Should residents be able to 'police' sections of their street?

Sums it up perfectly.

Yes, you’re being unreasonable. Nobody likes their immediate environment stinking of piss.
I’m old enough to remember when dogs were taught to pee in the gutter, not express preferences.

The grass is not hers to plant things on. It's there for everyone to make use of, including dog walkers.

Quite amusing that this seems impossible for some posters to grasp.😆

She's just asking you to not make her environment shit. Because it's not just one dog. It's dozens of dogs all day every day, and she's clearly fed up of it. Of course she obviously has no legal recourse or right to do it, but as a decent human being and a considerate adult you would be a bit of a dick to keep doing this having been asked to stop by someone who obviously cares a lot about it. It's not her problem you have a dog you apparently don't have facilities for and can't look after.

She planted geraniums there, you don't live on the same street, your dog pissed on them. She was angry. You were being unreasonable.

Why can't you see it's not a nice thing to do? You knew she planted the geraniums there so why allow dog to piss on them? Can't you see how you wouldn't like it if the roles were reversed?

This kind of legalese thinking doesn’t make for happy humans. The children want a dog piss free place, all the people that live there prefer flowers than yellow grass.. the whole ethos of taking care of your vicinity is very wholesome.
your response is myopic and bot like.

It’s not the person’s property

I just would not do it. I'd see that someone has tried to make it nice at their own expense and treat it like any other garden with geraniums or flowers. And direct my dog to a much more unloved looking area.

After just being shouted at by an incredibly rude and aggressive woman who barged out of her house to have a go at me for letting my dog wee on a patch of council owned grass at the end of her close I thought I would ask wise Mumsnetters their thoughts.

The woman who took it upon herself to police her street, and also, apparently, takes it upon herself to 'look after' this small patch of grass by planting a few geraniums in the middle, claims that because she looks after it and children play there sometimes I should not let my dog on it. Apparently my husband has "already been told not to use it" by her, so how dare I.

My thoughts are that children play in gardens and parks where dogs go all the time, that this is not her land, and that this is a convenient place for my dog to wee while we temporarily have no garden access due to building work. It is the closest bit of public grass we have, and I am currently injured and can't walk too far (although this is not a visible injury). My dog is prone to UTIs and likes to wee on grass rather than pavement, and often refuses to go if there is no grass. The next nearest patch of grass is an extra five minutes away.

This has reminded me of many incidents I've been involved in or heard of over the years, often to do with parking spaces on public highways but outside someone's house.

Should residents be able to 'police' the use of the streets directly in front of or around their home? I think no, so AIBU? If you are one of the people that think I am unreasonable I'd love to hear why, and if you do this on your street do people abide by your demands?

Yes, you’re being unreasonable. Nobody likes their immediate environment stinking of piss.
I’m old enough to remember when dogs were taught to pee in the gutter, not express preferences.

I don't believe in vigilantes.

On the other hand, when there is a parade of dogs going past pissing on your property it is not very nice. I'd prefer it if dog owners got their dog to piss on their own house.

So if you plant flowers in a random bit of grass that makes you the ruler and enforcer of that little bit of grass.

If you plant flowers on pieces of grass that is on the side of the pavement, expect them to be walked on. Choose plants that spring back if you must plant them. But don’t start screaming at people for walking on the area that is meant to be walked on and don’t start throwing a hissy fit if a dog has a wee on an area that has probably seen its fair share of wee and poo from other animals wild or otherwise.

TBH I would say she probably needs more going on in her life if it has got to this stage.

By all means keep places tidy but don’t take over what you don’t own and expect the general public to conform to your rules.

She planted geraniums there, you don't live on the same street, your dog pissed on them. She was angry. You were being unreasonable.

Why can't you see it's not a nice thing to do? You knew she planted the geraniums there so why allow dog to piss on them? Can't you see how you wouldn't like it if the roles were reversed?

My estate was built in 2017, so it’s still fairly new. I don’t think anyone has fenced in their front garden yet. As soon as the first person does though!!! 😂

I suspect people would be so confused if I fenced in our ‘extra garden’. They’d probably think we were nuts. It does look like just a small area of green that isn’t attached to a house. But once I tell a person, it would be nice for them to keep their dogs off it.