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Neighbour spray painting pavement for their access

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Hallomiaddicted · 07/07/2017 17:58

My neighbour has spray painted the pavement next to my house outside theirs and put a passive aggressive note up about the dropped curb. Yes it is a dropped curb but the council have not put a single or double yellow. The access is pedestrian gated rather than a driveway. AIBU I don't agree with them marking out the road. My car wheel is slightly over because the on street parking is always completely choc a block. They don't have a car and we all pay over £200 per yr for a council permit.

Neighbour spray painting pavement for their access
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Hallomiaddicted · 08/07/2017 08:19

there is really no need to be so aggressive to me jeeze, sorry I don't know the Highway Code off by heart ! If the council has marked it then fine but the note said "respect the yellow lines that we have painted please this is OUR ACCESS" so I assumed it was the neighbour who sprayed them. If proper lines appear then obviously I will stop parking there but my point was there are none right now !! They do not have a disability and anyone could have guests with wheelchair use at anytime to be honest.

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insancerre · 08/07/2017 08:24

You don't know the highway code off by heart?
Then you shouldn't be driving then
Ignorance of the law is no defence

Sukitakeitoff · 08/07/2017 08:25

OP, there don't need to be any lines - even if the dropped kerb was in front of your own house, you're still not allowed to park on it.

Oysterbabe · 08/07/2017 08:31

People who park over dropped kerbs really, really annoy me. I have the strongest urge to write them a passive aggressive note, with my key, on their bonnet.

ImsorryTommy · 08/07/2017 08:31

No, don't stop parking only if the council paint lines. More than 100 people have told you you can't park over a dropped kerb painted or not!

flickerty · 08/07/2017 08:32

It doesn't matter if THEY or their visitors have no disability, people in wheelchairs/scooters have to be able to cross the road somewhere. I really am struggling to see why you don't understand this Confused

M0stlyBowlingHedgehog · 08/07/2017 08:32

"They don't have a car..."

No doubt that's what people think about parking across my back gate, on the pavement, hard up against the wall. Trouble is I cycle to work and have to get my bike out somehow. It would be a terrible shame if, struggling to hold it above my head as I squeezed out of the gate, I were to drop it on the roof of their car. Make a right fucking mess of their paintwork. (Before people sharpen the pitchforks, I have not actually done this, but a woman can fantasise!)

humblesims · 08/07/2017 08:36

there are none right now !! They do not have a disability and anyone could have guests with wheelchair use at anytime to be honest. It doesnt need to have any lines. Just by being a dropped kerb makes it a non parking space. It is for ANY wheelchair user not just the house it is in front of. If it is the only space on the street then it is the only place ANY wheelchair use can cross. Its not difficult to understand. I dont think anyone has been aggressive on this post. I think you need to understand that you are in the wrong thats all. Its OK to be wrong but you do need to accept it and change your behaviour accordingly.

MarklahMarklah · 08/07/2017 08:40

You don't need to know the highway code "by heart" but you should be aware of where you can and cannot park.
I have almost weekly disputes with entitled parents picking up from the local nursery who park outside the school, across driveways with dropped kerbs and on the zig-zag lines beside the zebra crossing. When challenged, they either "Will only be minute", or claim they "didn't know" they shouldn't park there.
For people in wheelchairs, with buggies, or with mobility problems, dropped kerbs are the only places they can cross the road.

KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth · 08/07/2017 08:51

This is why there should be mandatory driving test (even just theory) every decade.

KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth · 08/07/2017 08:54

Some dropped kerbs are marked by a white H line, some aren't. You shouldn't park across them at all. It doesn't matter what property they do or don't own (car, motorbike, pushbike, Thunderbird 5) or if you think they don't have a disability. They bought a house which has access over a dropped kerb and as such you cannot park there.

Brittbugs80 · 08/07/2017 09:02

You don't know the highway code off by heart?
Then you shouldn't be driving then
Ignorance of the law is no defence

So you know the entire Highway code, off by heart?

Though you're going to say yes just to prove a point but I absolutely don't believe you do.

I know the Highway Code enough to drive legally but certainly wouldn't claim to know it off by heart and condemn others that don't.

Comedyboobs · 08/07/2017 09:16

It really isn't THAT difficult to understand. Or is it? Grin

Notreallyarsed · 08/07/2017 09:22

It's boils down to this. There are rules and regulations that keep things running smoothly, until someone else comes along and says "oh but they don't apply to ME!" And everything goes to shit. Apply this to most situations, queues, slip roads, shopping, school pick up/drop off, any kind of parking, any situation where basic manners and common sense need to be applied. In any situation where it's all gone tits up there is always, always someone who has decided they're somehow special and the rules don't apply to them.

Comedyboobs · 08/07/2017 09:26

Cheeky Fuckerland has a MASSIVE dropped kerb.

insancerre · 08/07/2017 09:49

Of course I know the highway code off by heart brittbugs
I may not be entirely truthful here but I seem to have read more of it than the op

ComputerUserNotTrained · 08/07/2017 11:10

Jacques this neighbour doesn't even have a bloody car though!

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 08/07/2017 11:14

The details of passive aggressive note are a massive drip feed.
I still don't think neighbours painted those marks (they aren't lines) they're just pretending

JacquesHammer · 08/07/2017 12:21

Jacques this neighbour doesn't even have a bloody car though!

And? A house not having a car doesn't mean (a) they don't have visitors coming who want to be able to park on their drive and (b) that wheelchair users don't need to use a kerb to access/egress the pavement.

Just don't park over a dropped kerb. It hardly takes a lot of wit to work that out 😂

MrsChopper · 08/07/2017 12:27

If proper lines appear then obviously I will stop parking there but my point was there are none right now

You are still not entitled to park in front of the dropped kerb. And your ignorance of the law doesn't make this less of an offence! Hmm

AnnetteCurtains · 08/07/2017 12:49

You don't have to live in a road to be able to use it OP
Stop being selfish and stop parking there

peachgreen · 08/07/2017 13:07

Line or no line, you cannot park over a dropped kerb, as this thread has told you a thousand times. Tbh I'm surprised you haven't had a ticket already.

Oysterbabe · 08/07/2017 13:14

Similar to selfish fucks parking over dropped kerbs, I get wound up by people parking so far onto the pavement that you can't get through. There's a road near me where I always have to bump my buggy down the kerb and onto a very busy road to get round cars, god knows how wheelchair users deal with it.

Defuzzing · 08/07/2017 13:22

The neighbours or someone nearby may have requested the council to put lines so no one can park in the space and they have access to the kerb.

SnickersWasAHorse · 08/07/2017 13:25

What has happened here is that they have become so pissed off at their access bring blocked that they have contacted the council and asked them to paint double yellows.