dropped kerbs

[rwilson01]

my neighbour has a dropped kerb with white lines and there is 6 feet of pavement to the garage door.
The point is these doors no longer open to a garage. The doors are sealed and the garage space behind made into a garden. She more or less has her own private parking space in a road where parking is premium.
Is she entitled to these lines now there no actual garage?
She will ask people tp move from the space.

[Panic Button]

The white lines don't mean anything, it is the dropped kerb that you shouldn't park in front of.

Technically she shouldn't either.

[welshlibranr]

I agree with panicbutton, you should not park in front of the dropped kerb, and niether should anyone, even the owner, she should be parked inside her access........ that's why she has it!........welsh

[Dodger666]

White lines are generally painted at the roadside for people with a medical reason to park. In law, even those white lines cannot prevent anyone else from parking there.

Query it with the local council.

[ABerrant]

There are two types of dropped kerbs, those outside driveways allowing easy access to the residents of individual houses and those used for pedestrian crossovers.

Areas covered by the Traffic Management Act 2004 and the London Local Authorities and Transport Act 2003 allow for residential (single driveway) dropped kerbs to be "obstructed" by the occupier of the residence and by others with the permission of the occupier (but not for reward).

[buildersmate]

Irrespective of whether the garage is locked off, she has a right of access across any footpath and into her land. That fact isn't removed simply because she can't use it right now.
I bow to Berrant's knowledge on whether she (as the landowner) can park over it or not - I don't know.