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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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CFN & Parking

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4TeensAndABaby · 19/08/2018 10:45

Sorry - another parking thread! (My first though!)

Ok, background. I live on a new build estate. Every house has allocated parking. Most houses have 1 space, but a couple of us have 2.

Parking has been a nightmare since we moved in. Mainly due to CFN who doesn't drive, but have their numerous visitors park wherever they like.

Several times a week I have to knock on their door and ask them to move their visitors car - which they do, but with no remorse and in their own time.

So I come back this morning to find another car in my 2nd space - again!! I'm fed up keep knocking on their door, so I've left a note and blocked them in.

There's a supermarket car park 60 seconds away, and when I have visitors that's where I tell them to park. I wouldn't dream of telling them to park in neighbours spaces.

I used to have a penguin bollard in that space, until the little shits CFN's children kicked it down and removed it.

I'm at a loss as to what else I can do - AIBU to block this car in? (No idea if it does belong to CFN this time)

Diagram duly attached.

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BitOutOfPractice · 19/08/2018 11:19

I don’t understand the diagram either. Where are you blocking in?

But in principle no, yanbu. She sounds like a nightmare neighbor

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4TeensAndABaby · 19/08/2018 11:21

Duly noted on the diagram recommendations!

It’s a weird set up. It’s a new build, on the end of an old Victorian terraced road which is permit only. That doesn’t help, as people park there who don’t have permits. There are no signs either (but also nowhere to put them)

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happypoobum · 19/08/2018 11:23

What will you do if they knock asking you to move? They sound like the type that will mess with your car if you ignore them...

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4TeensAndABaby · 19/08/2018 11:23

There is a car in my second space, so I’ve parked in front of the car and covered NDN space (who knows and is fully supportive)

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ReservoirDogs · 19/08/2018 11:27

Report any criminal damage - bollards and car keying - to the police.

Of course you are not being a CF.

Do what they do when they ask you to move take your own sweet time as well as telling them not to park there again.

BrewDoggy · 19/08/2018 11:32

She'd better do more than apologising. She needs to start paying for their damage, single parent or not!

Dollymixture22 · 19/08/2018 11:33

This must be so annoyingly!

If you own the parking spots could you get one if those security posts fitted? And a sign to say private property?

I used to live ina development like this. People can be very selfish. The management company were useless

WinnieFosterTether · 19/08/2018 11:35

Does everyone agree that they're your parking spaces? If there's no bollard and nothing on the ground to say its your parking space and no signs on the walls to say it's residents' only parking, then perhaps your neighbour and their visitors don't know/agree that you have two spaces.

chocolateworshipper · 19/08/2018 11:36

Never apologise for starting a parking thread with a diagram.

Is there a rugby team nearby?

Dollymixture22 · 19/08/2018 11:41

Winnie has a good point. My neighbour believed my spot was hers. She had read the plan wrong. She didn’t have a car and I didn’t know she was angry until I came home and some man was painting big do not park here signs all over the tarmac. I pointed her to her spot and showed her the deeds. Was resolved ok - the tarmac had to be resurfaced and the workman was a bit embarrassed by all the fuss.

We had chatted most days - no idea why she didn’t just raise it rather than pay someone to paint the spot. It looked dreadful!!

Littlemissdaredevil · 19/08/2018 11:42

TwoBlueShoes · 19/08/2018 11:44

Oh, god! The sound like the neighbors from hell. Can you move?

MrsW85 · 19/08/2018 11:45

Sorry I'm a bit confused. Is there 2 cars visiting CFN? Or is their space empty but they've parked in yours?

DorisDances · 19/08/2018 11:46

is there a glossary on Mumsnet I can look at as I don't know what CFN means?

TomHardysNextWife · 19/08/2018 11:46

I think you need to politely knock on their door with a copy of your deeds/sales particulars and point out that you have 2 spaces for your use, not shared. And that you want the damaged bollard replaced/repaired otherwise you have no choice other than to report to the Police.

MrsW85 · 19/08/2018 11:47

I'm assuming it's cheeky fucker neighbour

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4TeensAndABaby · 19/08/2018 11:48

Everyone knows whose space belongs to who, including CFN. She just doesn’t care. One of her visitors once parked over 3 cars as there was no space available. It blocked my car in and I needed to go out, so asked him to move. He reversed out so I could get out, but then tried parking in my space. I jumped out of my car and stood in my space. He was screaming and shouting at me saying he had nowhere to park. I told him it wasn’t my problem, and he can park 300 metres away in the supermarket car park. We had a stand off for 30 minutes!!

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4TeensAndABaby · 19/08/2018 11:50

Nope, CFN actual space is free?! So no idea why they parked in mine!

I have shown them the deeds before, but again, makes no difference!

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Leesa65 · 19/08/2018 11:50

Excellent diagram OP

Perhaps keep blocking them in till the message commutes to their brains .

EdisonLightBulb · 19/08/2018 11:53

The issue isn't parking as far as I can see but ineffective parenting, feral children and a neighbour that comes from a background where respect for others people's property doesn't exist.

You need to get the bollards back up. Film any sign of criminal damage and report, report, report.

ohtheholidays · 19/08/2018 11:54

Bloody hell OP you need to call the Police and report all of the damage her children have caused!

Being a single Mum is no bloody excuse!I was a single Mum to 4DC and I was pregnant with the 4th when I became a single mum,my 3rd DC was only 11 months old and asd and to fuck would my DC have behaved like that!

She needs to give her head a bloody good wobble,who the hell allows they're children to behave in that way and does nothing about it?

Tell her her visitors are to stop parking in your space/spaces or you'll have them towed/start charging them a parking fee and report any awful shit that her children do to your property to the Police,it won't be wasting they're time,you've tried speaking to her and it's got you nowhere and she needs a wake up call and so do her children.

sprinklesandsauce · 19/08/2018 12:02

I agree with PP that you should call 101 and report every incident of damage. You should be able to have bollards in your spaces without them damaging them.

They will just keep on damaging your property, as they clearly have no respect for you, so I don't think you owe them anything.

Guienne · 19/08/2018 12:05

Can you get signs put on the spaces to show which belongs to which house?

Totally off the point, but I'm curious why your two spaces are separated by NDN2's spaces. Wouldn't it be more logical for you to have the first space in the row next to yours?

Dollymixture22 · 19/08/2018 12:12

Could this work?? Or would the little sh!ts wreck it too?

Sweetpea55 · 19/08/2018 12:12

Cant you park at an angle across both spaces so nobody else can get it,?
Oh but your meaning when you return after being out,,
What about a chain across both spaces when you leave?

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