On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 01:36:17 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

On 14/08/2016 22:34, Tim Streater wrote:

left where there is no longer a driveway, or driveways where they haven't
bothered dropping the kerb.

Which is illegal to drive across.

You can drive across any pavement in order to gain access to the land
behind it.

But isn't that only where there is the provision (typically a dropped
kerb)?

*Obviously* every one of us who has to drive ride across the pavement
to gain access to our property *has* to also drive on / across the
pavement ... but then there would typically be a dropped kerb (as it
was suggested by the Council I would have to have to allow me to
continue to gain vehicular access to my own property).

However, maybe the reason nothing is generally done about it (the
authorities seeing your vehicle on a piece of land where the only way
on would be to mount the kerb and drive across the pavement) is that I
believe they have to witness you doing so, as you could have had the
vehicle craned there.

Plus many of the local authority / and other service vehicles also
often drive up the kerb and across the pavement and park (or work on)
their own property so I think it's one of those things where there
simply aren't enough personnel (or desire) to deal with 99% of it.

Cheers, T i m