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Rules on whether people can park across your driveway and outside your home explained; Finding on-street parking can be a tricky task, particularly when another driver takes the spot outside your own house.

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Anyone can park on your driveway -and there's little you can do about it, legal experts say.

It is also not a requirement by law for neighbours to leave the parking spot outside your home free for you to use.

While it is handy to park up in front of your home, if someone gets there first there is little you can do about it.

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It is not "your right" to park in front of your house -unless you have a designated parking space.

Some drivers try to use cones to "save" spaces but this shouldn't be prohibited, legal experts say.

Leaving anything on the road can be classed as an obstruction and is against the law unless you've been given permission by the council.

Any member of the public can park on any spot in the street, providing the road isn't governed by residents' parking permits. Drivers of course must comply with restrictions and shouldn't causing obstructions.

However, if your street uses permits, anyone with the right permit can park anywhere in the relevant zone.

And there's also no law on how long someone can park in the same space for, unless police think the car has been abandoned.

Neighbours aren't, by law, doing anything wrong if they also take up a space on the street while they have a perfectly good driveway.

But it is illegal to park directly outside a school, on the zig-zag lines to a pedestrian crossing, and in designated marked bays you don't have a permit for.

Now, if someone is blocking your driveway, or their wheel is over the dropped kerb, they are committing a parking offence.

There are two types of dropped kerbs: those for pedestrians, particularly those with buggies or in wheelchairs, and those for drivers to access driveways.

Vehicles parked across dropped kerbs can be ticketed, even if...

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