Parking situation on my new road.

[JennaTools]

I have just completed on a new house. When I viewed it I spent time on different days popping by the road at different times of day to checkout the parking situation and all was fine. My house and the one opposite have a drive for 1 car odd road and the others have space for 2. I only have one car.

The house opposite was for sale at the same time and the new occupants have just moved in a couple of weeks after me.
They have 6 cars!!!! (Green)

I have tried my best on the diagram to illustrate where everyone tends to park - each house has a coloured for above and then their cars are the same colour lines.
I only have one car so my driveway is ample however with green house wankers parking their cars all over the place - mainly at the end of the cul de sac - it's really hard to get out of my drive with cars also parked on the road in between my house (red) and my nice NDN (blue)

I've popped round and introduced myself and explained asking them politely not to park the three cars at the the end of the cul de sac (which is a dropped kerb. But they closed the door in my face and I haven't seen them since. Tonight they've got all of their cars all over the road as per the diagram.

What's my best course of action here?

OMG I doer drive and allow people to park in front of my house because I am not using it. Poor you. Stay strong and don't give in CF. They clearly need to learn what it means to be considerate and a neighbour. Glass of wine for OP tonight me thinks

I think at this point you and nndn need to go over and try sort it out. You've shown you can massively upset and disrupt them. Point out how their parking is effecting both your ability to park properly and the impact on the whole street. And also point out you can carry on like this indefinitely if they don't start showing some consideration. You tried to sort it out amicably but had the door slammed in your face.

Love the diagrams A*

Stop being so nice. Also a problem round our estate, if you have 2 or 6 goddamn cars buy a house with a big enough driveway, we have two cars and a drive with two spaces, not difficult is it?! Drives us nuts!
Park at the end of your drive, complain to the council, I complain about everything on my estate, including parties going on too long (yeah I'm a moaner!) But I don't pay my bloody mortgage for everyone else to be selfish and do as they please.
My other half is a right hot head as well so usually, after we've asked them nicely not to block our drive the first time (we always ask nicely first), if they do it again they regret it. Sometimes in life you just have to be an a*hole like everybody else which is sad isn't it? People are making me become a nasty person!!

We had a similar situation to this a few years ago, we live at the end of a cul-de-sac, and CF neighbours decided they could park their cars in exactly the way shown on your diagram, so that it blocked us coming out of our driveway, and also our neighbour who lived opposite us. After a few weeks of taking pictures (date-stamped) each time it happened, and keeping a written log of it as well, we approached our local MP. One week later, the council came out and painted the end of the cul-de-sac with a huge KEEP CLEAR sign. We were then able to liaise with the council, and in turn our local police, about it whenever CF's parked there. Took a few more weeks before they got the message and stopped parking there completely.

Good luck with your CF's - I'd suggest getting together with your nice neighbours and involving your council and your local MP on the case if necessary.

I agree with Randommess. That's the best response.

Woah. Just seen the note.

DO NOT PARK HERE.

Who the F do they think they are?
They cause problems for you day in day out and then give YOU instructions as to where you should park?

Absolute f'kers.

Another vote for RandomNess's reply.

Good to sort this situation sooner rather than later. I used to live near a family with 3 cars, and2 vans (and no driveway), who basically parked in all the visitors bays. Because they had done it for years, they basically decided all the visitor bays were theirs and woe betide anyone else who tried to park in them.

When does your dh return from being away?!

Tell them that the drive is got DH only

Placemarking for NNDN update.

OP do any of your kids have a ride on car, like a little tikes one? If so, park that on your drive and if CF parking twats challenge you about parking on the road just wave vaguely at it and say 'But my drives not empty..'

I would get in touch with council to say obstructive parking is causing issues for houses at the end of the road so could they yellow line it to make a safe space for turning vehicles and accessing the drive. We had ours yellow lined not long ago and the council wrote in advance asking if we wanted it.

Ooh, got any yellow paint? Could paint yellow lines along the end of the culdesac. Would it work?

Shamelessly place marking. 😂😂

I don't usually read full parking threads... but I read this whole thing!

Well done OP and neighbour!

Oh balls I just wrote a big update and my phone died before I could press post

well, what about placing a pole/line of poles/ heavy flower boxes at the edge of your garden (I mean very edge, at the corner of your plot - would that help keeping them a bit further away? when they are blocking the access to the communal garden, and there is a proper path through it, maybe you can raise the point to the council as well (creating health and safety issues with using it as a parking space)

Love this thread! My two yr old twins have wrecked the room whilst I have tried to read.
Love the diagrams too.
Lots of good suggestions advice and lovecthe teamwork of neighbours!
I really like swizzels as this can really work. Firing off a letter to MP and then the shake the council up (I did the same and got apologetic council on phone).
I hate notes too. Rude. I would just go across and state that it’s ridiculous - youneed to be able to get your car off safely and without potentially damaging their car either. It’s not an extension of their drive as it’s not on the deeds. All you are asking for is considerate parking. If I block people they come and ask me to move and vice Versa. No problem or drama. If a note was left I would go and confront in s polite way and say that you are approachable - even if they aren’t and that as a Woman driver you have the necessary skills of communication and consideration to other road users. Sorry got to run twin one is hitting twin two with my shoe........going to have to leap in like NNDN
Love this thread x

what Aholes.. hope they put double.yellows at the end by every single dropped kerb on ur road to stop them.. then they'll have no choice but to park elsewhere!

F5, F5 waiting on the big update :)

Park on the road in the most inconvenient place for these idiots. Academy Award, Oscar, Bafta, Royal Academy of Art awards for diagrams. Never seen the likes.

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So NNDN is a mumsnetter! But a long time lurker and is usually quite shy, she has had enough of looking out of her window to what is essentially now a big car park and also very sick of cars coming and going at all times of night, the kids beeping to say goodbye to friends and revving engines at stupid o clock. We’ve had a longggggg chat and she is in full support of this thread - please all say hi.

So to fill in the blanks from yesterday, they just snapped (because of the above) so decided to move their car to the end to make a point. CF and NNDNs DP has a heated discussion about it where CF said he would be finding their landlords details from land registers and having them evicted for parking on HIS space - and when NNDN explained it’s not anyone’s space, it’s an unrestricted public highway and a dropped kerb after all - CF told him that regardless, home owners have priority over renters for spaces on the road they pay for!!!!!!!!!!

That’s when the shouting started and I posted at the time what went on from there.

Tonight, I am still parked blocking one of their cars from being on the road so one of them has had to park and walk, they are 100% all home now but NNDN and I knocked again to no answer. They’re obviously plotting something and won’t talk.

We wait..

Hello NNDN