AIBU to see if neighbours would consider letting us park on their drive?

[GardenWoes231]

First thing - they don’t have cars.

Our street is mix of drives (illegal - none have dropped kerbs) but a lot of on street parking. For the last few years this has actually been fine as most people are pretty sensible and everyone who parks there every day parks in front of their house and everyone is considerate.

My neighbour however now has a new job and has parked an extremely long flatbed truck covering the front of our house where we’ve parked every day since we moved in and also covering his own drive. He has an additional car that also takes another space on the road.

So what was previously an easy setup I never even had to think about is now stressful every day as I genuinely have nowhere to park on my street.

Before anyone says - I can’t speak to him about it. He’s my immediate next door neighbour so knows he is inconveniencing me - last time we spoke was when he came into my garden and screamed in my face for a good 10 minutes because we had objected to his planning application. That’s the sort of person he is.

So is this a totally mad idea? If you had a drive and you never used it and didn’t own a car how would you feel approached by someone on your street and asking if they can park their car there? I would offer a small amount of cash (monthly?!) for their troubles?

Need to know if this is totally crackers and I’ve lost the plot and if someone came to your house and asked this what you’d think?

Look on Justparking or a similar site - I park on someone else's drive everyday!

No harm in asking politely. Note through door might be best to avoid putting them on the spot. I certainly wouldn't be upset if my drive was free and someone asked me.

I often park on my neighbours drive when he is away (which is often) he likes it as he thinks it makes his house look occupied (if you see what I mean). The neighbour opposite likes us to do the same. Sometimes our drive is empty because both our cars are parked in other peoples drive!

Half the street and a number of friends park in ours when it's empty

Parking is a nightmare round our way so people try and help each other out.

There is no harm in asking!

ask them, I know someone who does something similar. She pays £20 month.

I'm surprised at so many people saying they wouldn't do it.

We have no parking on our road. It's all double yellow lines or driveways. Our neighbour across the road has no cars and a double driveway. They allow our visitors to park there (we ask everytime). And when we had a skip on our driveway for 2 weeks I parked my car there. Surely it's just being a good neighbour?

They won't take any money so we take them and their kids out for pizza occasionally.

Have you checked on websites like justpark? A) to see whether any of your other neighbors already rent their driveways that you could book and B) to see what the going rate is to offer your neighbor.

Wouldn’t have a problem we used one of our neighbours spaces when we lived in a flat and had only one allocated spot ... she offered in fact as she didn’t drive worth a ask ( perhaps just explain hard to find spots though encase they are friends with your neighbour x

Approached nicely I would rent it out on a trial basis.

I’d say not a chance. I dont want to look out of my window and see someone else’s car. What’s in it for them?

What? No diagram?

It would depend how close to their house it is. I wouldn't want someone else's car right next to my kitchen window for example, but if it was somewhere I couldn't really see it I'd be happy for a neighbour to use my drive in that circumstance.

@MaybeitsMaybelline money and good karma?! I don't see why you shouldn't ask but do it with a note and an offer of £ in that note. Do a bit of research to see what is reasonable.

Our next door neighbour sometimes parks her car on the drive across the way (big drive) not sure why but if it doesn't cost anything to be nice.

I've had this recently - a neighbour asked if a houseguest could park on our drive for a couple of weeks. It was no issue. They bought us a plant to say thanks at the end.

I've also found a random car on there. Not sure who it belonged to. The builders next door said they had seen an old lady park it and go off up the road. I had to go out so couldn't find out who it was. That proper cheeky fuckery. We have the largest drive on the road and don't mind helping neighbours out but I don't want randoms parking on it.

If the neighbours you want to ask are nice and approachable then there’s no harm in asking I suppose.
If it were me I’d probably say no or I’d have to make some ground rules. Such as; only you can park there (not visitors or people I didn’t know) and I’d probably want an agreement about times of day that you’re parking there such as no later than 9pm but that’s because I have small children who are atrocious sleepers so I wouldn’t want car doors banging below unnecessarily.

Yanbu but could you sweeten the deal by offering a small monthly sum to the neighbour? I mean token really, like a goodwill offering.

I would have no problem with this at all - what goes around comes around. It's such a small thing to do for someone

You haven’t got a chance of doing this amicably, don’t even attempt to put your car on someone else’s land.

At least you are asking, our NDNs relatives used to park on my drive without asking and its one of the reasons why we now don't speak at all. I would say no as I like the drive clear but other people might not mind. I think the arse next door needs to move the truck though.

Our neighbour wanted us to park on his driveway because it makes his house look occupied. Could try that angle?

We mowed his front lawn as a thank you.

It seems lucrative the just park company

help.justpark.com/hc/en-us/articles/206690488-How-is-the-daily-weekly-and-monthly-price-calculated-

We rent our drive out for £40 per month. The worst case is they say no.

formerbabe so despite "not owning the road" you'd be perfectly happy for your neighbour to suddenly bring a flatbed truck home, therefore using up a couple of extra spaces outside your house, and making you have to hunt around for a parking space? Yeah, of course you would.

My neighbour lets me park on his drive when he's on holiday. As long as you're not banging car doors at 7am I don't see why they would say no

@yearinyearout

so, formerbabe - despite "not owning the road" you'd be perfectly happy for your neighbour to suddenly bring a flatbed truck home, therefore using up a couple of extra spaces outside your house, and making you have to hunt around for a parking space? Yeah, of course you would.

Exactly this. Such bullshit!

NOBODY would be happy at someone sticking an ugly flatbed truck right in front of their window, taking up not only their usual space, but also several other spaces on top!

People always say stuff like that on these kind of threads, 'you don't own the road blah blah!' But the fact is that they would be equally as pissed off. I don't know why people come on here and pretend otherwise! It just makes them look daft!