Would you mind your neighbour’s visitors parking on your driveway?

I’m laughing at the “why would you want to cause friction with your neighbours” comment.

I would expect to be asked but I almost certainly would say yes.

If they asked me first, no. Without asking is Cf territory.

I had this issue for a while OP the only way you stop it unfortunately is confronting it, which for a non-confrontational person like me was hard but worth it.

I actually went out and told the visitor (assuming she didn’t know) that it was my ‘space’ and we had visitors coming so she had to move. Imbecile visitor actually said “we’ll only be 5 mins!” (The cheek!) I doubled down and then imbecile neighbour knocked and said because I didn’t have a car she assumed it was ok. To which I said, “it would’ve been if you’d asked but please don’t let anyone park there from now on”.

Nothing since. Do it OP. Stand your ground. These people will just walk all over you otherwise.

large potted plants until you get your car sends a clear message

Why would you say any of those things though?? Nobody has ANY RIGHT to park on your drive!!! Are you always such a people pleaser?? 🤦‍♀️🥴

Yes I would mind even if I didn’t have a car. Have you recently moved in and this was an arrangement they had with the previous neighbour? Is it one visitor or several different ones? I would be inclined to ask the visitor why they’re parking there and tell them they can’t continue as it’s (clearly) your driveway. They might say Fred told them it was OK, then you can tell Fred people can’t park there as it’s your driveway not a parking space. If Fred says you don’t have a car, that doesn’t matter as it’s your property so only you choose who parks there. Don’t say sorry at any point, just be firm but bemused (because it’s a weird and CFy thing for him to do)

I have a neighbour who I've let park on my drive many times, but he has asked, or when I've noticed he's been getting builders in to work on the house, I have offered for him to park on my drive to allow the builders to park on his and not park on the road, which benefits me as it doesn't reduce my visibility when reversing off my drive of there's not a car parked on the road.
But if a neighbour just decided my drive was fair game to park on or let their visitors park on my drive, I would be pissed off and would be telling them to never park on my drive. It is rude entitled behaviour by your neighbour and I wouldn't be offering my driveway to park on at all, as I would feel like if you give them an inch they'd take a mile if you say it's okay to park on occasion, they'll just park their all the time again.

I'd put your driveway on a parking app (where people pay to use your driveway) and then next time they park there tell them it's £2 an hour 🤣

Yes, rude to park on your driveway. Put your bin at the end , or a plant container.

Many years ago, I didn't have a car, and my neighbour started parking in my driveway. I didn't mind, I wasn't using it - being asked would have been nice, but I didn't push the matter. This went on for about eight months.

However, what I didn't understand at the time was that repeated use creates a feeling of entitlement, and people get absolutely irrationally bent out of shape if you take something back to which they think they have an entitlement.

When I got my car, she was livid, absolutely livid and would deliberately change her times to make sure she was home first and in the space. When I knocked to have a word, her husband told me that there was no reasoning with her; in her mind, I had taken back something I had freely given, and it just made me a straight-up bitch in her mind.

She became a horrible neighbour.

A large pot will stop them using it. No need to speak with them, what you do on your own driveway is none of their business.

Send them an invoice...

I would just be out with the cow shit fertiliser, fertilising my driveway. Lavishly. Regularly. Every time my neighbour was happy to have her visitor inconvenience someone else while she played lady of her manor.

I don’t think the fact OP doesn’t have a car is relevant. It’s trespassing

Sorry meant to click yanbu

I would put a sign on the windscreen saying “ you have rudely parked in my private driveway. Please never park here again”

This would really annoy me! Put your bin there so they can’t drive on. Then get more annoyed when they move it to park there 😂

It's not her causing the friction. It's them.

Put your bins in the way or something.

She should be asking your permission, each and every time. And even if it’s empty, if you say no, she can’t use it.

It’s a bit cheeky but if you don’t have a car I don’t understand why you’d want to cause friction with your neighbour? When you have a car absolutely tell them they need to move.

Yes, it's very rude.

Would the parking places allow for a plastic sign saying "Private parking place, access required at all times" or similar. (You can buy them off eBay.)

It would be shame if someone you knew came to visit (and to stay the night) and parked across your drive and blocked your neighbours visitors in.

Even worse if you both left on foot to go somewhere for the night and thus weren't even around for them to ask if you could move the car blocking them in.

If they asked and were having a party or something fine.

Without asking - errrr, no!