Parking - would a fence be mean?

[Fwaltz]

Hi
We have recently moved house and have a parking question. We have a detached double garage with parking in front of it. To the right of this, there is a strip of parking (marked in yellow on the pic) where a neighbour from another street parks their car (and then goes through a gate into their rear garden). Then there is a 6ft fence to our actual neighbours property.

Their little strip of parking is a mess (full of weeds, poorly maintained) and makes our parking area look like a shared car park (which it isn’t, we own our land).

Would it be really unreasonable to put a fence in to clearly delineate where our property ends (green line on pic)? They have a Fiat 500, so it’s not a massive car to get in to the space, but it would probably make it feel tight for them when opening doors etc. They don’t have kids or pets, so just able bodied adults getting in and out. My husband thinks it would be really inconsiderate to do this. I can see his point, but we’ve worked hard to get a nice home abs I want it to have nice kerb appeal.

So:
YABU - do not put a fence up
YANBU - your property, put it up if you want.

Yep fence up
And wonderful diagram

10/10 for diagram.

They have the shit tip at the back of their house, this can't see it and their keen appeal isn't blighted.

You're the reverse.

A fence is definitely the way to go. Chase some lights up your side whilst you're at it.

I wouldn’t as personally a good relationship with neighbours is more important to me.

I would do a fence too, doesn't seem out of the ordinary to add one judging by your picture

Have I read the diagram correctly - the neighbours park on your land, behind your garage, and walk across your land to access their back gate? Do they have a right of access to do this? Who owns the land that they park on, in yellow?

No, if its too tight a high fence could restrict their view pulling in and out and it looks like there are no other fences along the parking area from your diagram.

yes 100% and asap

Where is the garage/ his house/ rights of access?

If they reverse on, which they bloody should a fence won't obscure their view.

I didn’t understand the diagram at all. Where is the garage? Whose house is shown? What are the four rectangles?

The rectangles are cars, the garage is in front of the middle two rectangles.

How about talking to your neighbour about your concerns?

@PineappleWilson hi, they own the land marked in yellow, and when they go through their gate they go straight into their garden, so they don’t have any access requirements on our property/land.

@Tumbleweed101 good point re: restricting their line of sight. I think the consensus of doing a low level sleeper/similar is the route we’ll take so as to minimise potential conflict or inadvertently making their parking spot/access dangerous.

@ifellintoarabbithole sorry to drip feed - I am British. Directly facing a problem is not the done thing 😜🤣

@Aprilx

I didn’t understand the diagram at all. Where is the garage? Whose house is shown? What are the four rectangles?

Brings popcorn and sits in dunces corner with April because I don’t get it either.

We did this, our neighbours drive was a mess. Rusting vehicles and piled up junk meant they couldn't fit their car on their drive without parking over the line.

We checked the deeds to make sure the fence wasn't too high (it had to be picket fence height). Then gave them advanced warning and made sure all the posts were on our side rather than straddling the boundary.

They were VERY angry after it was done. Sent us threatening letters and got legal advance. But were told there was nothing they can do. They cleared the junk to give them more space within a week of being told they couldn't make us take the fence down.

So YANBU, but check your deeds, let them know in advance and be prepared for backlash.

@viques abs @Aprilx hopefully clearer now?

10/10 for the diagram 🏆

Wouldn't even bother checking covenants, no one ever enforces them. Put the fence up

I would think it is an obvious place to put a fence.

The longer you leave it the more likely they might cause an issue.

I would put up a proper large fence but then I love fxxk off gates and high walls.😁

Assuming the fence on the other side of the space is their own and they could take that down so they had more space to get in and out of the car, I don't think there's anything wrong with you putting a fence up (providing no covenants). The are ignoring what a state the area is because they have fences blocking the mess from their sight most of the time. There's no reason you should have to stare at it.

[quote Fwaltz]**@viques* abs @Aprilx* hopefully clearer now?[/quote]
Perfect.

Go for the fence.