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Parking one (with a photo!!)

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DealForTheKids · 03/09/2026 18:56

Photo taken from my house. Red line is the boundary line. Blue line is where the drop kerb ends. It’s a joint drop kerb serving us and our next door neighbours. Next door neighbours have parked this black car blocking their own driveway, but we cannot get onto ours based on the location of the black car.

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Parking one (with a photo!!)
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DealForTheKids · 03/09/2026 19:09

WonderingAndOverthinking · 03/09/2026 19:06

Sorry, I cross posted with you.

No worries! I am mostly posting on here so I don’t go around and give them a piece of my mind… new neighbours so trying to stay civil! I’ve already gone over to say hi, trade numbers (because of stuff like this with the previous lot) so don’t want it to be an issue. Mostly trying to work out if they’re right and it’s ‘slightly’ over the border or just ‘they are CFs’ 🤣

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DealForTheKids · 03/09/2026 19:07

RVectensian · 03/09/2026 19:05

If it is a joint dropped kerb, could you not get round behind it? Is there a blockage on the right hand side?

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Right hand side has a low wall, but is also a raised kerb anyway. Everything right of the blue line is ‘buggering your suspension’ territory. The joint kerb is between us and the house on the left (the drive mostly blocked by the car).

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WonderingAndOverthinking · 03/09/2026 19:06

Sorry, I cross posted with you.

WonderingAndOverthinking · 03/09/2026 19:06

DealForTheKids · 03/09/2026 18:59

Thanks. We did. This was at 8am and we needed to get DH to work and DD to school. No one answered the door or the phone. Car finally moved at 1pm.

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That is so rude and inconsiderate of them. Are they the kind of people you could mention it to in passing?

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DealForTheKids · 03/09/2026 19:06

hotmumshit · 03/09/2026 19:02

Has it been moved permenantly

Hopefully it was a one off but you are definitely not being unreasonable

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They’re new tenants - it’s an HMO (don’t get me started). 2 parking spaces for a house that’s been converted to have 6 bedrooms. We’ve had issues before so I was fair but firm in my message to them and the response was ‘I’m sorry we slightly edged over your boundary’.

We’ve had issues before with previous tenants of that house when DD was late to school (they parked over the boundary and then couldn’t be raised at 8am when we needed to leave because of sleeping off hangovers) so I am trying to set expectations early… I’m just a bit enraged by the suggestion it was ‘slightly’ over the boundary.

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RVectensian · 03/09/2026 19:05

If it is a joint dropped kerb, could you not get round behind it? Is there a blockage on the right hand side?

hotmumshit · 03/09/2026 19:02

DealForTheKids · 03/09/2026 18:59

Thanks. We did. This was at 8am and we needed to get DH to work and DD to school. No one answered the door or the phone. Car finally moved at 1pm.

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Has it been moved permenantly

Hopefully it was a one off but you are definitely not being unreasonable

Ablondiebutagoody · 03/09/2026 18:59

Really ignorant of them. They need to move it.

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DealForTheKids · 03/09/2026 18:59

WonderingAndOverthinking · 03/09/2026 18:57

I’d be knocking their door if I needed to get on/off my drive.

Thanks. We did. This was at 8am and we needed to get DH to work and DD to school. No one answered the door or the phone. Car finally moved at 1pm.

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WonderingAndOverthinking · 03/09/2026 18:57

I’d be knocking their door if I needed to get on/off my drive.

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DealForTheKids · 03/09/2026 18:56

(Hopefully photo gets approved soon…)

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