Driveways from hell

[stevoy2k7]

Is it illegal for me to park across from my neighbours driveway? I live drirectly across the road from them and they have erected agarage with no planniing permission. I am pursuing the coucnil for this at present for the planning permission for the erection of a garage, and dropped kerb. Until such times as permission may be granted i need to knwo my rights as to where i can park?

Can i park there it is it illeagl?

[MrBounty]

As far as im aware, and from what i've been told by a builder friend who has to follow strict building regulations (and who knows a lot about laws regarding this sort of thing), you can legally park across an empty driveway.

If the driveway is occupied, then you can't.

[stevoy2k7]

my side of the road

[Ethel]

Not true, MrBounty:
"The Act also enables the Council to issue PCNs to vehicles parked across private driveways, both within and outside Controlled Parking Zones, at the request of the occupier of the property"

http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/Home/Environmenta ndTransport/Parking/parwhatsnew.htm

Anyway - you can park where you like providing there is no restrictions in force and there is not a dropped kerb. You have as much right as your neighbour to park outside his house, just as he can park outside yours.

He may not need planning permission for the garage, but the council should authorise the dropped kerb. My neighbour's garage is huge - at least 5 cars wide with a pitched roof that has dormer windows, but it didn't need PP.

If he hasn't got the dropped kerb yet he is breaking the law by driving across the pavement. You wouldn't necessarily know if he had applied for the dropped kerb in the proper manner.

If there is a dropped kerb, you shouldn't park across it

[sandmaster]

Ethel is right - you cannot park alongside a dropped kerb - and that means dropped kerbs which are not giving access to a driveway but are for wheelchair users to cross the road.
Perhaps Ethel can advise - would you get a ticket for parking alongside the dropped kerb at the end of your own driveway? I cannot see how enforcement officers can differentiate - so it means we cannot obstruct our own drives.

[MrBounty]

Is that the same for Scotland and England?

[R1Geezer]

If you are talking about opposite as it seems from your wording then driveway garage etc are all irrelevant you are opposite not across the drive. Presumably it makes it more difficult for them to turn into the drive but that's not your problem. Legality doesn't come into it.

[TWR]

One of our Neighbours parked his D/Glazing van to the left of my drive inturn that reduced my left hand vision of the road inpaired, As a rule I am not bothered what people do within reason, I pointed this out to the owner & stated if an accident occured because of the obstruction & my car was damaged due to the obstruction I would sue him, I also had taken a time/dated/Picture of the obstruction just in case.

[Twenty20]

Sue him for what TWR? Are there parking restrictions? I'm not sure you can sue someone for parking inconsiderately.

[Compostella]

I sympathise Stavoy, we live in a road where sapce is tight and some people are so inconsiderate.

We have a family (council tenants surprisingly) who have space for 2 cars on their drive but they only ever park in the driveway when there is no space on the road.

They have numerous visitors throughout the day and they obviously like to ensure that these visitors have somewhere to park so they hog the (already short supply of) parking spaces on the road.

Unusually, for council tenants, they don't have jobs so they are able to sort out their parking arrangments whislt we are all at work, then we all come home and have to fight for space.

I just take comfort in the fact that what goes around, comes around.

I've often thought about parking across their empty driveway but am always afraid of what could happen to my home whilst I am working and they are at home "job seeking"

[stevoy2k7]

what is TWR?

[TWR]

Obstructing my vision on Exiting my drive, I have checked this Issue out, No there are no Parking Restrictions, But when someone parks right at the "end of a dropped kirb "that as far as I am concerned is Inconsiderate to the stage that have to inch your way out of your own drive.

[Compostella]

TWR is the name of one of the people who posted an answer Stevoy

[ebuzz1964]

drop kurbs mean nothing unless back up by double yellows or keep clear . also wheelchair users only by eec standards is 900mm not 3meters