Wanting to park on my drive?

[Lifeispassingby]

Friday I came home approx an hour early, followed a car in and it parked on my drive ( a shared parking area behind our house in front of garages, with a few houses facing on to it- our drive runs along the back of 3 houses) behind another car already parked there. I wound my window and politely said to the woman getting out ‘that’s my drive there’ she explained she was visiting one of the other houses as her uncle is ill and she had picked up some prescriptions etc for him and the nurse was visiting who had also worked there. I said I didn’t mind and would park up the road and move it down when she had finished- under the circumstances that seemed fair enough. Today I have come home and she is parked there again, and has been since I got home about 2pm. She has been at the front of her uncles house with him putting up a key box etc. AIBU to think she doesn’t really need to be parked there?

Are you the legal owner of your driveway? Is there a Management Company who everyone pays towards. Are the spaces leased by the Management Company?

@Oldraver she is parking at the end, not in front of the garage (well smack bang in the middle actually) so not enough room to park behind her- hope that clarifies that! I’m working from home today so put my car there so she couldn't park there today anyway!

[quote SBTLove]@Lifeispassingby
Diagram is still required for a parking thread.[/quote]
Get over the diagram 🙄😩

I don't really understand why if you saw her at the front of her uncle's property you didn't go over there and ask her to move her car, and ask not to park on your drive in future.

Sorry, Oldraver - I wasn't getting at you; just astonished at the fact that she is doubly-selfishly parking in such a way that she can't be blocked in by the legitimate owner when she shouldn't even be there at all.

It's a bit like having two cakes and somebody grabbing them both off you, shoving one in their own mouth and then stamping the other one into the ground.

@Iloveme30
aren’t you a joy, mind and tag everyone who mentioned a diagram.

It looks as if you have a fence or wall by your parking. Buy a notice saying: Private Parking. Drive in Constant Use , or similar.

If she moves her uncles car up so it's bang up against his garage (I assume it's one of those garages that doesn't actually fit a car/is filled with junk ), then she could park behind him , she might jut out onto the turning area a tad if she is driving some great big off-road thing but that would be less inconvenient to everyone. Except possibly your other neighbour.....

@viques interestingly the neighbour has told her not to park there before as it blocks his front door and he can’t get in and out with her parking there 😂 she hasn’t been today I don’t think as I parked across the drive

Aha! So she has form for CF parking.

No surrender Lifeispassngby, no surrender.

Why can't the uncle's car go...IN HIS GARAGE!?

@AltoCation
Probably full of crap.

Bad move letting her do it once. Need to get tough and start saying NO Loudly and clearly. No excuses. If you don’t you will
every Tom, dick and Harry parking there for ever more.

Hinged parking bollard

Pull up your big girl pants and tell her she absolutely can not park on your drive.

You need it, you use it and you pay for it.

You’re sorry her uncle is ill, but she isn’t I’ll, so she will have to find somewhere else to park!

You've got yourself a real life cheeky fucker in the wild, OP.

Be polite but very firm, you need your driveway, your offer was for that day only, she may not park on your driveway again. Entertain no arguments or sad stories.