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It's extremely unlikely and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be allowed anyway. I think the difference between a small area on a street being allocated for bike use and an individual household claiming sole use of the bit of road directly outside their house is pretty obvious personally.

twister Wrote:

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As

> for taking away parking spaces I am happy for

> somebody to put it back to a front garden, then we

> would be taking up 3 parking spaces on the

> road....instead of the one we take up ( two cars

> and a motorbike)


You wouldn't necessarily be taking up three spaces on the road because they wouldn't necessarily be available when you wanted them. People who concrete over their front garden are exchanging the possibility of parking in front of their own place for the certainty of parking in the garden and stopping other people from parking in front of their house.

I think the trouble with off street parking with no dropped kerb is the confusion it causes. We have a neighbour near us with a patch of car sized concrete in front of their house and a wide entrance but no dropped kerb... It has weeds growing through cracks, and wheelie bins on,& hadn't seen a car parked there at all, then one day a note was left on a friends car who parked by the kerb there saying "do not park in front of my house, stopping usage of our drive" really strange as still after 10 years I haven't seen a car parked there, it's still overgrown, with bins where a car could park.
we have a dropped kerb and this was there when we purchased house in 1974. Being on a main road and bus route you can imagine a high volume of traffic. With careful parking you can get 2 cars on the 'drive' which is concrete/tarmac but has earth and bushes either side to absorb water. Until 2/3 years ago, visitors could either park in front of our drive or in the drive (by prior arrangement). Council put double yellow lines in front of the house so none of our visitors can park.

TheCat Wrote:

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> Saffron Wrote:

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> > TheCat Wrote:

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> > -----

> > > So to those that make the case that one car

> is

> > off

> > > the street, so there is no net difference to

> > > parking space...the key point is that

> > effectively

> > > whether or not there is a car parked there, a

> > > dropped kerb means the owner of that home has

> > > 'taken ownership' of the public space in

> front

> > of

> > > their kerb. Can I get a partial rebate on my

> > road

> > > tax please?

> >

> > No, because road tax was abolished last

> century.

>

> Thanks. That was the point of my post. To find out

> about road tax.



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