To think neighbours should sort their drive out?

[parkingpillocks]

We live in a cul de sac where everyone has a driveway for one or two cars. There's an area for visitors to park (not marked but just a stretch of road that isn't blocking a driveway) that can take four cars.
Anyway, the neighbours at the end house have a bit of land that goes from the front and around the side of their house, that could take 3 cars. However, because they have a bit of lawn and a poxy shrub in the middle of it, they can't get the cars onto this bit of land so they use up three of the parking spaces in the street, meaning if anyone gets visitors they have to park elsewhere.
Aibu to think they should get rid of their bloody shrub and sort their drive out now they have four cars in the household?

Aibu to think they should get rid of their bloody shrub and sort their drive out now they have four cars in the household?

Depends on many things. Can they afford it? Are they permitted to do so? Would they get planning permission for a dropped kerb? Do they actually own the "bit of land" is is it simply adjacent to their house?

Yabu.

Hate judgey driveway neighbours.

I half think you are on about our house here. Can you put up a diagram please?

I’d rather a bit of greenery over a car park, even if my guests had to walk a few minutes. It’s your neighbour’s garden, assuming they pay road tax it’s none of your business. Sorry!

It costs alot of money to sort a drive way out. We're looking at 5K to get ours tarmacced as its stones which are dreadful. Some people dont have the spare cash to sort it out, and if the spaces aren't assigned to any houses, any one can use them.

I don't see why they should have to have a drive put in. On the other hand there's nothing stopping you saving a space for visitors meaning they'll have to park elsewhere.

Maybe they like their lawn and proxy shrub

Picture please!

Just show this DH and he thinks you’re on about us too 😂

Maybe they like their poxy shrub.

Not every square one inch needs to be concreted over.

Also, the street parking spaces are for all, so what’s your problem with that?

Haha Archiestar you put a diagram of yours first, I'm scared now in case I've upset my neighbours 😂

Chardonnay exactly...for all, not for one house to clutter up with their car collection

So you think your neighbours should get rid of their grass and shrub just so your visitors can park in the spaces the neighbour uses?

Wow, you are being very unreasonable and come across as selfish and entitled.

As much as that would annoy me too, they aren't obliged to do anything. We used to live in a street of which the majority of houses had drives, but hardly anyone would use them meaning you couldn't park in front of the dipped kerb, but no room on the road either, eurgh. ArchieStar if it is you move your plant and park your cars on your property

I've got a poxy shrub and if I was your neighbour I'd get a plague of poxy shrubs as cheaper than a drive

not for one house to clutter up with their car collection

Do you mean "not for people to legally park their cars on the road"?

this is a tough one

I would love a house and garden but with no car, had imagined that any drive would become a front garden for me.

but then my neighbours would be annoyed that my visitors had to park on the street....hmm....am I even allowed to turn a driveway into a garden?

They are perfectly entitled to do this. But it is not neighbourly behaviour.

It's not them, it's you!

If you want to save a parking space for your friends, park in the street the day before so they have to park somewhere else.

So, they don't have a drive?
But you want them to build one?
Have they got 4 cars?
Have you got a drive? Do you want to turn your garden into a car park?

Well, you can't tell them what to do, and all that, but I must admit I'd be a bit cat-bum-face about it all if this happened in my cul-de-sac. I'd want to be cool and rational about it, but, just... gnnnnnn.

Who's just hanging around on the thread now, waiting for the diagram so we can see if ArchieStar is the neighbour?

If they don't get annoyed, then maybe YABU. If they in any way feel entitled to those spaces, then YANBU.

@BettyJune07, that's a lot is it a big drive? For a standard driveway I was quoted £1500ish by 2 companies for it to be tarmacked.