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NDN using our allocated parking space, not their own!

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NDNUsingOurAllocatedParking · 12/08/2026 11:05

Our neighbours have started using our allocated parking space instead of their own allocated parking space.

We've spoken to them but they have continued. The view of their space is not a clear line of vision.

What to do next???

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GenePool · 12/08/2026 11:57

Get a friends that is going on holiday to lend you their car - then park that car in your space for the entire holiday and park in their space instead

StormGazing · 12/08/2026 11:49

Block them in (if you can … can’t tell without a diagram!)

Whattodo1610 · 12/08/2026 11:49

Knock every single time and ask them to move. If they don’t, just go park in their space 🤷‍♀️

Cherrysoup · 12/08/2026 11:46

I’d go round every single time and get them to move.

MajorProcrastination · 12/08/2026 11:43

I'd start getting petty AF. Get one of those big toy sit-in cars and park it in your spot when you're out and about.

Does it have your house number on a sign or the ground? Are you able to repaint over it or put up a bigger sign?

I live in a terraced house so there are no rules in our on street parking. It does get really annoying but there's nothing I can do about it.

AffableApple · 12/08/2026 11:40

NDNUsingOurAllocatedParking · 12/08/2026 11:14

Think they're trying to exploit visitor loophole

What does this mean?

What did they say when you spoke to them about it?

Pulledbluecurtain · 12/08/2026 11:38

What did they say when you spoke to them about it?

theemmadilemma · 12/08/2026 11:35

Do you have a car?

I don't miss the whole allocated parking shite. I used to go 0-100 when I went to pull in my 2nd space and found someone in it.

Eventually one person decided to number theirs, and then everyone did, and added little 'Private parking - no 13 only' type notices. Not that it always helped.

Deepinschoolholidays · 12/08/2026 11:28

Do you both have gardens? If so start using theirs.

BMW58 · 12/08/2026 11:27

Thatcannotberight · 12/08/2026 11:24

Lockable folding parking bollard. Less than £100. Job done.

There you are

gemsgv · 12/08/2026 11:27

I'm guessing your space is better/easier than theirs and they are hoping you'll retaliate by using their space and therefore swapping

HydenSeek · 12/08/2026 11:26

NDNUsingOurAllocatedParking · 12/08/2026 11:14

Think they're trying to exploit visitor loophole

What loophole? Presumably if theirs is empty then it's not like it's so they can put visitors in it?

How many spaces/cars do you each have? Could you borrow a car to just leave in your space for a bit to force them back into theirs? Could you just park in theirs?

What did you actually say to them? What was their reply? Is your space in a better location/more visible or something? Not that it makes it ok, just trying to understand why they are doing it!

Alternatively I would consider going and knocking every single time you need them to move and asking them to come and move their car, whatever time of day or night. Make it inconvenient enough that they stop doing it.

atiaofthejulii · 12/08/2026 11:25

NDNUsingOurAllocatedParking · 12/08/2026 11:21

I'm a regular from the Pom Bear days, I know how much you all love a diagram, that's why I'm here, but no can do@theemmadilemma

But it would only be associated with this name change, and they already know you're pissed off about it!

Diagram!
(Please 🙏 😁)

Mulledjuice · 12/08/2026 11:24

How is this complicated? Bollard + done.

Thatcannotberight · 12/08/2026 11:24

Lockable folding parking bollard. Less than £100. Job done.

AlohaRose · 12/08/2026 11:23

Where the hell do you park if they are in your space? Can you at least block them in? And what do you mean about them exploiting the visitor parking loophole?

SweetBaklava · 12/08/2026 11:23

If it’s freehold then surely they are trespassing? Install a bollard if they don’t change their tune. They are taking the piss.

Ansells · 12/08/2026 11:22

Can you use theirs?

theemmadilemma · 12/08/2026 11:22

😫

MissMoneyFairy · 12/08/2026 11:22

NDNUsingOurAllocatedParking · 12/08/2026 11:18

Yes, they are using ours but leaving their own empty.

We use ours all the time, we're always coming and going.

Where do you have to park if their car is in your space, if they know it's yours then they are cf, put a penquin bollard up. Are they shit drivers who can't get in and out their own space or just ignorant entitled idiots.

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NDNUsingOurAllocatedParking · 12/08/2026 11:21

I'm a regular from the Pom Bear days, I know how much you all love a diagram, that's why I'm here, but no can do@theemmadilemma

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WildLeader · 12/08/2026 11:21

Oh fgs, it’s not outing to do a diagram!

besides, @NDNUsingOurAllocatedParking is the parking thread LAW!

gingerscot · 12/08/2026 11:19

So use theirs when it’s empty and they are in yours?

WallaceinAnderland · 12/08/2026 11:19

What did they actually say when you spoke to them?

Likeiloveyou · 12/08/2026 11:18

NDNUsingOurAllocatedParking · 12/08/2026 11:15

Diagram would be a corker, but so outing.

It really wouldn’t!

Penguin Bollard

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