Another dramatic parking one…

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I’ll promise I will draw you all the diagram in the morning as I know it’s expected…

So, next door neighbour has 3 cars plus a constant stream of visitors, one car is on their driveway and hasn’t moved in about a year. The other two cars are parked outside their house.
One is over their dropped kerb which makes parking right outside mine and my other next door neighbours houses difficult, the other is usually dumped in the road. (To confirm that they are inconsiderate and think they own the road)

If I am parked outside my house, the car blocking their driveway cannot fit as otherwise my nice next door neighbour cannot fit their car on if I move forward. They have began making passive aggressive comments whenever I leave my house, never to my face though, and disappear if I turn to respond.

The thing is I’m not doing anything illegal by parking there, but I’m pretty sure parking on a dropped kerb is illegal? Plus they have a driveway they could use if they remove the car that is never driven. They are the only house with a driveway on the road, parking is very tight as it is. Yet they always insist on picking ‘my spot’ even when there are sometimes free spaces elsewhere.

They have now become petty by parking slightly over ‘my spot‘ so I have to move forward or find somewhere else if my other neighbour is parked there. I’ve also been blocked in by their car parked alongside me and almost missed an antenatal appointment. They watch me struggle up the hill with my baby in the car seat plus shopping and never say a word or offer to move their car.

It’s got to the point where I stupidly feel quite intimidated. They watch me leave the house and return. I’ve seen on my ring doorbell they deliberately reverse their car to block the path as soon as I drive away. I don’t understand why they’re so angry about me parking one car where it’s convenient for me, when they usually have 4-6 cars blocking the road each day. I’m at the end of my tether now and I’m not sure what to do. They aren’t the type of people to talk and find a resolution and reporting them will make things so much worse.

Is there anything I can legally do to prevent this?
(I’m not allowed a driveway and they’d just block me on it if I could)
thanks

You don't have a spot.

They can park anywhere they like in the road just as you can as long as they don't violate any parking restrictions. This means avoiding parking on yellow lines (especially double yellow lines), white lines, or in front of driveways.

They can park outside someone's house unless they are blocking their driveway or a wheel is over a dropped kerb.

They are allowed park in front of a dropped kerb but not on it as per pavement parking restrictions. So if they are actually on it you could report them. And let them know anytime they are actually blocking you in of course. I get the feeling that reporting them will not help the situation but that doesn’t necessarily mean you shouldn’t do it.
Otherwise they are allowed to park where they like as long as it’s legal.
Are you sure they are completely unapproachable as regards sorting this? Take someone with you and ask if you could have friendly chat about trying to resolve the situation. If that’s not possible or doesn’t get you anywhere, you’re going to have to learn to live with it, report anything that’s illegal or move.

I think if it is their drop kerb for access to their drive they park on the road by the drop kerb

Feel your frustrations!
Long story short my neighbour ‘claimed’ a spot outside my house for many years before I moved in and went unchallenged. In the space of a year they went from 1 car and van to 4 cars and 2 vans!

believe it or not now he purely has one car he literally uses to claim his spot if they go out. It’s a real family affair like a military operation especially at half 6 in the morning 🤣
there’s nothing I can really say or do as no one owns this space however me and my other neighbour are quite fortunate to have very large front gardens unlike them and made a pact and will be simultaneously expanding our drop kerbs and drives (planning permission already granted) just for giggles, so for now I just watch at their efforts and looking forward to the faces when we do officially claim these spots

Can you squeeze a driveway in for yourself

Where’s the promised diagram !

you don’t have a spot I’m afraid.
why can’t you get a drive put in like they have ?

You parking outside your house inconveniences them, them parking outside their house inconveniences you. It's first come first served. You both bought cars knowing you didn't have driveway space for them so you both take your chances with street parking.

Highly recommended turning your front garden if you have one into a drive. You have to get permission and pay the council to do the dropped curb but then no one is allowed to park to block it.

Re them parking over their dropped curb it is against regs if its also a pavement, the dropped curb is to help wheelchair users, buggies, etc to cross. However you've not a hope in hell of getting it enforced.

I agree with PP that you don't have a parking space but your neighbours also sound like dicks. Mine are a family of builders and park really big vans and pick ups there right up to both sides of the drop and opposite it making it really hard to get in and out of the drive. I don't think they are particularly dickish about it but it's bloody irritating.

"They watch me struggle up the hill with my baby in the car seat plus shopping"

Why are you doing this? Keep the car seat in the car, get a sling, babywear, then you'll have two hands free for carrying shopping to the house.

I always find it weird watching people carry babies IN car seats around, so bloody awkward and heavy. Much easier and lighter to keep car seats in the car and just carry baby or babywear.

Plllleeease make a live thread when you do this!

Deal!
I might have to start logging the efforts they go to first though? I think it’s the only way to truly understand how much this space means to them and the lengths they go to, which of course will add to the giggles at the end 🤣