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!

No, she didn’t. If that were the case then when the op moved the new buyer would have to pay the council for the service too.

All the op has paid for is the council to change some of their property to a different shape.

She is then breaking the law and invalidating her insurance by blocking the dropped kerb.

You still don’t understand what I’m saying ‘sweetie’. You can’t legally drive over pavement that hasn’t been reinforced to take the weight of a car. The neighbours are doing exactly that because the OP has only paid for the section of pavement in front of her house to be reinforced. Not the section the neighbours are driving over to access theirs. If there is a pavement between the dropped kerb and the driveway it has to be reinforced to take the weight of a car. If the neighbours are driving on pavement meant for pedestrians, to get to their driveway, they are breaking the law. Our local authority is issuing fines to drivers parking on pavements for blocking pedestrian access and damaging pavements because they are not meant to take the weight of cars. Before you patronise other posters, try getting a grip on the issue discussed.

No. The work carried out passes to the next owner. Access to property from the road is listed in property details when you sell. This thread is batshit.

You can’t legally drive over a pavement that hasn’t been reinforced to take the weight of the car.

This can't be correct. Outside London the default is that it is legal to park partly or wholly on a pavement, provided you don't cause an obstruction (an important proviso! but I do know areas with very wide pavements where drivers do park wholly on the pavement). This would hardly be possible without driving on the pavement.

What is forbidden, whether parking on the pavement or your own property, is to mount the pavement via an undropped kerb, because it damages it. But OP's neighbour didn't do that.

When I was a child, my brother used to deliberately piss me off by looking out of my window in the car, and touching my half of the car seat.

But he was 6 and I was 9. You are apparently all adults. This is mental.

Quite. And the new owners don’t pay a fee to the council for use of the dropped kerb, because it isn’t a service the council are providing!

It isn’t a service the op paid for as you previously stated - it’s a bit of highway that has been altered. That is all.

29 pages on this topic now. This is wild. Unwatching

Quitter!

Exactly @Rosscameasdoody

The poor woman must be wondering what’s she’s moved in next to. I would go out of my way to help new neighbours settle in.

Just do the right thing, OP. Knock and say you were a little hasty and on reflection you don't mind, but would prefer she speeds up her application (as much as she can) and gets it done asap.

All those people spouting rules and regulations, while this woman who misses getting a space through working late, and is trying to get her small kids into their car without having to walk half way down the road - shame.

Nobody should be parking on dropped kerbs, no matter who paid for them. You make life even more shitty for people with disabilities , pushchairs and prams. Nor do you own a dropped kerb you paid for, on a public road.

I'm bloody sure the poor woman would drop the kerb herself if she could, anything to stop bat shit crazy OP whinging!!

You sound like a charmer

Some councils ban householders from blocking their 'own' dropped kerbs, so as to maximise wheelchair crossing points. OP may have relevant paperwork from when she had the kerb dropped.

This will definitely go down as one of those threads. Nothing like a dropped curb/parking getting people going. I love that OP even did a drawing😂

😀

Can you not just be a nice supportive neighbour and not sweat the small stuff. It’s really petty

Doesn't your neighbours car touch your driveway as she backs in at an angle.

None of that is relevant to my original comment.

She has a newborn….where is your compassion OP?

“Hi new mum neighbor. First, I’d like to admit that I made a mistake. Second, you’re welcome to use my drive/dropped kerb until yours is sorted. Third and most important, I apologise.”

YOU MADE A MISTAKE
YOU NEED TO APOLOGISE
PROFUSELY

Get a fucking grip honestly. I can’t imagine as an adult being this petty. God forbid anything major ever happens in your life

You are being ridiculous. Shes not causing any obstruction to you. But you are deliberately blocking her in. How petty

You are Really petty.