Would you park...?

[LunasOrchid]

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.

Babycatcher have you contacted highways department and asked if they have any scheduled plans to redo the pavements and roads in your street? Sometimes they do schedule works and the drop kerbs can be put in then either at a reduced cost or free, so it’s worthwhile enquiring

No dropped kerb, not a drive

I wouldn't park there, even though you can, because I don't know the character of the owner who might come back and get agro

@ivykaty44 no hadn’t thought of that, good idea though thanks, will do that.

www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/residents-face-bills-thousands-drive-10729510

The utility companies could come to you to charge you for the damage to pipes etc, which would cost more than £1500 for the dropped kerb

I have seen this happen, the vehicle went through the pavement and got stuck, not only that but the council billed the householder for the damage along with the water company. Y TG hey didn’t think it would happen and tried to say the pavement was faulty - it wasn’t faulty it hadn’t been adjusted for car use

It cost one city £300k for repairs caused by motorists driving over pavements, we all pay for this as it comes out of council tax

Babycatcher, why do you think you are entitled to break the law for your own convenience? It's illegal to drive over the pavement.

@OlaEliza
I guess really because the consideration wasn’t if we do this it’s illegal, it was if we do this then we don’t inconvenience half the street by DP parking in front of their homes for 18 months whilst we save up. Rightly or wrongly that was our thought process

I assume you have never, ever parked on a kerb?

@ivykaty44 Coventry Council are full if crap. The man employed to do this left after a few weeks. My friend paid over £2000 for her dropped kerb. There are at least 80% of the road who don't have dropped kerbs but drive over the pavements. The council have done nothing.

I assume you have never, ever parked on a kerb?

I don’t park on the pavement, to many children have been killed by people driving into pavements & after I saw this www.thesun.co.uk/news/3158989/delivery-driver-cleared-death-four-year-old-he-knocked-down-wirral/ I stopped 😢

I assume you have never, ever parked on a kerb?

No I haven't. I don't block the pavement for prams and wheelchairs.

I'm assuming your dp pays vehicle tax and insurance? If so he's as entitled as anyone else to park on your street. I'm sure your neighbours would be more pissed off if he took the water or electricity out by damaging the pipes.

It's not a drive without a dropped kerb so I don't see a problem parking there. Some houses around here just park on their garden (grass and all). Should people not park there either?

I would if nowhere else.

Fucking hell Ivy that's my parents in law's village! I never saw that. How fucking terrifying. Why would he be acquitted?

I think if there’s a car on the ‘drive’ then YABU (but so are they for parking illegally), if there’s no car on the ‘drive’ then YANBU to park in front of it because really it’s just a paved garden

Tot there are many more killed on the pavement by drivers, if it was a disease there’d be funding for research to stop it 😥

I wouldn't. I get that it's not a dropped kerb so they legally can't complain but unfortunately people can act like sguch entitled twats. I lived somewhere like the op described. Most people coped sell with the parking sit but one in particular was an entitled gobshite soul would make everyone's life a misery. He caused so much noise which just got louder and louder if you stood your ground that it was easier to just to avoid his space.
Sometimes it's just not worth the hassle as the people who have that sense of entitlement just don't listen to reason, they're in cuckoo land.

I wouldn’t park there. It’s obviously a driveway even without a dropped kerb. Legally you’re in the right but morally you’re being an arsehole.

FWIW I paid for my dropped kerb when I bought my house but I still wouldn’t deliberately choose to inconvenience someone because they didn’t do the same.

YANBU.

Pavements have to be adapted to avoid damage from cars driving over them, so unless it's a dropped kerb, I'd park in a space in front of a paved garden.

No way would I park in front of what looks like a parking area in front of someone's house. I'd rather go double yellow and risk a ticket. Just no way.

But Double Yellows are there for a reason, so isn't it a "dick move " (seems to be the phrase of choice here) to park on one ?

No dropped kerb = just a fancy paved area . Not a driveway .

I wouldn’t park there. It’s obviously a driveway even without a dropped kerb. Legally you’re in the right but morally you’re being an arsehole.

It's not a driveway, though - it's just a concreted patch of garden! Just because someone has concreted over their lawn, doesn't mean they can decide it's a driveway.

Driveways have dropped curbs.

I did park there originally but I chickened out and moved my car incase they damaged my car or blocked me in

I think without a dropped curb it is not someone's drive way just their front yard/garden.