Parking, with diagram

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Aibu to think this is a bit greedy of next door to hog both spaces with one car?

On street parking it is easy to fit one car outside each house unless you put your car in the middle of the two spaces.
Neighbour has one car. Parked as shown.
It's clear they are wanting to claim both spaces today.

Husband has had to park down the road a bit. Not the worst problem anyone ever had, granted, and yes I know they are legally allowed to park like that if they want but it's a bit annoying.

Yes, that's rude of them. Not sure there's much you can do about it, though, which would make it even more annoying.

Couldn't your husband have parked half in front of your drive, half in the space outside your house, so if they were trying to reserve two spots they wouldn't get them?

Kowari I think we'll do that.
Husband has big car but mine is only little, so we might do some petty car shuffling put his on drive and mine half in front.
If they wanted the two spots for a reason it would be polite to come and ask maybe?

It's not only us who parks here, public road and all that, we're not too far from shops so in the weeks we get visiting cars, no problem with that at all, but usually on a Sunday it's just residents.

Not sure I really want to get into petty car park feuds.

Man down the road who likes tidy parking might have a word. He tells people off usually who do the middle space thing (pattern of houses / drives / spaces continues onwards down the road so tidy parking is useful).

I think you could argue they've improved matters.

There's now room for three cars in front of your two houses. If they're expecting a guest, guest can park across neighbour's drive and there's still room for you to park across your own drive, whereas if they'd parked in one of your indicated spaces there wouldn't be.

Technically, you would create more spaces if everyone parked in front of their own driveway, just requires shuffling.

Crossposted with @AutoGroup there!

Are they marked spots or just one big space?
It’s inconsiderate but not much you can do

Not marked spots, no. Just by convention and common sense people usually fit two cars in.

With two cars, especially if you husband has a big one does it make getting on and off the drives a tight swing?

If the kerb is dropped are you actually allowed to park over a driveway, even if it’s your own?

I didn’t think you could ?

Sirzy no it's ok as there are double yellows opposite.

You’re not really supposed to park over a driveway, as if everyone did it there’d be nowhere for wheelchairs to get up and down. And they might want to cross at that point in the road.

Yeah I guess it means now if you park both cars on the drive the pavement is gunna be blocked? So could you block your own drive away but park on the road?

I've lived in a place with loads of terraced houses and nowhere near enough spaces and it's unbelievable what it turns people into . We joke about it now we've moved away but at the time some of the neighbours behaviour was bizarre

Not enough room for both cars down the drive, it's too short - but I could park mine right up to neighbour's back bumper and it would probably only overhang our drive a little bit.
This is the other problem you get with people parking in the middle, if it's still there tomorrow then visiting cars will be tempted to do that, if I don't.

Yes agree with that. Once the bad parking starts it can be hard to rectify. Have any visitors turned up next door?

So has it just happened today and no other time? Perhaps they are expecting a lorry delivery or an elderly visitor and are reserving the space. Why would you be bothered by a one off? Very petty of you. Do they really need your permission for this too? This is really a non issue.

Why don't you just ask him to move up?

I hope you end up with a solution you're happy with.
Just wanted to congratulate you on that excellent diagram.

I'd just park partially over your driveway, it sounds like you would still be leaving plenty of space for wheelchairs. If your neighbour has a visitor then they can do the same.

If parking is tight I wouldn't want to park in front of someone else's house elsewhere, even though it's not their space, as it just moves the problem on.

I can't tell from the diagram which part of the road it is that you own Op

I could have written this post as the parking outside our house is exactly the same (we keep the tiny car on the drive and the bigger one on the road). It drives us mad when one car takes up the two spaces, it's just shite parking if nothing else. We always park behind the offending car blocking our own drive as it makes the issue obvious for next time so hopefully they won't repeat it and will park in front of one house or the other next time. With it being your neighbour doing it I'd knock on and ask them to move - or just park over your own drive and just use that car if needing to go out and then mention it to the man down the road and let him do your dirty work!

Aqua55 Sun 20-Jun-21 12:29:09
I can't tell from the diagram which part of the road it is that you own Op

At the moment - none of it!
I did say in OP wasn't the biggest problem ever and they are perfectly legally entitled to park like that if they want to.
It's just annoying.

I'd get the hump a bit if it was just today but if they're always doing it I'd probably have a word with them, politely.