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Neighbours parking on pavements and overgrown hedges (photo)

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applesauce1 · 15/07/2019 14:40

I walk into town every day with my baby in his pushchair. Every day, I am met with this obstacle. One neighbour has this tree growing so low and wide that it would hit my baby in the face while in his pushchair, so I can't duck under. Possibly the same neighbour or their NDN has the white car, who always parks on the pavement. In the photo, they've left a generous amount of path compared to usual. Most of the time the car is much further onto the pavement than it is on the road.

The house over the road often has vans in who, without fail, park on the pavement. Usually, my best route is to either go around the van on the neighbours garden, or walk in the road.

I have a feeling people do this because it is a bus route. If people park legally, the bus driver just leans on their horn until someone comes and moves the car onto the pavement.

So my AIBU is, who should I be annoyed with? What would you do? Should I be annoyed at all? I can usually get a quite chance to push my baby in the road, but people drive very fast and often on the wrong side of the road (due to parked cars) on this estate, so I always feel vulnerable doing that.

Neighbours parking on pavements and overgrown hedges (photo)
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MadisonAvenue · 16/07/2019 16:04

We have huge problems on our estate with pavement parking, thankfully it's quite quiet. We're on a new build estate and some houses have large drives. For instance, one neighbour has a drive large enough for six vehicles but they have three transit sized vans, a smaller van, a family car and their three children also have a car each. More often than not two of the cars will be parked fully, all four wheels, on the footpath which fully blocks it.

Our drive is somewhat smaller and when our children got cars we applied to the council to extend the dropped kerb so that we could widen our drive, stating that it would ease the problem of on-street parking. We were refused permission because part of the new drive wouldn't be long enough to park a car at right angles to the road and it'd mean a car (not sure which model but the council had a set measurement which they used) would overhang the end of the drive and over onto the footpath by a full 5cm therefore causing an obstruction Hmm

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