It’s a parking one

True, she doesn't need to say anything - if she just works on an 'I'm alright, Jack' basis... but this kind of person usually takes not being challenged as a validation that they are right. The more ground she can gain, the bolder she could become.

Remember that it's effectively treated by many of them as a hobby - it isn't just a means to an end. If you had success in most hobbies, would you not keep pushing to see how far you could progress? If you played a sport and consistently ended up at the top of your town league, wouldn't you want to go for county level?

Plus we don't actually know if she's doing the common thing of invoking OP and the other neighbours as supposedly agreeing with what she's doing 'on behalf of them all'. Vindictive, bullying people like this need to have the wind taken out of their sails as early as possible.

Yeah I’d be wondering if she’s perhaps bought a space on one of the car parks.

Btw we need a tutorial on how you drew those houses!

Agree

I think a passive aggressive note is needed everytime she parks at an angle, commentating on her shit parking and telling her to straighten up so others can park. You could address it to selfish bitch.

If there is no any sort of signs in them like “permits E54-57” or “10 minutes only no return in 2 hours” it means anyone can park there for any length of time.
I wonder if EA told a new neighbour that it’s a designated car park. Can anyone ask her gently?

I disagree with PPs saying not to concern yourself with it, as it isn't affecting you. What happens if you have visitors who need to use it; or if she just randomly starts to dictate to you what you can and can't do?

Op doesn’t need to say anything because it’s not affecting her, she’s just irritated at witnessing it. (Op just stop watching!)
If Op has visitors and they need to use the car park then they use it. If the neighbour starts to dictate anything to OP then that’s when she should say something but right now she’s not involved so why get involved?

Wow! I don’t need this at the moment but will put it mentally into lifesaving advices for curious adults.

Excellent diagram 👌🏻

What does the sign on a car park say ?

This diagram is real work of art.

I dont drive but love a good parking thread. When someone parks in front of my gate (dropped kerb) I creep out at dead of night and sprinkle wild bird seed all over the car, especially the windscreen. Next day the car is covered in bird crap. After that they park elsewhere.

100% for the diagram!

8/10 for diagram. You need to reference the location of the school for an extra 2 points.

yanbu though, love a parking drama and the audacity of some people. Wish I lived there.

Just wanted to come on and say that’s a bloody lovely diagram - top marks OP!

Great diagram 👏

A few things spring to mind

Neighbour has been told at least one or more of the spaces belongs to them.
They have declared off road parking on their insurance.
They can't parallel park ( that assumption only works if the car park spaces are pull in)
Your neighbour is a busy body/a know it all/a bit crazy ( any or all of the things in the list).

Amazing diagram! She sounds like a lunatic. I suggest you keep watching with great interest and let David Attenboroughesk narration play out in your head.
And keep us updated if she does anything funny of course.

Top diagram and YANBU!

I wonder if she thinks one of the spaces is hers? My DDad was led to believe he "owned" a parking space next to his house in a naice Surrey village & sometimes parked his car there - he also had a car port, which he directed guests to.
It was only when we sold the house that we saw on the deeds and found out it belonged to the neighbours 😳No one ever said a thing!

Whoever owns the land, even if it's not the council, they clearly don't mind people treating it as a public amenity.

In the highly unlikely event of her having bought the car parks herself, surely she would just put up barriers and/or signs - she wouldn't keep going over in person or leaving cowardly notes.

Maybe she just can't parallel park on the road? She's going diagonal into the bays so perhaps manoeuvring isn't her thing.

We have somebody like this on our street - no car parks, but has actually claimed that he owns the bit of road opposite his house. It's awful enough when people who've been there the longest do this, but he's one of the more recent arrivals too - some of the people he's been ordering not to park there have been there several decades longer than he has.

He and his wife have a double-width drive and two cars, so they don't even need to park there themselves. He just has too much time on his hands and has chosen harassing neighbours and making enemies as his hobby.

I disagree with PPs saying not to concern yourself with it, as it isn't affecting you. What happens if you have visitors who need to use it; or if she just randomly starts to dictate to you what you can and can't do?

Do the teachers definitely know that it's her? Is there a risk that they might think it could be you or one of the other reasonable neighbours leaving them nasty notes? It seems par for the course for busybodies like this to sign notes 'from the neighbours' or 'from the residents of Oak Street', as though they speak on behalf of everybody and they think that somehow gives them more credibility and authority in their ridiculousness.

Could they own the spaces they are protecting in the car park? Or be renting them from somewhere?

It's the only thing that makes sense to me if there are usually spaces closer to her home available. Doesn't make it right, of course, but does offer a reason.

Who owns the land the car parks are on?