Drop Kerb Granted in Cul de Sac

ElkyElky

If you can't find parking then that's your problem. You chose to have a car so you must deal with the problems that it brings. She paid to have a dropped kerb, fair enough. If you had paid and done exactly what she had done, you wouldn't be here moaning and you wouldn't care about what your neighbours think.

I can never find parking nearby my work yet it doesn't stop me from parking 2 minutes up the road and walking the rest of the way. Parking isn't a right unless you have your own drive on your own land.

I'd love to be able to park outside of my home every day but that's not always the case as it's first come first served.

Coupon-mad

ElkyElky wrote: »

I'd love to be able to park outside of my home every day but that's not always the case as it's first come first served.

Same here - we often have to park a minute or two down the road.

I do speak my mind when I see a stranger park then walk out of this road though - I often say something sarky to annoy them and hopefully make them think twice next time. It seems to work.

Only tonight, me and my DS1 shouted 'bye, see you after the weekend then, your van is safe with us!' at a man disappearing round the corner to another (restricted) residential street. Guess what he came back and moved the van even though this road is unrestricted and we knew there was nothing we could do!

Dropped kerbs have sprung up all over the road here now, I think people panicked when the Council made the very kind 'offer' to include us in their CPZ. IMHO it was daft to panic when clearly it was a non-starter and the residents answered with a resounding 'no'.

The most annoying thing is where two dropped kerbs are vaguely near each other, the Council thinks it's clever to paint a long 'H' white line all the way along, even in front of trees and lampposts. I just park in between anyway of course - but there's no reason for a long white line at all.

ElkyElky

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Same here - we often have to park a minute or two down the road.

I do speak my mind when I see a stranger park then walk out of this road though - I often say something sarky to annoy them and hopefully make them think twice next time. It seems to work.

Only tonight, me and my DS1 shouted 'bye, see you after the weekend then, your van is safe with us!' at a man disappearing round the corner to another (restricted) residential street. Guess what he came back and moved the van even though this road is unrestricted and we knew there was nothing we could do!

Dropped kerbs have sprung up all over the road here now, I think people panicked when the Council made the very kind 'offer' to include us in their CPZ. IMHO it was daft to panic when clearly it was a non-starter and the residents answered with a resounding 'no'.

The most annoying thing is where two dropped kerbs are vaguely near each other, the Council thinks it's clever to paint a long 'H' white line all the way along, even in front of trees and lampposts. I just park in between anyway of course - but there's no reason for a long white line at all.

Haha, a couple of [empty] threats of a key being dragged along side someones car will ensure they move it quickly and probably won't return!

I live in the city centre so my parking is limited. There is however a doctors surgery a minute down the road with a fairly large car park, they let me park there during the night for free.

People can get really violent when it comes to parking spaces though but it won't kill anyone to park a little further away and walk where needed, rather than moaning and whining about no spaces being available. Complete laziness is what it is.... they can't be bothered walking a little distance so they have to argue their way into a parking space in front of their home.

peter_the_piper

What I find difficult to get my haed around is that neighbour has car, parks in front of house. Now gets a drive into their house so there is no more or less space to park in. unless they still park on the road I can't for the life of me see any problem. I must be missing something.

PasturesNew

The neighbour with the dropped kerb is making life easier for you all .... there's now often somewhere to turn round - and when she has a visitor/delivery they're blocking her driveway and not taking up a second space in the cul de sac.

I presume she works to be able to afford the house and the car ... and she was probably fed up with coming home in the dark/wet, after a long day's work, only to find that she couldn't park anywhere as the people who sat on their 4rses all day had snaffled the good spots. I'd have done the same.

Flyboy152

euphrosene wrote: »

Answering all re why shouldn't they: for the reasons given before. It removes not one but almost two parking spaces. hence presumably the other complaints.

It would be possible for the resident to park on their hardstanding by entering via the garage entrance instead - still leaving the other spaces free. And keeping neighbourly harmony (which we all enjoyed till recently).

Have you complained about the other dropped kerbs?

Flyboy152

euphrosene wrote: »

All the residents at the top of the close have cars. Most people have two cars.

It's always been you park where there's a free space. Everyone just parks where there's a free space and have done so for the last 20-odd years.

And I don't get why people say if they now park on the newly-created drive there will be a free space. Where? Blocking that newly-created drive?

The beef was because there are so few free spaces in the evenings that this resident sometimes had to park at the top of the road. As indeed have I and everyone else when we get home later.

However, their brilliant new plan is to keep that space permanently free for them to drive on to their hardstanding and let the rest of us park down the road - even if we get home before them.

If you all think that's fair, then I seem to have missed something.

But thanks again for all taking the time to comment.

Have a good weekend.

PS The dropped kerb just accesses a hardstanding with minimal room to turnaround a midget let alone a car.

Sounds fair to me.

jackieb

Valli wrote: »

ah CarefulWTA..

the only time I have ever been threatened by a 'stranger' is over parking across the road from theri house...NOT blocking a drive but being across the road from it. The police were called, the threats were so awful.

All the houses in our street have a drive. They were built that way. I live on a bend, so can't park on the road. Parking isn't a problem on our street as there are hardly ever any cars parked on the street. The daughter of the woman across the road always parks right across from my drive, despite her mum having a big frontage, and a drive big enough for 2 cars. I can't get out of my drive if she parks there. It's so inconsiderate - if she just moved a couple of feet I would get out. I think she must do it on purpose.

My drive and house frontage is in red - the lady across the road is in blue. She has loads of room to park. Her mum doesn't even have a car. I feel like finding out where her daughter lives and park opposite her house so she can't get out! I could maybe understand it if there was nowhere to park - but there's plenty. So it can be annoying if you can't get in and out of your own drive.

esmerobbo

Without knowing the full details and the OP saying there was not a problem in the past, it seems the problem now is the two cars per family rather then the lack of parking.
Myself and my neighbours have an agreement we park one outside the house and the other if there's two at the top of the road. Unless they have a drive, one side does one doesn't, they have one on the drive, one in front of the house.
Or put simply we don't park in front of anybodies else's house!

Cash-Cow_3

euphrosene wrote: »

PS Parking is at a premium in our cul de sac these days so this is a seriously unneighbourly act.

It's not unneighbourly, the complete opposite in fact.