Driveways & Paving

Council grass verge between driveway and road

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.57 PM

Hi all, I've just moved in to a house, it has a driveway the width of the house but quite a narrow dropped kerb with a small opening onto the driveway, and the driveway isn't very deep. This means you can only park straight-on in front of the house and you don't have the space to park another car on the other side of the driveway as there is a wall from the edge to the opening, and between that wall and the road is a council-owned grass verge. It wouldn't be too tricky to just widen the opening but then the grass verge would be abutting right up to my drive (rather than the dividing wall) and I would need to drive slightly over the corner of the verge to access the other side of the driveway. The dropped kerb doesn't need to be changed - can the council remove the grass verge if asked (happy to pay a fee)? Or are we basically stuck as the whole road has these grass verges, but everyone else on the road either doesn't have a driveway at all, or has wider access. The road is quite busy with cars parked either side so it would alleviate pressure on the road/pressure on us to find space for our second car! Thanks!