Post by rmc001 on May 27, 2022 18:50:34 GMT 12
My apologies for the randomness of this post but I just wondered what the hive mind might know or alternatively if anyone knows someone versed in this scenario :
My mother and I live at the back half of a 2 unit section with shared driveway and the concrete has been crumbling for a few years. And so our newish neighbour (if about 5 years) understandably wants to renew the whole driveway. It's got large craters in it.
But the driveway goes uphill and then levels out from outside his garage and past ours. And looking at his front half of the property where it slopes up on the outside edge side of the driveway has been subsiding quite a lot.
And so he wants to improve the mostly non-existent drainage of the property by lowering the level of the driveway by about 100mm. It did have a groove in the concrete in that outside edge of the driveway to help water go down. But became broken up.
But I'm concerned that that dropping of the driveway will create a tripping hazard outside our house. And also make things hard for anyone getting out of a car on the left hand side. (My car lives there outside.)
He also wants to put a lip on the outer-edge side just to ensure water goes down the drive and not soaking into the grass on the outer there and making it worse.
We have also talked about a pipe for fibre - but anyway.! If anyone can advise me they are welcome to post either here or pm.
I know our neighbour is not an audiophile so I'm sure it's safe posting here.! Cheers.
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Post by Citroen on May 27, 2022 18:54:19 GMT 12
Does any of this need Council consent?
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Post by rmc001 on May 27, 2022 19:03:12 GMT 12
By the way - the other very important point thing about this - is - where the driveway goes down the hill it nowadays sits quite a lot higher than the grass on the outer edge which is next to it on the outer edge of the property.
So what the nigh our wants to do is dig the driveway quite a long way deep and in the process lower it by quite a bit.!
And he's saying it will make visibility easier etc.
But that makes it a bit harder to argue against lowering it.
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Post by rmc001 on May 27, 2022 19:05:35 GMT 12
Does any of this need Council consent? Thanks. Umm.! I remember there was talk about it. I don't know sorry. The neighbour said these days the council now wants storm water drains and possibly separate waste water to go in. Neither of which we have.
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Post by rmc001 on May 27, 2022 19:06:50 GMT 12
I don't think it needs council consent from what I remember.
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Post by RdM on May 27, 2022 20:30:49 GMT 12
I'm in a mind to, when I catch up, to email Auckland City Council about this piece of lumpy pavement and a failure to connect it with a proper footpath to a driveway! I fell, just trying to turn left, off this lumpy asphalt wave, just after midnight, no street lamps, and smashed my face into about where the arrow cursor is, a few weeks ago.  Broke a front tooth, loosened another, 10 hrs in hospital with a CT scan, another 5 hrs with ditto days later. Still have a headache. Just one implant likely to cost ~$6k, ACC will only fund lesser quality treatments, it seems. So protest sensibly all you can. I need to too. That picture is just one block from the much vaunted Queen Street, which the Council have been narrowing, and then wanting to charge congestion charges for entering ... and making it pretty ... Study it all carefully. Find out what your rights are. Talk with your neighbour reasonably, &etc. I guess.
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Post by rmc001 on May 27, 2022 20:50:02 GMT 12
I'm in a mind to, when I catch up, to email Auckland City Council about this piece of lumpy pavement and a failure to connect it with a proper footpath to a driveway! I fell, just trying to turn left, off this lumpy asphalt wave, just after midnight, no street lamps, and smashed my face into about where the arrow cursor is, a few weeks ago. Broke a front tooth, loosened another, 10 hrs in hospital with a CT scan, another 5 hrs with ditto days later. Still have a headache. Just one implant likely to cost ~$6k, ACC will only fund lesser quality treatments, it seems. So protest sensibly all you can. I need to too. That picture is just one block from the much vaunted Queen Street, which the Council have been narrowing, and then wanting to charge congestion charges for entering ... and making it pretty ... Study it all carefully. Find out what your rights are. Talk with your neighbour reasonably, &etc. I guess. Thanks for that Ross. I was sorry to read of your accident and I hope things improve for you soon.
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Post by RdM on May 27, 2022 23:38:07 GMT 12
Hey, thanks for the best wishes!
I'm hoping they will too, and maybe things are slowly seeming better
Cheers!
But remember: Be diplomatic, see it from their side but answer from your side too.
Perhaps only by talking and meeting in the middle etc. will a result come about.
Get your point of view across. Make sure they understand it. Be firm as well as kind? What's best for both parties overall?
(I'm just making this up as I'm going along, but you get the idea? If there's even an idea to get, there ;-))
Over the last few months I had to deal with some new South Auckland folk who had moved into the near neighbourhood and started dealing out enormously powerful DOOF DOOF few note bass sounds that affected everyone in the flats here. Enormous volume. It took a lot of talking (I even constructed a megaphone;- but also talked in person) before they finally got the social picture and have quieted down since.
It takes patience, but you have to act on what's right, and in the end if you're persistent, they will recognise that. Best of luck!
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Post by rmc001 on May 28, 2022 10:51:20 GMT 12
Hey, thanks for the best wishes! I'm hoping they will too, and maybe things are slowly seeming better Cheers! But remember: Be diplomatic, see it from their side but answer from your side too. Perhaps only by talking and meeting in the middle etc. will a result come about. Get your point of view across. Make sure they understand it. Be firm as well as kind? What's best for both parties overall? (I'm just making this up as I'm going along, but you get the idea? If there's even an idea to get, there ;-)) Over the last few months I had to deal with some new South Auckland folk who had moved into the near neighbourhood and started dealing out enormously powerful DOOF DOOF few note bass sounds that affected everyone in the flats here. Enormous volume. It took a lot of talking (I even constructed a megaphone;- but also talked in person) before they finally got the social picture and have quieted down since. It takes patience, but you have to act on what's right, and in the end if you're persistent, they will recognise that. Best of luck! Great. Thanks. Yes those are excellent points. That is right. I might yet actually 'enact' that. I actually wondered about that bass notes intrusion you posted and what had happened with that. My sympathies are with anyone who doesn't have a quiet space. There was a beeping machine in our near neighbourhood around the time of the lockdown and I went out at about 12.30am to see where it was coming from. Anyway with no traffic around the dB on my phone got down to about 19 dB background. The machine sounded like maybe someone's sleep apnea machine or the like.! Luckily I haven't noticed that recently.! :=}
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Post by jon on May 28, 2022 13:33:31 GMT 12
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Post by rmc001 on May 28, 2022 13:38:49 GMT 12
Wow. Thanks v. much. Ah yes. Managed to talk this morning and put it. He will talk to the concrete man to see what can be done. Today or tomorrow I think. Thanks. I will read this when I get home. Rob.
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