Dropped Kerb - People blocking it

[monkey104 10]

Invest in a trolley jack and every time your drive is blocked jack it up one end at a time and leave it in the middle of the road. It will soon stop.

[Zinger549 233]

If your car is on the drive and someone blocks it in I believe you can call the council. They will send a traffic warden around to give them a ticket.

[poppet2 13]

If your car is on the drive and someone blocks it in I believe you can call the council. They will send a traffic warden around to give them a ticket.

 

Read first post.

It's not about being blocked in and being unable to access the highway. It's about not being able to access my driveway.

[mafya 246]

AFAIK you can get the council to put a white line across it, you will have to pay about £150 I think but then no one including yourself should then park in front of the dropped kerb. This may deter the dimwits parking there and the police can deal with it as an obstruction= https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/content/dam/sheffield/docs/parking/request-h-or-disabled-markings/Guidance%20and%20application%20form%20for%20%27H%27%20markings.doc

 

More info here= https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/home/parking/request-h-disabled-bay-markings.html

Edited April 6, 2018 by mafya

[Olive 10]

AFAIK you can get the council to put a white line across it, you will have to pay about £150 I think but then no one including yourself should then park in front of the dropped kerb. This may deter the dimwits parking there and the police can deal with it as an obstruction= https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/content/dam/sheffield/docs/parking/request-h-or-disabled-markings/Guidance%20and%20application%20form%20for%20%27H%27%20markings.doc

 

More info here= https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/home/parking/request-h-disabled-bay-markings.html

 

This is definitely worth considering. We've hardly had any problems since we had an H bar painted over our drive. That and a big yellow notice. Part of the problem previously was that some people didn't even realise they were blocking a driveawy. Lord knows how, you'd think a car parked on it would be a dead giveaway......but I think sometimes they just see a space and think "nice one, job done".

 

I don't think it gives anyone any extra authority to move the offending vehicles, but it does make people think twice before they park there.

[RootsBooster 24]

Does anyone know if this is true:

 

It is illegal to block access to the highway,but not to your drive.

 

In other words if you come home each day to find someone parked outside blocking access to your drive, there is nothing you can do about it?

 

My first house was on a very busy road with few driveways, so the entire road was always full of parked cars on both sides. I was one of the few with a driveway but fairly regularly I'd have a car overhanging the entrance to it.

More often than not I could drive around the obstructing cars and exit the driveway but on a few occasions it was completely blocked and I had to resort to moving the vehicles myself (trolley jack under rear suspension cross member or central jacking point, then push the vehicle out of the way).

 

I'm pretty sure this isn't quite legal and might technically count as theft, but we don't all have time to report such blockages and wait for something to be done about it. I don't think I'd advise others to repeat my actions though.

[tzijlstra 11]

AFAIK you can get the council to put a white line across it, you will have to pay about £150 I think but then no one including yourself should then park in front of the dropped kerb. This may deter the dimwits parking there and the police can deal with it as an obstruction= https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/content/dam/sheffield/docs/parking/request-h-or-disabled-markings/Guidance%20and%20application%20form%20for%20%27H%27%20markings.doc

 

More info here= https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/home/parking/request-h-disabled-bay-markings.html

 

We investigated this, asked the council if it would be enforceable. Answer is no unfortunately.

[A.B.Yaffle 24]

Its not just dropped curbs. If you've driven your car out, someone can come and park on your drive and there's not a lot you can do legally!

[barleycorn 10]

You can lock the gate...

[Cyclone 10]

Its only illegal to block a drive with a drop kerb if there is a car already on it.

I had a right mare with someone continually blocking my drive and leaving their car there all day.

Council, no help!

SYP, no help!

Bird seed accidentally dropped all over the car. Worked a treat!"

 

Weird, I found that the police were very helpful.

 

---------- Post added 07-04-2018 at 08:48 ----------

 

No, no. We need to wait for cyclone to prove me wrong. Whether the Police would come out or not is irrelevant.

 

Why would I care, I'm not reading the RTA if you can't be bothered yourself.

[Vaati 11]

The personal attacks can cease otherwise suspensions will be handed out.

[Pyrotequila 401]

Its not just dropped curbs. If you've driven your car out, someone can come and park on your drive and there's not a lot you can do legally!

 

Would that not count as trespassing though?