Parking wars - on my own drive !

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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.

Maybe an anonymous phonecall to HMRC re: neighbours business and their tax affairs. It may trigger an inconvenient request to see their books and tax returns.. you never know.. it might shut their business.

Wow, really? Not only is the whole idea of that incredibly malicious but you would be wasting HMRC time when they don't have enough time to pursue people who are genuinely avoiding tax as it is.

Complaining about nuisance parking is one thing, bollards or a gate makes perfect sense, but deliberately trying to destroy their business? I'm glad you're not my neighbour.

I definitely wouldn't go to work without leaving a note for them telling them to never park in your drive again.

Take photos of their car/registration plate on your drive. Could you pay a solicitor to write them a warning letter??

Sweetie. if they win this round they will be walking all over you for the foreseeable future.

Take the tyres off

consequences be dammed, deal with that later.

Wonder what the legality of getting someone to break into said car, taking handbrake off and rolling it into road and then calling police as causing obstruction would be?

You must be able to google how to break into car?

Or remove wheel nuts, tell them they can have them back upon receipt of apology. I'm sure the police would t charge you for kidnapping wheel nuts! The local paper would go to town and you'd get loads of support probably destroying cheeky fuckers business which is no less than the shite jumper covered in manky dog hair wearing bastard deserves.

Her husband made her remove the plastic cones. She's hardly likely to smash the car up! She's gone to work now.

I'd of removed my husband before I removed the cones

If cfne is at work this morning they might think it'll be okay to leave the car for this shift, in for a penny and all that.

I can't believe how cheeky some people would be. This is ridiculous. Any new bouts who can continue blocking the car in today?

It will be moved today without a doubt. When the sneaky weasle does not have ro face you.
You need to go over this evening and keep finger on bell until they answer then be blunt and ask why they thought it is/was ok to park on your drive withou permission? Dont take any waffling just keep saying but why? Why? Really make them squirm. YOU HAVE THE UPPER HAND IN THIS SITUATION.
Then ask again bluntly, why they were so rude to your request to move it. Ignore the flat battery bollocks, they mentioned that in passing later not in an apologetic way when you first knocked. So keep asking but why were you so rude to me? But why? Why? Why?
Shame you cant film it and upload it. You dont have to be nasty but just make them feel embarrassed for their shit behaviour and blatent rudeness. Its obvious CFN is already uncomfortable/embarrassed due to running into their house laat night. So monopolise on that. Make them cringe like fuck!
Cheeky Fuckers.

I can't believe how bloody rude the neighbour has been. Definitely leave a stroppy note on the car - because it will almost certainly be moved whilst you're at work. Get yourself a parking bollard for your driveway as well.

Cheeky fuckers. I'd be so mad. And I'd be putting a call into the council regarding the neighbour's business licence, bearing in mind that part of it will be conditional upon having sufficient parking arrangement so as not to cause a nuisance - well it's a bloody nuisance when you end up with someone refusing to move off your driveway!

So if "the battery is flat", why not say something as soon as it was discovered??!!

Well, obvs it will be moved when Op & husband both at work.

So, what for the future to stop your drive being used at all?

Pity you didn't have time to get a lorry load of sand delivered to your driveway. I remember the thread where the poster completely blocked the car in with a pile of sand and left a little children's plastic spade stuck in the top

If CFNs home business isn't 'ancillary to the the dwelling house' anymore (it's always parking which pisses the neighbours off) then Planning Enforcement is your friend. Your local council will have a contact on their website.

I'd be doing what others have suggested- going online and slagging off the business. And calling the council to report the business

OP please throw a sickie

Drop bollards, which you keep locked at all times, unless you're using the drive....cheeky f***s!

Unbelievable!

I'm petty shit at brick laying but I have some scrap bricks and some fast setting cement and I'm at a loose end... (children on holiday with their father!) it would only need a couple of bricks high. Even a single low pillar in the middle of the drive would do it.

I can't believe it's still there. I agree with pp you and your neighbours need to band together and complain to the council, the business has obviously grown (since it now has an employee) and therefore it's not suitable to be run from the home any longer.
Also I'm sure if you contact someone who fits penguin bollards you may be able to negotiate a discount if all neighbours with drives have them fitted too

Is the car still there ??

It is odd though that the car owner had the cheek to tell Op to her face that they wouldn't move the car but not to just get in it & drive away!

Hope that Op & neighbours can get something organised re complaining about parking of employee & customers.

@Fairenuff that's also genius, along with @evilkitten's suggestion! I'd TOTALLY do that

Shameless place marking

I really think letting down two tyres is the way to go, very inconvenient and it'll give you a chance to rant and vent at her while she tries to re inflate, it doesn't damage anything just low enough not to drive it till air is put in.
That or the rugby club men can bounce it off to the double yellow lines for a ticket.

Before you leave for work, I'd put a note under their wiper explaining exactly what will happen if they park there again.