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hazyjo

I just cannot understand for the life of me why you wouldn't use the dropped kerb in front of your own property to park next to. Okay, so don't use the driveway if too steep, but why would you take a space someone else can use when you have a whole chunk of pavement to yourself which cannot be parked on by someone else (yes, someone is ignoring that and parking there, but not sure I blame them).

Jx

fivetide

FBaby wrote: »

I actually can relate to your frustration. I wouldn't want someone half/fully parked in front of my drive, because I might have friends over and would like to make use of the drive for them, because I might need to park there exceptionally to carry something heavy, or I might want to clean my car etc... However, I don't understand why you can't just go and talk to him and tell him the above. For all likelihood, he will just apologise and the matter will be over.

This.

Just have the conversation with him. If you were to say you were expecting guests, could he not block the drive please that would surely be the end of it.

Alternatively, use the drive.

I can see that you are effectively 'saving a space' for visitors and not having it is frustrating but by the same token, you are also taking up a space for someone else's vistors when you don't need to.

GobbledyGook

Other people's dropped kerb's are sacred because they use them.

Before mentioning anything to your neighbour I'd think really carefully about it from the other pov. If there is limited parking you essentially want to yourself - your drive, the space in front of your drive and the space you park in.

I can't say I blame your neighbour for overhanging your drive a bit either. You don't use it and parking for people who live in the street is surely more important than occasional visitors having to walk a little bit? If you want to start using your drive yourself then that is different and you should simply start doing so.

Reminds me of our old neighbours who cemented two basketball hoops on their double drive for their teenagers despite being a four car household in a street with limited parking. Utterly inconsiderate to everyone else when they had a huge garden the hoops could have gone in - just like you could park over your own drive and move your car when your visitors come and they could park in the drive.

justme111

Well I would not start talking about considerate /inconsiderate as then each party has their own reasons .. my household has only one car , my neighbours has 4(!!) - vans , attachments to those etc.- is it considerate of him ? My other neibours never park on their drive because it is narrow and it is hard getting out of the car - is it considerate of them ? Others don't park in front of their drive if there is a car in a drive to avoid re-shaffling cars - reasonable ?
Saying again , when I just moved I was parking in front of my drive until my friend pointed to me that nobody else seems to do it do I thought - o well I am not going to do it either then ..

Person_one

justme111 wrote: »

Saying again , when I just moved I was parking in front of my drive until my friend pointed to me that nobody else seems to do it do I thought - o well I am not going to do it either then ..

Are you sticking with that forever then? You do know you're allowed to park there if you want to...

GobbledyGook

In their case it was inconsiderate because they had a garden as big as a football pitch so plenty of space, but using the drive (which was done as the teens preferred the concrete and it would cost to put concrete in part of the garden) was cheaper. However it meant that they then parked 4 cars out in the street every day in a street with not even enough spaces for 1 space per house. So using the space they could have parked 2 or 3 cars on for that is inconsiderate imo.

Person_one

GobbledyGook wrote: »

In their case it was inconsiderate because they had a garden as big as a football pitch so plenty of space, but using the drive (which was done as the teens preferred the concrete and it would cost to put concrete in part of the garden) was cheaper. However it meant that they then parked 4 cars out in the street every day in a street with not even enough spaces for 1 space per house. So using the space they could have parked 2 or 3 cars on for that is inconsiderate imo.

If there are no restrictions on parking on the street though, they've as much right to as anybody else and they can use their drive how they like.

GobbledyGook

Person_one wrote: »

If there are no restrictions on parking on the street though, they've as much right to as anybody else and they can use their drive how they like.

They do have the right, just as the OP has the right to insist her neighbour doesn't overhang her dropped kerb whilst they park elsewhere in the street saving her kerbside for visitors.

It's just about basic manners and having a little consideration for others.

Kayalana99

This thread is so pointless.

OP you have had GREAT advice time and time again yet you ignore it and keep going on about how its illegal and unfair....

You *seem* to have a good relationship with your neighbour...isn't it obvious why he only parks over your drive? He ASSUMES you don't mind because he knows YOU...since you do...SAY something...and he should stop.

If he doesn't then you can get as irrational as you want...but unless you say something how is he to know?

I am only repeating what others have said but since you are not listening and repeating yourself perhaps you might take notice?

Person_one

GobbledyGook wrote: »

They do have the right, just as the OP has the right to insist her neighbour doesn't overhang her dropped kerb whilst they park elsewhere in the street saving her kerbside for visitors.

It's just about basic manners and having a little consideration for others.

I don't really think the basketball issue is comparable. I'd have no problem with my neighbours doing that. To be honest, I'd rather see a big concrete space used for teenagers to play and be physically active than reserved as sacred car space. They're not stopping anybody else using their own drive how they wish.