People using our drive to turn around

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We live in a cul de sac with a primary school at the end. Occasionally we have caught people on camera using our drive to turn around, but not at school times. There is no reason to use our drive, there us plenty of road space. We've just spent a lot of money last year on having it blocked page.
This is really irritating me, it's just cheeky & lazy. Would I sound petty if I put it onto the village Facebook page?
I don't want to sound petty to the rest of the village, but if this is some parent from thd school who thinks they're entitled, I want them to stop.

I used to do a job that required me to visit families in their homes. It's not always easy to find house numbers when driving in unfamiliar streets and I often had to turn around if I overshot a house or couldn't find the house I was looking for.

I CURSED the houses with the unfriendly "this is a private driveway. No turning" signs adorning their front fences. I didn't deliberately set out to get lost, but finding a safe place to turn around if I did was very much welcomed.

You....you don't think poor people might be posting on here do you? Disgusting 😱

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My rule of thumb is that you're allowed to make a fuss about someone turning in your driveway if you have never, ever needed to turn in anybody else's.

(Bearing in mind I live very, very rurally, down miles of narrow single track lanes, and sometimes a driveway will be the only place to turn around for a very long way. I've never needed to turn round in someone's drive in cul de sac land).

I like this rule of thumb. There are many places where turning wouldn't be possible for miles if driveways weren't used. My house is on a country lane and I would be incredibly mean if I prevented every lost driver turning round as it would mean them driving at least a mile to the next junction or turning point . We get a fair few people turning in it during the holidays especially.

Also, for everyone braying about trespass...

Trespass isn't a criminal offence. It's a civil matter and the owner would have to sue for "harm" and I would estimate that the "harm" from a car turning on a drive is a fraction of a penny. And then of course the court would look at whether you had done anything to mitigate your loss (eg install gates, or a bollard)...

I've never had any problems, but then I'm at the end of a shared access where people who come to turn are usually accessing for deliveries anyway.

I'm just amazed at how many people have driveways that are totally impervious to damage from their own cars but terribly vulnerable to anyone else's

What's " blocked page"?

Unbelievable how some on here think the OP is being petty. I would be furious if someone disrespected my property in that way.
@Bignanna
seriously it's a drive not someone having a shit on your doorstep!!

Wow, that is quite a reaction 🤣

I am absolutely fascinated by this thread, and what I love about MN. I'd have no idea so many people feel this way!! 'Disrespecting my property' . I live at the end of a culdesac and loads of people turn in my driveway. What else are they meant to do? I care not one jot, in fact I'd be happy to provide that service to the community lol.

I wouldn't call you petty though op, thatd be rude but it is a shock to me that someone would care about this. Others will have said it but just to highlight the offenders may not be 'entitled' but just oblivious that this would be a problem for anyone. I'd maybe expect this from an elderly man but not a load of MNers!

I felt the exact same reading a thread about people who don't like small kids walking on the low wall at the front of their property. To me a joyful thing that I assumed everyone would find acceptable but turns out not! Mind expanded here, I'll try to turn my car more conscientiously now...

Looks like I'm in the minority, but it genuinely doesn't bother me if someone needs to use my driveway to turn?

I haven’t got a drive now but when I did it genuinely didn’t bother me. Literally no skin off my nose.

if that makes me a communist then so be it

Blood pressure

210/95

Calm down!

I think it varies for a lot of people. If you lived in a really tight road then some people wouldn't mind too much if people turned in their drive , as they'd acknowledge there wasn't enough room. I live on a cul-de-sac with a huuuuuge turning circle where no one parks in, yet people will use people's drives to turn in which is actually harder work than turnin nin the cul- de -sac, it baffles me because there's no logic in it!

The wall thing i think you can in part thank the Americans for. Everyone is worried they'll get sued if the wall breaks and the kid hurts themselves; and some parents know they could sue and so would happily do so.

I find it fascinating reading these threads and seeing what people get worked up about 🤣

People use our rear drive as a turning point multiple times a day - unless they're parking on it or damaging our cars or garage doors, I really couldn't give a shit.

@BatchCookBabe the op says it’s “occasional”. I really think you need to unclench a bit. And yes I’ve had it happen in my drive. And no I wasn’t bothered.

I find it fascinating reading these threads and seeing what people get worked up about

Indeed. Although it is equally fascinating to see how laissez-faire some folk are about other peoples property. Explains quite a lot.

It's a shame we can't take the same approach with all that fucking money squirrelled away by the hyper rich. I mean they won't notice a few £10 going missing will they ?

Now that’s a weird twist…..

Who would get that money?

I know it sounds like it's petty but when it happens to you again and again, it does get annoying. The water company closed a stretch of our road just after our house last year. We had dozens of cars turning in our driveway every day.

Well presumably an adjunct to all the folk here who are willing for other people to give up their property to complete strangers without complaining ?

Although, on further, deeper introspection, it seems I may not have judged the comparison correctly.

They wouldn't be taking £10, merely borrowing it. That's a better analogy.

Sometimes you come across a thread on mn that runs so contrary to your own view of the world that it really really does stop you in your tracks. This is just such one. People who don’t mind people turning in their drives are communists, vandals, thieves. Totally baffling.

As a few people here - clearly weirdoes who need to be on some sort of register - have pointed out. Repeatedly. Depending on the vehicle and the drive, turning on it with power steering can seriously rip up a drive. Even displace block paving bricks as my neighbour round out.

The persistence of some posters does suggest that at some point we will have someone asking if the OP has cancelled the cheque.

Weirdos?

that should be on a register?

Are you ok?

The only way to stop it is putting up a physical barrier...even then expect them to still try!