To start parking passive aggressively

[ShouldWeChangeTheBulb]

We have a shared driveway with our neighbour. I have started getting more and more annoyed over our parking arrangements. NDN has 3 cars 2 of them are parked on his driveway. We have 2 cars and have room for 1 car on our drive. There is a 3rd spot that we have always shared. The majority of it is on our land but a slice is on NDN’s side. If we didn’t share neither of us would have room to park on our own side.
The problem is if we are parked there and then move he will move his car from the street to the drive which I feel is a bit cheeky. The other issue that annoys me is that both his cars that are on his driveway are never moved. They are both broken and unused and have been for more than a year.

Should I just chill and carry on with the arrangement?
Or should I jump up and take the spot if he moves and beat him at his own game?

Diagram (I know the rules)

This would annoy me too. Is it only possible for him to get on the drive when your car isn't there?

Of course you should beat him at his own game

Is that shared bit actually part of the drive or is he peeved off you've parked on the path to the back garden?

Buy a broken down motorbike and plonk it in your bit of the shared space. Job done.

If he complains explain very calmly and simply, that it is your space to do with as you please, just as he has chosen to fill his two, perfectly good parking spots with broken cars and perhaps if he moved one of them he could park his good car in that newly vacated space. After all, you only bought one motorbike to do up so that you still had one space to park one of your cars. And smile !

Looks out of window. but we only have on car that stays on the drive. Spooky. Sorry. I have no advice. But you just drew our parking situation. Our third car tends to stay put too.
We are planning on making the garden into more driveway. Could you do that?

Long term could you not slightly reduce your front garden so you can park both your cars side by side on your land.This also would probably mean neighbour can never park his 3rd car on the drive. Long term win

YANBU, fight back now before he gets super comfy. Have you checked the deeds? Maybe the space belongs to you?

I would leave the second car in the shared spot if only taking one car out!

How do you get your car out or how he would he his out if they worked when car 2 is parked?

If it's possible why don't you put nice plant pots against your garden leaving enough room for you to park your car on your bit of space that's left?

That doesn't solve the issue but means there's no space to fight over!

Can you sacrifice a bit of your front garden to make parking two cars on your drive possible? Then mark the driveway so that he knows where the boundary line is and let him know he is not to park over the boundary line?

Oh ignore me 🤦🏼‍♀️ I was seeing the entrance to driveway across the shared bit.

There's always one

I'd still put planters alongside your garden and park you car up against the boundary line.

I would prob start being PA about this. I would like to pretend I would rise above it, but I'd be lying.

YANBU, fight back now before he gets super comfy. Have you checked the deeds? Maybe the space belongs to you?
Technically on the deeds all cars on the NDN side are not allowed because it’s a shared access to the back of the house. Some of the houses have garages at the back.

Oooo I love a parking thread. He is a CF! And yes as soon as he’s out, park there... and don’t move your car! Any friends need to sorn their vehicle for a bit??

We could make a bigger drive but we’d have to get rid of a very well established hedge which gives us a lot of privacy.

@Still1nLove

Can you sacrifice a bit of your front garden to make parking two cars on your drive possible? Then mark the driveway so that he knows where the boundary line is and let him know he is not to park over the boundary line?

This. I would definitely steal some garden to give you two spaces evenly on your drive.

What do the deeds say about that car parking space that's shared? Doesn't seem a good arrangement to me. I'd want it gone as this would piss me off too much

Does he drive over your half to move that 'shared space' car

How do you get your car out or how he would he his out if they worked when car 2 is parked? when his cars worked they would swap them all around. The extra car (our second one or his third one) gets parked on the street. Which is annoying because there isn’t always space and there are large trees full of birds that shit all over the cars.

When he moves the car next, get some massive plant pots and stick them on your side.

Looks like his car is blocking access to your back garden. How is the shared bit defined? To share access ( hence should always be free) or 50 50 ownership (then he is a CF for parking even on a tenth of your land!)

Does he drive over your half to move that 'shared space' car Yes you can only get to it by driving over both sides.

When you park move your car over towards his part of the drive, where 2 is parked but not over the line

Then can you get one more car on yours behind?

Personally I would be making the front garden smaller to accommodate more parking

Looks like his car is blocking access to your back garden. How is the shared bit defined? To share access ( hence should always be free) or 50 50 ownership (then he is a CF for parking even on a tenth of your land!)
Yes it blocks access to the back gardens. It’s a big double door. It’s shared access but states it should be left free.

That would annoy the hell out of me. Mostly on your land. I'd say I dont want him parking there. Put something over my half the parking space.

When you park move your car over towards his part of the drive, where 2 is parked but not over the line
We could do this but it would be very obvious

Then can you get one more car on yours behind? no the diagram isn’t quite to scale but we can only fit one without going over to his half.