On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 07:51:00 +0100, Chris J Dixon
wrote:

T i m wrote:

When I bought this house the previous occupants had been here *years*
and because it was an EOT, had a garage in the back garden that they
use to park their car in, regularly driving over the pavement to do
so.

I had been here a few years myself when I received a letter from the
Council informing me that it was illegal to drive over the pavement
and I should desist doing so or ... pay to have the kerb dropped and
proper crossover laid ... with accompanying white lines etc, which I
did.

So, just because 'everyone' (and it isn't 'everyone' of course) does
something, doesn't mean it is right.

Quite.

Here is someone who got it wrong:

http://www.nottinghampost.com/way/story-24077907-detail/story.html

I think I remember hearing of that on the news (or something very like
it). I think she was saying she had to go a long way round to get to
the new car park but that's something that sometimes happens.

When I was working for BT my journey to / from work progressively got
longer, not because either of us moved, but they blocked the top of my
road and then built a bypass and because people were then using an
alternative route (that made it about the same as it was for me at the
beginning if I was on a bike) as a rat run, then blocked off even more
roads to make the rat-run longer and therefore (hopefully) less
worthwhile for those using it as such.

Cheers, T i m