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My neighbours are car verge-parking wankbadgers

97 replies

IndefatigableMouse · 03/12/2019 19:37

My neighbours bought a house with a drive only big enough for one car.

A few months back they began taking down the garden wall between us so they could fit two on, before I pointed out it was actually my boundary and not theirs (they never fixed the wall, but that's a whole other unfinished thread).

As a result of that, they now park one on their drive, and one on the verge outside my house. Yes, possibly a reaction to me not letting them knock down the wall, but honestly it wouldn't have fit two anyway. Would this annoy you?

I feel most normal people would either block themselves in, or park on the road.

I really don't care if people park 'in front of my house' - it's legal, whatever, but something about being on the verge is really winding me up. Of course I don't own that either! But on the roads around me the only other people who do this live in the house the car is parked in front of. It looks so messy. The grass is all chewed up underneath.

Right now her car has been parked right up to the edge of the grass all week, enough that it is difficult for me to get on and off my own drive if the other neighbours opposite park in the road too. There's loads of room to pull up closer to her own house.

If she was a normal person I would talk to her about it, but after the fiasco with the garden wall (she literally stormed off in a huff when I pointed out she was wrong, even though by this stage she had taken a lot of bricks off my wall!) she has avoided us.

I need to chill, don't I?

Instead I'm burning with car-parking rage!

My neighbours are car verge-parking wankbadgers
OP posts:
CottonSock · 03/12/2019 20:16

She's an arsehole. Take her to small claims over the wall... I'm possibly overreacting but she would have me raging.

category12 · 03/12/2019 20:33

I'd rebuild the missing bit of wall and try to breathe through the verge-parking. No point escalating things.

MarkingTimeIm59 · 03/12/2019 20:34

I’m a bit confused OP. Do you have to drive over the verge to get onto the road?

TheTittefers · 03/12/2019 20:39

I would make the grass verge very muddy. Like, very very muddy. Possibly I’d throw a bit of birdseed there too.

T0tallyFuckedUpFamily · 03/12/2019 20:39

I wouldn't park on a grass verge ANYTHING could be in the mud

A very good point. Be terrible if she got a flat tire. 😁

get the hose on it where she parks for an hour tomorrow - it’ll be like Glastonbury Brilliant. If it’s any consolation, the weather will change sound and she’ll be lucky if she can get a truck out of it.

sunshinesupermum · 03/12/2019 20:42

I agree with category12 and rebuild the wall even though it costs you money.

Your deeds state that you have to maintain the wall which does imply that the entire wall is on your property. Perhaps a solictor's letter might be the way of letting them know that you won't put up with their nonsense.

Original poster
IndefatigableMouse · 03/12/2019 20:42

Marking - it’s poor diagramming sorry. I don’t have to drive over a verge. I have a proper drive and drive onto the road (mine is light blue car in pic).

I don’t think they have a proper drop kerb but it’s actually hard to tell.

OP posts:
Longfacenow · 03/12/2019 20:47

Your diagram is excellent.

I also agree, it is unfortunate how often one finds smelly/messy/crunchy things on the verge under a pile of leaves.

merrymouse · 03/12/2019 20:48

Even without knowing the details, you are clearly in the right because of your A+ diagram skills.

Himoverthere · 03/12/2019 20:52

HYG HTH

www.survivalkit.com/blog/making-an-effective-molotov-cocktail/

Original poster
IndefatigableMouse · 03/12/2019 20:52

I’m torn between turning it into Glastonbury and rising above it. Interesting about what you say on the dangers of muddy verges!

To add more confusion into wall-gate, they originally had two walls in their garden, the other between them and their next neighbour along. It was in the exact same style which I believe is why they thought it was ‘their’ wall. Sorry, it’s very tedious. The posts extend quite far into their land. It’s possible the previous owner of their house built both. But no one knows! On wall-taking-down day I kept saying ‘l can see why you think it’s your wall but I know I maintain the fence on that side so let’s slow down and check things‘ - which is when she stormed off.

I don’t actually care too much about the wall but I do care about the boundary. Without a physical one I think they’d turn into the neighbours from that thread where they can only get out their cars by standing on their neighbours land!

OP posts:
T0tallyFuckedUpFamily · 03/12/2019 20:56

Probably a bit extreme Himoverthere. 🤣

ForalltheSaints · 03/12/2019 20:56

Please have respect for badgers who are kind creatures and would not behave as described.

I'm in favour of the bollard suggestion.

Longfacenow · 03/12/2019 20:57

Stand down OP, only joking.

I'd care about the boundary, not the parking, as you say.

Yambabe · 03/12/2019 21:08

I'm wondering how she is actually getting onto the verge OP?

Is she basically driving up your dropped kerb then swinging around? Surely she has no right of access to do that?

I think a call to the council is definitely in order.

PanamaPattie · 03/12/2019 21:11

I would have thought taking your wall down would only give them a little extra room. I should imagine they were going to park so as to use your drive to access their property. There was another thread recently about this.

Rebuild the wall and send them the bill.

GruffaIoCrumble · 03/12/2019 21:12

Badgers in Britain are the biggest predators of hedgehogs saints
THEY EAT HEDGEHOGS!!! That's a bit wankbadgery Wink Grin

Mummyme1987 · 03/12/2019 21:12

So why did the6 tr6 to take down your wall? To use your garden too?

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 03/12/2019 21:16

I'd be tempted to get some boulders on that verge. Just enough to protect your drive access. Deny all knowledge of how they got there.

cherrybanana · 03/12/2019 21:18

What a massive shame that I was walking home and just happened to trip up as I walked over the verge, and unfortunately spilled the whole box of nails I happened to be carrying.... Grin

5zeds · 03/12/2019 21:18

Lay a large dog turd where she gets out of the car, she will find somewhere cleaner to park.

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IndefatigableMouse · 03/12/2019 21:19

Yes they drive across the top of the drive to get onto the verge. But that’s the bit next to the pavement so I wont have any ownership over that, just access.

There’s a lamppost on the verge too so they have to go behind that. Occasionally she comes from the other direction and accesses it from the other side, but rarely.

Mummyme - she said with the wall down they could fit both cars on but my house is end terrace and slightly wider than theirs. I don’t see how they could get two on, even sans-wall, and be able to open the car doors without having to open them over my garden. That’s why my suggestion of a thin fence didn’t work! Their plan is only useful with no physical boundary at all.

OP posts:
B0bbin · 03/12/2019 21:19

YANBU.

PrtScn · 03/12/2019 21:22

I'd be tempted to get some boulders on that verge. Just enough to protect your drive access. Deny all knowledge of how they got there.

I was going to reply with the same thing! That's what they do around here, and usually paint them white (no idea why, must make them more noticable).

Stuffingandsprouts · 03/12/2019 21:23

(mine is light blue car in pic)

Ahhhhh - I actually totally missed where your car was as I was focusing on N1 & your big green bush. I didn’t even see the light blue car.

So, if you started parking on the road at the end of your drive, facing left, how would that impact their ability to park on the verge whilst you insist they reinstate the wall?