Neighbour using my drop kerb!

[mykerb]

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!

This has got to be one of the most petty threads I've ever read on here

That said, if it's not much out of the way to her drive then it's a bit tough on the neighbour.

After seeing OP's drawing, I don't know how else her poor neighbour is supposed to get into her own driveway!

Ha ha, bless you. Promise I’m not a monster and the Southwark website isn’t entirely clear in parts! The weird thing is that it is a national law but councils have these weird discretionary powers. Promise where I live - Swansea - it’s super strict. Feel free to park in front of my house, I live on a cobbled street with no pavements or kerbs at all - but parking restrictions are a big deal.

You sound like a horrendous person - I think you should be embarassed tbh.

But being (un)neighbourly is a two way street, and I imagine karma will get you sooner or later.

Seriously, who is this bored?? Surely most people would barely notice this kind of thing? There are so many, many more fulfilling ways to spend your life than being a selfish, shit, petty neighbour OP. Your poor new neighbours must be wondering what they’ve let themselves in for.

Praying this is made up. If I’d done this it’d be one of those memories that makes you go hot with embarrassment every time you remember it.

Fuck me some people lead small, petty, lives.
Life is short remember to not sweat the little shit.

Spikes on the dropped kerb, it’s the only way.

Please rethink this. The world is so full of real problems and this really is just manufactured - no need for you or your neighbour to suffer any irritation about this at all if you just choose not to.

That is such a weird thing to get so nasty and territorial about. I think you should seek counselling because being that awful is bound to be affecting other areas of your life.

For goodness sake, what harm is it doing if they use it ?. , head wobble op.

I don't think you've been unreasonable. Would annoy me too.

What's a 'drop curb'? I thought this was about a dropped kerb?

I read this open mouthed OP. You sound like a twat, a really spiteful petty twat.

So your neighbour has 3 children and a new born, plus she works, therefore arriving back later than others in the road so struggles to find a parking space.
She could park just outside her house by driving for a matter of seconds across the dropped kerb outside your house, causing you no inconvenience, and you are so incensed by this that you block this working mother in?
Why?
Once again I thank my lucky stars for my neighbours.

Why on earth would this annoy you , do you get annoyed when pushchairs or wheelchairs use your drop curb?

So now you've read the replies, I'm hoping that you realise that you are in fact the unreasonable one.

I think you owe the neighbour a box of chocolates and an apology for being so precious over it.

To be fair to OP, I think she owned it a bit a while back.

So you can park on your drive no problem, but you're whinging about them using the dropped kerb to get on their drive?

Some of the responses here are a bit over the top. You would think the OP had admitted to murder.

@mykerb

While I dont really have an opinion about your dropped kerb sorry. I do commend you for hanging in here untill page 9 over this subject.

If I was walking down your street and I wanted to cross over at your dropped kerb, should I knock on and ask you first before I cross the threshold? Will you report me if I dont?

It’s not your dropped kerb.

It isn’t on your land.

You don’t own it.

It is there to facilitate your access to your land but your land starts at your drive.

If you asked me not to drive over a council kerb I would tell you where to go.

She's not whinging! They can't get on their drive now because she's leaving her own car on the road instead of her drive.

Good god.

Let her use your dropped kerb until she has hers. Fuck, even if she doesn't get one still let her use it!

If she's not obstructing your house or drive I really don't see the issue.

It's a fucking KERB.