the car would be completely on the pavement and the police/local council wouldn't give a sh*t (have reported several times and no change)

Oh you're just showing off because you've got a drive.

Ah, yes - fair point in your case.

All the people saying there's nothing wrong with it need to raise their own parking standards. The mini has its back wheel and tiny boot over the dropped curb AND is well away from the curb. They've made it very difficult to turn right

Looks fine to me

Ridiculous,
Completely normal to park on the road as that mini has

I agree; while the driveway looks wide and it should be easy to negotiate coming and going, the car is parked over the drop kerb and, if a traffic warden was in the area, they should quite rightly issue a ticket.

I didn't say it was the law, did I? It's just acknowledged as best practice and clearly much safer to have your private drive behind you rather than the open road, wherever possible.

This is very pertinent. Even if a car may be technically impinging on a dropped kerb by a few inches - although nothing that stops the householder from using their drive - in a place/at a time when parking is at a massive premium, it's madness to leave 99% of a parking space unused.

Never heard this, was certainly never taught it. The car would be sticking out in the road!

Reverse in, then you won't have any issues getting out. Especially if the road is busy.

I assure you if you write to your local enforcement officer they will tell you it’s the level bit. You can confirm this on your local council website.

I used to work in enforcement for this sort of a thing if it helps. The diagram I downloaded is from the council I worked for’s website and is one you’ll see on almost all of them and was the basis of all enforcement in the borough.

YANBU. We have a dropped kerb and some of the neighbour's visitors park right up to it. It then makes it very difficult to get out as the road is narrow so it's really hard to turn - it's a cul de sac so we can only go one way!

I despair regarding the folk who think this is fine, because it isn't fine. They're not blocking the drive but they are definitely impairing your view for driving out of your driveway.

I find it annoying when people overhang my drive like this.

The reason is that someone else will have parked directly opposite, so then you actually need the full driveway to be free to get the “swing” in order to drive away in a particular direction.

Maybe not sound a familiar problem if you don’t live in a busy built up area - but it’s an issue regardless of which way you’ve gone into the drive, but can also make it difficult to back on.

Interesting no-one’s commenting on the other end of the car, which is virtually touching the next car along and quite possibly blocking them in.