Blocking neighbour's car with bins

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I know I'm being petty and passive aggressive but am I being that U?
I live in a row of 6 flats and we have a small car park in front of homes just for us as all spaces are numbered. The neighbour who lives in the house opposite has her own drive yet she still takes it upon herself to park in our car park, and not even in an actual space, just a very awkward position so she is next to her drive but not on it. Over the two years we have all been here (new build so all moved in similar times) myself and at least 2 other neighbours have asked her nicely if she cannot park there as it's awkward for many of us getting in and out. She stopped for quite a few months, but last night my mum popped round to drop some bits off and couldn't stay as she said she can't park without hitting neighbours car, I've not had chance to see neighbour today but tonight when I was putting bins out for our 6 flats, she was parked there again. By now I was feeling rather angry, and quite petty so I barricaded her car in with all the bins and recycle boxes; was that really pathetic of me because now I've thought about it I'm feeling it was perhaps too far, but I can't be arsed going back out to move them so I guess I'd like someone to tell me I should leave them where they are to make me feel better

I like messages on her windshield to tell her to stop being selfish and obstructing traffic.

Also go back to the housing association and say she's been spoken to three times with no result.

AND tell your mum to park on this woman's drive every single time. She has blocked your space so you should take hers. And when she complains tell her just that.

Love threads like this.

Op yanbu but could you take a picture of outside showing the spaces outside your flat vs her house?

Just speak to her and say if it continues and you can't access your space you will tell people to use her drive since she doesn't seem to need it. Or get them to park in front of her car, blocking her in.

I have a lot of experience with neighbour disputes. if you have asked them not to do it and explained why, they have stopped and then re-started again, they are not ever going to change unless they become seriously inconvenienced. Not just a bit inconvenienced but really put out each and every time they park there. you going round to talk to them or getting letters from whoever will make absolutely no difference whatsoever to their behaviour.

You need to do something very definite to stop them parking there. not just bin blocking in put car stickers or blocking them in for several days. is your mum going on a holiday? could she just park and leave her car there for several days?

If you carry on doing little annoying things to them the only person who will get annoyed and wound up is you. it is very easy to become stressed out by something like this so save yourself the future stress, buy the stickers or block in the car for 3 days or whatever but do something like this sooner rather than later.

Get some of these printed up and slap them on at eye level every time she does it. No adhesive therefore not illegal. However, for fun, you could consider some of these as well

For extra fun, get some more with "Your wife is parking obnoxiously" and slap it n her husband's car as well

I would speak to her, rather than shifting bins around

Don't get me wrong OP totally on your side as this woman would piss me off too, however this blocking in with bins, it will only escalate things

she needs to KNOW she is upsetting people

You could add a few of these www.sillyjokes.co.uk/car-scratch and then add an anonymous note under her windscreen wipers saying "sorry about the bump, but it's REALLY hard to park when you leave your car here" and a nice PA sad face smilie.

she needs to KNOW she is upsetting people

She has already been told by the OP and2 other neighbours

when both cars are gone, get your mum to leave her car right at the end of their drive. Not illegal if you arent blocking someone in.

OP apologies if someone has already suggested it, but next time you talk to her how about saying something like' "you clearly love making sure nobody can use my parking space, so how about you rent it off me for £80pm?"

Why don't you park in front of her husband's car on his drive when he gets home from work?

Inconvenience him too and he might have a word with her.

Vaseline on wiper blades . With or without a note .

That is the most bloody stupid thing I've heard in ages

We used to have neighbours who parked very inconsiderately meaning it was often very difficult to get onto or off our drive - and it it wasn't them it was their friends.

What we did was go round to their house every single time and ask that the offending car/s moved so we could get in or out. They got pretty pissed off in the end and started parking elsewhere. Is that an option?

Go round and act all concerned. Say you are worried about her memory as she's parking in wrong place

Park on her drive?

I vote for thick marker pen on scrap paper. note underwindscreen wipers, visible to street, with comments such as..

I got lost when parking... my space is next door-->
I am too selfish to care whether I use someone else's space.
this is not my space but I parked here anyway.
too drunk to find my own drive.

or do this everytime

Used to have a large car dumped at the entrance to our car park for weeks on end. Overlapping the entrance and making it exceedingly difficult to get out for all. They didn't even live on the street, a spare car. After numerous attempts to get them to stop partially blocking the car park - it started politely, and then lots of notes from the street on the car. I may have covered the car with kitchen towel covered in large letters (with marker pen) that may have written - "this car needs a home it's been abandoned again" & "my owner doesn't love me", "all the neighbours hate me", "please park me better" .... Etc. Ok I lost it after nearly a year of this, my neighbours loved it. The car was never parked there again - ever

Put a note on it saying "For Sale, £500 ono" and then her address underneath. Keep doing it, so she gets lots of callers.

Pay local youths to stage a sit-in where she parks, with a charcoal brazier and 70s style folding chairs and everything. You will need about four minimum to form a slightly intimidating group. If the tallest of them is prepared to pretend to be your cousin or nephew who is vvvvveeerrryyy over-protective of his female realtives, so much the better.

As a last resort, pay the local builders' merchants to deliver a tonne of sand onto their driveway at the crack of dawn one morning, so they can't drive out of it.

For Sale Note is Genius. :)

I just roared at the notes/for sale sign suggestions. Genius!

Just a quick update: NO car parked where it shouldn't be tonight

greatnews

We used too rent somewhere that had one way to get in (through what was being used as a private garage) which people who weren't allowed to park there would block to the point you'd have to breathe in to squeeze past - never mind the buggy or anything you might be carrying. Anyway, A3 or bigger paper, parcel tape, DON'T FUCKING PARK HERE taped over the windscreen.

Hopefully it continues.
Otherwise yes to all the people she is blocking go and knock on the door every single time to get them to move the car. Hopefully there's also the people that do need to come and go at 3 in the morning. Although if they started parking there again, I would suddenly for unknown reasons start needing to go out in the middle of the night. I've heard 24 hour supermarkets are very quiet in the middle of the night, and being an insomniac sounds like the ideal time to be shopping.

I wouldn't get too excited, OP. It's Sat, so he's probably not working so doesn't have to get out in the morning.