It's a parking thread!

[KentMum2008]

It's not me who is potentially BU, and as yet the situation hasn't escalated, but it will....

We live in a small cul de sac, parking is an utter nightmare and consequently a few neighbours have had dropped kerbs installed. The neighbour opposite me had a dropped kerb installed today, but there's a brick wall across their garden and it's still turfed/covered with flowers in pots so until they've knocked that down they obviously can't park on their drive. The drive itself doesn't actually exist yet.

Another neighbour has just parked across the new dropped kerb. It was the last space at this end of the cul de sac. Said neighbour is 18, has just passed his driving test and works in a PRU. He lives with, and is a carer for, his disabled dad, who he takes out in the mornings, and brings home with him after work. I think he goes to a Day centre type place, but the dad is always with him in the car so he needs to park as close as possible. He's an absolute beaut of a young man, and wouldn't say boo to a goose.

Here's the issue. When Dropped Kerb lady comes home, she's going to flip that he's parked there. I heard her chatting away to the guys doing the work saying that she'll 'go to town' on anyone who parks there, even while the wall is still in place. I'm hovering in the kitchen because once she's back it's going to kick off, and poor lovely young neighbour won't know how to deal with her.

Is Dropped Kerb neighbour BU expecting people to leave the space free (and does the law regarding Dropped kerbs stand when there's not actually a drive in place?) or is Lovely Young Neighbour BU for parking there?

And AIBU for being absolutely ready to leap to his defence?! I'm pretty good in confrontational situations, rarely lose my rag etc and I'd like to think if it was my son and I wasn't able to help him out, someone else would be there, even if it was only for a bit of solidarity. The only other neighbour who is indoors is a really quiet woman, in 10 years of living here I've never heard her utter a word to anyone other than her cat and a hedgehog once.

Diagram attached, obvs. Not that it makes things much clearer but it's not a real parking thread without a diagram.

And I have had a parking ticket for parking across a dropped kerb that led to absolutely nothing- no drive no path nothing
That may have been because it was intended as a wheelchair ramp. They do have to be protected.

I think I'll change my name to Troels the Nurse.
So when is Parking John back off holiday, he can't leave us hanging like this. Mr Mango is going to have to park over her dropped curb and see what happens next.

Maybe glad but i don't know how a wheelchair would have been able to do anything after getting up it was on to grass not path. When I contested it the council didn't say anything about wheelchair access which of course I wouldn't block.

It was a space all the family had been parking in for years to visit one of the family members without a problem too.
Anyway lesson learned I won't do that again!

Boo to Parking John's holiday!

Yes it's definitely a Welsh thing too.

Wow, my dropped kerb was more like £1500! Your road got it cheap!

Wine the £116 was just for planning permission! I've no idea what they paid for the actual dropping of said kerb.

I've just snooped on their little Facebook group, they paid £900 each for the kerb to be dropped. There's 14 houses in total having it done so the contractor isn't laughing! £13,000 for 2-3 weeks work. DH reckons the materials to do it won't cost more than £100!

Contractor is laughing rather....

I'm in the wrong job

Dropped kerb anyone??

Was DKL actually one of the neighbours who applied for planning permission? More importantly, was it actually granted (and under what terms)?

Computer she's very vocal on their Facebook group about it, she applied at the same time and got approved very quickly.

She's got an orange Planning Permission sign stuck to her fucking brick wall.