I once parked my car on a pavement and when I came back I found my car further down the road, I spoke to a local to find that some British Gas contractors had bumped it down the road so they could dig up the pavement. No damage to my car so no complaints from me.

What's a drop kerb got to do with traffic law?

Please state which part of the highway code is relevant.

The Highway Code isn�t law ..... .

In reply to a post by broadband66:

What's a drop kerb got to do with traffic law?

Please state which part of the highway code is relevant.

Quite a lot according to the Traffic Management Act 2004.

And if you want advice on how a driver should react to the Traffic Management Act 2004 in regard to dropped kerbs, Highway Code Rule 243 will help you.

There you go.

Its been in civil enforcement powers for years, I know of no statutory exemption for parking across a dropped kerb that allows access to your property. Certainly it wasnt in any of the boroughs where I have worked in civil enforcement.

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In reply to a post by burble:

If 'they' where to get arsey about your neighbours action they could also make life more difficult for him, getting a PCN issued for parking across a dropped kerb would be a start.

It's his own dropped kerb he is parking across. It's not shared. He's not preventing access to pedestrians either, just Openreach.

It is not his own "dropped Kerb" - unless it is a private road - Footways are the property of the local Highways Authority

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It is not his own "dropped Kerb" - unless it is a private road - Footways are the property of the local Highways Authority

I believe this to be true in most cases but I do believe there are some excepts.

Picture a road/avenue/lane where the pavements/footways are very wide and also include a lawned area in front of each property and each properties driveway extends to the kerb (normally using identical unbroken material from the property to the kerb) I have always been advised (as a rule of thumb) that these are the property of the owner of the house all the way to the highway including the footway that crosses the driveway.

My copy of the Highway Code uses the terms:

important advice
rules
road traffic law
road traffic act

and it states " A failure on the part of a person to observe any provision of the Highway Code shall not of itself render that person liable to criminal proceedings of any kind, but any such failure may in any proceedings , etc, etc."

Must Not and Should Not are two different things. I don't know why but that's how they are worded in The Highway Code

Laws in London are different to the rest of England but are being rolled out.

Parking on footpaths, bends, etc is a grey area outside of London.

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My copy of the Highway Code uses the terms:

important advice
rules
road traffic law
road traffic act

and it states " A failure on the part of a person to observe any provision of the Highway Code shall not of itself render that person liable to criminal proceedings of any kind, but any such failure may in any proceedings , etc, etc."

Which is why I made my post. I'm not sure why you felt the need to explain it to me in such detail.