You arrive home from work and find yourself unable to park on your driveway - so you, naturally, attempt to leave it outside on the road.

Maybe your partner has already taken up the sole designated parking space your property boasts.

You may think parking on the road, mounting the pavement to ensure no oncoming traffic clips your mirror, is perfectly acceptable. Right?

Well it is a bit sketchy at the moment and the law differs in different parts of the country.

In London it is simple - you can’t do it.

Motorists are banned from leaving their cars on kerbs unless a London borough has given them permission to.

The LGA is calling for the rest of England and Wales to follow suit.

The Highway Code states that ‘You must not park partially or wholly on the pavement in London and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it’.

This means that if you park on the pavement in the capital you are likely to get a ticket.

In busy terraced streets a lot of people are tempted to park their cars on kerbs to leave enough room for traffic to pass on the road.

But obstructing the path can create problems for pedestrians.

Pushing a pram round a parked car and into the road has obvious dangers, while blind people will not always be able to tell if their pathway is blocked by a vehicle.

A Local Government Association spokesman also said councils could benefit from extra revenue to repair roads, kerbs and verges.

He said: “Pavement parking and damaged pavements is one of the biggest complaints from pedestrians. In addition, repairing kerbs, verges and pavements damaged by pavement parking is expensive at a time when councils continue to face huge funding pressures as a result of further cuts to funding from government.

"The money spent on this would be better used to plug the £12 billion roads repair bill we currently face as a nation.

“Councils would carefully consult with communities before banning pavement parking and this is done sparingly in response to concerns which they have raised. This will enable them to better protect vulnerable pedestrians and provide a more consistent approach for all road users.”