Dropped curb- legal question

The Man Himself 2 posts

15:47   jon h said: I have found differing opinions on this... if you have a dropped curb giving access to your driveway, do you have a legal RIGHT OF WAY or not? I have seen some information suggesting that if you were parked on your drive and became blocked in by a car parked across your drive entrance, this is obstruction, but if you came home and found a car across your drive, you would not have a right to get it moved so you could access your drive. Any legal eagles out there care to give a definitive answer? Jon H     baSkey said: i thought it was the same thing. council highways/planning dept is the answer.     ean218 said: Spot on. My mother's garage in Chiswick is accessed from a dropped kerb. The police will come out and get cars towed away if she is blocked in but don't want to know if her car is already outside.     eltax91 said: Yep, if you have a look back at my post history, i started a thread about an untaxed vehicle blocking access to my driveway. The police were no interested as it is not an obstruction unless it stops you moving your vehicle. So if it happens whilst you are out then there is diddly squat you can do about it. Well, legally speaking anyway...     greysquirrel said: I had to look into this once and my research turned up the fact that it is not against any law for them to block the dropped curb. Not sure why police are getting involved, unless it is blocking emergency access routes etc. This is a civil matter so theoretically only recourse it to sue them.     jon h said: That is what I suspected. I have found nothing saying blocking a drive way is illegal. Inconsiderate, yes, but not technically illegal. Jon H       Errrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Has the law changed since I last visited, or something? I seem to recall some supposedly dyslexic bloke asking about this. Apparently he used to visit somebody who lived on a street where there was little chance of finding a parking space. If his host's drive was full (as if) he used to park outside the neighbour's empty drive, WHICH HE WOULDN'T NORMALLY DO (he claimed, yeah, right!), AS THE NEIGHBOUR DIDN'T HAVE A CAR, OR VISITORS WITH ONE (pull the other one!). The neighbour used to continually come out to complain that he was breaking the law. So this guy, simply out of curiosity about the law (ha, ha, ha, did he think we were born yesterday?!?!?!?!), asked the same question. Only to be ripped apart, not only for his "inconsiderate", "selfish", "antisocial", "ILLEGAL" behaviour: But also for his SPELLING! Some other equally "inconsiderate", "selfish", "antisocial", "ILLEGAL" wierdo, with equally wierd presentation skills, leapt to this "inconsiderate", "selfish", "antisocial", "ILLEGAL" poster's defence. Only to be given what for about his "inconsiderate", "selfish", "antisocial", "ILLEGAL" wierdo beliefs, along with equally wierd presentation skills. By the the Pissed On Heads legal eagles, policemen and the rest of the Pissed On Heads massive. Surely this nutter can't have been right? And the the Pissed On Heads lawyers, policemen and the rest of the Pissed On Heads massive wrong! Please tell me this is all down to a change in the law!

 

The Man Himself 2 posts

15:48   PS mattley said: Hmm... So can someone explain why preventing a person leaving their property in their car, can be considered obstruction, but preventing a person entering their property in a car isn't? Just a wild guess here, honest, not that I'd know anything about anything, but if you are obstucting access to the Queens Highway, you are obstucting the Queens Highway. But if you are obstructing the access to a house, unless it's Buck House, you're obstructing Buck All the criminal law is concerned with. But don't take my word for it. After all: What would I know. I'm just a "know it all" who actually knows nothing. I'm ALWAYS getting hold of the wrong end of the stick!

 

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There you go.

 

All my contributions gone:

 

Even some links on GW Scepticism!

 

Meanwhile they are giving a loony cyclist his freedom to speak.

 

 

I am sure that if you ever made a contribution, it would not be removed. Just spluttering splenetically doesn't count.

A dropped curb across a cycle track is simply an invitation for a car driver to mow down a cyclist. It's true - I read it in the Nottingham Evening Post.