My parking is blocking his view!

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So, the neighbor has just asked DH to stop parking outside the house as it blocks his view! The front of our house joins the side of his house and apparently, that is where his lounge is. So when we park there, he can see our car from his chair and he doesn’t like it. DH explained that we have too small kids to get in and out of the car and so we won’t be parking further up the street and apparently we aren’t being neighbourly!
To be clear, we don’t park in front of his house, we park at the side which is also (partly) in front of our own house.
He has said he doesn’t want to have to phone the police? He is being ridiculous right?

Can you park car 1 behind car 2?

He is being ridiculous.

Ignore.

Dh got this from a woman in a flat on our street (only on street parking) Our car "blocked her view". Dh pointed out that her window was above the height of our car and her view was the houses opposite. She took to banging on the window and then leaving notes which got more and more irate.(the kids were too noisy. He slammed the door. We should wash it! (All untrue except the last)) He would nod and wave. She too threatened the police. I think she did call them, because she went quiet and restricted it to dirty looks.

Surely if you don't park there, someone else will anyway?

Is it a good view?

I have to say I am very disappointed with that diagram.

I assumed that you were blocking a real view and was expecting to see either a snow capped mountain range, a tropical beach or the rolling plains of the Serengeti with obligatory wildebeest.

Could you buy some of those sticky panels people buy to decorate their wheelie bins and stick them on the side of your car that's facing him? As a bonus it would make your car very unattractive to car thieves.........

What do the three brown dots on the diagram represent?

He's being a GOM (grumpy old man) who has nothing better to do. Just smile and nod when he makes these demands and ignore him.

The police threats are ludicrous but your inconvenience would be minor to park one of your cars opposite or the other side of car 2.

Views from domestic dwellings aren't protected, it might be neighbourly to park in the drive when you can but it's certainly not a police matter if you don't.

If you're legally parked then that's legally fine, but personally I can't blame him for not liking it. Ex NDN did this with a van - had space on own drive but obviously preferred to not look out on the van from their own house so parked it on the road in front of our house?! and although I never said anything I secretly hated him for it. Also a different NDN had space for parking for about 3 cars on their drive but always chose to park it on the bit of the drive directly facing our lounge window because they were being lazy and it was easiest to drive into and didn't require a tiny bit of straightening up, meaning that every time they drove up they got a full view of me or my family in our lounge sitting on the sofa minding our own business/eating a TV dinner/whatever. Same for when they came back to the car, they'd approach it from the back so they were walking up to our lounge window as it were, That pissed me off too. They were nice as it happens, but it was not considerate parking.

If I park behind car 2 then next door cannot parking in front of their house and they have a baby so that isn’t fair.
Funny enough, on the occasions we have had to park opposite his house because a neighbour has parked in front of ours, we have had notes put on saying it was blocking the view coming out the end of the street. So we can’t park their either.
He will have to suck it up!

is there a nice view beyond your car?
did you say you have a drive and you don't use it?

Our old neighbour used to park- on the street- in front of our living room windows. He had no drive, we parked two cars on our own drive.
I HATED his blue cars outside our window BUT I would never dream of telling him he couldn’t park there ...even though we hated him as he often parked over our drive, had his TV on so high we could watch TV with our volume off and he moaned about the smell when we -ONCE IN 4 fucking years Bob-had a BBQ...neighbourly relations are everything. If you can park elsewhere then why wouldn’t you?

Are you saying BOTH cars 1 AND 2 are your cars?

The view is another house! And I can’t park opposite where I park my car as there are drives and I would be blocking people in.
The opposite I mean is opposite the long side of his house on diagram.
Yes it is a mild inconvenience for me, and if I was preventing him parking I would oblige. But why should I walk my 2 kids across a road to save his view of another house!

No I don’t have a drive. Both cars are ours yes.

As per the conclusions of another thread, it's a little antisocial to have more cars than you can park without pissing other people off.

Look, is it really worth it?

It won't kill you to park somewhere else from time to time.
He might not have a legal right to his view, but really, you could compromise.

One of my neighbours asked us not to park in front of her house because her elderly mum likes to sit and watch the read, so we didn't park there.

www.bannerworld.co.uk/product/event-banner-510gsm/

These people stick anything you want on a banner

www.google.com/search?q=nice+view&client=safari&channel=iphone_bm&prmd=imvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiToZvD9bTiAhVYAWMBHQxYDYoQ_AUIEigB&biw=414&bih=595#imgrc=18ErWMuw6A7eJM

Get this view on banner and place in side of car

He can’t complain then 😉

Have you got dc? Get them to draw some scenic pictures and blu tac them inside your car windows!

Show him this

Definitely let him call the police, that’ll fix it when they put him right.

What so good about 'the view'. Is it amazing.

It's in your gift to make someone who presumably has not got much going on in their lives happier, so why wouldn't you park one of your cars fractionally further away from your home?

I think he's right, prove me wrong with a diagram.

Is a particularly ugly rust bucket of a car, or one of those energy company bright yellow minis or something? Perhaps you could buy him a big poster of a nice view to put up in his window!