My driveway entrance is double width, leading into my largely monoblocked driveway, which extends to the full width of my house. The entrance and the driveway are accessed over the pavement which has a lowered kerb.
I am plagued by cars doing 3 point turns, either mounting the pavement (best case ) or more commonly, crossing the pavement and driving squarely right into my monoblocked garden as part of their turn. Its annoying when randopm cars do it.
More annoyingly, a woman who comes daily to a house 3 down from ours (I think she might be the granny and might be child caring), uses our driveways habitually for all her turns, and I mean, all 4 wheels in my garden, (head lights beaming into our living room if its dark). Tonight i actually had to sit in the road way waiting for her to reverse out ouf my drive before I could get in to park on it! She actaully drices right past the driveway of the house she is going into (as it is narrow), manouvers in my garden and drives back down the street to park at the house she is going into!
Phoned the police tonight who say this is neither a criminal or civil offence. They are sending a community officer tomorrow to assuage my ranting, although, I did point out thats its not me who is doing it, so why not visit her?
AIBU to phone thenm back and point out that they are talking crap and that the law seems to state "that it is an offence to drive a vehicle over a pavement unless to gain access to private property" As she is not gaining access to my property, nor has she permission to , then surely it is an offence to mount the pavemnt at my house let alone drive right over it onto my property.
My children play in the garden, and know nopt to even so much as oput a toe out onto the pavement. but they cant even be safe in their own garden as according to the police, its perfectly fine for random cars to swing in at speed, reverse and leave again. they said i should phone back if a car hits one of them!
AIBU?
Neighbours, driveways and stupid police.
montysma1 · 09/09/2012 21:01
My parents have an in/out horseshoe drive - they too get really pissed off when cheeky drivers drive in one side, right across the front of the house and out the other side!
It's actually just rude, and taxi drivers are the worst!
Proved only by the fact that one taxi driver from a local firm wrote his car off on dad's new wrought iron gates 
They'd been fitted less than a week. DM & DF were due to start looking after my then 2yo dd and needed to know she could play safely in the garden. Dad has always liked wrought iron stuff, so bought two pairs of old school gates from a reclaims yard (£50).
They are bloody heavy, set into huge concrete footings and secured to a brick wall.
This taxi driver apparently used their driveway regularly to turn around (mostly in the daytime) and the last time he used it, he swung into the drive off the 40mph road that no one ever does 40 on and as there is barely a car length of driveway before the gates, he had no time to stop and concertina'd the front end of his fairly new ford mondeo!
Christ on a bike it made a big bang! He wasn't hurt unless you count his pride
And he knew he hadn't got a leg to stand on legally, it was his fault.
Except because it happened on private property his insurance company didn't want to pay up. He actually had the cheek to ask DM if it would be covered by the house insurance 
Don't know if his insurance ever paid up, never seen hide nor hair of him since DM told him to jog on!!!
So op, YANBU to be annoyed, but there's bugger all police or PCSO can do, so I think YABU to have called them.
As others have said, chain, kids cones , stinger etc etc or just a couple of lengths of 4x2 ply with rows of nails in placed strategically across your drive
I'm almost certain you couldn't be charged with criminal damage if she burst her tyres whilst ON your drive uninvited/unwanted??!
AndSueToo isn't there a new police number now for reporting non emergencies 
So not 999, isn't it 101 or something?
i can't understand why you are getting so wound up about it, presumably she is turned round in a few seconds.
We live on a country lane and folk often use the end of our drive to turn round, it's the only sensible place to do so. They don't damage the drive by turning on it, why would i mind?
occasionally i have to wait to turn in while someone uses my drive to turn around to find where ever they are off to. I can just about manage to spare the extra 5 seconds this takes 
YABU
YABU as well to monblock the entire front of your very wide house, leading to an increase in local flooding
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