Overview
- Met Police advise residents to find the driver and ask them to move, leave a note if needed, then contact the council, with police help possible if your own car is blocked in.
- Many councils run Civil Parking Enforcement, which makes blocking a driveway with a lowered kerb an offence and steers reports to the council’s parking team; residents can check the GOV.UK list to confirm coverage.
- The RAC says it is legal to park outside someone’s home unless the vehicle blocks a driveway or a wheel crosses a lowered kerb.
- Police and councils usually cannot remove a car parked without consent on a private driveway because it is treated as civil trespass rather than a criminal offence.
- Homeowners describe regular blockages and some seek practical deterrents through their council such as a painted line across the dropped kerb.