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Boltar writes
On 19 Feb, 18:21, Adrian wrote:
If to do so would cause an obstruction, yes. Absolutely. You think that's
a bad thing?

No , but in that case they should be allowed to park in their gardens
if they want, dropped kerb or not.

Who's saying that people can't park in their drives? Nobody. This isn't
about whether people can park in their drives or not - but whether they
can park in their front gardens which they'd like to call drives but
haven't actually got vehicular access to.

If its their property they can call it and do with it what they like ,
its none of the councils business so long as they don't cause a public
nuisance or break planning laws.
That latter bit can be very wide ranging, though.

This damage to pavements argument is
a load of old tosh since kerbstones are pretty damn tough and even
with a dropped kerb the car still has to drive over normal paving
anyway potentialy causing exactly the same damage so whats the
difference? Its just another way for petty officials to extort more
cash out of people.
A few years ago a friend of ours moved into a new house in Coventry.
She had space to park on her front garden but no dropped kerb *and*
there was a lamp post in the way.

She enquired about paying for a dropped kerb and paying for the
re-siting of the lamp post and was told that both actions could be
considered, at a price, which she agreed to pay. Then the fun started.

She was told that they would only consider moving the lamp post once
she'd had the kerb dropped (and paid for this). However, they couldn't
guarantee that they'd agree to it until it came up for consideration.
This meant that she risked paying for the drop kerb and then finding
that they wouldn't move the lamp post.

Neither department would move until the other one had done so and a sort
of stalemate ensued. She's a forceful individual, though and
eventually managed to knock heads together (metaphorically, I hasten to
add). But it was stressful that Lamp Post Department and Dropped Kerb
Department couldn't see the Big Picture, so to speak.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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