Ok I'll try to explain as best I can.
I live in a semi detached house on a private bit of land with just 3 houses. It's set back off the road and each house has a long driveway with enough space for two cars, opposite but off road is a patch of no mans land for extra/visitor parking. Big enough for 2-3 cars. Plenty of street parking too.
For years now I've lived alone so just my car on drive. The neighbours have I suppose took liberties with the parking in that both ndn and their ndn have constantly had extra cars belonging to people who don't live there. Or friends who stay for a while. I'm talking old damaged cars and vans that are off the road, often with no wheels, covered in moss, supposed to be projects but eventually after 6-12 months of rotting they've gone to the scrap man. These extra cars have been left on their drives or on the no mans land bit. I've also found that neighbours often don't use their drives and just park on no mans land. They are not in the car trade business.
Anyway, my dp is moving in soon and has his own car and a work van.
Our plan was to put our cars on the drive and have the van on no mans land as dp is at work from very early am until 6-7pm.
This hasn't happened yet but ndn is possibly complaining and has asked for dp to put his car on their drive. I suspect that ndn doesn't want us using the extra parking but ndn only has one car belonging to the actual residents in the house so will still be driveway space plus the extra parking which is first come first served.
Dp doesn't want to put his car on ndn drive as he doesn't want to have to knock every time he wants to use his car which I can understand.
I don't want to upset ndn as we get on but I suspect ndn could change quickly if upset as has had several arguments with other neighbour. I feel stuck in the middle dp thinks ndn has a cheek.
We may decide in a few months we don't want two cars, we hope to move house in 12-18 months to a different area.
Who is bu?