Driveway access where a lawful dropped kerb is in place.
It is an offence to park across a dropped kerb so that it obstructs the resident’s access to the public highway, preventing them from driving on or off their drive.
If you are considering building a driveway you will require a dropped kerb (there is a charge for this and you may need planning permission)
More information about getting a dropped kerb.
This is a police issue if egress is prevented from a drive. You could also apply for an access protection marking to be considered. This marking usually costs £50 if it can be provided and comprises of an elongated H marking across the entrance to vehicular access.
Its function is to alert drivers to the fact that there is private access at that point that should be kept clear. The marking is advisory only.
Further information and how to apply can be found on our access protection markings page.
Once the markings are in place, if a vehicle parks across your dropped kerb and completely blocks access to your drive you can request for us to enforce your H bar marking. However, this is at our own discretion.
Email parking.services@salford.gov.uk with the vehicle registration details, make and colour details at the time the vehicle is parked.
Some residents are unable to access their driveway due to vehicles parked opposite the drive entrance. In these instances, we cannot introduce H bar markings or other measures to prevent this. Residents should look to resolve these issues amongst themselves and park in a considerate and safe manner.
We do not introduce parking restrictions to protect the visibility of residents’ driveways due to the limited number of vehicles accessing driveways daily.
You may wish to extend the width of your driveway to provide additional room to manoeuvre. However, you must apply to extend your dropped kerb before commencing work to extend your driveway.
Unfortunately, we do not introduce parking restrictions to prevent visibility from residents’ driveways becoming obstructed.
We receive many requests from residents throughout the borough to introduce parking restrictions to allow them clear visibility when exiting their driveways.
It is not appropriate to introduce parking restrictions to protect residents’ driveways due to the limited number of vehicles accessing driveways daily. When parking restrictions are introduced to protect visibility for road safety reasons these are only considered at road junctions which take much higher volumes of traffic than private driveways.
We appreciate the difficulties you may be facing when exiting your driveway and your concerns about road safety however there is no justification for the introduction of parking restrictions.