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?

so he has a garage and a drive but you don't have any allocated parking for your house ?

The police hes crackers tell him to do it right in front of you-some people

Why should op park anywhere else if its a public road

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.

Same here - watching the magnificent prides of lions stalk the rolling herds of hartebeest (we don't get wildebeest in the North East - too many nettles) across the wide open football fields is my greatest joy - I hate it when some bugger leaves a van in the way.

Print out a copy of hunter v Canary Wharf and stick it through his post box.

I'm with him on this. You are not parked illegally, but it's not great having a car blocking the light into your sitting room (is it the main/only window for that room?) and not pleasant to have that looming at you just outside your window.
At the end of the day, if you want to park there, there is nothing to stop you, but it would be considerate, at least some of the time to park elsewhere, especially if your neighbour is in his sitting room most afternoons, making it a correspondingly big issue for him.

No susie, His garage is about 10 feet from his house and there is a parking space outside it. No drive but plenty of space across from his front door that he could use if he needed to.
We have no garage.

Rumboogie, most of the afternoon, we aren't even in! We are only there from 6/7/8pm (depending on activities) to 8am.
He has the view alllll day until we get home.

Could you park on his drive, use his garage? With his permission if he is not using it.

I don't think you are being unreasonable at all.

How about you park there when it is dark, then, but not in the summer when it is light? Or something?

Your NDN is right, you are not being "neighbourly".

I wonder if you live near me OP, you've drawn a diagram of and are exactly describing my house and parking situation! However, you don't live next to me as you don't match the description!

I'm afraid I am 'him' and my neighbour has very regular family visitors who park in the exact same spot as you. Gives me the absolute rage! I don't want to look at the view, but I also don't want to have your car right there in my window!!!

However, I am a reasonable person and realise its a public road so there's nothing I can do and haven't complained, I just seethe silently every time!!

I can't believe some of the responses on here.
Hilarious. The road is public and no one has a right to any 'space'. He complains if you park outside the front of his house and he complains if you park at the side of his house. You are trying to be considerate of your other ndn with small children by not parking outside their house because they have a car they need to park somewhere on the street (whereas he has a driveway and garage).

So what people are saying is that to not upset him by parking on the PUBLIC street at the SIDE of his house for a COUPLE OF HOURS before DARKNESS in the evenings (so as not to partially block his view of some HOUSES) from one window in his house, you have to park quite a long way down the street in either direction, including one way being across a road. And then transport all your shopping, small children and associated paraphernalia in multiple trips leaving your child alone for longer than necessary when there is space directly outside your house that no one else is parking in?

Yep, it's definitely you being selfish and inconsiderate 😂

1. You are terrible at diagrams.

2. That is all.

Some of the posts on here are batshit - OP is parking perfectly legally on the street and people are telling her she is wrong and should schlep a longer distance from up the road with a toddler and stuff (which may mean leaving her toddler in the house or car alone when she has shopping etc) all to preserve her neighbour's view of the house opposite!

Only on MN are people this nuts and actually think this is a reasonable request.

Yes, Potatoe OP's DD isn't going to be 3 forever and she'll have to live alongside the NDN for a while.

Sometimes a compromise makes things so much easier in the long term. That's all. She doesn't have to, but it will show a lot of goodwill if she tries to be neighbourly.

Why is the onus on OP to be neighbourly?! What about the neighbour being neighbourly by not complaining and causing an uncomfortable atmosphere by being difficult about OP doing something perfectly normal and legal?!

What is this wonderful view you are blocking? A view of the sea, or just the row of houses across the way. If it's houses/shops/businesses, then he's jusy being a moany begger.

I've spent today looking out of our lounge window at a huge white sprinter van! There is also another van parked a bit further down and I can't easily see to get out of my drive (they're not parked badly, I just can't see past them without edging out onto a reasonably busy road).

I can't grumble though, we chose to buy a house with nearby neighbours on a public road. Anyone can park outside our house and block the light into our lounge. It may or may not be annoying, but if it's a problem we should move to somewhere with limited neighbours and a long driveway

Why is the onus on OP to be neighbourly?!
What about the neighbour being neighbourly by not complaining and causing an uncomfortable atmosphere by being difficult about OP doing something perfectly normal and legal?!

It really isn't un-neighbourly or in any way unreasonable of him to ask.

OP's on here getting the hump because she's upset someone by being a little tiny bit selfish, and doesn't like how that feels.

If asked me to do something that would impact on me so little, I'd do it, because, well, why not?

YANBU. And actually, I would thank you if I lived in the house opposite him because I wouldn't want him staring at us from his window all the time!

Ah I think you’re being slightly unreasonable to be honest! And I mean that in a kind way. I wouldnt want to look at a car all night either, and think it’s a normal request. It would be neighbourly to say yes :)

I fixed your diagram op.

He doesn't own the road - op doesn't have to compromise. She's perfectly within her right to park there and no doubt if she didn't someone else would, so it's unlikely the dickhead neighbour's issue would be solved. If he's that much of a twat you're best off not having anything to do with him, as sure as hell he'd find something else to moan about if you did give in to his unreasonable request to park elsewhere.

I can't believe some of the replies on here, surely most people who look out at the road outside their house will be looking at a parked car?

YABVU with the quality of your diagram - it's confusing everyone.

Of course yanbu re the parking. She will be in someone's way wherever she parks. He just needs to grow a bush- that's what DPs have and it works very well

Tell him if he wanted an unobstructed view out of his house he should have bought a detached house with its own drive.