Iv posted before about my neighbour who sent me a letter complaining about my little boy kicking his ball over her fence. The outcome was that we stopped him doing it. Bought him a bigger goal net which solved the issue. Prior to the letter we’ve never ever had any complaints from our neighbour. We’ve always been friendly and they had never indicated an issue.
we live on a small estate built in the 60s. We’re on a cul-de-sac. It’s a very wide road. All the houses are detached. There are no parking restrictions and there are no parking issues whatsoever on the road. Everyone has a driveway for at least one car. The road is quiet and nobody parks on it for other uses other than visiting or living there. There is a turning circle at the end of the road which my neighbour lives next to. The kerb outside my house and neighbours house could easily fit 4-5 cars.
in the letter they also asked if we could make sure we don’t park outside their house since she teaches music lessons from home and they need the space for her clients. I thought that was odd as we don’t park outside her house and her clients can park anywhere- she could have an orchestra practicing in there and there would be no parking issue.
We have since found out that they have been emailing my husbands work place complaining about us for a very long time. Complaining that we park on the road and not on the driveway and this included my husbands work vehicles but also our own personal vehicles and also told his employer we are harassing them with footballs.
we do sometimes park on the road as well as the driveway outside our house. This is for various reasons but we’re not obstructing anyone, we’re not in front of their house and they’re taxed and legally parked. It’s mainly because we’re really busy, in and out leaving at different times. Working shift patterns etc and sometimes it happens. We have very very occasionally parked in the turning circle when we’ve had visitors etc but everyone on the road does this. This circle has 5 detached houses around it, it’s huge.
we’ve recently done some work down the side of our house and offered to replace her fence panels for no charge, which she accepted. She has knocked on our door to borrow our lawn mower recently.our house is clean, tidy. We are not loud, we both work hard and have young children. They have said all the neighbours have a problem with us and I’m just really upset and feel that emailing his employer, having never ever voiced a concern to us is so out of line.
we need to speak to them about it all but we’re both feeling extremely anxious about it. They’ve sent photos of our house and cars to his employer and I had no idea he was taking photos. I don’t know what advice I’m looking for really I’m just really upset. Should we approach other neighbours? Write a letter? I don’t like conflict.