AIBU to tell neighbour to stop parking across my drive?

[MSNuserof99]

We have a double drive but only half has a dropped kerb (previous owners extended the drive but didn’t bother with the rest of the dropped kerb)

We keep getting a neighbour park across the non dropped part, which then makes it super difficult to get in and out of the drive and also means that we have nowhere for our friends/family to park when they visit especially at the weekends.

AIBU as it’s obstructing the rest of my driveway? Shall I ask them to steer clear?

SOME people are just cheeky though, they have a reasonable dropped kerb, but they believe that creating a bigger drive will give them right to a bigger dropped kerb. It doesn't quite work that way!

Laiste

I can understand why you didn't want to say anything in the circumstances!

You would think people who make house visits would know not to park on a dropped kerb!

You really need to get that part of the kerb dropped sadly - our next door neighbours used to have a shared drop kerb with their other next door neighbours but they put a diving fence inbetween so their new driveway area doesn't have a dropped kerb to access the bit at the front of their house. They usually drive up onto the kerb on our dropped bit and swing into to their drive so they don't bump up the kerb. Sometimes I park outside our house so I don't block my DP in as there's only room for one of us to drive in without blocking the other in which means she can't do that but I'm not in the wrong. I get that it's frustrating but unless they block you in you can't really do anything.

Regardless of if the kerb was dropped I would never park in front of a neighbours parked car or anyone else's.
If I car is parked you are still technically blocking the car even if the kerb isn't dropped. There's no reason you can't drive off a kerb so I think it's bad manners to park there.

Yes there is Strawberry. Most of the time it's illegal to drive on a pavement.

Might have been £500 15 years ago, to have curb dropped, cost us 3 grand 5 years ago.

No dropped kerb means anyone can park there. Why do you expect someone not to park on a normal piece of road because you don't want to pay?

I think you have your answer OP, you can't tell them not to park there, you could try asking them but as it isn't actually a driveway without a dropped kerb they are doing nothing wrong, it would be you doing wrong driving over pavement that hasn't had a kerb dropped and the right survey to check it is safe to drive over.

No dropped kerb, no guarantees. Though I try and avoid blocking such patios anyway.

have to say I often make a point of parking in front of the non-dropped kerb bits of double drives. I think it's damn cheeky not to pay to have the full kerb dropped but expect people to keep it free.