What to do about neighbours friends parking in my parking spot.

[AnnoyinNeighbour]

I have an ongoing problem with my neighbours, neighbours family and neighbours friends parking in my allocated parking spot outside my house. We don't have a car but we use if for family when they visit. We have asked the neighbour to stop parking and left notes. Knocked on the neighbours door today as my family visiting and they have no where to park. His reply was it's my sons friends and they over 18 and they have left so what do you expect me to do. Frankly his cocky attitude has really annoyed me. So they have left the car parked on my spot and left for the day.
The allocated spot is on the deeds. There is a housing association for the area as some people have leasehold not freehold so not sure if they could do something? We pay the association 15 pounds a year. It could be to lease the parking spot, I'm not sure. Or should I contact council or police? Could this be considered anti social as we keep asking them not to park in our spot? Also a bollard might not be an option due to housing association and its paved with bricks so might be difficult to install.

Penguin bollard!!!

@ilovepixie

Like this

I would get a bollard. And it would go right in the middle of the space.

@Mamamamasaurus

Speak to your neighbours (the other 2,not the CFs) then block the car in if at all possible. When they come to your door, answer it with gun in hand and a merry "sorry, can't move it, one is a bit squiffy!" then close the door. They don't need to know that the hardest drink you've had all day is a coffee.

Then speak to the company you pay £15 per year to and see what they can suggest. Failing that - a bollard, as PP have suggested.

A gun might be a little heavy-handed, but I like your style 😂

Does this neighbour have their own spot?

"His reply was it's my sons friends and they over 18 and they have left so what do you expect me to do."

Well, my response would probably have been that since they have occupied my space then I expect them to make their space available to me. Now.

@LordEmsworth

I'd get some of these as a starting point.

These would definitely be a good idea. Hopefully this would shame those parking illegally in your spot. Maybe start with 1 sticker on the windscreen, then for a second offence 2 stickers etc. Just make sure you don’t put them on the paintwork in case they cause any damage that they could try to sue you for.

Get a lockable bollard that you can stand up when you're not using it.

@Mamamamasaurus

*gun = gin

Don't answer the door with a gun in your hand, FFS.

But a gun might produce a better result!

Second penguin bollard

Parking in someone else's private parking is not on, your neighbours attitude is also crap, therefore I return the same attitude.

We live in a country lane and our house is the only one with frontal parking of the 8 cottages (we all have rear parking via a track).

Few years ago had someone park across both spaces on our drive, OH found the owner, son of elderly relatives. His attitude was "im visiting family, nowhere else to park, what are you going to do"

An hour later we had police at our door, apparently someone had dragged this car from our drive with a 4x4 and dumped it in the entrance to the woods about 200m away, and the tyres and handbrake are damaged.......
Nothing to do with us officer.... we don't own a 4x4 😄

Fight fire with fire...

Omg with a gun in your hand 😂😂😂😂😂 @Mamamamasaurus

Just buy a bollard and screw it into the bricks. Ifathe housing association take issue with it, then the worst that happens is you replace a couple of bricks.
You should have taken the chance on blocking it in, and maybe just had a word with the other 2 neighbours you'd be affected to let them know why you'd done it.

As a bollard is so obviously the solution I suspect it must be more complicated than that. Is there something about the road surface that makes that impossible?

Been there, done that
Block them in. Park behind them, then go and knock. No discussion it's "you're in my space, move, you are not entitled to park there, it is private parking"
Ok this is sexist, find a giant aggressive looking man to bang on the door and tell them to move (worked for me, he's a teddy bear but looks terrifying)
Get angry. A solicitors letter if you have someone that will do it for you often works
Make sure the space is marked, buy spray paint and a stencil if not
Yes to bollard

Oh and you can ring the police, I did
Feigning ignorance "there's a car parked on my property and I don't know who it belongs to"
They got a phone call telling them to move
Housing association/leasehold too
It's frustrating and I had white hot rage at some point but you have to be consistent

I'd ring the council. We have problems with parking on our road and we've had the council out a fair few times and the cars are given a ticket and a fine. I'd imagine just one fine would stop them doing it again

Get it towed

@Mamamamasaurus

*gun = gin

Don't answer the door with a gun in your hand, FFS.

I had to re read 3 times to work out the context of the gun

I like the gun idea

I'd buy a clamp.

Put up a sign saying cars parking there will be clamped, £X fine to remove.

Then clamp it.

Ditto for them having to move their car to let you use their space for your relatives seeing as their relatives took yours. Incredibly rude.

OMG! What's happening to AIBU?! Not one person asked for a diagram! It's a parking thread!!

@Marylou62

OMG! What's happening to AIBU?! Not one person asked for a diagram! It's a parking thread!!

Ahem. See the fourth post!

Hahahaha.. Absolutely shattered after a very busy week at work and a 6 and a half hour drive (normally 4 and a half! ) after missing the turn off the M4 and ending up nearly in Central London! So apologies..