Can I park on my grassed front garden?

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We have had a dropped kerb approved and it's due to be done any day now...

We've got a builder to do our drive but the soonest it can happen is in nearly two months time.

We live opposite a school and as I'm sure you can imagine, the parking is crazy. Once our dropped kerb is done is there anything legally stopping me from just parking on my grass until the driveway is done?

Nope. Go for it!

Brilliant, thankyou!

Although I've just thought that people will probably just continue to block it regardless of the dropped kerb if it doesn't look like a driveway...

Just be careful that if it rains the car doesn't sink into the mud. Had that happen once and it was a nightmare.

Pop a couple of planks down.

You can get plastic grid stuff that sinks into the grass for pathways. Get some of that to drive on to. You should be fine with a dropped kerb.

don't get it paved over.
you can get paving stones through which you can plant grass/sedum.

If it's possible to park on the road your dropped kerb should ensure you always have a space there until the driveway's done, as you'd hope no-one else would park over your dropped kerb.

You can park but you risk being blocked in. I park over "drives" with no dropped kerb if there isn't another space.

D'oh. Just re read your OP. ignore me. Thought you were planning to park on it before kerb was dropped.

then wheredoesallthetimego you are an entitled twat!

VWVAN erm, why?

If there is no dropped kerb then there is no official driveway and, if it is safe and legal to do so, then people are entitled to park on the roadside even if this blocks a car parked in someone's front garden.

Once there is a dropped kerb then, as wheredoesallthetimego points out, she wouldn't park over it.

Yes, totally fine to do that. We've put some slate stones down on ours until we get our driveway paved.

Im with @YogaDrone no dropped kerb no drive so she's hardly an 'entitled twat' for you know, parking legally.

Anyway that isn't the OPs issue.

No reason you can't park on your drive OP except getting stuck - my dad got that plastic mesh so it still looks green outside his house. Couple of planks of paving slabs would probably be cheaper tho.

Can you get the council to paint white lines over the dropped kerb?

Argh serves me right for not reading properly - deep apologies wheredoesallthetimego ...have read it properly now and realise I am the twat! sorry, having a bad day!

no dropped kerb no drive so she's hardly an 'entitled twat' for you know, parking legally.

Agreed.

They put white lines here, when they drop kerbs

Our council require you to do your own works to the drive first before they will do the dropped kerb - in case you damage their work! Check the position with your council if you havent already.