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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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ComputerUserNotTrained · 09/07/2017 11:45

Oyster I was convinced it was ok, too. In terms of parking offences, not generally iykwim.

Biker47 · 09/07/2017 12:33

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Notreallyarsed · 09/07/2017 12:37

If you're parking in front of a dropped kerb, even if it's yours you're not using it for vehicle access though are you? Access would imply crossing it, not parking over it and telling wheelchair users to piss off. How dare people go about their daily business and make use of a dropped kerb to make their lives a bit easier rather than having to go 40 yards down the road

rightwhine · 09/07/2017 12:47

Is it a proper dropped kerb?

PurityOfChaos · 09/07/2017 12:50

Biker47 it isn't your dropped kerb, it belongs to the council. You have access across it only, as does everyone else, no-one may block it but anyway may use it.

C8H10N4O2 · 09/07/2017 12:52

How about use the parts of the pavement that have been specifically designed and dropped to aid their and other peoples mobility needs

On residential roads? You have to be kidding - they don't exist, the only dropped kerbs are people's drives. Most wheelchair users therefore spend periods on the road where available dropped kerbs don't align or are parked over.

Biker47 · 09/07/2017 12:52

If you're parking in front of a dropped kerb, even if it's yours you're not using it for vehicle access though are you?

Still have every right to park infront of it if you chose to do that though.

Biker47 · 09/07/2017 12:55

Biker47 it isn't your dropped kerb, it belongs to the council. You have access across it only, as does everyone else, no-one may block it but anyway may use it.

Isn't the councils, not yet as they haven't adopted my road. But in any case, even if they do, the Traffic Management Act of 2004, section 86 states clearly what is allowed.

JacquesHammer · 09/07/2017 12:56

Still have every right to park infront of it if you chose to do that though

Ever heard of the phrase "just because you can, doesn't mean you should"?

Sure. Park across a dropped kerb. It makes you a twat though.

Notreallyarsed · 09/07/2017 12:59

Ah so your right to park across a dropped kerb because you want to trumps the rights of wheelchair users to go about their daily business? Pfft.

Biker47 · 09/07/2017 13:03

No, I park across my drive, because I want to and because I'm not restricted in doing so, a wheelcahir or pram user can use one of the crossings at either end of the street, which do actually lead to an opposite dropped kerb crossing point, whereas my dropped kerb leads straight into a road, where they'd have to then go down the middle of said road either one of directions 40 yards to get to a suitable way back onto the pavement, via a pedestrian dropped kerb.

sunshinesupermum · 09/07/2017 13:03

Wow Oysterbabe! Had no idea!

Biker47 · 09/07/2017 13:06

Given the fact that none of you know where I live and what my road looks like, it's silly to assume you know whats best. I can't see many people wanting to wheel themselves or push their children down the middle of a well used road, which has a pavement on my side, but nothing else on the other side until you get to the crossing points ;)

PurityOfChaos · 09/07/2017 13:07

Biker47 those rules relate to vehicles and parking, not foot traffic. If an unadopted road is deemed to be a public thoroughfare, foot traffic can use the dropped kerb.

Notreallyarsed · 09/07/2017 13:07

It's not about your road Biker it's about the fact you merrily said you'd tell someone in a wheelchair or pushing a pram to piss off if they used the dropped kerb and you weren't happy about it.

Biker47 · 09/07/2017 13:11

you merrily said you'd tell someone in a wheelchair or pushing a pram to piss off if they used the dropped kerb and you weren't happy about it.

No I didn't if you re-read what I said. I said I'd tell them to piss off if they told me not to park there, when I'm well within my rigths to park there.

Comedyboobs · 09/07/2017 13:14

Where I live, the only dropped kerbs are the ones in front of driveways. If we all park in front of them how do wheelchair users cross the road?
They would be constantly going round the block.....

JacquesHammer · 09/07/2017 13:15

So someone struggling to get on a pavement in a wheelchair? You'd tell them to piss off if they mentioned you shouldn't be parking over a dropped kerb?

Do keep on, you're really painting yourself in a smashing light here

Biker47 · 09/07/2017 13:26

Do keep on, you're really painting yourself in a smashing light here

Good job I don't care then isn't it.

If someone wants to tell me how I should park my car outside my house I would tell them to piss off, yes. If I'm not parked there and they want to use that dropped kerb to get up and down they can do to their hearts content.

But the fact of the matter is, it isn't illegal to park infront of your own residential dropped kerb, or someone elses if you have their permission, and the fact is, that dropped kerb wasn't installed for pedestrian access (that is just a byproduct), otherwise it would have been designed and produced to the specifications of a pedestrian crossing like the ones at the end of my street. I suppose I could park further down the road instead, infront of my neighbours house and leave a large gap infront of my house for any people who want to take a stab at wheeling themselves or thier children into oncoming traffic instead of using the purpose built crossings?

sodablackcurrant · 09/07/2017 13:56

Parking is Barking. Brings out the best in people every time....

CrochetBelle · 09/07/2017 13:57

IME, those who park in front of their own driveways are those who aren't competent enough drivers to reverse into the driveway.

Biker47 · 09/07/2017 14:18

IME, those who park in front of their own driveways are those who aren't competent enough drivers to reverse into the driveway.

Or my driveway is full of other vehicles??

CrochetBelle · 09/07/2017 14:40

Or my driveway is full of other vehicles??

I have no experience of your driveway.

Notreallyarsed · 09/07/2017 15:00

Which would constitute you being "not happy about it" Biker try to keep up. All this entitlement and determination to protect your rights is confusing you I presume?

JacquesHammer · 09/07/2017 15:23

Funnily enough I always find those that have too many vehicles to park on their own land are quite the most militant about parking where is convenient for them, and damn everyone else.

House opposite was like this. Until sadly for them someone misjudged the ridiculously small gap they'd left and took their wing mirror off. Shame.

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