Neighbours obstructing my driveway: to box them in?

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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.

Omg! Diagram! Love your diagram. How did that get changed!

I suspect A is going to be very aggressive when they appear.

Really sucks how one crappy neighbour can ruin it all on a street with their entitled idiocy.

@CurlyhairedAssassin if people don’t extend their driveway and park there, they’d be parking in the road instead. So there would be no more space available to park for anyone else.

Re the elderly and disabled.
they live there or have family living there and it’s much better for them to be able to park right in front of the house they’re visiting or living in. Aka to have a bigger driveway.
And more to the point, there will be more parking space for them to do so (space on the driveway plus space on the road) rather than the original position which was space on the road only. As you rightly pointed out.

Id say it’s a plus for the elderly and disabled wanting to visit tbh.
And if abled people use that space and the disabled person has to walk 15 mins, it simply says a lot about the abled person who didn’t want to give up their parking spot….

When you came home, could you have got onto your drive by going between A's car on the road and DH's car on the drive (along the red lines that I've added to your pic)? Or was it impossible, or nearly impossible, to get into your drive?

I think that makes quite a difference, but then DP and I are both very averse to conflict and tend to try to avoid provoking people — especially somewhat anti-social people, like A seems to be. (Yes, we are cowards.)

Looking forward to the update!

Good for you OP - cf parkers have to live with the consequence of their actions. Definitely do not move your car to let him out.

NDN and I once blocked in a bloke who had inexplicably parked across her driveway. He literally parked his car there, (despite living about 5 minutes walk from our street) and wandered off for the day. We blocked him in and then lay laughing in our respective beds watching him doing a million tiny forwards and backwards manoeuvres at midnight on our Ring apps to try and get out of the space whilst texting each other with updates. He’s never done it again.

Cat tax picture needed please.

I'm loving the drawing of you with your dog 😂😂

Yanbu either!

Park car in red place and tell them you don't have access to arrowed car, so move!

I'm not sure I'd want to spend that much money just to spite a neighbour even if I didn't like them. To clarify I don't like mine.

OP doubled her driveway by getting rid of her garden...

Nobody was parking on her garden.

@Dyslexiateacherpost88 I have an update!

He came around about 30 minutes ago and asked if I could move my car so they could get out as they were boxed in. I said no - didn't offer any excuses. He huffed and puffed and asked again. I said no again and then offered my apologies and said I was very busy cooking dinner (Chuchvara for those who are interested) and shut the door in his face.

About 10 minutes later the whole family left by foot to go to wherever they go on a Saturday afternoon.

He will be back again, I am sure, and I will be ready.

Brilliant diagram, brilliant update. Stay strong OP. This man sounds like a total idiot.

A sounds like a prick

What on earth is he putting in these numerous skips?

Well played OP! 👏

Proud of you OP

OP, you win for best diagram. Really made me chuckle. Good luck with the neighbour, I hope he gets the msg.

Oh op you are my hero.

Also your dinner sounds delicious!

This thread is marvellous. Twatty neighbour with some top tier CF behaviour, a great diagram with superb added details (the dog and the cat, mainly!) and an op who has done that which we all want to when someone is being a CF. Well done on taking ‘no is a complete sentence’ to heart 😂

That Mumsnet thing that ‘no’ is a complete sentence - you really took that to heart didn’t you? 😂

No way! You are the woman I aspire to be. Good for you.

How did you get permission for a double-width dropped kerb? Our council only allows single-width, even if the drive can accommodate more than one car, so that the remaining frontage is left free for on-street parking.

I get it now. I only have a single driveway, but a neighbour from up the side (with no road access) would have visitors who parked in the bay in front of my driveway and go right up to the end of it, as if that were giving me room to get in and out. (Nope. They were parked over the entrance to half my drive. NB Driveway and dropped kerb was put in before I moved in and was all legal.)

My late husband was disabled, and I'd finish up having to abandon my car in the middle of the road, get him in the house and then find a way to park up.

Whenever possible, I'd block in the miscreants.

Enjoy your wine, OP.

There’s nothing to stop other neighbours doing this if they want though is there ? Why should OP inconvenience herself for people who don’t seem to care how much they inconvenience her.