Blocked in

[elmofan]

We have a new neighbour next door , she only moved in on Sunday (rented house) . So far this week i have taken in three deliveries for her & her friends have blocked my driveway with their cars twice . Should i have a little word do you think or let it go ?
There is a car parked right across my driveway ATM & im on standby to collect dd early as she was not feeling too good going into school this morning , but if school phones i cannot get out , her school is 8 miles away so too far to walk .

Be careful not to get off on the wrong footing, though, it's easily done.

We had new neighbours move into the house backing on to ours. I popped round to say hello, started chatting to the wife and then mentioned that the trees on their side needed cutting back at some point. Unfortunately husband appeared at that moment, having missed the neighbourly welcome, and immediately started shouting at me for harrassing them when they had barely unpacked, and told me how rude I was. I was 8 months pg and fled in tears. I realise now I should have saved the trees for a later visit.....

We never spoke again, but luckily, the trees did get trimmed and we now live elsewhere!!!

IMO if you mention it now, you'll look daft - you should have made an excuse to pop out to the shops and asked them to move it - they can't really object to that! saying it now you look like someone who has been shut in her own home all morning too afraid to ask the neighbours friend to move their car, or someoen who complains about things even when they are not affecting them - ie complaining about the car being there today even though you obviously did not need to go out

just my humble opinion

next time you see them park there, nip out immediately and say cheerily, oh, do you think you could park somewhere else i'm going out in 10 minutes - then make sure you DO go out!

Dinah that link had me in stitches lol.
Will pm you if i need you to bring bessie over in future
Might just mention in passing the next i get to chat about how dire the parking is on the road & that some clowns people even park across driveways

Next time i get to chat.

I would also have gone round when car was there and made excuse for going out. Not that I think it is wrong to go and have a word at another time but personally I would find it easier to raise the subject while the 'evidence' was there.

I'm amazed at the number of posts where MN'ers are blocked into their driveways by cars parked over the driveway!!!!!!

Do you have a dropped kerb OP? I'd be over there pronto with an "Oi move it" message, possibly phrased more politely.

I'd also be fantasising/daydreaming about getting bull bars and big wheels attached to my car & exiting regardless of who is parked there.

Does your neighbour have a driveway? Is that already parked over?

And I don't think it matters if you want to go out or not - when you need to go out, for whatever reason, you need to go out and are perfectly entitled to do so without seeking permission from your neighbours visitors.

I'd be over for a purposeful chat about it quick smart - let her know it's bothering you and could she please ensure her guests don't park there. You can be direct and to the point without being nasty - keep a friendly tone. You really have no need to be apologetic about this.

Thanks. Yes have a dropped kerb outside driveway. Hoping they wont park there again but if they do ill knock in & ask them to move
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Have a word face to face! We just had a horrible thing happen, we've just moved in to a rented place and I was parking in the wrong bit, completely innocently, (never ever blocked them in or anything) and instead of talking to us they went to the letting agent complaining about it and various other things including DS making noise in the garden. Has made us feel very :( and worried and it would have been eleventy million times better if they had explained (in person, or just a note).

Aw Eric thats horrible & cowardly of them .

Elmo I know you've had problems in the past with nasty neighbours and people gossiping unfounded things but honey please have a word. It's completely reasonable to.

Oh dear I included "honey" automatically.

Disclaimer: I never go on netmums and have known Elmo for a while

PMSL Tea , yep i am Soooooooo un lucky with the neighbours i get .

AFAIK it is illegal to block someone in their drive so they can't get their car out, but not illegal to block the driveway so they can't get their car in. Someone further up the thread said it's both. Maybe it's changed since I was told that, but it makes sense: if you come home and can't get into your drive you can park someone else but if you can't get out in the first place you're stuffed.

It seems to be illegal to park over an area of dropped kerb - certainly the police round here do take action for that even if there is no car blocked in.

Elmo, stop pussyfooting about, first request is polite, second not so polite and in my case no third request but they had two flat tyres.

How about a sign as well