Drop Kerb Granted in Cul de Sac

euphrosene

There is no drive. (My fault for using that word. Mea culpa.)
It's a gravelled front garden.
The garden is bordered by a communal path.

That communal path has now been given a dropped kerb.

The other side of the communal park was for communal parking.

The other dropped kerbs are actual drives put in by the original builders more than 20 years ago.

This dropped kerb 'drive' or entrance is literally the length of the path.

By dropping the kerb a car space previously used by everyone is now no longer free for everyone to use presumably to be kept free for this neighbour to access a gravelled garden.

So there is no 'free space' suddenly created by this action.

And to repeat, there is no 'drive' and never has been.

Parking in a front garden doesn't free up a parking space

It leaves a permanently empty space for this person to drive over the path into the gravelled garden (with care one hopes as one hefty press on the accelerator would shove them through their front window).

Yes it's a pain walking a few extra feet to one's front door but it's a bigger pain being inconsiderate and selfish.

So I evidently do not think the same way as all or most of you, it seems, as I think neighbourly harmony is far more important than walking a few extra feet.

And if it removes a previously shared parking space then it will remain a selfish and unneighbourly act. To me.


PS The 'drive' is now actually the main road and the communal path.

shellsuit

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? There won't be a free space, but there will be more space for cars to manouver.

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. Their brilliant new plan is what thousands of other people do. They apply and pay for a drop kerb so they know they will have a parking space come what may. They're using their head, nothing wrong with that at all!

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

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. They can drive into it, and back out of it, or vice versa. What would they need to turn around on the drive for? [/QUOTE]

Why don't you apply for your own drop kerb?

This neighbour has done nothing wrong at all. If you feel it's wrong, get onto the council about it.

Altarf

euphrosene wrote: »

And if it removes a previously shared parking space then it will remain a selfish and unneighbourly act. To me..

"selfish and unneighbourly act"

Since there are problems parking in your street, if you were offered a guaranteed parking space outside your house for a one off cost, would you not have jumped at the chance do so?

I struggle to believe that you would say no, as you would be the only person that would say that.

bigmuffins

Gravelled garden area can be parked on no problem - doesn't have to be paved or tarmaced! Don't see what the problem is tbh. Yes there is one less space but also more room on road for turning. If the dropped kerb area is extending beyond their garden then you can complain about that but if it is across a communal path/drive then, again, I don't see what the problem is?

They have paid for crossover access - you can all do the same and park in your own gardens.
Not unneighbourly at all in my view.
:beer:

MDBJ

Apropos of nothing, perhaps the missing word is compromise?

We live within 50m of the post office; the parish church; the church hall and both the local infant and junior schools. All of these effectively place a demand for amenity parking on-street where no one enjoys off-street parking and yellow lines adorn one side of the road. At night residents park on a first-come-first-served basis and during the day you take your chances with delivery vehicles, contractors, supply teachers, belligerent and not so belligerent parents, churchgoers, badminton players, get-fitters and play-groupists a painful proportion of whom, of course, believe that they have far more right to park in the street than any one else.

Where do we park? We muddle through and on average manage to park outside the house perhaps just once a week. At other times we might have to park anything up to 400m away. Its not as convenient as it might be but its safe - in fact safer than outside the house - but at least we can park and our blood pressure isn't really affected.