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!

You come across as nasty and entitled. It's not your kerb and your neighbour doesn't need to ask permission at all. I think you are setting yourself up for an extremely poor relationship with your neighbour but you sound like the kind of person that would enjoy that.

This is wrong. OP didn't do anything illegal she is allowed to park across her dropped kerb. She isn't blocking in her neighbour as the dropped kerb is for access to the OP driveway only.

It would pee me off but I wouldn’t park over it.

And YOU ABVVVU to drag in the Karen slur.

OP - how does your neighbour's parking actually affect you? From your diagram not at all, so why start a war over this?

You know, I actually was curious if I do decide to move can I like exchange a drop kerb. Like get the curb dropped outside my new property if it's the same council.

Yes, pay for it to be raised again if/when you leave....

I'm surprised the thread got this far without anyone asking for a diagram 😂

Got to be a reverse, surely nobody actively promotes themselves being this much of a dickhead.

OK this is a wind-up 🤦🏼‍♀️

You don't own the kerb ffs

This can't be real, surely?!

They charged you to have it altered because you wanted it to be prepared for driving over. That's as far as your connection to the kerb goes.

You didn't buy it off the council, FFS!

Your poor neighbour having to struggle with the children like that when you could so easily help her instead of being completely out of order.

You sound absolutely batshit, to be quite frank.

This isn't for real, is it?

In other news, today I learnt that one should technically have a dropped kerb to access ones drive at all! Lived in my house years and never had one - touch wood the op doesn't move next to me!!

This it's a wider perspective one when you have to live and be neighbours in the same street.

Highway Code - section 243

DO NOT stop or park

• near a school entrance
• anywhere you would prevent access for Emergency Services
• at or near a bus or tram stop or taxi rank
• on the approach to a level crossing/tramway crossing
• opposite or within 10 metres (32 feet) of a junction, except in an authorised parking space
• near the brow of a hill or hump bridge
• opposite a traffic island or (if this would cause an obstruction) another parked vehicle
• where you would force other traffic to enter a tram lane
• where the kerb has been lowered to help wheelchair users and powered mobility vehicles
• in front of an entrance to a property
• on a bend
• where you would obstruct cyclists’ use of cycle facilities except when forced to do so by stationary traffic.

Includes your own driveway actually. So just because lots of people do it doesn’t mean it’s allowed. You are not permitted to park on a dropped kerb.

Now we know you're taking the piss.

Nah, OP took it too far with the kerb exchange nonsense. Blew it.

My thoughts exactly. Wish I hadn’t bloody checked the Highway Code for this nonsense now! 😂

@GwinGwyn tbh I was being kinda sarcastic trying to join in laughing at me! Obvs I know I can't do a mutual exchange with a curb, but no this is a genuine post.

😂😂😂

Well kudos to you for admitting that after being roundly lambasted! Hope you’ll take some notes away from the thread?!

I'll tell you what did bug me if we're doing driveway stories, a couple of times as I've turned into my road ive caught my neighbour using my drive to do a three point turn.

I don't mean a bit of their car on my drive I mean their full car fully driven up my drive to my door, to then back out

Really hacked me off, but I didn't say anything,
A) because I couldn't put my finger on why it hacked me off, so it was likely me being an arse

B) I locked myself out the next week and they took me in for a couple of hours until spare key arrived

Goodwill is priceless

You sound like an absolute nob.

I would hate to have you for a neighbour. They’ve moved in and find out they have you next door! She’s got 3 kids and a newborn and you won’t even help her! She’s says she wants her own dropped kerb but planning will take a while. Why can’t you be nice?
You sound like a horrid, petty person. I hope you never need any favours from them as they’d have right to tell you to bugger off.