Reversing out of drive

[chunkyrun]

Neighbour complains whenever anyone reverses out of drive. Apparently when house built planning permission stipulated no reversing. Any know what rights are around this? She sends footage to landlord of people reversing out. Police were previously contacted as she was abusive over it. They said it's fine as it's residential road that we're reversing on to

Tell her to show you the legal document attached to the house showing this

She's bonkers. There won't be

I find it easier to get out my drive if I've reversed into it as the parking in my street can be a bit crazy. I can see hazards better when going forwards out the drive

Well technically you're not supposed to reverse out onto a road I don't think. Your neighbour needs to find a hobby though clearly.

@tiredanddangerous

Well technically you're not supposed to reverse out onto a road I don't think. Your neighbour needs to find a hobby though clearly.

You can reverse onto a road, it's just not recommended for busy ones.

is ot not that you shouldn't reverse out onto a Main road whereas op is in a residential street which is why the police weren't bothered

There would have to be a restrictive covenant on the house title stating that and there would need to be the house builder in existence to enforce it. Your landlord would have told you off any restrictions in your contract.

Every time she abuses verbally just report it to the police online/101. If she takes it too far report it using 999.

I have an issue with people reversing out of drives since me neighbour did it at high speed as I was passing in my car, and smacked into me writing off my car

Yes, I'd like to see that document too

I reverse out as my drive way is downhill AND around a corer AND v v tight - reversing IN means that I cannot see anything due to uphill tilt of the car. Counter intuitively it is FAR safer for me to reverse out. So that's what I do.

Your neighbour does indeed need something else to occupy her mind. What is her stake in this??

She sounds mental. I would just ignore and not feed into it

Start knocking on her door to watch you back out. Every time.

Do not reverse from a side road into a main road. When using a driveway, reverse in and drive out if you can

From the highway code. Not illegal to reverse off your drive

The "if you can" is the salient point. Most people don't have driveways big enough to turn around. I remember seeing a Grand Designs once where they put a turntable in - maybe that would be a (expensive) solution OP

eh would understand if it was a busy main road.

Typical planning condition might state that a particular driveway is required so that egress and entrance can be made in a forward gear. If the drive was then constructed in that manner then it will have been complied with. Could that be the legal document @chunkyrun?

@vodkaredbullgirl

eh would understand if it was a busy main road.

And if it is a busy road, sometimes no bugger gives you space to reverse in. When dh was commuting to work, he'd usually end up driving in forward, as the road was pretty busy at 5pm but quiet at 7am when he needed to reverse out, again. If he was anticipating needing to get the car back out at a busier time, he'd turn it around in the evening.

Your neighbour does indeed need something else to occupy her mind. What is her stake in this??

^^ she is the ultimate Karen. She'll sit and watch the cctv every day and forward on images to landlord. I don't know what she gets out of it. Must be a power trip thing

The "if you can" is the salient point. Most people don't have driveways big enough to turn around.

That doesn't make sense. You don't need to turn around.

I mean I think it’s easier and safer to reverse in and drive off a drive way. However I don’t think i have ever heard of that being a law or a stipulation on planning.

I wonder if that person had something happen to make them worry so much about people reversing of driveways? Seems an odd thing to focus on , unless they are odd about other things too.

I very much doubt any council would stipulate no reversing out of a driveway as a condition before they approve a planning application 😂
I’d contact the landlord to clarify and after that would tell her to bugger off and find a different hobby.

Is it her CCTV or is it block CCTV? If its block CCTV and she was previously nominated to have access then maybe go down to the GDPR route to remove her access.

If its her own camera then boo and she sucks!

The council can stipulate that it must be possible to enter and leave the driveway in a forward gear and can make sure the plans are implemented but they have no control over whether the residents subsequently reverse in or out.

#petty..I would be reversing out everytime just because I knew it would wind her up

If her CCTC is not recording just her property -then you have another issue......privacy.

Many house (Including new builds include covenants about no commercial vehicles, no tv aerials, complete waste of time and much like your situation, if true, totally unenforceable, clearly she has nothing better to do than worry about what others are doing, just ignore them

It would definitely not be a condition of planning permission. Conditions have to be reasonable and enforceable - such a requirement would be neither. Planner of over 30 years 🙂