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Parking - would you talk to neighbour or live with it?

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EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 19/04/2025 15:05

Currently put up with it for a few months but we’ve just had the driveway redone and I think it’s made it even harder to get off the drive due to two parked cars on the road.

No parking restrictions. Cul de sac. Not new housing so plenty of parking but house opposite is rented and has four people - three cars. House next door has the son’s girlfriend who stays every weekend. These cars are only ever there Friday night/Saturday/Sunday/Monday morning.

I’m the pink car and reversing off the driveway and heading towards the adjoining road is impossible. I can pull out and go up the road and turn around at the end and come back. Can’t reverse into the space as there’s not the turning room.

Would you go talk to the house opposite and see if they would park further up the road which wouldn’t be directly outside their house or would you leave it and hope they’re on a short term rent?

Parking - would you talk to neighbour or live with it?
OP posts:
AutumnLeaves24 · 19/04/2025 15:21

I'm not 100% clear but are you complaining at having to turn left out of your driveway and go around the cul-de-sac? So you effectively going right out of your driveway to get to the other road?

if that's correct, how far exactly is the end of the road/the cul-de-sac?

longapple · 19/04/2025 15:19

Park in the space yourself.

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EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 19/04/2025 15:18

End of cul de sac runs off at the bottom of the picture. Adjoining road out the street is at the top of the picture.

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AmIHumanOrAmIAYeti · 19/04/2025 15:16

Not clear which way is the cul de sac.

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EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 19/04/2025 15:15

To reverse into the space id have to reverse up the road which would make no sense. I may as well reverse out and turn around at the end of the cul de sac. It’s not a wide road. No one else generally parks on the road.

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MidnightPatrol · 19/04/2025 15:08

Even if you ask them to park elsewhere, someone else might park in that space.

You need to practice your manoeuvres. I’m pretty sure you could reverse into the space.

AmIHumanOrAmIAYeti · 19/04/2025 15:08

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 19/04/2025 15:05

Currently put up with it for a few months but we’ve just had the driveway redone and I think it’s made it even harder to get off the drive due to two parked cars on the road.

No parking restrictions. Cul de sac. Not new housing so plenty of parking but house opposite is rented and has four people - three cars. House next door has the son’s girlfriend who stays every weekend. These cars are only ever there Friday night/Saturday/Sunday/Monday morning.

I’m the pink car and reversing off the driveway and heading towards the adjoining road is impossible. I can pull out and go up the road and turn around at the end and come back. Can’t reverse into the space as there’s not the turning room.

Would you go talk to the house opposite and see if they would park further up the road which wouldn’t be directly outside their house or would you leave it and hope they’re on a short term rent?

If you can reverse off, you can reverse on.