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!

I work in the area of anti social behaviour and neighbour disputes. This is the kind of c**p that keeps me busiest. 🙄Give me an emergency injunction any day rather than this mean spirited BS.

By never leaving the pavement - they don’t own that.

She isn't driving across anyone's property. You don't own a drop kerb !!!!

It's not about owning a "drop kerb", it's abut using that kerb to access your property when it hasn't been designed for that.

If it was designed for the neighbour to use she wouldn't need to be looking into getting her own "drop kerb".

Also,why didn't the new neighbour notice all the issues with the drive with no dropped curb when buying the property.

@suburburban that had to be the most ridiculous comment on this thread!

Because the situation is easily rectified and she's put the wheels in motion!

You'd not buy a property that suited everything and it needed to just have the dropped kerb (not curb 🙄), put in, which is underway?

How ridiculous!

Yes I know it's kerb. Thanks

I think my comment is perfectly valid

What happens if council won't drop kerb. It can happen

I have a reference number and if anyone parks over it I call the number and they get a ticket. We park over it all the time and don’t get a ticket. I don’t ‘own’ the kerb but I own the access. I have no say but I can get them an £80 fine! It is not illegal to park over a kerb - it is a civil offence.

Why wouldn’t they when the precedent has been set next door?

As you stay it can happen! Why did you say curb, if you meant kerb?

OPs neighbour probably looked at the chance of probability, no reason to assume that it won't be granted!

if not she'll have to carry on traipsing down the road with her children, in the rain, snow or hail as OP is so petty!

@WestLondonmumfromtheNorth I'm not sure how that relates to OPs post? The neighbour is not parking over her kerb.

@puzzledout

I don't know, is it the crime of the Century lol

Yes take your point about her struggling

OOH there is parking outside her home so it would be nice if the other neighbour with the teens cooperated as well

No that goes to OP, who you think is right! 🤦‍♀️

Yes I do tbh

Please refer to all my previous posts. I simply can't be arsed typing it out again.

You sound an absolutely terrible neighbour tbh. They are not hurting you in any way whatsoever by accessing their drive. They aren’t blocking you in, they aren’t in your way at all. The kerb is not ‘your’ kerb, it’s part of the pavement. Imagine getting so worked up about someone just trying to live their life in a way that doesn’t impact you at all. So petty to make a parent and their kids trek all the way up the road because you’re getting possessive over a piece of pavement. I feel for anyone that has to be your neighbour, if you’re like this over such a non issue I dread to think what you’re like to deal with in general.

Except that her neighbour isn’t parking on it. She’s using it to access her own driveway which involves driving on the pavement. And it’s illegal to park in front of a dropped kerb allowing access to a driveway if there is a car on that driveway - it’s an offence to block access to the highway.

No one is asking you to. The fact is that there are areas in the UK where parking is restricted and it’s absolutely possible to do what this poster says. You upload photos of the offending vehicle, quoting your reference number and a ticket is issued.