To request a new double yellow line?

[notsuperbug]

We have a challenging driveway as our house is set back from the road and other houses have been built on the land in front.

The problems with turning are made worse by people parking opposite. Both us and our neighbours (we have a semi) have damaged our own and our visitors cars trying to make the turn.

Does anyone know if it is possible to make a request for double yellow lines to be added on a road? And if so who do we ask?

Nothing unreasonable about making a request. Your local council will have a parking and traffic page. You should go there in the first instance or call them to find out.

It would help if you document what happens (the damage to your car, your visitors) and to also take a photograph where possible of the problem car which parks there.

The documentation will greatly support your case.

I went to my local council about this as cars were partially blocking my drive making visibility low when leaving it. I also went to my local councillors who supported me. It was quite a long process as my council then did a consultation of the entire borough where they put all the area’s changes in one document, signs on local lampposts, and invited residents to comment. No one responded (other than me) so after about a year they changed the street markings.

In my case, I was advised by an ex councillor friend, to focus on the danger to cyclists as my house was also on a hill and round a slight corner. They’ll care more about pedestrian or cyclist safety than damage to your cars.

You can indeed contact the council and request one. Try and get neighbours on board to gather evidence (stats/photos/reports of accidents that have happened as a result of it). Don’t expect anything to happen quickly, and they may well say no, but there’s no harm in trying.

You have my sympathies OP as I live on a road where there are cars parked down both sides with a central reservation down the middle with gaps in for turning. People park directly opposite the gaps which massively reduces the space for turning and results in scrapes to cars several times a year. I live at one end of the very long road and often have to drive all the way up the other end before I can find one with no car in front of it to turn back onto the side I live on. First world problem of course, but parking is in abundance and double yellows just where the gaps are would make a world of difference.