Can I park in front of my own dropped kerb?

jdturk

can I just get this right, you are moaning about someone parking in front of your house on a road where anyone can park, you then say there are 14 other places this person could park......Soooooo Why let it bother you and why don't you just park in the other spaces?

ailuro2

can you park in front of their house and get tree blossom on your own car, or is it always busy?

Have you got kids that could play awfully close to the car?:p Not to damage it, just to get them a bit worried it MIGHT be when the footballs get too close....

madeupname1

jdturk wrote: »

can I just get this right, you are moaning about someone parking in front of your house on a road where anyone can park, you then say there are 14 other places this person could park......Soooooo Why let it bother you and why don't you just park in the other spaces?

There's always one isn't there????

Look I have pointed out that I have no legal rights here, but you don't think its off that instead of parking their own car in front of their own house (which by the way was free this morning) they have unilaterally decided to dump their albeit very nice car in front of my house and refuse to move it for several weeks at a time even though it means I can never park my own car in front of my house? You think that that is a neighbourly thing to do on a small street where up until now most people have parked in their 'own' space? Why should I be the person picked on for this special treatment - why not no.4, 7 or 12? I have parked my car elsewhere for the last 3 months. Its now in a place where it is not in sight from my home and I don't go past it on my way to or from work because I parked in a place where I thought it was least likely to get in someone else's way. No - perhaps I should have been less considerate and parked it in front of my next door neighbours house and left it so that I can p*ss him off too ... Its not about legal rights. Its about a bit of consideration especially for the people you live in close proximity to but I guess some people don't get that :mad:

madeupname1

ailuro2 wrote: »

Have you got kids that could play awfully close to the car?:p Not to damage it, just to get them a bit worried it MIGHT be when the footballs get too close....

No kids - but maybe I could make (or borrow) some for just this purpose!

FatAndy

jillymit wrote: »

I've got a sneaky suspicion (may have read it somewhere) that even if there is a drop kerb, you could still get it parked across, blocking you in or out and legally not do much about it.

I work in a road which comprises mainly office buildings, most of which have carparks at the front, and therefore there are dropped kerbs all along the road. In between the entrances to the car parks the local council has marked out boxes in which parking is restricted to 90 minutes. Whilst the traffic wardens can hand out a ticket to anyone staying over 90 minutes in one of the boxes they can't do anything to cars parked outside the boxes, ie across the dropped kerbs. As a result you can't park in a proper parking space for more than 90 minutes without running the risk of a ticket but if you park across a dropped kerb you can stay all day without getting done!

Phlik

ailuro2 wrote: »

Have you got kids that could play awfully close to the car?:p Not to damage it, just to get them a bit worried it MIGHT be when the footballs get too close....

Slip a few quid to some [STRIKE]thugs[/STRIKE] school kids to bounce footballs off the car, very effective . Especially if the car has a sensitive alarm. The kids can then buy [STRIKE]beer and fags[/STRIKE] sweets, and you get your space back, everyone's a winner, well, nearly everyone

taker920

You could always use the old tried and tested bag of nails method.

Say you were popping back from B&Q one day and the bag of nails you bought split open in front of your house after the long walk from the other end of the street. Try as you may you can't find every last one dropped and it ends up in front of someone's tyre.

It's amazing how thin the packaging is on those bags of nails

kwaks

ask her to move it as you are getting a skip delivered, then park ther yourself. Job done

Ada3050

I have the same problem. My new neighbours have two cars so they park right outside my house, I haven't parked outside my property for nearly three years.

I am lucky I have rear access to my property and always use that.

In the end as long as their car is legal she can park where she wants.
Have you approached the neighbour about this?

And yes some people don't give a flying toss where they park, the phrase " im all right jack" springs to mind. I greatly sympathize with you.

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

I'd say first port of call is pop over there. Tell he you have a bad back (no not disabled but a bad back is still a pain) and you'd really appreciate if she understands this and at least tries to leave the space directly outside your house free if other spaces are clearly available. You never know, she might appologise and take notice

It's a small fib but not hurting anyone!