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Neighbours walking on our drive and lawn

255 replies

Lochnessgiraffe · 28/03/2022 13:08

Our neighbours keep walking over our lawn and drive. Our neighbours to the left have stopped doing this once we spoke to them but currently our neighbours to the right keep doing this. We've been having problems with them as they are having building work done and have had to stop their builders parking on our drive.
We don't have a car so they've previously asked to park on our drive but we've said no. They are now constantly walking over our lawn. Our living room over looks the lawn so we see it constantly it's driving us nuts.
We've asked them to stop. What can we do about this? We're actually trying to move due to the neighbours.

OP posts:
h1nch · 30/03/2022 22:51

Open the window and shout “get off my lawn - you are trespassing”

h1nch · 30/03/2022 22:53

Solicitors letter telling them to cease and desist trespassing on your property or you will take civil action law suit out against them

h1nch · 30/03/2022 22:55

Bamboo sticks round the edges of the lawn with warning tape strung around it - high enough for them not to be able to get over or under easily. Cheap, makeshift but sends the message!

Fraaahnces · 30/03/2022 23:03

Didn’t realise I had attached a video… You need Clint Eastwood!!!

Seema1234 · 30/03/2022 23:06

If you're moving anyway why bother about it?

PearlyShamps · 30/03/2022 23:42

They probably have the hump that you didn't allow them to park on your empty drive while the works are going on. If they're parking on your neighbours' drive and have to get from their car to their house, they're going to do it via your lawn as a two- fingers-up to you.
The fact that you've asked them not to do it, and they continue to do it, shows that a simple "deterrent" won't work. You need a fance :0(

MRex · 31/03/2022 06:50

@RedScarfJamjar

I feel the lollipop attendant gives the entire situation more gravitas and tone than a simple light. I shall think on and offer solutions for when OP isn't present/in full garb.
Well quite. We're trying to come up with practical solutions and OP probably has stuff to do on occasion.
RedScarfJamjar · 31/03/2022 09:58

Indeed. I'm thinking inflatable Olaf for the odd shift.

Frannibananni · 31/03/2022 10:10

Topdress the lawn with a stinky poo fertiliser.

NippyWoowoo · 31/03/2022 10:16

@Lochnessgiraffe

We're in the middle with an x. Grass is green and drive is stripy.
Is there not pavement? Is it just a road for people to walk on?
HotSauceCommittee · 31/03/2022 10:42

@h1nch

Bamboo sticks round the edges of the lawn with warning tape strung around it - high enough for them not to be able to get over or under easily. Cheap, makeshift but sends the message!
But sharpen the ends of the sticks and dip them in shit.
beautifullymad · 31/03/2022 13:29

I'd get 3 foot bamboo canes. You'll need a lot. And green garden netting.

Then without actually seeding you can say you are seeding the lawn and don't want cats or birds on it.

Put the canes around the edge and in a line form the middle and stretch the green net over at about 2 foot in height. The bamboo will support it and keep it tight if you put the top of the sticks through the holes in the net.

Then your neighbour will come across a sea of green net suspended at 2 feet high. He's not going to want to walk on that.

If it fails, raise the height.

I'd put some compact discs around too to deter the birds Wink

You can explain to prospective viewers that you are making sure the lawn is healthy.

Original poster
Lochnessgiraffe · 31/03/2022 13:45

Thanks for all the suggestions. I think we're going to go with "reseeding" the lawn. They've taken to glaring at us as they walk past

OP posts:
RedScarfJamjar · 31/03/2022 18:42

So my suggestion of a chalk outline of a body and lots of Police tape is too late?

Dammit. I'd been working on that all day.

Femalewoman · 04/04/2022 22:45

@Fraaahnces

Didn’t realise I had attached a video… You need Clint Eastwood!!!
Grin
WalkWithDignityAndPride · 15/04/2022 13:04

@spacehardware

I cannot believe 7% of respondents think it is unreasonable to object to people strolling across your lawn
I can. There was a poll in 2016 where 52% of the public effectively admitted to being arseholes. 7% is insignificant.
Galvantula · 15/04/2022 14:37

@PuzzledObserver

I live on a new build estate and quite a few of the houses are like this, in many cases just a narrow strip of chipping between the drives. I’ve just leafleted the entire estate.

My rule of thumb is that on the houses where the only thing you pass is the garage and front door (that I want to put a leaflet through), I’ll cut across. If there’s a window, I’ll go back to the footpath/road.

I was thinking you had leafleted them all about open plan garden crossing etiquette 🤣🤣
DoorWasAJar · 15/04/2022 14:45

@Aprilx There are special cat deterrent sprinklers!

AlbertaAnnie · 15/04/2022 17:54

indeed, and if they done work you can always use them to stake them in the heart!

PuzzledObserver · 15/04/2022 21:21

@Galvantula ha! No. It was publicity for a concert my choir was putting on for the Ukraine appeal. We raised over £900 and we were dead chuffed.

Klt94 · 01/04/2023 23:08

I'm also having this problem, me and neighbour don't get along and we both have two driveways and everytime in school run or going taking her dogs out she walks right across our drive. It seriously p*sses me off. Ive already spoken to her about it and she has carried on. She doesn't care!
Can't even open my blinds anymore with out her looking through. I've just had her sons friend going upto my window looking through while I've got my kids in the livingroom.
We have had her dog poo on our drive and she let it. Its disgusting behaviour. We have had enough but a fence is expensive wanted to do something else to block her off but not sure what.

What have you done with your neighbour going on your driveway?

RantyAunty · 02/04/2023 02:22

TheYearOfSmallThings · 28/03/2022 14:23

Could you get a sprinkler system like the fountains of Versailles so it would follow them across your lawn? Or maybe like those ones at the Bellagio which would come up in a ring around them when they reach the centre?

OMG I laughed way too hard at this!! 😂

TheMaddHugger · 02/04/2023 05:39

@Klt94 you need to make yourself a separate post you'll get better responses suited to your situation rather than reviving a zombie post
Hugs🌺👵

lovemelongtime · 02/04/2023 07:36

Why can't you just ask them to stop! Forget motion sensors and fences that all cost money.

LookItsMeAgain · 02/04/2023 17:45

@Klt94 - This post was a year old before you decided to post on it. I realise that @TheMaddHugger was polite in their request to get you to post on a separate thread rather than reviving a ZOMBIE post...I might not be as polite.

Please check the date of the last message posted BEFORE you add to a thread as you'll end up reviving a ZOMBIE THREAD if add your message to it.

No one likes ZOMBIE THREADS.

Fewer will actually take the time to compile a meaningful response to whatever the last post was asking/about.

Can you start your own post and you might be fortunate to get people to post replies to your situation???

Swipe left for the next trending thread