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To wish neighbours would not be so scrupulous about only parking in front of their own house?

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SixImpossible · 08/04/2014 14:52

Well, not actually the neighbours themselves, but their frequent guests.

We live in a small close, so small that we don't have a turning circle. The whole close is a turning circle. Every house has driveway for one car, some for two cars. There are almost always one or two cars parked on the close as well.

For the houses in the bottom half of the close, leaving involves a careful 2-point turn reversing manoeuvre between the parked cars. Perfectly do-able as long one particular spot is left empty. Unfortunately, that spot is outside a house where the visitors are always scrupulously careful to park only in front of the house they are visiting!

I am the most affected neighbour, because my MPV turns like a bus. The neighbour between us isn't bothered because he has a smaller car. But the place I'd like the visitors to park in is opposite his house.

WIBBU to ask for further neighbour's visitors to park outside nearer neighbour's house?

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SixImpossible · 09/04/2014 00:23

Rough diagram, as requested.

I live at the bottom point. It is not possible to drive past my house. The close is so small that the only way to turn around is by 3-point-style turns, using the points if the triangular road space.

There is often a car at each cross, with the neighbour's guests at the green cross. The position of the NG's car only matters when there is a car at either of the other crosses, because then any car trying to turn around has to swing out past the other cars. If the NG's car was just 2-3 metres further forward - nearer the centre of that sude of the triangle - it would make such a difference.

To wish neighbours would not be so scrupulous about only parking in front of their own house?
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