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She doesn’t seem to have any dropped kerbs and neither do the neighbours either.
It’s a hard luck story 😁😁

That means she doesn't have a dropped kerb

And yet someone has been using the front garden to park cars since around 2014.

The cable box was old in 2009 and the house sold in 2012 so whoever bought it knew it was there.

One issue Ms Dillon has is that, according to the Mirror, she has 'applied to the council for a dropped kerb.'

That means she doesn't have a dropped kerb. That means it's not a driveway, so she's got no right of vehicular access over the footway. Round here the council seem to have a habit of putting in wooden bollards if they realise people have got unauthorised front garden parking, so she should count herself lucky.

It really depends on the council whether vehicular crossovers are permitted to residents. The problem is that it leaves the council with a footway that will be driven over, and hence an additional maintenance problem. There may also now well be a council policy not to give planning permission for turning a front garden into a car park, but many people obviously do that, anyway, and if there's no dropped kerb, a large 4x4 nowadays doesn't really need one (unless the footway is very high), and there are perfectly good movable ramps that you can buy.

StreetView doesn't seem to get there too often, and the conversion of the front garden into a car park seems to have occurred at some point between 2014 and 2020.