More neighbours and parking

[Ritascornershop]

This is a manners question rather than a legal thing (I am not in the UK).

In our street everyone has a driveway with room for two cars, one behind the other. When people have 2 cars they tend to park on the street in front of their house. The gardens are wide enough that there’s room in front of each house 2 cars.

New people next door to me. She parks in their driveway and he parks on the road, about a foot from my driveway, so when I pull in it’s a wee bit more care and attention on my part. It also means that from their lounge they don’t look at his car but from mine I do. When he has visitors they park in front of his house (inches from my driveway instead of closer to their own) and he parks in front of my house. Wtf? I emailed him last month (as I seldom see him) asking him to park in front of his house as I needed the space for my visitors but now he’s gone back to parking in front of mine.

There’s no parking regulations against anyone parking there, but I feel he’s pissing on my territory and I doubt very much he’d do it if there was a middle-aged man living here, but as it’s me, small single mum, well, might as well aye?

AIBU to be annoyed?

He is being a twat. A passive-aggressive, payback-riddled, spiteful, petty, nasty, mean, misogynistic, power-over, dicklord of a twat, OP!

But everydayisaduvet, I said right at the top of page one I’m asking about manners, not legalities. Lots of things are legal that might also be rude.

Thank you @cbt944 , I think so too.

I think he’s being a dick and you need to play silly buggers as previously mentioned. Hope you don’t fall out over it though!

I'd get a great big skip - one with extended sides so it was huuuuuuge and have it put outside his house. And I'd ask the company to send a really scruffy old one. You can keep them for weeks

If there is no parking regulations why on earth did you email him? and what has being a single mum got to do with parking?

I had a very good reason for emailing him about it that I explained above would be outing if I revealed here. So you’ll have to take my word for it.

I thought it was pretty clear what me being a single woman has to do with parking. Every other house on the street has a man in it. He never parks in front of the neighbours on his other side and it feels to me that it’s because he thinks he can inconvenience me but if he does it to another man there will be aggro.

I’m pretty sure your legally allowed to block ur own driveway as it yours?!😁 don’t understand why you don’t wait for him to leave and ask him nicely to park in front of his own house.

Where I live you aren’t allowed to block your own drive as it would be preventing emergency vehicles from getting as close as they want to your house (I am not in the UK).

I have asked him, he stopped for a while and has started again.

Can you speak to both him and his wife together rather than email him?

You can’t do anything about him parking outside your house but if you explain to both of them about his dickish parking causing you problems getting on and off your drive it might help?

I’m absolutely not one for running to wifey to sort out problems but calling him out in front of both of them for his dickish moves might help?

My neighbours are similar.
Their daughter visits and she always parks closer to the front of my house than her parent's. She is being so considerate to them of course ensuring they can get in and out of their drive easily. Does not care about reducing my visibility when I have to pull out of my drive on to what can at times be a busy road.