To tell him to get his f****** Fiesta off my driveway

[Iwantmydrivewayformyself]

I need some advice about neighbours teenage son who keeps parking his modified, noisy Ford Fiesta on my driveway, coming and going at all hours of the night and basically being a dick in general!

Me, 17 year old DD and DH all drive.
Me and DH have long ass Volvo’s, hence use the spare space on our four car drive for guests or reversing. DD is shit at parking and uses the spare space to get into and out of her space without damaging mine and DH’s cars

The space is also used for guests

Anyway, my neighbours each only have one car space. We are three houses off a long, bendy country road which is unlit, so you’d be a fool to park there

If you park anywhere else down our road (which is tiny) you block the way

We are lucky to have the end house, which has the most parking by far, however we also have the biggest house by far, others are only two beds so not as much parking (one car each)

We asked neighbours son to stop parking here, but he hasn’t. Three times now our guests have had nowhere to park

Aside from that, neighbours son is rude and noisy and wakes me up at three AM, so even further cause for me to say no, get the fuck off my drive

I knocked on his parents door and spoke with him, wasn’t rude, but just said please don’t park there. For a week he didn’t, then as of two days ago he’s back again

So AIBU to not let him park there?

And what should I do?

It’s all our land beyond the dotted line, neighbours have no right of access or right to go onto our driveway. We own all of it, this I am 100% sure of!

Thanks!

What is his explanation when you talk to him?

Just echoing everyone else, have you spoken to his parents??

Do you have an actual drive or does it look the same as the road?

Ok, this is from the link about what's legal and not: "It is a criminal offence to clamp/block/tow away a vehicle on private land without lawful authority". and "To commit this offence a person must intend to prevent the owner/driver from moving their vehicle".

OP, you must be very worried that someone will steel this knob's car when it's on your drive, and further concerned that you might then be accused of having had it towed away or disposed of. If I were in that situation, I would obtain for myself this security device: ]]

Of course, you would be willing to remove it immediately if the owner came knocking to retrieve his car... if you heard him knocking of course. I hope all the loud motor noises haven't affected your hearing at all. That would be a shame.

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Bollocks, my link to the security thingy didn't appear!

Calm down!

OP, have a word with his parents, see whether they care or not. If they don't give a shit either, then put up the chain link, but I think that's far enough.

He is a first class CF

Would the OP care if it was a Rolls Royce?

Of course talk to his parents, he’s being a rude little fucker and his parents can obviously see he’s parked there and think you don’t mind. Go tell them it stops now.

Put your wheelie bin in the space where he parks. Easy for you to move but maybe enough of a deterrent to him at 3am.

Has the OP been back? Spoken to the parents yet?

Parents obviously are aware their kid keeps parking there though (unless they're blind), I'm just curious whether it does any help at all.

My vote would be for penguin billiards or heavy pots.

Talk about having a hard neck!! I honestly can't imagine parking on someone else's property,let alone continue to do it after I'd been told not to by the land owner. I have to agree with previous comments about blocking him in and leaving him there. Repeat till the thick shit gets the message...if you approached his parents how would they react are they reasonable?

A parking thread, my favourite kind.

Tbh I'd block him in and refuse to move my car for 2 hours, then tell him I'll do the same, but double the "block in time" every time he does it.

Hi OP;
If I were you I'd get some legal advice, I'm pretty sure you could do a letter before action and if that doesn't work you could get an injunction to stop him.

Just spell it out to him again. Please do not park on our drive, thanks. Don't start a silly war with blocked cars etc. Can't you spread your cars out a bit more to make it obvious the drive is not available.

OP I feel your pain. My neighbours were complete cheeky fuckers regarding parking, (dog groomer one) DH bought a Fuck Off chain from B&Q and that solved it straight away.

I'd try speaking to his parents first and see what happens. As others have said, you are neighbours and a bad atmosphere will affect you in lots of ways.

Is it possible they aren't clear it belongs to you? We live at the end of a private drive with what looks like a turning circle in front of our house. It's actually part of our drive and no one should need to be down there turning anyway (all other houses along the road with their own drive so people visiting them can turn in their drives) and we had a neighbour from about 4 or 5 down parking in our circle. We tried just parking across it for a bit, until she started doing the same! So I had a quick word and explained it's part of our drive, she was genuinely mortified and very apologetic. Could your neighbours have told their son it's communal land?

Any news OP?

Why don't you just block him in?

To your neighbours it looks like shared parking, which your family are hogging. Where else could he park?

Where else could he park?

Not Op's problem. The house he lives in has one designated parking space which is presumably used by his parents.

Could your DD park moreso to the middle of her spot and guest spot, thereby not leaving room for Fiesta Boy? Easy enough to move her car forwards when you have guests. If that is not feasible, then I suggest leaving your bins in the guest spot.

Def go with a chain or bollards