Neighbour using my drop kerb!

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A new family have moved in next door - not attached we are a row of two semi's each and so on..
I have a driveway and a dropped kerb. So it goes my drive, pavement and then the dropped kerb.

My next door neighbours have a make shift drive (from previous tenants) but NO dropped kerb, it doesn't help that their neighbours have 4 cars and two permanently parked outside their garden so the new neighbours have nowhere to park except down the road because of it but again not my problem!

They have started driving over my drop kerb to park in the make shift drive, I have started parking on my dropped kerb to make a point of it and I did block them in, to which the woman politely asked if I could move my car so she could reverse out, I told her I don't appreciate her using the kerb to park in, to which she replied that she is going to be getting the curb outside hers dropped but it will take a while due to getting planning permission etc and it's hard to walk down the road with 3 kids and a newborn so it's just been more convenient, but she won't do it again if it bothers me.

Tbh she hasn't had a chance to park there again as I have started parking in front of my drive, on my dropped kerb but my sister has said I'm being petty for no reason and making her life harder and it's not a big deal! And it's really irked me because now I don't know if I'm being unreasonable or not!

Wow. There's petty and then there's that.

I’m not sure I could get too bothered about this. How would it impact you if you just let them carry on until their kerb is dropped?

Personally I think you are being unreasonable. She was polite said she wouldn’t do it again if it bothered you and is doing the same to her kerb so it will be temporary. I’d let her use it and not be difficult about it. Pick your neighbour battles

Why can't see park there? public road?

I can't explain why it makes me feel a certain way because she was nice enough, it just really annoyed me!

It’s illegal for you to park on the dropped kerb.

Her attached neighbours have a driveway but they have more cars so their teenagers always park outside their home and my neighbours home and she arrives back from work later so there is never any space! It's a small residential road

I'm amazed at your pettiness. Are they actually causing an obstruction or hindering you in any way?

Honestly? You sound petty.

But I paid to have the kerb dropped?

Is this real? 😂😂😂

You're extremely petty to behave in this manner and prevent her parking. It won't be forever as she's trying to get her own kerb dropped. The dropped kerb may be outside your house, but you don't own the pavement or the kerb. Be a better person and have some compassion.

I thought you weren't allowed to park on a dropped kerb

I assume they’re paying to get theirs dropped too. In the meantime you could be awesome.

Not really, it just irks me how they use my kerb to angle themselves into their "driveway"

People are so tight and petty. I'd be so embarrassed to make a thing of this

Presumably they are also driving across part of the pavement and possibly part of the pavement that hasn't been reinforced as part of the drop kerb? You could probably report that to the council if it bothered you that much.

I think you should be reported for parking on a dropped kerb.

Yes you are right, I could report them technically for that!

It’s not your kerb
It’s not your pavement
It’s not your road

You aren't. The council still own the pavement and OP is illegally blocking her neighbours in.

It doesn't belong to you, it is still part of the public pavement. You don't have it on your deeds or had it conveyanced to you legally.