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It's a parking one..

58 replies

JoelyJoe · 24/06/2025 00:45

Near where I live is a residential street with a small rank of shops.
Opposite the shops is a long parking bay (enough for about 8 cars), and some houses, set back from the road. I'm pretty sure the bay exists to service the shops.
One of the houses has created a drive / parking space for their car, in front of their house. The car faces towards the pavement and parking bay, and they have to cross both to access the road. They have put up a load of (unofficial) no parking signs, and have effectively dropped the kerb themselves by putting some plastic wedges across.
Inevitably they keep getting blocked in because they are trying to prevent people from parking in the bay in front of their car, but it's a public parking bay! I'm sure they have no right to annex it to access their space.
When people park in front, the house/car owners get very abusive, shouting at drivers to move and threatening to clamp them. Surely they can't. They don't own the bay, and shouldn't be parking behind a kerb that hasn't been officially blocked anyway.
I've been tempted to risk parking in front of them myself, when it's the only bay available. But I'm worried they would key my car!
Who is being unreasonable?
YABU - these people gave a right to park near their home.
YANBU - you can't just annex part of a public parking bay as unofficial access to where you want to put your car

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Subbyhubby · 24/06/2025 20:39

wow, that’s brazen, but then again Russia did this recently with Ukraine, and they seem to have got off reasonably lightly so fair try, I guess.
they would be pretty stupid to key your car if you park there as it would obviously be them and whoever’s car got keyed would know where they live.
has it been reported to the council?

suburburban · 24/06/2025 20:47

Yanbu

they have to have planning permission to access their drive and drive over the kerb and pay to drop the kerb

ArtTheClownIsNotAMime · 24/06/2025 20:49

They'll give up soon when they realise nobody is going to keep the space free for them.

notatinydancer · 24/06/2025 20:54

10/10 for the diagram ✅

OnTheBoardwalk · 24/06/2025 21:00

A friend got her car damaged by someone who put plastic ramps on a main road. She didn’t see them in the dark and damaged her tires. She saw them sideways on but couldn’t swerve round them in time. She wasn’t impressed

report them, they'll never get council permission for an official dropped kerb there

IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 25/06/2025 01:15

OnTheBoardwalk · 24/06/2025 21:00

A friend got her car damaged by someone who put plastic ramps on a main road. She didn’t see them in the dark and damaged her tires. She saw them sideways on but couldn’t swerve round them in time. She wasn’t impressed

report them, they'll never get council permission for an official dropped kerb there

Edited

Yes, they're very dangerous - the length that they'd need to be to provide an angle to make it worthwhile actually having them (as opposed to just bumping up the kerb) means that they would protrude some way into the road, far more than just the gutter bit at the edge, and serve as obstacles for unwitting drivers to crash into.

Incidentally, I wonder if anybody has ever successfully sued a homeowner for leaving a ramp hazard in the public road adjacent to their home and causing damage to their vehicle?

OnTheBoardwalk · 25/06/2025 09:12

@IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta my friend had to do a fault claim on her insurance as there was no proof who the ramps belonged to.

Raindancer411 · 25/06/2025 09:20

As others have said, just drop a message to the LA and let they argue if it’s allowed or not. The LA will put a stop to it if it’s not allowed

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