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Would this bother anyone or am I just being petty? Neighbours walking past

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thebakera · 03/05/2026 10:51

I recently moved into a house which is a modern new build with 2 allocated parking spaces outside my living room and front door.
So it isn't a driveway as such but 2 parking bays designated for this property.

A few of the neighbours use it as a short cut to go from A to B and they literally are walking right by my living room window multiple times a day.

At times they will even have conversations.

The kids do it as well and it is really annoying me.

I want to kindly ask them to stop as I feel it's invading my privacy but feel petty doing so.

Would this annoy anyone else?

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WitsEnd694 · 03/05/2026 11:54

So there's no footpath, just your houses, the parking spaces and then the road. I'm not surprised that people are walking between the houses and the cars then, as I'd not want to walk between the cars and the road...

Pretty s&*t... it's the way things are going though, no proper parking or privacy anywhere...

MrCollinsandhisboiledpotatoes · 03/05/2026 11:50

thebakera · 03/05/2026 11:47

Diagram

Yeah that would drive me insane OP. Put up a polite sign or have polite words until word gets round.

MrCollinsandhisboiledpotatoes · 03/05/2026 11:48

This was my set up from my flat, years ago (picture lifted from Google)
Parking spaces right up to my doors and windows and people parking there and walking by - completely oblivious to their noise from their conversations and radios and their fumes from idling.
So I feel your pain entirely!

Would this bother anyone or am I just being petty? Neighbours walking past
WitsEnd694 · 03/05/2026 11:47

Eta, see diagram now

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thebakera · 03/05/2026 11:47

Diagram

Would this bother anyone or am I just being petty? Neighbours walking past
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thebakera · 03/05/2026 11:45

Yes they are walking past the parked cars and past our front door and windows.

There is a road/ tarmac area that they can walk on outside all the houses which is what the postman/ delivery drivers all use.

This is a small cul de sac with a row of 5 houses including mine.

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Atoxicsewerofhate · 03/05/2026 11:42

Looking at that picture, isn't that a public path they would be walking on?
I think without a pic or diagram from the OP this is pointless really!

sunflowersandsunsets · 03/05/2026 11:39

Didn't you post this a few weeks ago?

MrCollinsandhisboiledpotatoes · 03/05/2026 11:38

ilovepixie · 03/05/2026 11:34

Can you not park you cars right up close to the house?

The OP doesn't say she has a car(s). Not everyone does

MrCollinsandhisboiledpotatoes · 03/05/2026 11:36

People will say you are being unreasonable but they will probably have never lived with this kind of set up. I completely get what you mean. It's annoying as hell.

I once lived in a ground floor flat. We had a teeny tiny patch of lawn outside and then straight onto the carpark for the whole block of flats so about a foot and a half from my bedroom window and my living room french doors, cars were parking. People would pull up outside and gave LOUD conversations several feet from my sofa or my bed. Often leaving their cars idling while they did so, so fines would drift into my flat.
One workman used to pull up right outside my bedroom window at 6am with his windows down and his radio blaring, van idling, while waiting for his mate to come downstairs. It took me appearing at the French doors with a toddler in my hip and pointing at the bedroom window for him to realise and turn it down.

They don't do it on purpose, but it is super annoying that they just don't think. Maybe hang a nice polite sign, or start popping out and politely saying something, and hope word gets round

ilovepixie · 03/05/2026 11:34

Can you not park you cars right up close to the house?

Tink3rbell30 · 03/05/2026 11:30

That's what happens in those sorts of new builds unfortunately.

CoverIt · 03/05/2026 11:30

@TeaPot496 ooh yes, looks perfect

WitsEnd694 · 03/05/2026 11:29

So it's your front 'garden' with just parking spaces?

7238SM · 03/05/2026 11:28

I too thought I've read this exact thread- almost weekly.
If there is no footpath between the properties, how else can people walk from one house to the other? Were does the postman walk to get from house to house?

I too was going to suggest large troughs or planters, even if you have them on wheels and can push them with 2 people if needed.

MermaidsSideEye · 03/05/2026 11:28

thebakera · 03/05/2026 11:19

But there is no footpath just the parking bays.

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So they’re walking between the parked cars and your front door/front windows? What about @TeaPot496 ’s suggestion?

TeaPot496 · 03/05/2026 11:24

Or this (photo)

Would this bother anyone or am I just being petty? Neighbours walking past
Soontobe60 · 03/05/2026 11:22

thebakera · 03/05/2026 11:19

Yes like this, thanks for the pic. I was just about to draw a diagram lol.

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We still need a diagram!!!

TeaPot496 · 03/05/2026 11:21

I'd bolt some low trellis to my house and attach it to some heavy planters or something into the parking bays, like you say others have done?

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thebakera · 03/05/2026 11:19

MermaidsSideEye · 03/05/2026 11:17

Like this?

But there is no footpath just the parking bays.

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thebakera · 03/05/2026 11:19

MermaidsSideEye · 03/05/2026 11:17

Like this?

Yes like this, thanks for the pic. I was just about to draw a diagram lol.

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thebakera · 03/05/2026 11:18

Hi there is no garden/driveway at the front.
Each property is designated 2 parking spaces belonging to each house.
There is no footpath just the spaces and the neighbours are coming onto my parking spaces to cut through.

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MermaidsSideEye · 03/05/2026 11:17

Like this?

Would this bother anyone or am I just being petty? Neighbours walking past
WitsEnd694 · 03/05/2026 11:16

Need a diagram. Is it a footpath? If its like some of the houses round here, it's just the footpath so nothing you can do...

MermaidsSideEye · 03/05/2026 11:14

WoollyandSarah · 03/05/2026 11:01

Can you post a photo or diagram, then we might be able to suggest what would work in this space.

Yes, I can’t actually visualise this. So you have no private front garden/driveway, OP? It’s all communal space out front, but the two parking spaces in front of your house are designated as ‘belonging to number 82’? Is there a path between your front door and the parking area that the neighbours are walking along, or are they walking across your parking spaces when empty? Where are they going?