Parking annoyance

[DownstairsMixUp]

Sorry about the crappy diagram 😂

Ours is the smiley house. Just to make it clear the other side of the arse hole house is a park and a lake.

We each get two allocated bays each, the space behind us is for reversing in and out of our spaces (this is clarified in all the plans etc when we bought the house and it is not for parking whatsoever) all parking areas are marked. We've got a visitor bay by our house and there's some others about less than a minute away to. I've never seen them used as all the houses are different. Ours are terraced so we only have two bays each but the bigger houses near by have garages and space for 3-4 cars on their drive plus visitor bays dotted all over the estate. Very generous parking here.

So the neighbours on one side of me (end of terraced that have the cross in their house) refuse to use the allocated visitor bays/any off road parking for their visitors. The visitors will always park behind their two bays meaning it's an absolute pita getting in and out. Everytime we see them parked there the visitor bays are empty. Both me and my husband have asked politely if they would use the visitor bays as it just makes it super awkward for us.

We moved here in March and it's still happening. Neighbour has a cabin in her garden where she does beauty treatments so lately it's got worse and there's sometimes two cars parked behind their two bays plus one directly behind ours to so we've actually had to knock to get them to move (twice they've been locked in cabin and not heard) part of my job is I can have to leave at short notice and It really is a massive pain in the arse.

So we've contacted the people who built the estate (new build) who are great and have sent letters out within a week when we've complained and been really sympathetic.

So again, the same car is there tonight. Yesterday we got in and saw the neighbours had one of their bays free plus the visitor bay was empty. My husband politely asked could she use one of the free bays as I was going out shortly and she laughed and just walked back in the house!

So what would you do now? We've tried the polite route. All parking areas are marked as said above, they really are obviously not in any way shape or form a parking area. Also the people in the flats kitchen windows are there and they are also sick of cars just being plonked outside constantly to, one actually parked it the other night and left it running for ten minutes (think to warm it up)

I know you love a parking thread! Suggestions?

The area behind our spaces are "reversing areas" basically and there's side access for the flats where they collect letters store bikes etc. The main bug bear from the flats is some of them with Prams etc have to squeeze past two cars at times to get out of the estate (we are at a dead end because of the lake and park) and it's really not fair.

So anyone know what she would need to set up a business from home? She's built a cabin for the sole purpose of beauty treatments and it's all advertised on Facebook etc: do they need any permission from the council as there's nothing on there. I have reported the business via their website about the issues it's causing us.

Is there anything on your deeds about setting up businesses? A covenant or something. (Sorry don't know the proper terms)

I think I mean a restrictive covenant??? Not sure

Yes either call the council and ask or look on your deeds at the restrictive covenants. It usually says on there is it's prohibited

Where I live you need planning permission to run a business. If it's likely to cause any issues, the council won't grant it.

We had a similar issue with a neighbour. We tried the nice route. Didn't work as rules don't apply to him apparently. The council ended up taking him to court as he persisted despite being told to desist. It did take 18 months though.