Our house is link detached with next door, houses detached but garages attached, separate drive ways one dropped kerb if that makes sense. It's a totally residential street, the business is run from next doors garage. We have lived here 6 years, the business was there already so we did know that when buying. However DH & I were out at work all day & it wasn't until I went on maternity leave 3 years ago & was around during the day that I realised how many people to come to the business to collect things & realised 90% of these park over our drive, since then it drove me mad, I've spoke to next door about it & they've said they ask people to not pull over our access (not sure if I believe this our not) but it hasn't helped at all. I've spoken to the local council & police, I've recorded details (sometimes it happen 15 times in one day) I was told I could call for a traffic warden when it was blocked however by the time they arrived the car would have left. At first I did think I was over reacting, if people are picking something up admittedly they could only be there 5 minutes but what's to say that's not the same 5 minute window DH or I need to be in or out in the car?
At the advice of the council highways department I paid to have a white line drawn over our drive & ending at the join to their driveway - at the cost of £280 no less, which again hasn't made a difference.
Another neighbour actually reported them to the council some years ago (wasn't me) & due to this they now pay business rates which means they have a separate bin collection to the rest of the street, this is collected at 5:30 every Friday morning with the bin wagon running outside our bedroom window which DH is fuming about.
It's gone on for so long now that I'm reaching the end of my tethering & any advice on how to proceed would appreciated, I do actually get on with them however if it comes to it don't have a problem with falling out!
The icing on the cake is that the guy who's business it isn't actually our neighbour, he doesn't live here, just runs his business from his mothers house, she lives alone after her husband died 4 years ago.
It seems to be a successful business & he has a lot of equipment & machinery, he had a large shed come office built in the garden last year. AIBU to think that if it's doing well he should rent a unit on the industrial estate & not be running it from a residential area?