Turning around in someone else's driveway
Discussion
9mm said:
I can't for the life of me understand what the problem is with using the dropped kerb part but I'd never use the drive itself.
However, I can't remember the last time I made a three point turn. Invariably, easier, quicker, safer and no impact on anyone else to drive round the block.
There is nothing wrong with using a dropped kerb. I do so myself to give a little bit more room. (after checking for old ladies and childdren etc on the kerb).However, I can't remember the last time I made a three point turn. Invariably, easier, quicker, safer and no impact on anyone else to drive round the block.
I read the OP's problem as being people who went past the kerb/pathway and then further into his driveway. The frequency of people actually doing so having resulted in at least two incidents of damage (one wall and one car). The 'law of averages' having been passed twice.
So, I guess part of the confusion in this thread may be the interpretaion of 'driveway' and whether or not people should just accept that others may logically use their land/boundry as an extension of the road (and likely drive off - if nobody was around to see it).
goneape said:
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.
Drop me a PM and I'll reply next week when I'm back in the office. Have a solution for you.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.
Annoys us, we have a drive large enough for 4+ cars, we only have 3 currently so there was always space at the bottom of the drive. One of our neighbours would happily use this space. As said neighbour has no issue with their visitors blocking the turning area between us (causing us loads of aggro) we have started parking two cars right at the end of our drive so he can no longer use it, he now has a five point turn to reverse off his own drive.
His wife also scraped the bumper of my old car then tried denying it.
We also had issues with people at night pulling onto our drive & their headlights (slight uphill slope) shining right into our kitchen & living room.
His wife also scraped the bumper of my old car then tried denying it.
We also had issues with people at night pulling onto our drive & their headlights (slight uphill slope) shining right into our kitchen & living room.
JonRB said:
LordHaveMurci said:
We also had issues with people at night pulling onto our drive & their headlights (slight uphill slope) shining right into our kitchen & living room.
I think that's the thing that would annoy me. 
Thinking about planting a hedge or similar to block the light but we have a nice open plan cul-de-sac at the moment.Ironic really, we live at the top/end of a small 9 property cul-de-sac so 99% of the time it's wonderful.
We get this lot. To be fair, we are on a single-width country lane and cars would have to back up around a blind corner about 100yds to another turning place if we put a chain or bollard up so we don't.
Problem is that our drive is very steep and when cars back up they spin their front wheels and quite often crunch their front bumper.
Vans and rear wheel-drive cars spin their back wheels, leaving big black marks on the concrete
There is also often a smell of burning clutch and a waft of smoke to accompany the screeching engine
Problem is that our drive is very steep and when cars back up they spin their front wheels and quite often crunch their front bumper.
Vans and rear wheel-drive cars spin their back wheels, leaving big black marks on the concrete
There is also often a smell of burning clutch and a waft of smoke to accompany the screeching engine
We have a private drive that has three houses off of it, I'm so pissed off with people keep coming up our drive I've suggested putting electric gates up and keeping them closed. I spoke to the guy that is chair of the estate and he's talking of gating from the front so it'll be a gated community. Some f
ker did a three point turn outside my house and wrecked where i planted the drilled/hammered sausages,it looked like a ploughed field by the time he\she had finished,also had someone reverse over my front garden that had just had topsoil raked over it ready for seeding. We noticed a heavier flow of traffic after our neighbour put there house up for sale, don't people check google maps first for the house location before viewing it.
ker did a three point turn outside my house and wrecked where i planted the drilled/hammered sausages,it looked like a ploughed field by the time he\she had finished,also had someone reverse over my front garden that had just had topsoil raked over it ready for seeding. We noticed a heavier flow of traffic after our neighbour put there house up for sale, don't people check google maps first for the house location before viewing it.simonej said:
What's the general consensus on this?
I live at the end of a very short dead end road (about 20 yards or so from the public road - a small, quiet village lane). It's very clear it's a dead end, yet people still drive down it and instead of simply reversing the 20 yards back onto the public road they mainly opt to pull down my driveway and turn around.
It's a first world problem, I know, apart from the one time someone drove into my wall and the time someone bumped my wife's car, but it's something that I could never do on someone else's driveway. It's now starting to rather annoy me and I've just had a mini argument with someone who turned round in my drive; 'pity for you' being his response.
Am I being a bit of a tit getting annoyed by it? Is it acceptable to turn around in someone else's driveway or is it just another example of how people in this country don't give a st about other people's property?
It would piss me off if I lived on a residential street, using the kerb/pavement is fine, driveway is not, more so if it happens so frequently.I live at the end of a very short dead end road (about 20 yards or so from the public road - a small, quiet village lane). It's very clear it's a dead end, yet people still drive down it and instead of simply reversing the 20 yards back onto the public road they mainly opt to pull down my driveway and turn around.
It's a first world problem, I know, apart from the one time someone drove into my wall and the time someone bumped my wife's car, but it's something that I could never do on someone else's driveway. It's now starting to rather annoy me and I've just had a mini argument with someone who turned round in my drive; 'pity for you' being his response.
Am I being a bit of a tit getting annoyed by it? Is it acceptable to turn around in someone else's driveway or is it just another example of how people in this country don't give a s
t about other people's property?Edited by jatinder on Friday 27th March 19:33
Considering pavements are there for pedestrians, vehicles shouldn't be using them as a road extension, they should do a 3 point turn as they had to do on the driving test.
What annoys is the vehicles causing damage and driving off, the wall at my Mums has been severely damaged due to incompetent idiots who think observation can only be performed through the front windscreen, wkers.
What annoys is the vehicles causing damage and driving off, the wall at my Mums has been severely damaged due to incompetent idiots who think observation can only be performed through the front windscreen, w
kers.Our entrance gates to our driveway(electric and closed) open onto the main A82. The council shut the laybays last year there were 3 in the 2 ml stretch of dual carraigeway so whenever anybody has a major or minor problem they decide to stop in the entrance to our drive.
Does my nut in but is also dangerous as its a national speed limit road and if I slow down can't get in my drive then I have 70mph up my erse as I'm stopped on carraigeway.
Does my nut in but is also dangerous as its a national speed limit road and if I slow down can't get in my drive then I have 70mph up my erse as I'm stopped on carraigeway.
If I need to I would only reverse up the dropped kerb as far as the pavement, so wouldn't cross the line onto their property.
Some woman that lives opposite my mates house always puts a traffic cone outside her drive way. I've been told she comes out to shout at anyone she sees reversing on it. Wanna try it out
Some woman that lives opposite my mates house always puts a traffic cone outside her drive way. I've been told she comes out to shout at anyone she sees reversing on it. Wanna try it out
simonej said:
What's the general consensus on this?
I live at the end of a very short dead end road (about 20 yards or so from the public road - a small, quiet village lane). It's very clear it's a dead end, yet people still drive down it and instead of simply reversing the 20 yards back onto the public road they mainly opt to pull down my driveway and turn around.
It's a first world problem, I know, apart from the one time someone drove into my wall and the time someone bumped my wife's car, but it's something that I could never do on someone else's driveway. It's now starting to rather annoy me and I've just had a mini argument with someone who turned round in my drive; 'pity for you' being his response.
Am I being a bit of a tit getting annoyed by it? Is it acceptable to turn around in someone else's driveway or is it just another example of how people in this country don't give a st about other people's property?
The original post.I live at the end of a very short dead end road (about 20 yards or so from the public road - a small, quiet village lane). It's very clear it's a dead end, yet people still drive down it and instead of simply reversing the 20 yards back onto the public road they mainly opt to pull down my driveway and turn around.
It's a first world problem, I know, apart from the one time someone drove into my wall and the time someone bumped my wife's car, but it's something that I could never do on someone else's driveway. It's now starting to rather annoy me and I've just had a mini argument with someone who turned round in my drive; 'pity for you' being his response.
Am I being a bit of a tit getting annoyed by it? Is it acceptable to turn around in someone else's driveway or is it just another example of how people in this country don't give a s
t about other people's property?It talks about people down into the Driveway where his cars are parked, and not just a dropped kerb.
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