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to endanger the lives of every child in the village, apparently?

83 replies

FlippinCheekOfIt · 31/05/2012 17:35

Because I'm pissed that the council (not UK) have put the school bus stop outside my house and put double yellows on either side to make it 'safer'.

Which makes be sound unreasonable, right?

Except they've conveniently forgotten that I own that bit of 'road', not them. Our boundary wall was ancient and I had to apply for planning permission to move it back 1.5m to create parking for us out front. Our property is older than the others in the street and their actual property boundary is in line with the now moved wall. So the council own the rest of the street upto the walls except with ours.

There was a clear distinction between their tarmac and our gravel until they retarmaced it last year, and did our bit as well. I didn't make an issue because I thought it was a genuine mistake and looked better that way. But now the cheeky buggers have effectively banned me from parking on my own 'drive'.

The neighbours think I'm being unreasonable to go apeshit complain 'because all the children use it and it's safer because their protected from traffic'. Protected from traffic? I live in the arse end of nowhere, the school bus coming twice a day is as busy as the traffic gets.

And breathe.

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HRH2shoesofMn · 31/05/2012 17:37

yanbu if you own it

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 31/05/2012 17:37

Bill the council for rental for that bit of land - they'll have it moved in no time...

Dropdeadfred · 31/05/2012 17:38

Yanbu - so what's your plan of action?

FlippinCheekOfIt · 31/05/2012 17:39

I'm going out now to buy loads of garden gnomes and glue them all down. Lets see how they deal with that one.

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PandaWatch · 31/05/2012 17:39

Well considering what would happen if the situation was reversed and you were encroaching on council land, YANBU!

Kick up a mighty big fuss. Surely that's not the only spot for a bus stop?!

OddBoots · 31/05/2012 17:41

YANBU, especially as you would have had to pay the planning fees etc, they will have that on record. Was there any consultation about the lines?

OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos · 31/05/2012 17:41

Of course YANBU. The neighbours are just saying you are because they don't want it moved outside their houses.

TheCraicDealer · 31/05/2012 17:41

Do you have any pictures of the front of your home before you got it tarmaced? it's a bit of a long shot, admittedly, as I can't imagine people take photos of their driveways that often.

ZZZenAgain · 31/05/2012 17:43

YANBU you need a letter from a lawyer I think

LynetteScavo · 31/05/2012 17:43

So what would happen if you parked your car there?

FallenCaryatid · 31/05/2012 17:43

I think a lawyer's letter and a stiff monthly bill for the rental of your land sounds a good idea.

ZZZenAgain · 31/05/2012 17:44

she may not have old photos but she will have her papers regarding the planning permission, or if not I should think she could get them.

PestoPenguin · 31/05/2012 17:44

YANBU Grin Be sure to keep us posted on progress!

EdgarAllenPimms · 31/05/2012 17:45

if you had to apply for PP - they should have the boundary in their own records.

GrahamTribe · 31/05/2012 17:46

"I'm going out now to buy loads of garden gnomes and glue them all down. Lets see how they deal with that one."

We want photos please! Grin And YANBU either.

IAmBooybilee · 31/05/2012 17:47

i agree with a solicitors' letter and a bill for monthly rental.

FlippinCheekOfIt · 31/05/2012 17:47

I don't mind the bus pulling in or even the kids sitting on the benches in our front garden waiting for it, but 'no parking' is extracting the urine.

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RuleBritannia · 31/05/2012 17:48

Oh yes!! This is one of those where we'd like updates to see who falls down at the end.

Psammead · 31/05/2012 17:48

You need to contact the land registry to get an office copy of the physical extent of your property. You will get a register and a little map, with your boundaries marked in red. Sow the council this. It only costs a few pounds.

ZZZenAgain · 31/05/2012 17:49

if you went to the expense of moving your boundary wall for the express purpose of providing yourself with parking space, it is entirely reasonable to be annoyed by this.

NarkedPuffin · 31/05/2012 17:51

Bollocks are you unreasonable. It's your drive!

jubilucket · 31/05/2012 17:52

Agree, your own deeds and the local authority's own Highways dept and Land dept will have records, also the older OS maps - I'm assuming your country has equivalents to all these?

ZZZenAgain · 31/05/2012 17:52

so you need:
official sounding letter
proof of the boundaries of your property
bill for use of your property

garden gnomes collection

FlippinCheekOfIt · 31/05/2012 17:54

There are no legal issues regarding boundaries as such here. All points of boundaries are centrally recorded with gps coordinates. £2000 and the land registry man will come out and hammer iron spikes into the ground to mark the official points. That'll knacker their exhausts. We paid for this when the wall was moved, except he sunk them to ground level, so they appeared as 5cm discs on the floor. The buggers tarmaced over them. Support a metal detector and a pick-axe would sort it out.

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AmazingBouncingFerret · 31/05/2012 17:54

wELL THAT TAKES THE PISS A BIT DOESNT IT.