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!

Ooh I would sooo go along with the "Knock 'Em Up" at 3.20am, let the little bugger get to bed then wake their house up.

The thing that astonishes me about threads like this is that everyone seems to miss the point that they are NEIGHBOURS, and will have to continue to live together for years to come.

Don't speak to parents on their own, speak to son and parents together. Make sure everyone knows and understands that

1. this is your private property
2. no, he does not have permission to park there
3. he is massively inconveniencing you, and waking you at odd hours
4. it is up to THEM to find a solution.

I would beging nicely, in a way to get him to stop but maintain relationships.
I would also, as I said before, be really pissed off if I had to buy/install bollards etc and then every songle time I came or went unlock them.

OK, so can't clamp/block him in because that is illegal, but if there is no response from the visit to parents, then I would begin to go round and knock and complain as soon as he does it,
so, 3 am, comes home, go and knock, until there is an answer and wait until car is moved, repeat every single time, no matter what hour of day or night.
It will be a pain for a week or so, and then he will give up.

The thing that astonishes me about threads like this is that everyone seems to miss the point that they are NEIGHBOURS, and will have to continue to live together for years to come

Completely agree. That's why I think a civil conversation with the parents and then if if falls on deaf ears plant pots or penguin bollards are the easiest/less offensive option.

The OP hasn't even been back so we aren't even sure if they're listening to all this anyway.

Did you talk to his parents?

@alphabites is here. Parking thread royalty!

Any news op?

I'll park here and wait for an update, hope you get him sorted OP

No update?

Go and have a polite but firm conversation with his parents. I agree that first and foremost you need to try to keep this civil as you live next door.

Beyond that you need to be extremely firm about nipping this in the bud. If you let it lie for years and just grumble behind closed doors you could at worst have difficulties selling your property because this boy effectively has an arrangement which gives him access to something you own.

Take this seriously. My parents bought a house where someone had a casual arrangement to use a drive on their property. She'd used for years. The previous owners turned a blind eye. It cost my parents thousands of pounds to establish it was their drive and force her to stop blocking access to it.

DH and I once slept in the back of his Ford Fiesta. Really not recommended.