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Neighbours obstructing my driveway: to box them in?

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PoliticalPossum · 30/11/2024 11:24

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.

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hcee19 · 01/12/2024 19:37

It is illegal to block someone's driveway. As them politely to move it , or you will get it towed away. There is no way l would put up with their bad behaviour. If you don't tackle this, the more they will do it, as they presume you aren't bothered. Good luck

BrightLeader · 01/12/2024 19:57

Can empathise we also have parking wars on our street
Some neighbour's jdgad

shehasglasses48 · 01/12/2024 20:28

SometimesCalmPerson · 30/11/2024 11:39

I’m torn on this. Obviously is cheeky and wrong to block someone’s driveway, but then I also think it’s cheeky to double the size of your driveway when you live in a cul de sac because you are effectively robbing all your neighbours of being able to use the space on a public bit of road when needed.

Why?

sleepwouldbenice · 01/12/2024 20:55

SometimesCalmPerson · 30/11/2024 11:39

I’m torn on this. Obviously is cheeky and wrong to block someone’s driveway, but then I also think it’s cheeky to double the size of your driveway when you live in a cul de sac because you are effectively robbing all your neighbours of being able to use the space on a public bit of road when needed.

Although I agree with the OP that what her CF neighbours did was wrong I do agree about the fact that you have taken a shared parking space for your exclusive us

We live in a cul de sac

Neighbours paved their front lawn. Previously they could fit 3 cars on their driveway. Now they can squeeze 6 on at a push due to angles. They only did it because they wanted to not have to move ine car to back the other one out or get the pushchair out apparently. So no it hasn't taken a car off the road and the rest of us have lost about 1.5 shared spaces due to the angles

And again due to the angles of gardens and drives on a small cul de sac layout, everyone else can't do the same. One house has lamppost there, the others can't due to the angles

Also it's presumptuous to think others can afford to do this or want to

So yep they are prats and this, along with general swearing and ranting, is the reason no one speaks to them

Trishthedish · 01/12/2024 21:04

Call out parking enforcement. Photograph the illegal parking with number plate as evidence. The parking enforcement officer will ticket them and that should sort it.

saffronspices · 01/12/2024 23:01

We've had 6 years of parking wars but instead of neighbours being reasonable and utulising the space they've actually got, they plot together against us - we're in the middle - no drive - they both have drives. All the neighbours have joined in even though it's nothing to do with them & they don't have parking issues.

It's just stupid people basically, they've all been here longer - and? It's funny watching what they do to wind us up but we just laugh at them now, it's actually been horrendous.

JoeGrundyWasMyRoleModel · 12/12/2024 12:12

Rosscameasdoody · 01/12/2024 14:10

Not really understanding why some posters are criticising those who sacrifice their front gardens to accommodate parking and pay to have a dropped kerb. Yes it restricts parking a bit because you can’t park over a dropped kerb, but there’s nothing to stop others from doing the same thing. There was a similar thread a while back and on doing a bit of googling, it appears you can park across a dropped kerb in front of a private driveway as long as there’s no car on the drive. The offence is not a parking one, it’s preventing access to a public highway, so if there’s a car there, you’re committing an offence, if there isn’t, you’re not. I looked on our council website and they confirm this, although they say that they will only take action in certain circumstances unless the offender is blocking access for emergency vehicles.

Our council definitely fines you for parking across a dropped kerb. In our controlled parking zone they even paint yellow lines in the road adjacent to the dropped kerb. One street of about 80 houses even has the ridiculous situation of four houses that have dropped kerbs but no drive, every time the road markings are repainted the dropped kerbs get a yellow line.

Bologneselove · 12/12/2024 12:22

saffronspices · 01/12/2024 23:01

We've had 6 years of parking wars but instead of neighbours being reasonable and utulising the space they've actually got, they plot together against us - we're in the middle - no drive - they both have drives. All the neighbours have joined in even though it's nothing to do with them & they don't have parking issues.

It's just stupid people basically, they've all been here longer - and? It's funny watching what they do to wind us up but we just laugh at them now, it's actually been horrendous.

We had the same issue which was a nightmare as they’d park on the street leaving their drive clear for family visiting. No consideration for us, despite my husband having poor mobility. Finally decided to bite the bullet get a dropped curb with off street parking. Unbelievably these same neighbours repeated parked across the dropped curb and made complaints to the council which was squashed as it was legally installed. Ended up with ‘h’ markings applied which has now resolved the situation. Unreal how selfish neighbours can be. Highly recommend doing what we did as it was the only way to guarantee parking.

sleepwouldbenice · 12/12/2024 12:31

Bologneselove · 12/12/2024 12:22

We had the same issue which was a nightmare as they’d park on the street leaving their drive clear for family visiting. No consideration for us, despite my husband having poor mobility. Finally decided to bite the bullet get a dropped curb with off street parking. Unbelievably these same neighbours repeated parked across the dropped curb and made complaints to the council which was squashed as it was legally installed. Ended up with ‘h’ markings applied which has now resolved the situation. Unreal how selfish neighbours can be. Highly recommend doing what we did as it was the only way to guarantee parking.

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Please see my post a few down from yours.
In our case everyone had amicably and fairly shared the on street parking for years

New neighbours just came and took it for themselves with little chance for others to do the same
Depending on the road layout it can be really selfish. They already had a big driveway as well

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