New neighbours moved in about 3 months ago. They are not direct neighbours but the side of their house and half of their garden fence adjoins our drive and garage. We live in a small cul de sac (we’re at the end of it).
Anyway from moving in, they’ve caused issues as they seem to be gutting the house and doing up the outside of it and the garden, blocking the road with lorries and vans. The road is extremely narrow with a bend into the cul de sac with a few parking spaces at the top. Neighbours drive has been full of building materials for weeks so they are taking two of those spaces for their cars and also parking vans directly in front of their house in the tiny front garden area over spilling into the narrow road making it difficult to get round. Lots of noise, banging and loud bass from playing the radio in the garden full volume.
I have been asked by neighbour a few times to not park on my drive as he wanted to put scaffolding on the side of his house so on my drive. So had to park much further down the road a few times. Fair enough.
A few weeks ago he had a massive lorry delivering sand totally blocking the road. It was lucky I came out before they started offloading it as going to get DC from school or I wouldn’t have been able to get out at all for about 30 mins. Neighbour didn’t knock and say road is going to be blocked. When I said I need to get out the driver harrumphed. Neighbour didn’t say anything.
Neighbour also used a pressure washer to do his garden and covered the side of our car in mud as it came through the fence. He did apologise and his wife wrote a sickly note about not trying upset us, trying to be neighbourly and looking forward to being a part of the community
with a tenner to wash the car which we gave back. They said they expected works to be completed in December!
Anyway, a few weeks ago neighbour said he wanted to paint the fence adjoining our drive and also sand the side of his house, so could we park elsewhere. He made the point that he didn’t want to damage my car, obviously as a thinly veiled threat. I said let me know in advance. Never heard anything until this morning when I was reversing in from school run and he’d already put a sheet down on my drive ready to paint the fence. He came over and said he wanted to do the work today as weather good. I said OK, how long for. He said all day. So I had to drive out and park on the main road as his cars are blocking the top of our cul de sac. I mean he could have moved one of his cars onto the main road so I could park there knowing he was blocking my drive right?
Been out again and did some shopping on the way back, so having to carry heavy bags down the road, he’s finished painting the fence but has put scaffolding up on the side on the house on my drive, he’s standing in it. I say how much longer are you going to be? He says a few more hours but it’ll take a another few days as I want to paint the side of the house.
I say ‘Really’? He then says ‘look it is really putting you out parking down the road?’ I say yes it bloody well is! We also had just got a new car and I don’t want it on the main road. He then says I’m trying to be neighbourly but i won’t ask you again, I’ll just do what I need to do! I say well as long as you’re not blocking my drive, the road or cause any damage to my car then and asked him who the hell he thinks he is.
AIBU? This has gone on for months now. The twat doesn’t care about the impact he’s having on us. This was a very quiet cul de sac and now looks like a building site. He never approached us when he first moved in to mention what he was going to do.
He seems to think because he wants to do stuff to the side of his house, he has a right to use our drive to do it on!