*New thread* AIBU to use NND dropped kerb

[Cleo2628]

Thought it would be clearer with this photo. Previous owner left note saying she used his dropped kerb. AIBU to use it?

• [Pic now removed at OP's request]

Round here there are some houses that have had their front gardens paved like driveways but don’t have dropped kerbs. A few years back the council came along and installed bollards in front of all the houses without dropped kerbs to prevent them either using the neigbours’ ones or bumping up the kerbs. You should pay for your own dropped kerb.

The photo makes it crystal clear. YABU and a cheeky fucker. Stop it.
Do you not realise the trouble you are setting up for your family if you continue to use his (in that he bloody well paid for it) dropped kerb? He has asked you to stop, so apologise and STOP.

OP I don't think you're going to get the answer you want no matter how many threads you start.

However, I am unclear about the legalities - isn't it ok to park over an empty drive but not to block people in? There was confusion on the last thread

Either way, do you really want to start a war with your neighbours?

Is that a drain inspection hatch on the pavement OP?
If so, it could be why your drive doesn't have dropped kerb.

I quote a former thread:

You don’t have a drive, you have a patio with aspirations.

You also have a crap solicitor that should’ve spotted this from a mile away.

userV The OP says on her first thread she can’t afford the £1000 to pay for the kerb.

When I say 'drive', I mean garden.

Then she has to park on the road until she saves up.

Is the neighbours dropped kerb done by the council? It looks like concrete rather than tarmac?

If he’s had it done by private contract you could both be buggered calling the council?

OP; you are driving across the bottom part of their drive to get onto yours. You can't do that.

You've now been told this in 2 threads. Stop posting hoping for a different response, then removing the photo when you don't get what you want.

He's parking his car at the bottom of this drive to stop you driving over his property.

Pay for your own dropped kerb.

Honey lots of concrete drops where I live. You have to have permission from the Council, but then I suppose they could authorise you to sub it out.

Why has the OP removed the photo

That makes sense.

We had a massive local drama years ago over concrete dropped kerbs done without permission back in the ‘80’s/‘90’s in local cul de sacs. One well meaning bod applied for one so when the council came out they noticed over 50% of the houses had non authorised ones There are families still feuding to this day.

I can't believe that you blithely used his dropped kerb without asking. That is so rude.

We have a larger drive than our neighbours and when their 4 adult children come for Sunday lunch they don't have enough room on their drive. So neighbour asked if they could park one or two cars on our drive (which doesn't get in way of our cars at all). Absolutely no problem.
They ask us the same maybe every couple of months. Sure, park away!
I've said that they don't need to ask in advance as I now recognise the cars and no strangers ever want to park on our drive, but nice neighbour still always asks... COS HE'S NOT A CHEEKY FUCKER!

The acting as if you have every right to use your neighbours drive is what would annoy me too.

We have a shared access driveway with individual driveways off it. Out of all the four houses 3 of us if expecting extra visitors will give the others a nod if people will be parking on the shared access part so they know who to ask to shift the car if it becomes awkward for any reason. Neighbour four who only had limited access rights at best regularly leaves his driveway clear parks two cars on the shared access part and fucks off for the day in the third. He’s repeatedly stopped delivery vans and trucks getting through and refused to stop despite being told this, because he’s an entitled shit head. We’ve all celebrated though as his partners walked out on him and he can’t afford the rent alone so has had to move

OP’s inability to afford to pay is not the fault or responsibility of the neighbour

They need to save up til they can afford it and park on the road in the meantime

TSSDNCOP So people don’t recognise her home I expect.

Frasier, I think OP is placing far too much faith in MN’s collective powers of geographical deduction and not enough in the opinion that she’s a proper CF.

Honey as DH often says “couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke”

This needed a second concurrent thread?

Skimming this thread, I find myself idly wondering if the OPs paved front garden is permitted anyway ?

Weren't there stories a while back about councils trying to prevent gardens being paved (quite aside from any local covenants) as it's a contributor to flooding ? (Something I'm particularly sensitive to having seen people having to canoe down their road Sunday after the Birmingham floods )

Oh - photo's gone It was pretty clear there wasn't much room to avoid crossing the corner of neighbors drive. Hey ho.

Didn't realise there were 2 threads either.

Not quite the same as this thread, but in our last place we had a dropped curb which we shared with a neighbor. One slope right across both house fronts. Neighbors were fine, but various visitors of theirs (plus some trades) seemed to think they could just park over our half of it when going to their house . Used to drive me batty!

thanksfor allthefish The thing is, as the OP says, the previous owner "left her a note" , ie likely to be nothing about off street parking or verified access in the legal paperwork relating to the house , therefore she(OP) was fully aware that she did not have a dropped kerb, or a legal right to use the neighbour's dropped kerb so she hasn't got a leg , or wheel, to stand on.

So unless she was fortunate enough to employ a really poor solicitor and can prove their incompetence -in which case kerching- she is well and truly stuffed . My advice is to start a crowd funding page.

You need to use permeable material or have planning permission if it’s built after 2008, so the OP’s solicitor should have picked that up and checked.

Whether the previous owner 'left a note' saying she was able to park or not - the previous owner does not have the right to allocate permission from the neighbour to drive across there! Only the neighbour can do that - and the OP hasn't even asked for this permission.

Sorry @qwertyuiop I meant why was there not a dropped kerb to begin with?

Everyone who has a drive has a dropped kerb. So why is there not one there already?

I agree with the posters saying it is not the neighbour's problem that the OP cannot afford to pay for the dropped kerb.