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?

Yes, let's tarmac over more land, good idea.

God, I'd love to be able to make myself a bigger drive so I can buy a massive 4x4 and still keep my other cars

My neighbour said to me why don't I move my garden wall so I can get 2 cars in my drive instead of 1 . I'd love to if I had the spare money and not a list of others things I need to spend on first . It annoys me people who judge you don't know peoples financial situation.

Diagram!

What? You think your neighbours should spend tens of thousands of pounds on getting their garden dug out, levelled and tarmaced over despite already having a drive and there being street parking available in the road? Yes, you are unreasonable.

Whether or not they are environmentally unreasonable for having four cars depends on who lives there and whether all cars are needed, but frankly that is none of your business. But they have as much right to street park on the outside road as visitors (some might even say more, since they live there!)

Shamelessly following

similar situation here, oy they have tons of rubbish (old washing machine, boxes, ..) in theirs. luckily the road is communal property, so this stretch is now going to labeled “visitors only”, and a visitor permit is needed to park there :)

Is it s private road with these sports marked for visitors or are they simply parking in a public lay-by?

I can see how it would be annoying, but they are probably within their rights to do it, unless use of the spots is written into your deeds.

Maybe, assuming it is public land, you and your other neighbours could start occassional,y parking there - this household would realise they can’t rely on th spots and might rethink their driveway

^What? You think your neighbours should spend tens of thousands of pounds on getting their garden dug out, levelled and tarmaced over despite already having a drive and there being street parking available in the road? Yes, you are unreasonable.

The street parking is for the benefit of anyone with a taxed car though isn't it? Rather than being the neighbours own personal overflow car park.

Maybe you should park a couple of your fleet on the road. If it starts to inconvenience them they might address it...

YABU. One of the most depressing things about Britain is the lack of front gardens.

Isn't the space for any one to park on? Don't they have as much right to park there as everyone else? Or do you feel your visitors have more right so they should turn their front garden to driveway to reconginse that entitlement?

It sounds like the space is there for anyone to park on but no one else can because they are hogging it with vehicles they personally don't have space for. That is selfish and inconsiderate but lots of people are.
My neighbour's daughter has bought a second car -one person, two cars, which she keeps outside my house permanently, and drives maybe once a month. Given I have no drive and her mother does, I think she's an inconsiderate arse, public road or not. It's part of having neighbours though.

@boysey45 it's a really big area, we want the whole front doing, and due to groundwork etc it all adds up. We've had a few quotes and that seems to be the average for the space we want doing. It runs right across the front and down the side of the house too.

Surely we are all missing something massive in this ....

A bloody picture or diagram !!!!!!

Come on OP, I love a good diagram 😀

it may annoy you but if their cars are taxed, they have just as must right to use it as anyone else. I can see it would be frustrating. Also without seeing their drive it's hard to tell 😜😜

But surely they go out? If they return and the space is occupied, then so be it. But if it was empty when they got there, then why should they not park in the empty space on their road? I don't really understand how they are "hogging" it? Are they putting up bollards or reserving spaces in some other way (other than legitimately parking there?) If they are, then that is unreasonable, but simply using an empty parking space that is available for anyone to use is perfectly reasonable.

Why have neither of you put a diagram up??
MN rules... parking thread requires a diagram

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Diagram

It's none of your business what your neighbors do or don't do with their drives.

It may annoy you, but I can promise you, if you are daft enough to tell or ask them to do something about it, the chances will be that they will do nothing just to annoy you further.

As long as cars are taxed and insured, they can be parked on the road...again, nothing to do with you.

at picture of "poxy shrub"

Now waiting shamelessly for @ArchieStar to confirm if this is indeed their house

Driveways cost a fortune. They have to be done properly too, if cars are parking on them etc. My mum and dad tried to do a half arsed job and the cars wrecked it. I've just paid £7k for my bloody driveway. Looks lovely but I only did it because it had got to the point when my car was getting stuck in the mud in winter. So no I don't judge people and their driveways.

I can confirm this isn’t us!!

OP I can see how this is infuriating but maybe finances don’t allow for a change right now. Are they marked out parking spaces or just pavement inbetween drives?

OP - YANBU, using 3/4 of the whole street's resource permanently is cheeky.

@ArchieStar - we need your diagram to judge you!

@Bluntness100 - people can like a person and dislike how they park surely?