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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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Theycalledmethewildrose · 27/07/2017 01:51

Forget the notion of invoicing them. FGS if they refuse to even speak to you, they will laugh at any invoice presented to them.

Obviously the battery is not flat. They won't return in the dead of night to pick up their car. I'd have thought it was obvious that their plan is to come back tomorrow and drive off in it without acknowledging that they ever parked there.

So unless you can permanently block them in, until they have to approach you, there isn't much you can do. Even if they do have to approach you to retrieve their car, given the brass neck they have displayed so far, I doubt they will be in any way apologetic.

I'd suggest bollards which will leave them without the use of their car for a considerable number of days including the weekend which will inconvenience them greatly. Then when they eventually get their car back, put the bollards back in place, in both driveways, to ensure they can't park there again.

I'd also make life a bit hard for the neighbour/employer of this person and would have no hesitation telling her that you are in the process of doing this. If she tries to 'explain', shrug her off and say you are 'too busy'.

TheMaddHugger · 27/07/2017 02:41

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Parking wars - on my own drive !
TheMaddHugger · 27/07/2017 02:45

Put those borrowed blockades back up. the ones your DH made you take down.

Time to chain off or block in that car OP. If you don't win this time, you're Screwed.

Can anyone tell if them touching the bollards would be trespass? I can't think of the correct words

((((((((((Hugs))))))))))OP

CherryChasingDotMuncher · 27/07/2017 02:48

Shameless placemark. I like the idea of bricks and a jack.

shakingmyhead1 · 27/07/2017 03:22

i would be calling a tow truck, which is what the employee should have done called her roadside assist type organization to come fix the car ( if it really indeed has anything wrong with it at all) tomorrow you should be getting a chain or lockable bollard for both your drive ways and inform the cfn you will now tow any car left in your drive way and you wont be informing them before you call for one or even telling her what tow company was used they can play wheres wally car on their own!

MyOtherProfile · 27/07/2017 03:24

Can you work from home tomorrow and park your car across the drive? If you're only blocking the way to a couple of neighbours you could arrange it with them and agree to move your car whenever they need it.

LazySusan11 · 27/07/2017 04:16

You could call 101 to report a possible stolen car on your drive, police would come out for that.

CherieBabySpliffUp · 27/07/2017 05:10

Unashamed placemark Brew

Jaspzeb · 27/07/2017 05:10

I'd be spitting chips by now.

DH said he and a team of friends once bumped a car up and down that was causing a nusience so that it was facing a completely different way to how it was left. Have you got enough space on drive to bump it so it's facing sideways so they can't drive off?

Suncream handprints are the way forward.
Also loving the birdseed idea.

RebootYourEngine · 27/07/2017 05:16

Is there anyway you can block it in for a day or two?

TheMaddHugger · 27/07/2017 05:26

Anchovies in the Air Vents

rightwhine · 27/07/2017 05:46

So they will move it whilst you are at work today op, Cowards.

Can you take a day off work?

Nanna50 · 27/07/2017 06:13

I haven't read the whole thread so someone else may have said this but one of the conditions from working from home is that your business does not cause a nuisance to neighbours.

I would be arranging for a penguin bollard to be erected first thing this morning with the car in situ because you just know they are going to move it when you are out this morning.

Cookiesandcake · 27/07/2017 06:22

Block it in somehow so they can't take it while you're gone. They're pretending it's flat so they don't have to face you.

Shadow666 · 27/07/2017 06:30

If you see them again tell them that you've reported it to the police and they are sending someone round to tow it. They won't know it's not true and it'll really put the wind up them.

elfinpre · 27/07/2017 06:32

Various ways to move a stationary car suggested here:

forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/neighbour-pushed-my-car.18133660/page-4

I'd get people to help me move it then block the drive with the bollards you used earlier.

Esspee · 27/07/2017 06:33

First thing I did on waking is check this thread. Hope your DH is off out to buy a chain as soon as the DIY stores open. Cannot believe the cheek of some people!

Wheelycote · 27/07/2017 06:34

Ring council to inform CFN business is causing a nuisance and ring the Vat people's anonymous line....that'll create a massive shit storm for her.

And if you haven't already get that milk poured over the door gaps and wipe any evidence away

HotelEuphoria · 27/07/2017 06:37

Damn! Woke up this morning hoping for a big long update, I am disappointed in the CFN.

I would also erect the fold down bollard but as a last measure and definitely not a penguin one! but first I would ring the council and report the nuisance to neighbours from the business with parking. This is the issue and this needs to be addressed first and if it causes problem for the CFN and her business then tough.

flumpybear · 27/07/2017 06:38

I'd be parking my wheelie bins on the CFN"s property at this point to make s point that it's annoying - perhaps filled with bricks outside their front door!!

londonrach · 27/07/2017 06:42

Wake up op. Did your husband get the jack and bricks?

Kahlua4me · 27/07/2017 06:49

I can't believe the cheek of some people. Angry

It may be worth contacting the council and speaking to someone who deals with businesses from home. I think you can complain if a business is affecting your home life and they may then make CFN move to rent a separate premises. Would have more impact if other neighbours complained too.....

Groovee · 27/07/2017 06:51

Flat battery! Plenty of working cars able to jump start it! CFN needs some karma.

Stick some bread or peas all over the roof of the car. Lots of birds and some bird shit to come.

shakingmyhead1 · 27/07/2017 06:53

while the cfn was out the op should have parked her car in the cfn's driveway, the cfn can hardly complain when it is her employee , on her suggestion, blocking the op's driveway.

somewhereovertherain · 27/07/2017 06:54

Would also phone the rspca with concerns. About how the animals are treated.

My finger would have been on thier door bell all night.

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