Neighbour using my drive, landlord won’t help. What can I do?

Our block paved driveway is dipping on the corner. The more vehicles that use it, the quicker it would need repairing.

This would annoy me too OP.

I was wondering if you were a two car household or one, so that answers that question, is there a space outside your house that they will start using instead?

Whatever you put on that boundary you need to make sure it can't be moved as it looks like they are going to start playing silly bastards.

Of course she moved them, what an utter cheeky fucker.

I'd be telling her in no uncertain terms that if she steps on or drives over your property again, then she's trespassing.

Get a camera to cover the front area of your driveway. Do you know which agent or her Landlord? I'd bloody start reporting the cheeky fucker to them too.

Moving the buckets on YOUR property, then leaving YOU blocked to get back onto your property. Fuck me, I'd lose my rag with the cheeky madam.

I'd move my car down as far as possible to force her to have a conversation with her neighbour. And get a ring doorbell or some kind of camera to have evidence in case she bumps the car.

Its the principle that would annoy me. Though if neighbour had come and had a rational conversation wtih me about it I'd probably be more inclined to let her.

Just nosy about how you suddenly get your hands on three buckets of stones!😂

@9champions has clarified. The old driveway looking out for the new driveway!

This is a strange question... are you the neighbour?

Ohhhh I'm so invested now.

So it looks like she moved the buckets to get in & out of her driveway, but by doing so blocked you into your own driveway?

Like I said initially, at the outset I think you might have been overreacting but the thing that made me annoyed (on your behalf) was that when you spoke to her about it... she knew the solution but is too cheap to fix it and then just continued on.

Having you a doorbell camera by any chance?

I'd probably be so petty now to put the buckets back with a little sign saying "No trespassing" 😂

It has to be them. Either her or him.
I think you're committed now and need to get something they can't move. They have shown their hand and are intentionally treating yours as theirs.

Why are you gate keeping a thread?

OP didn't specify that she was only looking for opinions of those who agreed with her. She literally created a poll asking if she was being unreasonable.

where did you source 3 buckets of stones from?!

Do you live alone @9champions ?

Quite. It'd be interesting to know what that poster considered merely irksome.

And, if cutting across the drive makes one 'a fucking cunt of the highest order', how would otherly neighbourly infractions rank, such as hanging wind chimes or the kids kicking balls over or someone chucking a brick through the window with a note wrapped around it saying "Get a sense of perspective, you bad-tempered, foul-mouthed arsehole"?

@WalkDontWalk that lovely poster went so clear as to call the neighbour a “cunt”. This thread has obviously gone very deep!

....the highest order?

Can you give us the top five, just for comparison?

Many years ago some friends of mine bought a mid terraced house with plenty of off road parking at the back, accessed by a drive through under one of the bedrooms. They thought they were being neighbourly allowing the people next door to use a parking space. When they sold the house the neighbours told the new owners that they were allowed to park there, it caused an absolute shit storm and was only resolved because one of the people who were claiming parking rights died

I know it’s not the same thing but I agree with others that the OP actually does need to be careful here

I can’t see it’s very likely that her neighbour is going to go down the legal right of access route over a foot of driveway. And if they have been using the land for years they could do this anyway. When I sold my house it wasn’t an issue for the several buyers who bid on the property that there was a right of access in place. Again, it wouldn’t bother me if a house I bought had right of access for someone to put their tyres on my drive! But as I have said above, even though I think OP is being unhinged I also think neighbour should stop now they have been asked. Not worth a neighbour dispute (which IME is more of an issue in selling than right of access).

Absolute bugger if you try to sell the house though

Foxes are wildlife. Other than entering buildings they can pretty much go where they like and do whatever falls within the remit of normal fox behaviour. It’s a very different situation with manufactured animals that are meant to be under human control.

I didn’t say I would poison dogs for urinating on my property, I said I would put nice sausage down, not poisoned sausage. Smart dog owners don’t like their dogs eating random bits of food that may be harmful to them. Making use of that fear to train lazy dog owners is not the same as actually poisoning a dog.

Oh, and the dog’s misdemeanour in the example given was urination, not a a little sniff, which would be bad enough. And when they start weeing in one spot, they keep coming back don’t they? No, not having that!

I think that legal right of access across half a foot of a driveway is a non-issue. It's not like we are talking acres of land here. It's a residential single driveway/parking spot. I used to have a garden that had right of access for the water company as there was a mains thing at the back - non-issue. It meant they could access my garden for repairs, once a year or less usually, by a side gate and always gave me advance notice.

But don't you think that avoiding your neighbour getting a legal right of access across your land should be avoided?

The OP has already said she doesn't know how long it's been going on / how long they've lived there. It needs stopping before they gain rights across the land.

I don't think that's as bad as the poster who said they'd poison a dog who had a sniff on their property! Injuring / killing animals is a gateway crime to worse, so that PP was seriously concerning.

I do understand OP, it's not a huge thing but it's the kind of thing that really starts to grate once you've noticed it, especially given they could do things to sort the situation out on their own end.

Ultimately they should be taking their fence down so they can use their drive properly, or the husband should be parking the van somewhere that it actually fits - I'd be wary though in case this ends up in the space outside your house and you're stuck looking at a van all the time.

In your shoes, I'd be looking at extending the fence to the end of your drive, or putting something like a tree in a large plant pot right on the corner of it so your neighbour can't continue to do this.