Turning around in someone else's driveway
Discussion
Last weekend we visited some friends who live in Bath. Their house is overlooking the city and is up a steep and narrow road that peters out into an unpaved track just above their drive.
At the bottom of the road there is a sign clearly stating that the road is a dead end and that the only access is to our friends' house.
Nevertheless, due to some sat-nav anomaly, a car or van would ignore the sign and head off up the hill, trundling by the house, up to the dead end about every ninety minutes. Only to coast down again, in reverse, using the house's drive to turn around a few minutes later.
Each and every time someone did this, our friends would storm out of the house to noisily remonstrate with the driver. Often, they would come to blows.
Oh not, that wasn't it. What they actually did was totally ignore it and got on with their lives.
As should you.
At the bottom of the road there is a sign clearly stating that the road is a dead end and that the only access is to our friends' house.
Nevertheless, due to some sat-nav anomaly, a car or van would ignore the sign and head off up the hill, trundling by the house, up to the dead end about every ninety minutes. Only to coast down again, in reverse, using the house's drive to turn around a few minutes later.
Each and every time someone did this, our friends would storm out of the house to noisily remonstrate with the driver. Often, they would come to blows.
Oh not, that wasn't it. What they actually did was totally ignore it and got on with their lives.
As should you.
Esseesse said:
Put a (removable) foot high metal post in the middle of the entrance of your drive and paint it medium/dark brown, or the same colour as your drive/block paving. Then wait and see what happens.
A nice idea, but I'm not bright enough to remember to remove it every day! 
GraemeP said:
so instead just get a Nerf gun, attatch one of those laser pens to it, strip down to your pants and cover yourself in cammo paint, and sit in a deckchair waiting for the next person to do it. That'll learn 'em.
Strange you should mention that, I was actually sat outside the front door cleaning my shotgun in my bare feet. I can't imagine I looked entirely sane! (This being PH, I'd been out shooting poor people, obviously.) Anything that results in your property getting damaged is definitely an irritation. How come people are using your driveway and not your neighbours to turn around in? If they all have gates / bollards / chains then maybe you'll have to go and get one yourself for your own peace of mind? These kind of things are always irritating as they are out of your control and end up costing you 
Dropped kerb/pavement is fair game. Drive way is a bit rude. But not worth getting a sweat on for.
Same problem here. Cul de sac, 100 yards or so off a main road with cars parked down both sides and no turning zone at the bottom. All manner of people come down and try to execute a turn in the road at the bottom, which happens to be right outside my house. Most of the time cars can manage it, although sooner or later there is always some berk who manages to damage the car parked on end of the street; but it's the vans that really boil my piss. Often long wheel base supermarket style vans, they always try and turn and always bash people's gateposts as they mount the kerb to make extra room. Ours has been down 3 times in the last 5 years and there's nothing that can be done about it.
It's basically down to laziness, can't be arsed to park at the top and trolley the stuff down the street and can't be arsed to reverse out again afterwards. Berks.
Same problem here. Cul de sac, 100 yards or so off a main road with cars parked down both sides and no turning zone at the bottom. All manner of people come down and try to execute a turn in the road at the bottom, which happens to be right outside my house. Most of the time cars can manage it, although sooner or later there is always some berk who manages to damage the car parked on end of the street; but it's the vans that really boil my piss. Often long wheel base supermarket style vans, they always try and turn and always bash people's gateposts as they mount the kerb to make extra room. Ours has been down 3 times in the last 5 years and there's nothing that can be done about it.
It's basically down to laziness, can't be arsed to park at the top and trolley the stuff down the street and can't be arsed to reverse out again afterwards. Berks.
SEE YA said:
Plain thing is its bad manners, I do not use other people's driveway its not mine to use.
In today's world people just do not care 'ITS SOD YOU JACK I AM ALRIGHT'
Hmm, my gut feeling was the opposite. I rather suspect that a generation ago no-one would have even thought to question it. In today's world people just do not care 'ITS SOD YOU JACK I AM ALRIGHT'
k if people turn round on the drive to be honest unless they manage to crash into the wall some people get worked up over nothing...I can't believe some of you get worked up by people using your driveway to turn around (in cases with damage I understand). There is more to life than the assertion of property rights.
What is the burden of someone using the ebd of your driveway to turn around. I think the perspective that these driveway-turners are selfish has it backwards. The epitome of selfishness must be withholding your driveway from someone looking to use it for all of 5 seconds so they can turn around.
What is the burden of someone using the ebd of your driveway to turn around. I think the perspective that these driveway-turners are selfish has it backwards. The epitome of selfishness must be withholding your driveway from someone looking to use it for all of 5 seconds so they can turn around.
USABRZ said:
I can't believe some of you get worked up by people using your driveway to turn around (in cases with damage I understand). There is more to life than the assertion of property rights.
What is the burden of someone using the ebd of your driveway to turn around. I think the perspective that these driveway-turners are selfish has it backwards. The epitome of selfishness must be withholding your driveway from someone looking to use it for all of 5 seconds so they can turn around.
I completely agree.What is the burden of someone using the ebd of your driveway to turn around. I think the perspective that these driveway-turners are selfish has it backwards. The epitome of selfishness must be withholding your driveway from someone looking to use it for all of 5 seconds so they can turn around.
Is your wife free for a tick?
DoubleSix said:
USABRZ said:
I can't believe some of you get worked up by people using your driveway to turn around (in cases with damage I understand). There is more to life than the assertion of property rights.
What is the burden of someone using the ebd of your driveway to turn around. I think the perspective that these driveway-turners are selfish has it backwards. The epitome of selfishness must be withholding your driveway from someone looking to use it for all of 5 seconds so they can turn around.
I completely agree.What is the burden of someone using the ebd of your driveway to turn around. I think the perspective that these driveway-turners are selfish has it backwards. The epitome of selfishness must be withholding your driveway from someone looking to use it for all of 5 seconds so they can turn around.
Is your wife free for a tick?
My drive isn't big enough for anyone to reverse into it if my car is there. I have seen a few folk use the drop kerb to reverse onto but it doesn't bother me. They make more hassle for themselves really as my street isn't a dead end and my drive is right on a bend on a narrow residential street. If they carried on there is another street which is a loop back to the main road.
There is a white line on the edge of the road marking my drive and sometimes I get the odd car blocking me in. Usually takeaway delivery drivers who aren't there for long or neighbours visiting family struggling to find somewhere to park. As long as I know where to find them it doesn't bother me. It is actually more of a problem arriving home to find someone blocking my empty drive, as then I have to find somewhere to park then go find them. It isn't a huge issue and my street was built in the 50s and not designed for the amount of cars we have now so a bit of give and take is needed.
There is a white line on the edge of the road marking my drive and sometimes I get the odd car blocking me in. Usually takeaway delivery drivers who aren't there for long or neighbours visiting family struggling to find somewhere to park. As long as I know where to find them it doesn't bother me. It is actually more of a problem arriving home to find someone blocking my empty drive, as then I have to find somewhere to park then go find them. It isn't a huge issue and my street was built in the 50s and not designed for the amount of cars we have now so a bit of give and take is needed.
Make it into a game....my bollard rises and the gates close and lock both hydraulically and with electro magnet2 minutes after I have driven out...its like russian roulette for anyone wanting to pull in to turn...or park as one or 2 have, thinking they can park in here to visit the doctors next door
Edited by Busterbulldog on Thursday 18th September 22:06
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