Turning around in someone else's driveway

Turning around in someone else's driveway

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simonej

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3,874 posts

179 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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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?


Captainawesome

1,817 posts

162 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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What harm is it doing????(bar the wall and your wife's car)

My neighbour gets a lift to her old folks coffee morning twice a week and her lift always turns using my drive. It's never bother me in the slightest.

Are you worried about them eroding your earth????

rovermorris999

5,195 posts

188 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Wouldn't bother me unless they did some damage.

TrackMegane

615 posts

142 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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put a spike strip down. Just remember to move it when you leave

ZOLLAR

19,908 posts

172 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Gates or a chain on the driveway?

People used to reverse in my parents drive as the opening is quite wide, same thing happened once someone reversed and bumped the front of one of their cars.
They put a chain up which seemed to stop it until someone reversed into it pulled it out of the wall and scratched their rear bumper.
I'll assume the never do it again though!

Poopipe

619 posts

143 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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I usually try to find some sort of commercial premises as I feel its a bit cheeky driving into someones garden but ill do it if i have to. I expect most other people have a similar view on the matter.

That said, youd have to really mean it if you wanted to turn round on my driveway so nobody ever does it

simonej

Original Poster:

3,874 posts

179 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Well, it's not as though I run outside shouting and screaming at them, it just so happened that the chap today did it right in front of me. It isn't causing any damage, generally, but as someone has already bumped my wife's car and the wall in the space of two years, I wouldn't put it past someone to try it again. Perhaps I'll chill out a little over it....

ZOLLAR

19,908 posts

172 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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simonej said:
Well, it's not as though I run outside shouting and screaming at them, it just so happened that the chap today did it right in front of me. It isn't causing any damage, generally, but as someone has already bumped my wife's car and the wall in the space of two years, I wouldn't put it past someone to try it again. Perhaps I'll chill out a little over it....
Personally I agree with you, it would annoy me.

surveyor

17,763 posts

183 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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I would not reverse into someone's driveway. I suppose at a push I might use the drop curb.

GraemeP

769 posts

228 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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I would get my Alan Whickers in a twist if people were doing it on my drive, they could be shining their headlights into my living room, and generally making me irrationally irate - but surely that's what makes us human?

It really boils my p155 when people park and overhang the white line across my drop kerb, but it doesn't stop me getting out (most of the time I don't even need to get out), and I know it's petty but this is England and that is my castle!

You will look a bit of a twit if you put a sign up, 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.

Ari

19,328 posts

214 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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simonej said:
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?
Yes you are, yes it is, no it's not.

Snollygoster

1,538 posts

138 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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I don't mind. I do it on other peoples drives so it's give and take.

That being said. About a year ago, one of posts to my parents house went from being perpendicular, to about a 70 degree angle from what we've always just assumed was a van turning in their drive.

whoami

13,151 posts

239 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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ZOLLAR said:
simonej said:
Well, it's not as though I run outside shouting and screaming at them, it just so happened that the chap today did it right in front of me. It isn't causing any damage, generally, but as someone has already bumped my wife's car and the wall in the space of two years, I wouldn't put it past someone to try it again. Perhaps I'll chill out a little over it....
Personally I agree with you, it would annoy me.
Me too.

Devil2575

13,400 posts

187 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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surveyor said:
I would not reverse into someone's driveway. I suppose at a push I might use the drop curb.
In general I wouldn't but there is a road I used to drive down to collect/drop someone off and there is insufficient space to turn unless you make use of the end of someones drive. The road it is off is too busy for me to want to reverse back onto it.

It's the kind of thing that would annoy my wife but not bother me.

It's a problem that a friend of mine was having with a church next door. Visitors to the church were using his drive to turn around but it came to a head when one day he was actually standing on his drive chatting with a neighbour and this car appeared wanting to turn. The driver got on the horn and gesticulated to my friend to move out of the way. He didn't so the driver thought it appropriate to encourage him to move by accellerating onto his drive.
They now leave a car parked there to prevent people using it as a turning area.

Esseesse

8,969 posts

207 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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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.

Ari

19,328 posts

214 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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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.
You don't think it might be better to paint it a highly visible colour in order that people see it? Assuming you're not sad enough to want people to damage their cars for the heinous crime of putting a couple of wheels on your pwoperdy for five seconds of course...

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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It always makes me chuckle when you see a "NO TURNING" sign on somebody's gate. It's a sure indicator that the person living there is probably staring out from behind the net curtains, just waiting for any excuse to turn purple and risk a coronary. The highlight of their day, probably.

Bill

52,472 posts

254 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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It's probably safer for them to use your drive rather than reverse onto the main road.

Esseesse

8,969 posts

207 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Ari said:
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.
You don't think it might be better to paint it a highly visible colour in order that people see it? Assuming you're not sad enough to want people to damage their cars for the heinous crime of putting a couple of wheels on your pwoperdy for five seconds of course...
Got to be worth it to return the 'pity for you' no?

steveo3002

10,493 posts

173 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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go with the removable post , should be man engough to take a bump vs the chain that might have your wall down