Drop Kerb Neighbour Dilemma

[cokebottles]

This sounds quite simple to me, and I doubt you have thought about this thoroughly:

At the moment you say parking is premium on your road. In the current circumstances when your neighbours have visitors you lose space for one car to allow them access to their (illegal) drive.

Had you considered if they had no drive, they would still have visitors and they would still seek parking on your street, taking up the space you sacrifice to allow them access to their drive all the same.

So currently, I don't think you are losing out on anything when your neighbours have visitors, by making a fuss you stand to lose one parking space on your road permanently because of a legal dropped kerb.

Simples?

 

[OllyM]

If you have reasonable neighbours and the cost is near £2000 I think I would just whack the pavement up myself! Or just hire in some company to do it. Screw the council. What's the worst that can happen?

Take you to court for damaging their property? Messing with the council isn't really a good idea

 

[EddScott]

When we first moved into our house, none of the houses had driveways. We used to have huge rows with one neighbour because she would park outside our house and we had no where to park and at the time it wasn't much fun lugging shopping and a baby down the road in the pouring rain.

In our case, there was no room for mutual understanding and neighbourly love to help each other out - she had a perfect right to park where she liked and there was nothing we could do about it. She also played the "Parking to close so you can't get out game" and marked my Impreza. I threatened legal action and lied and said I'd seen her do it - I hadn't but she clearly had as it never happened again.

I paid £2K to have a driveway built purely to stop this sort of thing happening. It would annoy me if someone was too cheap to pay the £600 odd pound it is to drop the curb stones.

If you approach the council I would be very surprised if they actually did anything. Most council workers have a couldn't give a monkeys attitude and would rather you not disturb then as they cruise through their working life.

 

[Stretch]

Calm down dears, it's only a parking space.

 

[IAmATeaf]

I'm not sure what you're trying to gain here?

I'm with Wicksta here, not too sure what you're trying to gain? If you shop them and they pay to drop the kerb then you really won't be able to park there.

 

[Dutch Guy]

If they don't put up a notice it would mean the visitors have to park in the street causing even more trouble with parking and if they do drop the kerb it means you all lose a parking spot permanently compared to what it is now.

 

[Lum]

At the moment I have a driveway without a dropped kerb. It makes the street a lot tidier having the cars off the road.

We are currently saving up for the arse pounding that the local council intend to charge us just to sign a form (£450) to allow one of the firms on their 'list' to again rip us to shreds (between £1000 and 1500), so unsurprisingly we are stalling a bit, especially considering both the cars on the drive don't have any problems getting up the kerb, and none of our neighbours have said anything.

Just do what my mum did. Wait until someone is digging up that bit of road anyway, in her case it was one of the utility companies, and bung the foreman 50 quid to put in a dropped curb when they are putting the curbstones back.

 

[Mark A]

Just do what my mum did. Wait until someone is digging up that bit of road anyway, in her case it was one of the utility companies, and bung the foreman 50 quid to put in a dropped curb when they are putting the curbstones back.

Its not that simple is it? I thought you needed to obtain planning permission from the council to have the curb dropped?

 

[Lum]

It was an "honest mistake" on the part of the utility company. They must've thought that because I had a driveway here it was originally a dropped curb.

She's done it twice and never had any comeback from it. Yeah it's probably not in full compliance with the rules though.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

I paid £2K to have a driveway built purely to stop this sort of thing happening. It would annoy me if someone was too cheap to pay the £600 odd pound it is to drop the curb stones.

If it was only £600 it would have been done long ago.

Our road requires planning permission to have it done as there is a water pipe under the curb (even though the vast majority of houses already have it dropped).

Therefore you need planning permission from county council, and an inspection then once thats done permission from the local authority. Each of those costs £150. Then you have to use someone on local authorities approved list to do the work. You can guess what kind of mark up that will add.

 

[Fr0dders]

Put your keyboard away . I acknowledge that it is not my 'god given' right to park outside my property, but as I stated in my original post parking is very much at a premium down my street - especially at weekends - and for what it's worth I own only one car - the others are those of my housemates as I live in a shared house, as is the case with numerous houses down my street. Ultimately, there is a certain amount of resentment involved in being deprived of a legitimate parking space illegally because someone's too tight to pay for the proper access to their property.

i dont see your argument here

Scenario 1) they park on the street dont go up the kerb taking up a space

Scenario 2) they get their kerb lowered and park on the drive, but you cant have that space on the road as you'd be blocking them in

Either way the street is one car parking space down. What's your problem ?

 

[N$X]

i have had my driveway block paved, however i am waiting for permission to drop the kerb.

i drive over the pavement everyday to park my car in the driveway. i know i do not have permission and technically anyone can block me in if they wish to do so.

the application alone takes up to 12 weeks to process and the kerb dropping cost about 140 pounds per square meter.

most of my neighbours do not obstruct my vehicle. but on a few ocasions there has been a car parked directly, at what would be my entrance to the drive. you can park infront of my house without blocking me in. i get pee'd off but theres nothing i can do.

i wouldnt bother reporting it tbh, atleast you can use the space now. if a drive is contructed that would mean no parking.

 

[Dave L]

Drop kerb crossover construction on a standard 1.8m width footpath with 6 total kerbs inc droppers is £800 all in, including all licences and permissions.