michael adams wrote:

"Andrew" wrote in message
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On 06/04/2018 17:06, michael adams wrote:

Because anyone can then park across your "drive" and block you
in. Or out.

If you have a proper access, i.e. a dropped kerb, then you
can complain to the plod if you are blocked in, and they
will threaten the culprit with obstruction.

However, if they block you from entering your property,
then it's a civil matter, plod is not interested.

Andrew, do you think it somehow makes you look "clever" to selectively quote
from somebody else's post, totally ignore the context and thus deliberately
misrepresent what they posted ?

I placed "drive" in inverted context on purpose, as I was responding to
Swords proposal to create a "drive" in his front garden using gravel.

Had you bothered to read further you would have seen that my post
covered all the points you raised, but in rather more detail and
rather more accurately.

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"michael adams" wrote in message
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And in any case in many places driving across pavements isn't
permitted

To prevent this you then need to fork out a few k, to the
local council, assuming this is still permitted, for a
dropped kerb. The council will then modify the pavement
and paint a yellow line [or lines] in the road to
prevent parking.

Whether they actually enforce it, or you still get blocked
in or out, is another matter.

/quote

It might also help Andrew if you actually had a clue as to what
you were talking about

Responsibility for policing yellow lines lies with the appropriate
Local Authority and not the police. And in England at least is
known as Civil Parking Enforcement.
Basically if you have paid the Local Authority to have a
dropped kerb installed and they have painted the requisite
yellow lines then its their responsibility to enforce it.
And any obstruction is an offence against Civil Parking
Regulations as enforced by the Local Council. The only
the police would want to get involved would be in the
event of a possible breach of the peace.


michael adams

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I think you are mistaken. The rules about dropped kerbs are nothing to
do with yellow lines. The much-modified common law of obstruction is
involved. And best of luck getting a council official to force a driver
to move his vehicle by waving tickets at him. I think this is more a
job for the police.

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Roger Hayter