Parking on Driveway, No Footpath on Naturestrip

jerjergege on 10/04/2024 - 11:51
Last edited 10/04/2024 - 13:09

Recently about to move into another property and rennovate.

We know parking on nature strips are illegal in most councils, but up to councils descretion to fine people.

Parking and blocking the footpath is also illegal.

What about parking on driveways without footpaths?
In my council nature strip guidlines, it states that natures strips without a footpath require 1.2 meters of space from the kerb, which is called the "1.2m Wide Pedestrian Movement Zone".

Would that mean if you park a car on a driveway where nature strips on both sides of the driveway don't have a footpath, you would need to give at least 1.2m?

What are your thoughts?

On another note, how would you ask or stop the neighbours from parking trucks and cars on the nature strip next to your house?
Especially when next to the master bedroom and leave at 5-6am most days. Hard landscaping is not allowed, neither are prickly flowers.

EDIT: Clarifying where others are parking on a nature strip see MS paint link.

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Comments

  • Eeples on 10/04/2024 - 11:56
    -2

    Neighbours parking on nature strip in front of their house or your house?

    Either way, if it upsets you, ring council and ask them can they do anything.

  • geekcohen on 10/04/2024 - 12:14
    +9

    Time to Snap, Send, Solve it.

    I've done that with people in my area and its worked well.

  • Ocker on 10/04/2024 - 12:27
    +1

    Be on the safe side and ask your local council, make sure to record the conversation in case of need.

  • Dollar General on 10/04/2024 - 12:29
    +1

    Stick a banana in their exhaust pipe. Seen it work on tv

    • kiitos on 11/04/2024 - 08:07
      +1

      Not for me - I ain't falling for no banana in no tail pipe!

  • Aureus on 10/04/2024 - 12:30
    +8

    Maybe wait until your renovations are done before pissing off your neighbors by reporting them.

  • Stewardo on 10/04/2024 - 12:32
    +6

    The part of your driveway that is in between the road and your boundary, is on the nature strip, footpath or not. You are meant to park inside your boundary.

  • barge-in hunter on 10/04/2024 - 12:34

    You’re unlikely to get a “it’s ok to break the law” answer from your council, so it’ll be up to you to dyor and apply common sense.

    We don’t have footpaths and park on the nature strip in front of our house - but we also have a very narrow street (not wide enough for street parking). Some of our neighbours do the same and no one’s been questioned to my knowledge

  • jv on 10/04/2024 - 13:02
    +2

    you would need to give at least 1.2m?

    yes

  • jv on 10/04/2024 - 13:03
    +3

    On another note, how would you ask or stop the neighbours from parking trucks and cars on the nature strip next to your house?

    Snap, Send, Solve app to the council…

    https://www.snapsendsolve.com/

  • Summoner on 10/04/2024 - 13:16
    +1

    On another note, how would you ask or stop the neighbours from parking trucks and cars on the nature strip next to your house?
    Especially when next to the master bedroom and leave at 5-6am most days. Hard landscaping is not allowed, neither are prickly flowers.

    I've tried speaking to them, but mostly ended up with arguments. Now i just take photo and report them to council which seemed to have greatly reduced the number of people parking on the natures strip in front of my house.

    I know council recommends you to talk to them first, but i guess if you could talk them out of it, they wouldn't have done it in the first place. Fine seems to be the only way to solve those issues.

  • pjetson on 10/04/2024 - 13:26

    On another note, how would you ask or stop the neighbours from parking trucks and cars on the nature strip next to your house?

    The note on your mspaint drawing about the naturestrip for the people across the road seems to provide the answer.

    • jerjergege on 10/04/2024 - 14:48

      But thats extra gardending, and finding trees etc :P

      Can't plant trees, only plants, I guess I could ask the council to plant a street tree.

      • soan papdi on 10/04/2024 - 15:07

        A few Agapanthus 1m away from each other. They take care of themselves.

  • JIMB0 on 10/04/2024 - 14:49
    +1

    Put in a request to the council to have some trees planted on your nature strip.

  • bmxr on 10/04/2024 - 15:07

    Based on your MS Paint, it's a broken white centre line. So if you force them off the nature strip, they could just park in the same location on the street far enough back from the intersection? Then you'll have added noise near your bedroom of braking and accelerating as cars approach and pass the car parked on the street. We notice this when someone occassionally parks on the street in front of our house, the traffic noise increases substantially from a constant hum of people rolling past, to the braking and accelerating as cars pass.

    Might be the lesser of two evils here?

    • jerjergege on 10/04/2024 - 16:59

      I drew the white lines to demonstrate roads, but they can't park on the streets here.

      • bmxr on 10/04/2024 - 17:32
        +1

        Thanks for clairfying.

        Then snap, send, solve them away from your nature strip!

        It's worked wonders when we have used it. Less than 24 hours turnaround from Council on other issues.

  • Nuclearvodka on 10/04/2024 - 15:43
    +4

    It shits me to no end when I walk from the station and I have to walk on the road because people are parked in their driveway but outside their home = on the nature strip…

    • pjetson on 10/04/2024 - 16:16
      +1

      snap send solve?

      • Nuclearvodka on 10/04/2024 - 16:20

        I think it's an AirBnb it's always different cars.

        How do I Snap Send Solve?

  • brendanm on 10/04/2024 - 17:07

    Park your car out the front of your house on the street, then no one else can park there.

    • jerjergege on 11/04/2024 - 09:24

      It's not the front of the house, its the side, opposite that side is also a side of another house, no driveways etc.

      • brendanm on 11/04/2024 - 11:04

        So you don't want people to use the street?

        • jerjergege on 11/04/2024 - 12:36

          They can use the street just not park illegally on the nature strip of the side of my house?

          Why can't they park in front of their house, or own their nature strip?

          I understand I don't own the nature strip but I have to maintain it, and hearing the trucks in the morning is super annoying, trucks longer than 10m should not be parked in residential areas.

          Everytime I use snap send solve, the council says their truck isn't there, what a load of croc.

  • Euphemistic on 10/04/2024 - 18:09

    You can only.legslly park wholly within your property or wholly on thw street in a legal position.

    Council will issue fines if they see fit, usually in response to complaints but sometimes theyll target an area. I have seen warning notes left by our local council. They were posted to a facebook group with the usuall flurry of comments. Occasionally they'll have a local news story on it to remind people of the rules. You may get a warning before it costs you money, ut dont count on it.

  • theguru1 on 11/04/2024 - 07:31
    +1

    It's a Victorian Road Rule.

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