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AIBU?

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Would you park...?

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LunasOrchid · 01/12/2019 06:43

It's freezing this morning, was driving around looking for somewhere to park. All available spaces on the road taken.

Here's my AIBU... There was a space outside a house. The house has turned their front yard into an obvious drive but it was currently empty. However, there is no dropped curb leading ontonthe drive.

How many of you would have parked their?

YABU - It's someone's access to their drive with or without a dropped curb.

YANBU - You can legally park there as it isn't a dropped curb.

OP posts:

ivykaty44 · 01/12/2019 08:59

it was going to cost £1500 to have it completed, which we couldn’t afford.

Yet if you drive you could afford the car, the insurance, the fuel

The pavements are repaired and that money comes from council tax which we all pay

Todaythiscouldbe · 01/12/2019 09:00

I would have parked there.

GiveHerHellFromUs · 01/12/2019 09:00

@ivykaty44 OP will budget for those costs monthly. Doesn't mean she has a spare £1500 - what a bizarre comment

ivykaty44 · 01/12/2019 09:01

Thehop

I see it as morally correct to prevent damage to the path and save ever tax payer money

ivykaty44 · 01/12/2019 09:03

Giveherhell
How they budget or don’t budget isn’t the issue - private cars aren’t cheap and if they haven’t factored in the £1500 for a dropped kerb why should others have to suffer

WhenYouCantRunYouCrawl · 01/12/2019 09:04

Haha Mumsnet would have a collective hernia if they saw our estate in our village. Loads of front gardens converted to driveways with no dropped kerbs, including ours (which was like it when we moved in and it hasn't been a priority).

No one parks in front of them because we're all good neighbours and not wankers. The council don't care.

GiveHerHellFromUs · 01/12/2019 09:10

@ivykaty44 they clearly didn't know it would cost that much and the poster said they could park two cars there instead of the one they'd park on the road.
Why are you so upset about this?

ivykaty44 · 01/12/2019 09:12

Strangely the council have other issues and limited resources, but you decide that they don’t care. It may also be that some of your neighbours complain about it, often these types of complaints there is little that can be done. Your neighbours will often want the complaint to be anonymous as there frightened if repercussions

HowToBeAWoman · 01/12/2019 09:14

This is an issue in my area. So many houses with drives that haven’t bothered to get a dropped kerb.

I’ve parked a couple of times when running late and panicking, but I’ve had a few run ins with disgruntled residents and can’t be arsed with the palaver that ensues.

I did actually ask a traffic warden once if I was ok to park in a spot like this and he said yes.

ivykaty44 · 01/12/2019 09:15

Giveherhell
Why should others have to fork out to get pavements repairs because people can afford two cars but can’t afford a dropped kerb - don’t tell me they could afford Audi or BMW if they had to spend money on the dropped kerb 🤣

GiveHerHellFromUs · 01/12/2019 09:19

@ivykaty44 you know cars park on pavements all the time, right?

Who said they have a BMW or Audi?
As I said, they'll have budgeted. They might have a car on PCP. They might have a car allowance with work.
Still doesn't mean they'll have £1500 floating around...

ivykaty44 · 01/12/2019 09:23

Hell

Your making this up 🤣 you have no idea whether they have forked out £5000 on a car
People buy cars and then expect everyone else to pay and you’re clutching at straws to excuse it, oh but they might have monthly debts, everyone else does it so they can to

GiveHerHellFromUs · 01/12/2019 09:25

@ivykaty44 we're both making assumptions but you're being a bit sensitive about it all really.

Floralnomad · 01/12/2019 09:27

I would park there if there were no other spaces , no dropped kerb = no drive. I’m very jealous of anyone who can get a dropped kerb done for £400 , we had an extension done to ours this year and it cost £50 to the local council for a letter to the county council , about £300 for permission from the County council and then £1400 for the actual work .

ivykaty44 · 01/12/2019 09:27

Hell your making stuff up again 🤣 your full of the excuses this morning

GiveHerHellFromUs · 01/12/2019 09:28

@ivykaty44 it's 'you're'

But ok... you're clearly slight deluded so I'll leave you to it

babycatcher411 · 01/12/2019 09:28

Id love to drive an Audi or a BMW, but alas just a 9 year old Ford Focus and ditto similar for DP, we budget monthly for the cars upkeep, fuel, insurance etc. The lack of drop kerb/drive was never a consideration when I bought the house as I didn’t have a partner, so parking one car on the street never was an issue, but then when he moved in we were regularly having to park in front of other peoples houses and felt that a drive was a better option for everyone.
We’re in a funny position as we have a drop kerb at the side of us for an access road to some old garages, so can mostly (about 3/4) go up that drop kerb diagonally onto our drive, so it’s not ideal, but seemed a better temporary option that parking all over the street where other people need to park.
We based the decision mainly on the fact that many other people on the street do it, so clearly the council have taken no issue with it.

ivykaty44 · 01/12/2019 09:29

Hell, When you climb down from your ivory tower you might find a parking space...

babycatcher411 · 01/12/2019 09:30

And I’d love to just have a spare £1500, we’d have happily sorted it when it was first becoming an issue

OlaEliza · 01/12/2019 09:32

YANBU. I'd park there if no dropped curb.

You can legally park across a driveway as long as you aren't blocking someone in.

OlaEliza · 01/12/2019 09:38

Everyone's saying "oh they should get a dropped kerb if they want a drive."
On MN everyone seems to have £3000pp 'spending money' each month.

Back here in the real world it costs a lot of money to get a dropped kerb that some people just don't have.
It could also be a rental property so might be up to the landlord who won't pay.

Tough shit. My mum had to pay for her dropped kerb and also the council made her pay to extend it when she paved over the other side of the garden.

The neighbours next door we're driving over the pavement. The council gave them the choice of paying for a dropped kerb or bollards, and bollards they got.

The council have also put in loads of white and yellow lines and marked bays to park in, with restrictions on match and event days and they have put a bay outside next door. I parked in it last time I was there 🤷

charlestonchaplin · 01/12/2019 09:39

Everything can be budgeted for, including a dropped kerb. That’s no excuse and you know it.

babycatcher411 · 01/12/2019 09:49

Everything can be budgeted for, including a dropped kerb. That’s no excuse and you know it.

On the whole, yes that’s true.
Which is exactly what we are doing, saving a bit more money into the ‘car fund’ to pay for the kerb. Meanwhile we decided that the neighbours would probably appreciate 18 months less parking issues on our already busy road whilst we do save.

And as a side note, the drive itself cost us next to nothing, it was about 2 hours work of DP removing 2 fence panels and posts and a couple of extra bags of gravel. So no we couldn’t have paid for the kerb, then the drive, which would’ve been the logical way of doing it had we been paying £££ to have the drive installed.

Mjlp · 01/12/2019 10:04

For all you know they might be disabled.

If they need special access arrangements due to a disability surely they would be able to tap into funding to get the appropriate road markings and dropped kerb? Not just pave over their garden and hope people guess they’re disabled?

If the people quoting £1500 for a dropped kerb are correct, I highly doubt they'd be able to 'tap into some funding' for that amount!!!

KnifeAngel · 01/12/2019 10:04

Yes if they have no dropped kerb then they have no rights whatsoever.

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