Frosty neighbour?

poppysarah

Have you bought this house?

morganedge

anselld wrote: »

Never understood why some people are so precious about drives. They are, after all, designed for driving on. Many residential streets are not wide enough to turn without some use of drop kerb end of driveway. Hopefully the OP did not actually drive on the garden.

lol, me too.
I find it so funny.
I moved from a house in a small close to a big house with acres of land a few years ago now (I could have red hot chilli peppers playing a gig in my garden and no neighbours would complain or even hear!), but thinking back about all of the strange neighbours I used to have who gave you a strange looks if you walked too close to their front garden, or if you touched their driveway by a centimeter when trying to turn the car cracks me up.
People can be really odd.

moneyistooshorttomention

To me, just the fact that it's their property and they have had to pay good money for it means no-one else can use it (even on a temporary basis) without asking permission of the householder. It's the same principle as having bought yourself a coat and finding that, when you came to wear it, someone else had just borrowed it for literally 5 minutes to nip down to the corner ship. Same principle...your possessions are your possessions and you expect full "enjoyment" of them whenever you decide.

[Deleted User]

Maybe they have had people hit their car while turning round previously or something. I don't like people turning on my driveway for that reason. A friend of mine has caught three people damaging either his car or in one case his wall with a CCTV camera while using his driveway to turn round.

McBozo

exactly; have had muppets clip my wife's car that was on the drive whilst they used the drop kerb to do a U-Turn. Then the mugs tried to deny it despite me having their ugly mug on my HD CCTV system.

jaymidlands

jb1305 wrote: »

It would annoy me but obviously that's fine if your neighbour is ok with it.

We have two normal sized cars yet built a path next to our drive so that our cars could be accommodated comfortably. It also meant the postman etc would not have to walk between our cars and potentially knock into them. Our next door neighbour has a 4x4 and a normal car but they have not built a path to make their parking easier. However, they seem to think it's ok to park part of their car on our drive. I don't see why we should have paid to extend our drive for them to take advantage. It's incredibly rude.

small fence down the middle between your drive and these soon sorts that out

Building_Surveyor

anselld wrote: »

Never understood why some people are so precious about drives. They are, after all, designed for driving on. Many residential streets are not wide enough to turn without some use of drop kerb end of driveway. Hopefully the OP did not actually drive on the garden.

Ditto to this

DRP

ispookie666 wrote: »

Just completed and first visit to the new house.
Did a 3 point turn encroaching into the neighbours drive and was about to set off. When a most unruly person appears on the window and looks like he's barking - out of courtesy I stopped and rolled the window down; he barks "driving on to peoples garden - you better not do that pal and dont repeat that again!!" - i apologised (i thought it was correct to do it at that time).

Is this the start of things to come? Am I being paranoid or does this sound really rude? Proabably the first person who has spoken like this to me!!:eek:

to me, the neighbour sounds the opposite of 'frosty'!

As with most things, it pays to have a friendly chat (and take them oral high ground).

When you move in, take him a bottle/case/box of something alcoholic and apologise that you might have upset him and find out if he's previously been 'sensitized' (as others in the thread have mentioned, by a bad experience in the past).

jjlandlord

anselld wrote: »

Never understood why some people are so precious about drives. They are, after all, designed for driving on. Many residential streets are not wide enough to turn without some use of drop kerb end of driveway. Hopefully the OP did not actually drive on the garden.

Drives are private property.

What you're saying is that it is perfectly OK to drive/walk through people's drives and gardens if not prevented to and it is a shortcut.
Clearly not cool, and in fact trespassing.

If there is no space to make a U-turn, then you do not.
My road is rather narrow as well so I don't do U-turns, but do 2 left/right turns instead...

Dan-Dan

too right , reversing onto peoples drives instead of turning where more appropriate is just an extension of peoples ignorance , which sadly , is all too often when cars are concerned