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Parking wars - on my own drive !

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AlphaBites · 26/07/2017 14:34

I know the rules, diagram is attached. 😉

I'm on half days this week and have just got home to find a car in my driveway. As we are a corner house we have two driveways, big enough for one car each. Parking is really tight around here and permit only too. Opposite us is 8 terraced houses with no allocated parking, so quite often they either park in their garages or in the handful or visitor bays opposite my place but in front of theirs. My front drive is VERY clearly my driveway.

Cheeky Fucker Neighbour (CFN) runs a business from home which involves a lot of clients coming and going from her house throughout the day (pet groomer) and he employs two people to help.

I came home today to find a car in my drive which was not DHs. So I park down the side (pink section) of the house on the road where neighbours park their cars. I go and knock on several doors to find out who it belongs too, turns out it's one of the employees who is staying for a little while longer (P/T). "But I'll only be another hour, so I'll move it then." I reply "No, move it now please as I have to unload my car." Person refuses and I end up leaving telling them to move it within 30 minutes.

That was an hour ago and when I knock on the door there is no answer.

My next door neighbour has just told me that this car is on either my front drive or rear drive each morning ! When he questioned them about it, apparently CFN has said it's OK for them to park there and they have cleared it with us. No they bloody haven't!

Thing is this went on last year but after words it sooner stopped but obviously they are doing it again.

I'm sat here glaring out my front window waiting for the fucker to move his car then we will have words. I would block it in, but the road is only wide enough for one car so would block the road.

Parking wars - on my own drive !
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bunningsbunny · 26/07/2017 22:52

Is CFN not back yet?!?

I would be keeping an eye out for her whenever she returns and go over (or send dh) and ask her to move it there and then.

If she refuses ask why on earth not?

If she is not back I would leave a printed notice sellotaped using the stickiest tape you have to her front door where she can't miss it and where others might see to say that she knows she has been politely asked not to park on your drive in the past and that you can't believe that not only did she condone her employee rudely refusing to move their car (because how can anyone in this situation politely refuse - refusing to move is rude) but despite saying that the car would be moved within an hour it is now xxx hours later and the car has still not been moved. It needs to be moved as soon as she returns. If it is left on your drive you will be reporting her to the police and the council (she might not realise that they can't do much at the moment!) for them to deal with. And that this constitutes notice that neither she nor her employees nor her customers should park on your drive - you do not give permission and you cannot guarantee the safety of the cars on the drive.

I would also look into the websites that allow you to rent out your space for money. If it is free to list it, I would put it to rent for a crazy high price for the time you know it will be free. Remember to put that the price is to use for 5 hours or any part of that 5 hours. So even if something is parked on there for 5 minutes it will still cost the full £100 charge.

Then tell CFN that you are putting your drive to rent on whichever website you use and that if she or her customers or employees use it then they are accepting your terms and conditions and agreeing to pay. Nobody else will bother you as you have put crazy price on it. Get nice neighbour to take photo if she spots car on there, including number plate and times. Then send invoice to CFN or employee care of CFN or customers care of CFN... maybe chase first few up through small claims court. Oh and double fee if car not removed by [time you get back]. And no returns within xx hours, new fee for new cars even if on same day.

You might need to put a small notice up and I'd send a registered letter and read receipt email and message on anything that shows a message has been read - take screenshots of all where possible. Agree to split the money with nice neighbour or go for a slap up meal or something with the proceeds...

But hopefully she will either stop parking or she will pay up so you will benefit from it...

Doesitgoto11 · 26/07/2017 22:52

@tomatopuree write the feem choon sing the feem choon - showing my age now eh??!!

Seriously OP. By this point I'd be seriously murderous. And leaning on the doorbell of CFN with one hand whilst posting all over social media ref their business with the other and with 101 on speaker phone about the 'abandoned car' on your drive. With an invoice for the last 2 or whatever years of use billed at 12 hours a day at £100 an hour in my pocket.

I went nuclear about someone using an allocated parking space once let alone a fucking private driveway!!!!!!

Twinkletowedelephant · 26/07/2017 22:54

The fucking cheek of them!!!!

Doesitgoto11 · 26/07/2017 22:54

Omg so many crossed posts Grin

Lweji · 26/07/2017 22:54

AlphaBites

Nicely done, although it was the other neighbours.

Things do get better when nice neighbours get involved. Grin

AtomHeart · 26/07/2017 22:55

Potato in the exhaust.

Lweji · 26/07/2017 22:56

Potato in the exhaust.

I'm pretty sure it's the trick of the banana in the tail pipe.

AlphaBites · 26/07/2017 22:56

DH's reasonable side has left him and he has a plan if the car isn't gone by tmw. It involves a jack and some bricks 😡

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teaandakitkat · 26/07/2017 22:56

Sorted tomorrow hopefully? What a cheek. Surely once you're caught you man up and apologise, not carry on like this. How awful.

If her customers have been inconveniencing your neighbours too I would be contacting whichever council department licenced her using her house for business.

Namechangetempissue · 26/07/2017 22:59

Ah, well done nice neighbours. You have far more patience than me. I would be over with my finger firmly held down on the bell or hammering on the door until they opened. At 2am. Arseholes.

AuntMabel · 26/07/2017 23:00

Build a wall around it. You have all night. Use quick dry cement.

Cheeky bastards.

Doesitgoto11 · 26/07/2017 23:00

How convenient that 'the battery is flat'. Omfg I can't believe the nerve of these people. Hooray for lovely neighbours, I rather hope that CFN shits a hedgehog. Repeatedly.

However, if the battery is 'flat' I'd still phone 101 to get a 'police aware' on it as abandoned.

The offer of the cat litter tray for the vents still stands Wink

AtomHeart · 26/07/2017 23:00

Seriously, get evidence of the parking problem and report the unauthorised use of the property as a business to the Council's planning enforcement department.

bunningsbunny · 26/07/2017 23:00

Just cross posted with the update.

Can't believe that they didn't bother to tell you before they went off earlier that the battery was flat Shock (not that I believe that anyway). Would be interesting to know how they knew the battery is flat on the car as it doesn't sound like anyone actually checked on the car to know that it's flat...

Glad to hear that others are also pissed off with CFN and so stand with you on this issue.

Do you have legal cover on your house insurance? Could you get them to write a letter to her / the business to formally put it to her that she knows she is not to park on your drive, nor are her employees or customers and that if they continue to do so you will consider it harassment and trespass and they must desist. If all the neighbours were to write her the same letter it might make her stop and think.

Or do you have a local parish council? or local council? If you can talk to your parish councillor and/or councillor, they are often good at trying to sort out issues like this.

Veronicat · 26/07/2017 23:01

Sitting on the bus after work, the first thought I had was check this thread.
Can't believe it's still there!

ChoccyJules · 26/07/2017 23:01

OP, I don't understand where the nice neighbour's car now is (and will be until 4am)? Is it blocking CFNE's car onto your drive and if so how will this help - or do you mean she's next going out at 4am Friday?

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/07/2017 23:01

Daffodils

Inspired! Grin

SexLubeAndAFishSlice · 26/07/2017 23:03

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

murasaki · 26/07/2017 23:03

can you and dh push it into the road in the morning? It'll get moved pretty quick by the authorities then...

Gudgyx · 26/07/2017 23:03

Not even ashamed to admit I'm place marking

fifipop185 · 26/07/2017 23:04

Utterly raging at this on OP's behalf. It would be a shell of a car by now if it was on my drive. Angry

SnickersWasAHorse · 26/07/2017 23:05

The battery is a flat as my arse.

I love that the other neighbours are on side.

BeepBeepMOVE · 26/07/2017 23:05

Does dog grooming business have an online presence?

i would start reviewing about how awfully unfriendly the owner and employees of the business are. How badly they treat locals etc. One an hour would be nice.

flyingfoxes · 26/07/2017 23:05

I really need to learn to stop clicking on parking threads. The spike in my blood pressure can't be good for my health...

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/07/2017 23:06

How convenient that 'the battery is flat'

And how would they know? OP has been watching like a hawk and no-one has been near the car to try it.

Tires could well be flat by tomorrow morning, though.

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