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to remove the disabled parking signs?

255 replies

DaisyBD · 23/11/2016 15:21

I live in a small rural town and our road has no pavements and road markings. Someone has moved into a house near the end of the road that has a wide frontage with a small wall. They also have a drive with space for three cars. Many of the people in the road don’t have off-road parking, so park pretty much anywhere there’s space, including in front of this house.

The new owners have put up disabled-only parking signs along their front wall, which has stopped most people parking there. We don’t need the space but occasionally our visitors do. I have seen the new neighbours but not talked to them – we live up the road a bit so they’re not close neighbours or anything – and although I can’t see any signs of disability, I know many disabilities are invisible.

However, they have loads of space on their own drive! I think they’ve put the signs up just to stop people parking outside their house. The signs are just the ones you can buy online, there’s no council disabled white line on the road or anything.

I feel they are being selfish and hogging the road, which they don’t own. WIBU to sneak over under cover of darkness with a screwdriver and remove the signs? Obviously they’ll hate me forever if they catch me, and I don’t want to spark a feud. But it just seems a bit cheeky and I want to be cheeky back. (DH thinks I’m insane, obv.)

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TwitterQueen1 · 28/11/2016 16:43

Daisy, whether or not you want the path for yourself is completely irrelevant. The point is you can claim it! And then open it up as you wish. I would put up a path name "Daisy's passage" [or similar]

I'd love to own a path. I thought councils were generally pretty keen to assign ownership to someone because it removes the burden of ownership / maintenance?

2kids2dogsnosense · 28/11/2016 17:10

Daisy, whether or not you want the path for yourself is completely irrelevant.

That's right - whether you want it or not, we want it. Claim it for MumsNet! Stick a flag on it! Have it put on maps! Inform Google Earth of your possession!

Huzzah!!!

(And that's a pretty agile jumping dog - bendier than my little one, and I always thought that she was impressive!)

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 28/11/2016 17:24

Surely it should be "Daisy's Back Passage" as it is behind daisy's house...

TwitterQueen1 · 28/11/2016 17:25

Oh yes! Let's have it for MumsNet! Can we all come and visit? Wave placards and stuff?!

Actually, I think you should turn it into a car park for the less able.... and put some signs up Xmas Wink

PeachBellini123 · 28/11/2016 17:26

Another one who wants to praise you on your awesome dog Grin

TheEmmaDilemma · 28/11/2016 17:37

Like this:

to remove the disabled parking signs?
Ihadafit · 28/11/2016 17:38

It's clearly wrong to put up these kind of signs. However, many councils are no longer providing disabled bays. You need to be claiming the upper tier of mobility of PIP, and hold a blue badge. You will also not be provided a bay if you have off-road parking (e.g. A drive).

TwitterQueen1 · 28/11/2016 17:40

Xmas Grin Xmas Grin Xmas Grin

at Daisy's Back Passage....

DartmoorDoughnut · 28/11/2016 17:47

Your dog is quite clearly a genius daisy Grin my genius says hi

to remove the disabled parking signs?
DesolateWaist · 28/11/2016 17:51

I've only just found this thread and it has cheered me up on a dreadful day.

They have bought their own parking signs; can you make some 'blue badges' and put them in cars parked there?

TheFirie · 28/11/2016 17:58

Love love it!!!
Grin

Tiredtomybones · 28/11/2016 19:03

This thread is the gift that keeps on giving.

CheddarGorgeous · 28/11/2016 19:27

This is officially my favourite thread ever. With an exceptionally cute dog.

OP you have set a new Mumsnet standard for diagrams. Thank you.

2kids2dogsnosense · 28/11/2016 19:50

Loving every minute!

SenoritaViva · 28/11/2016 20:44

love your dog, almost as much as my own.

CadmiumRed · 28/11/2016 20:55

This thread is SO outing Shock

Better hope your fence-neighbour, sign-neighbour and sundry doggers are not on MN!

WindInThePussyWillows · 28/11/2016 23:09

I love this thread and think it is classics worthy Wine

ShowMePotatoSalad · 28/11/2016 23:14

Re the disabled parking signs, they're worse than I thought! Those signs imply that other disabled drivers cannot park there because access is needed for particular people.

And we can presume that isn't true because they park in their driveway and don't even use the on-road parking spaces. Tell us Daisy - have you seen anyone using these spaces since they moved in?

ShowMePotatoSalad · 28/11/2016 23:17

Ps as your neighbour has taken it upon himself to block the path, I hope the council give the land to you to become the benevolent queen of. I'm sure you wouldn't block it off Daisy.

PPS your dog is hilarious and the sort of dog my shy and retiring Cavalier would be absolutely shit scared of

MimsyFluff · 28/11/2016 23:47

My phone has 2% left you have to claim the back passage and take one for team mumsnet!

amammabear · 28/11/2016 23:50

Mimsyfluff are you suggesting the op should take us all up her back passage...?! Shock

Lol

MissVictoria · 28/11/2016 23:53

A cheeky fucker in our street a good few years back got spray paint and sprayed his own "bay" outside his house, and put a big sign in his window it was private parking and all others would be towed!

MissVictoria · 28/11/2016 23:56

One night there was absolutely no other room on our side of the road or opposite the entire length of the street down from our house and up the road outside their house was the first empty space, so my dad parked there. Said dudes wife came banging on our door, screaming and swearing demanding we moved our car as that was their parking space, and if he didn't move it her husband would be down to, and i quote "kick his head in". My dad told her to go ahead and send her husband, he wasn't moving the car, and if her husband touched him he wouldn't fight back and would simply call the police.

IMissGrannyW · 28/11/2016 23:58

Claim your back passage, Daisy [evidence will be how long YOU've used it, and how long the people who lived in the house before you used it too], and then stick in a planning application for an extension to your house (clue... the extension is a car park!).

I loved you earlier in this thread for your drawing skills. I now hate you because of the cuteness of your dog jumping. And, btw, I read you dog 'digging' in the snow as your dog dogging in the snow. I know why you walk your dog in THOSE woods, even though you haven't said it. We are not BFFs any more.

ProfYaffle · 29/11/2016 07:34

Re the path at the back of your house, have you checked the deeds to your property? It's possible you may have right of ingress/egress over it. We have a similar right over our neighbour's garden so that we have access to the rear of our property.