Neighbours obstructing my driveway: to box them in?

[PoliticalPossum]

Neighbours have form for this. Cul-de-sac that leads into a 40mph main road - so people don’t want to park on main road (even though they absolutely can and many do). Each driveway has space for one car, except mine as we have space for two cars after we extended driveway (removing entire front garden) and dropped curb. All legal.

Came back from my morning dog walk to find neighbour A (who I dislike on principle as they often have crap log cutting equipment for their wood burner or skips on their driveway and so end up causing chaos by obstructing driveways) have fully obstructed one side of my driveway (having parked bumper to bonnet - literally touching - other neighbour B who I really like car). DH parked on driveway. I’ve just parked across my driveway bumper to bonnet with neighbours A, who watched me do it.

They’ll need to go out soon, I know from experience (they always go out about midday on a Saturday). I know Neighbour B is out all day so it’ll be me who needs to move. Needless to say I won’t be.

I’m so damn sick of them. No one else on the road (15 houses!!!) does this. Just them. Every bloody day.

He's a CF! Needs to use or park in front of his own driveway! I'd be in the bath, with wine and a book, and I'd turn off the doorbell too .... well keep it recording g if it's a Ring though

@PoliticalPossum why on earth didn’t they park in their side of the road? In front of their own driveway for example
Is it because the road is too narrow so cars can only park on one side of the road?

Absolute CFs they are. No doubt about it. It’s blatantly your drive way (excellent drawing) and he can move his piles of crap and park on his drive

Why do neighbours B and C not park on their driveways? Why is B parked outside yours rather than outside or opposite their own house?

Go on a nice long walk they can absolutely naff off, try and see the fun in it if you can. Make sure you do the same next weekend! 😂

Where was your car parked while you were out for a dog walk? Was it on the drive but you were still able to manoeuvre off to block car A in or was it parked in the cul de sac outside someone else's drive?

Depending on where you live, they can be penalised for parking across your dropped kerb.
This is Newcastle Council, for example, who will issue a fixed penalty fine.

Take the dog (or cat) to the pub and get wasted!!!

Definitely time to go out, or to watch a film in bed with headphones in.

Neighbours A and B could park up their own drives really. But C is a twat.

To answer a few questions:

All neighbours have more than one car, except A who has one car but always has crap on their driveway and so cannot park on it.

Really narrow road - tbh even with cars on one side it can be a bit of a squeeze if they're not completely against the curb!

B parks outside our house because A used to park there. C will also sometimes park there. This is (I think but cannot prove) because A got a sodding BMWX6 (which you can't sodding see through when you're trying to get out of the road or pull in from the main road) and there were several near misses where people pulled into the road on the wrong side (because B was parked there) and nearly hit pedestrians crossing or cars coming up (because they couldn't see them through A's fucking car). Now most of the neighbours will park there if the space is empty, I presume, to stop A parking there.

I went out in my car with the dog (Saturday is exciting walk day at the local deer park!) hence why half my drive was empty!

Awesome diagram OP.

Nice cats are always relevant 👍

Definitely wine o'clock.

But without doing this, OP's car would be on the road taking up a space so it really makes no difference?

But it seems odd that people can in effect permanently take over an on-street parking space, leaving fewer for other residents.

Great diagram, love that next door have a lovely cat!

Same thing happened when the houses were originally built with one drive. Who decides where the line is drawn?

That is beyond cheeky to make your own driveway unparkable and then block the access to someone else’s.

I think the thing that tips it over in absolutely cut and dried CFery is that he has a drive he could park on but can’t use it because it’s covered in his shit and he’s too lazy to clear up. Continue to BTB.

But if OP has council approval for a dropped kerb - which she says she has - then the council will have already looked at position and impact when providing approval.

Nice diagram, but the cat isn’t on it!
We get this, near drop off point for school. People actually park on our driveway blocking the entrance - space for three cars on our drive if not blocked. Then the CFs sit in car before walking to school, then dawdle back twenty minutes later with kids in tow. DD arrived for visit last week and CFs car was blocking entrance to other space, so she parked behind it, blocking them. Then she came in, left her keys and said she was walking to her friends. I was going out too, so we locked up and left.
She arrived back before me, found CFs car still there but no CF. She drove off home. I got back at about six, started dinner in kitchen, heard a car drive off, nosed through window and CF was reversing out of drive, looking very pissed off! They haven’t done it again. Funny that.

SUPERB diagram.

This. There is a road near mine with all the houses in a type of long terrace situation with small front gardens. But just about everyone has removed their front fence or wall and made dropped kerbs. What it means is that there is literally nowhere for ANYONE else to park, as even parking on the road, a public highway, it means they are blocking someone's driveway. It's very unfair as it means the residents of the house can still park on the road in front of their own house as well as their driveway (or even instead of!) if they want to, or let their visitors do it, but no other members of the public can. It's very difficult if more than one car wants to visit one of those houses as there literally is nowhere to park without walking 15 minutes away. Very hard on elderly people or those with a physical disability or other medical issue, or young children.

Any update OP? Edge of seat stuff. Love your fragrance.