It's a parking one..

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I know this is possibly going to be seen as a minor issue but here goes...
My neighbour keeps parking outside the house with his massive van. There are plenty of parking spaces across the road. Before we did the driveway we used to have to park across the road because we'd always get home after he did he he'd be parked up outside the house. He has a drive way too. So he'd park his normal car in the drive way and the massive van outside our house.

Now we have the driveway I'm less bothered by the van but it being outside the house makes viability when coming out a bit of a challenge.

Now he's parked his van literally on the edge of the dropped kerb making visibility even worse and making it a bit of squeeze getting out - especially if we have to turn right .

Is he being a knob or AIBU to be bothered by it?

Btw - we've never discussed the parking issue it's them because it's clearly a free country but it's not neighbourly to taking up parking when you know your neighbour parks outside the house.

Go and knock on his door and ask him to move it if he blocks you in or out. Even if you dont need to go anywhere. I did this with my neighbour, she soon got fed up of having to move it and stopped doing it

Try politely asking neighbour to move their car/van forward so you can make turning right easier.

No need to be confrontational I guess - but if neighbour refuses, then I suppose you could smear dogshit on his door handles and windscreen.....🤷‍♂️

He is being a knob.

Also BTW - parking facing the "wrong" way after dark is illegal, so if he parks it that way he is being an illegal knob.

To be fair, the car opposite doesn’t help much either. Is that there often?

Could you apply for a H bar over the drive?

Ooh legal or not this would really annoy me!

@Hingeandbracket

Also BTW - parking facing the "wrong" way after dark is illegal, so if he parks it that way he is being an illegal knob.

What's the wrong way - on the wrong side of the road? I never knew that and do it regularly outside my house!

What's the wrong way - on the wrong side of the road? I never knew that and do it regularly outside my house!*

You should ideally park the same as as the traffic flow

Rule 248 of the Highway Code states "you MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space." It means cars could be parked legally during the day - but when the sun goes down the motors open owners up to fines.

Not sure it's really enforced in the UK though - I've never heard of anyone being done for it. I understand they're a lot more uptight about it in Australia though.

He must have gone to the same school of parking as my neighbours who will literally sit and inch their car forward so they’re exactly 1mm from our dropped curb. The entire stretch of road to the right of us is completely open, free parking so there’s really no reason to park so close to us. They must hate us as there’s literally no other rational explanation why they would do that.

No advice but YANBU. You’ll get loads of advice to go and speak to him but in my experience, he knows exactly what he’s doing... he just doesn’t care. We have endless parking issues around here (one of the reasons we are moving) and people just don’t give a s*.

Is there anything preventing him moving forward? Is that the space just between your drive and his? Presumably he doesn’t want to make it difficult for whoever drives his car to get out if so. (but is happy to make it awkward for you).

It might just be his habit and you could ask...he’s likely a twat though if he does that in the first place. Any chance you could go out at the same time as him one morning and ‘catch’ him and mention it then? Might not seem so confrontational...

He isn't doing anything wrong parking there he isn't over the dropped bit. He should park the other way round though.

My husband's colleague got done for parking the wrong way on a dual carriageway. He got a fixed penalty notice.

He’s being a knob

I can't see the diagram but is there any reason he can't park his massive van outside his own house?

@ExclamationPerfume

He isn't doing anything wrong parking there he isn't over the dropped bit. He should park the other way round though.

My husband's colleague got done for parking the wrong way on a dual carriageway. He got a fixed penalty notice.

It's not about whether he's 'technically' doing anything wrong, he's making visibility difficult for OP when turning right which is dangerous and is being a nuisance. Not everything is about the very letter of the law. Human decency does exist. In some of us anyway

Urgh! I hate this. We have a neighbour who regularly does this. We have a white H line on the ground as well. It's really frustrating.

I leave for work early (7am) and I deliberately knock on in the morning and ask her to move it, because she is still in bed. I do it EVERY DAMN TIME. definitely stops her for a few days at least.

Actually he is over the edge of your dropped kerb. The dropped kerb starts at the beginning of the slanting kerb stone. My neighbours are nasty and try to do this to me all the time, I know they're not doing it by accident, so I just call parking enforcement and a traffic warden comes and tickets them, £100 fine. My neighbours are arseholes though, and deserve it.

Try and get a H line put down as wide as the council will go. Then he can’t overhang the line.

@roundandsideways my council say the dropped kerb is only the flat bit. The sloping bit doesn't count.

@ExclamationPerfume

He isn't doing anything wrong parking there he isn't over the dropped bit. He should park the other way round though.

My husband's colleague got done for parking the wrong way on a dual carriageway. He got a fixed penalty notice.

How on earth did he manage to park the wrong way on a dual carriageway? He must have driven the wrong way down the road and crossed the central reservation

He probably needed something a bit more stern then just a fine.....

@ExclamationPerfume, according to the Highway Code, it's the beginning of the slanting kerb stone. My council will issue a ticket for it, and after three days they get towed.

My neighbours had a campaign against me and would get their friends to park like that on either side of my drive. Then they would try to threaten the traffic warden, bribe them, etc. They're despicable though

I had this exact situation where I lived previously - a large van with a high top parked exactly outside my living room window, a shit brown colour too.

Plus the owner sort of lived in it as he was a jobless weirdo so it was more or less out there 24/7. Not only was it an eyesore as it was scruffy and old, it blocked out a certain amount of light and stopped us from parking outside our property.

Why doesn't he park the van on the drive and the car somewhere across the street? Maybe ask him directly, nicely to begin with ....maybe buy an old car and leave it in that space if you get desperate!

Good luck :)

This would annoy me too, seems like he’s taken to petty behaviour because you had a drive and drop kerb installed and ‘inconvenienced’ him. I’d speak to them civilly and ask if he can pull forward so you can easily get in and out of your drive without damaging his van. Put a note on his windscreen if you don’t feel comfortable with this. “Please could you park your van further away from my driveway as you are restricting my visibility when exiting, thank you”. Polite and to the point. Can you extend the drop kerb any further?