bus using our driveway to turn around every day.

[whatatod0]

Scene - basically, we live on a main road, with a private dead end service road for us to get to our houses and parking spaces. There are 8 houses along our little row. We have a drive outside our house, then the service lane, then another parking space, then a small strip of grass (ours) then the main road.

I have noticed that a small bus (18 seater maybe??) has started collecting a dc from our row of houses, and is using our parking space and grass to turn around each morning and afternoon. The alternative would be to reverse back down the lane and turn around at the entrance.

For some reason this really annoys me that the bus driver does this twice a day. We now have tyre marks on the grass, and I think it will add to the break up of the road surface.
DH is not bothered, saying he has to turn around somewhere, but it annoys me. AIBU?

My son is mobile. Having him picked up away from his house would be very stressful for him not to mention unsafe.

Can you park your car on your drive in a way that would hinder him from being able to use it?

So (if I have understood the description properly - always lovely to have a diagram!) you don't really need to be faffing with rocks on your grass, just put your car or your bins or a couple of chairs even in your parking space and/or on your drive. He goes right to the end of your private parking space to hit the grass, so just stop him getting into there.

Sorry Andrew. It is the last day of a 7 week holiday

haddock I'm pretty sure the LA do NOT have the right to insist a bus uses a private road that wasn't designed for it.

I live on a private road and fleet transport are contracted to pick up from the house. The OP isn't one of my neighbours though as the driver of ours reverses up the lane and there are 6 houses on our road, not 8 :o

Yes they may tell the parents the child has to be picked up at the end of it and so possibly create a very difficult situation for that family. If my neighbours complained about a bus transporting my child to school using the road (I am not talking about the parking space) I would think they were complete arseholes. Do you know how much transporting a child in a taxi costs? - it's about £20000 a year for my son.

I completely understand why the dc has to be collected, I have no problem with that.

But she's not complaining about a bus transporting the child to school; she complaining about the bus driver driving in an unacceptable manner and damaging her property. They are two very very different things.

Whatatod0 - I know you are ok with the bus using the road.

Need a diagram!!

(please?)

If a bus can't reverse, than the taxi should be sent back.

That is just not going to happen. As pointed out, a single taxi costs the LA thousands.

how do I post a diagram?

Sounds like if you plant a good big shrub on the corner of the grass (or even put a big plant tub there) it would probably fix it as he would probably avoid turning there in case of not having enough space - or if he still did, he would have to make properly sure not to cut across the corner. Plus it would look nice

We had something similar with our shared driveway. A minibus/small coach used to collect a disabled girl to take her to day care. Drove down the drive, reversed back up. No problem. The transport provider was then changed and they came in a bigger vehicle. Cue them coming round asking us to severely trim back all our hedges as they were having trouble reversing back up the drive. Erm. No. Send a smaller vehicle or create a turning area in your own large garden.

Your situation would give me the rage.

Actually that's not a bad plan - as he's already churned up the grass just make it into a big flower bed.

Put a row of mini bollards on the grass. I notice the Local Authority did this on the grass berms on a main road in Aylesbury to prevent parking. The other alternative is some scenic looking rocks too large for the vehicle to reverse over.
Good luck

Draw a picture, photograph it with your phone and upload the photo.

The people who organise this pick up will need to liaise with the family. Obviously there are huge differences about the absolute need to stop directly outside a house , or, at the end of the road.
By way of an example a trisomic child would not mind walking to the end of the road; (I am not lobbing all SN children into the same basket) So the absolute need for this scenario needs to be established.
If the family are offered a pick up from the door, they will obviously accept rather than having to walk to the end of the road.
It doesn't alter the fact that they are using your private drive as it is not blocked by cars. so, personally I would wait for the bus this afternoon, & tell the driver that as of tomorrow he will have to find another solution, as its private land, & not everyone's easy turning circle. and block it, & let them find their own solution. if he gets unpleasant, you can add that to your official complaint.
the other alternative of course, is for the family involved to move their cars to make a space for the bus turning.

I'll try and do a pic in a min. Got to do some work for a bit….

You are certainly lobbing all trisomic children in the same basket, Mix 56.

BTW OP when the time comes for the private access road to be resurfaced I think it would be legitimate for the residents to ask the LA to make a contribution towards the costs. You are more likely to be successful if you inform the LA at this point that their transport contractor is regularly using your private access road and consequently causing additional wear and tear!

Should they ask Tesco etc for contributions as well.