This is our house and our neighbours. We live in a really busy road. Driveways are separated by a small wall thing, just one row of sort of decorative bricks. Serves no purpose at all apart from to show the boundary.
Driveways are long enough for 3 cars and one can fit in the garage, even though I have shown the garages completely the wrong shape. They are in fact normal sized and shaped garages. 2 cars each, the coloured in ones, the white boxes are just to show the size.
Anyway, neighbour is suggesting that if we removed the (very small) wall from between driveways we would both have space to 3 point turn our cars around so we would never have to wait ages to reverse our cars in or try to reverse out.
I think this is an excellent idea. We had considered removing some of our garden so we could do this. DH and I have measured it all-out and the neighbour is correct. DH actually measured the space and went off to Asda car park one evening to see if he could turn the car around in the space.
But I hear so many horror stories of neighbourly sharing going wrong. Hit me with all the potential disastrous outcomes here please. There must be something we haven't thought of.
It is only a tiny wall so I guess we could give it a go for 3 months or something and the wall would be easy enough to reinstate if it doesn't work out.
I'm really nervous though.
(The spaces are all really big, my diagram makes it look too squashed. We could probably squeeze 4 cars along the driveways if people parked right up against each other, they are just not very wide)