Dropped kerb

scrummy-mummy

I paid more for my house than my neighbours because i have a dropped kerb and a drive, the same can probably be said of your neighbour. The fact that we don't use it could be seen as our perrogative, don't you think? We all pay the same road tax, after all.

Other posters are right, your neighbour might not use their drive because they leave it free for guests or neighbours who they like.

I let my neighbours use my drive (when it's not blocked by some idiot who doesn't even live on the road) and their delivery drivers, workmen and friends often park across it. But i'm fairly sure that if they made my life difficult in some other way, then perhaps i might not be quite so amenable.

EDITED TO ADD:
I was verbally abused (with proper swear-words, gesticulating and intimidating body language) recently in front of my two children for having the temerity to suggest that someone should not park across my drive. One of my neighbours called the police and the perpetrator was formally cautionned. It has made me very wary of approaching people i do not know well and asking them not to park there as i have mine and my children's safety to consider. So yes, i have been known to 'hide' behind the law so to speak.

Your neighbour may have similar reasons for doing so.

tbs624

roddydogs wrote: »

Could someone explain.........How did the Warden know you didnt have permission? can only think your "Neighbour" informed them. Moral-dont fall out with neighbours!.

I read the OP as the neighbour having printed off some info from the Council website and bagged it up as a "warning"

Mrs_pbradley936

tiff wrote: »

Well I suppose we too can have a dropped kerb which will solve the problem for us but cause one for someone else.

Yes, you can apply to the Council and it will cost about £350 if straight forward. More if there is a letter box, street light, telegraph pole or something there in which case it gets more complicated and more costly - if they let you have it at all!

tbs624

Mrs_pbradley936 wrote: »

Yes, you can apply to the Council and it will cost about £350 if straight forward. More if there is a letter box, street light, telegraph pole or something there in which case it gets more complicated and more costly - if they let you have it at all!

Your area must be pretty cheap Try around 60 quid for the application, approx £750 for the dropped kerb plus, say, around £1k if a lamppost needed moving...

or this one from Kent:

"Contractors' prices can vary from £1,000 to £2,500. You will be responsible for making payment to the contractor.

There is also a £150 non-refundable administration fee, payable to Kent County Council, for processing the licence and a final inspection fee of £150."

sonastin

My old house was next-door-but-one to a church hall which was used for a toddler group during the week. There was plenty of road available for parking alongside the front of the church and in front of my and my neighbours' gardens. But between 9.05 and 9.15 every morning, one woman insisted on parking in front of my drive (and dropped kerb). And as I used to leave for work shortly after 9 every morning, I usually had to ask her to move. She would generally pull forward or reverse back to a place where she wasn't illegally parked to let me out - and then promptly return to "her" spot across my drive once I'd moved!

I never did work out why she had to park up there and why she didn't learn that if she had to shift to let me out, perhaps she could park 5 yards away instead!

dougk_2

tiff wrote: »

Today I had to park across the neighbours drive

Why did you "Have to", is there nowhere else even if it is a 5 or 10 minutes walk?


Secondly I know you can get a parking ticket for parking in front of your own dropped kerb.

The rule to me is clear dropped kerb no parking on it regardless.

dboswell

I let (they didnt ask permission) an opposite neighbour park across my drive for a few weeks but then they would do it regularly with both cars even though there were parking spaces infront of their own drive and closeby. It was plain exploitation.

After a visitor I had could not park and had to park 30 metres away with her baby, I knocked on their door and politely invited them to kindly remove their car. They turned nasty and have never said hello (not that they ever did). It just goes to show, whats the point of being nice to people like this?

Maybe its just me as I would never dream of parking infront of someone else's drive without permission and then once.

I have let another neighbour park there (as he asked and is nice), but his visitors do it and that annoys me when my guests are obstructed and through copy catting. People are animals of habit.

So now, I dont let anyone do it as I paid for the dropped kerb so I get sole use.

Car drivers that think they have indefinite use are selfish and inconsideration. They need to take their civic duty more seriously.

Mrs_pbradley936

tbs624 wrote: »

Your area must be pretty cheap Try around 60 quid for the application, approx £750 for the dropped kerb plus, say, around £1k if a lamppost needed moving...

or this one from Kent:

"Contractors' prices can vary from £1,000 to £2,500. You will be responsible for making payment to the contractor.

There is also a £150 non-refundable administration fee, payable to Kent County Council, for processing the licence and a final inspection fee of £150."

I think our Council just charges for the paperwork/inspections and you have to use a builder from their list.

jodami84

seems incredibly straightforward to me. They let u park there when u were on good terms, but having muckied ure ticket by objecting to their decking, they no longer see why they should allow you to park over there drive.

You just want to have your cake and eat it!!!!

tiff

They broke the law by building a deck several feet off the ground which has meant a fence panel 12 ft in the air!! So, I'm not just objecting to their decking, we have been told they have to take it down but I dont think this has been enforced yet. I didnt know at the time I parked there that it was illegal which is why theyve posted a note on my car.