Blocking neighbour's car with bins

[Summerisdone]

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

Yanbu

Forget the bins and do this!

I' suggest you make up a bunch of large colourful notices saying in big letters something like "Your neighbours hate it when you obstruct our spaces, please park on your drive or we will all report you"

I suspect she will find it far more intimidating thinking all of you have it in for her. If that does not succeed I'd see if the local police will pop in and have a word with her. Many will, just to be helpful and keep the peace.

And do raise a formal written grievance with your HA. You pay for your house AND a parking space. This woman is causing an obstruction and they need to deal with it. Affordable or non-affordable housing, it shouldn't make a difference.

Perfect Merry

Sorry, mean to say - put a notice on her windscreen every time she parks there.

Yanbu (and bookmarking for morning)

You need an obliging neighbour with an obliging friend to block her in with his car for a week. Does anyone else remember that thread? Genius.

The residents car park for your building is private land - therefore she is trespassing, so the HA need to take that approach with her. If they continue to permit her to block the spaces and use the car park, then they are potentially opening themselves up to her claiming that she has established a right of use (over time). Obviously total bollocks, but why risk the aggro - they need to nip it in the bud now.

Have had similar with our residents car park and fortunately, the managing agent took that approach and told the cheeky next door neighbour to sod off and park on their own drive!

What a caaah!

I bet the poor local pigeons are very hungry at the moment, in this icy weather. Poor things probably need some bird seed scattered in a sheltered spot (like maybe all around those bins/on any adjacent car roofs). Just hope all the naughty pigeons don't eat too much and do too many car paint corroding poos.

Wizzard YES. I wonder if it's in Classics

Ah so that's what Snapchat is for misses point totally

(We have a neighbour opposite us who does exactly the same as yours op - has a drive, only parks one car there, other in street often directly opposite our drive thru making it nigh impossible to get in or out. Their HA refuses to do anything) ours have cameras up now so all I can do is plot and seethe and enjoy threads like yours. And not scatter birdseed at all.

< not placemarking, no not me >

You've not blocked.

You've just given her some extra bumpers 😂

I could come round and loiter around as if lost, pretending to be answering irate phone calls where she parks, shouting on phone as she tries to park, and such general annoyances that she would find annoying ... Anyone else? Hire a barking dog ... Anyone else going round?

Is the road she parks on council land? If so ask council for double yellows to be painted on.

Or go out in the dead of night with a giant yellow spray can and add your own

Fantastic diagram!!

Glad you blocked the bugger in!

What are the rules if she is parking on private land? What can you do to her car?

Genius op just genius we had this problem with a woman who lived over the road from us always letting people park right over our drive on our side of the road but she would stick notes on families cars if they dared to even parkon our side of the road but slightly blocking her driveway but it was OK for her to do it to us and stop us from getting in and out of the driveway we asked politely a million times for her not to do it not even notes stuck to the cars helped she soon got the message though when we paid the council to have disabled parking lines put where she use to let people park after that she had no choice but to let people use her drive way because they could no longer park outside ours unless they where disabled.

Yanbu what a cheek she has.

Loving the neon diagram!
marking place? Me? No never...

Get your mum to park inconveniencing them, when she can't get in.

AHaHA Best thread ever

Oh I do hope so SortAll - IIRC there was another poster who jammed a potato up a neighbour's exhaust pipe and chased it up with expanding foam. I think about it often.