Campervan parked in front of my garage

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I own a garage that's on the next side street to where I live. We don't put our cars in it because it's used to store things. My husband's things mostly. Our aim is to clear it out so we can put one of our cars in it. My husband sometimes puts his car in front of the garage. Anyway there is an absolutely enormous campervan parked in front of our garage. Its parked so close up to the garage doors that we couldn't go in the garage at all. And obviously prevents us from parking in front of it. They tried to park there on Monday but my husband stopped them. No idea who they are but my husband works nights so not here.

Throw a load of birdseed all over it. 😁

Provided you own the freehold of the drive in front of the garage as pp said install a bollard.

Just Google parking bollard and there are loads.

Chuck battery acid over it and watch the paint melt away 😈

So when your DH quite reasonably told her to move her behemoth van , what was her arguement to keep it in situ ?
Just trying to work out how unreasonable a CF she is

I would accidentally trip while trying to paint stripper in the garage.

OK this is a major update. I am truly not intending to dripfeed. I work days my husband works nights and today as I didn't get home until 630 and he left at 7pm we were like ships that pass in the night and hadn't spoken to each other at all. I didn't know anything. Its a transit van. My husband has just phoned me as he does every night and I've just spoken to him about it. He says it's a different van that he moved on the other day. He says he's pretty sure its our next door neighbours. I asked him how he knows and he said he saw him driving it earlier. As its late he's said he'll have a word with him tomorrow

Insert a parking bollard and a sign that says no parking private land 24 access required

put paint stripper into the garage 🤦‍♀️

Do you have any idea who owns it, or where the owner is staying?

If there is a local Facebook page, can you post of a photo of the van and ask if anyone knows the owner, as they are parked on your property and you need to enter the garage?

What exactly did the woman say to your DH? I'm hard pressed to think of a retort to "Hello, this is my property, you cannot park your van there." What argument did she present? Or did she just tell him to F off and walk away?

Please keep us updated; this kind of thing raises my blood pressure and I need to know the outcome!

I did that once.

Purely by accident. Four times. Except the car in question was blocking my open garage, and they could clearly see there was a car they were blocking in. In my defence, I did not see them, because entered the garage from the other side and I just hit the button to close it.

Be a shame if some local kids parked their bikes against it and the paintwork got scratched

Scratch it

I’m loving the solutions people are coming up with!

There’s a website where people mark on a map places for ‘vanlifers’ (campervan trippers) to park for free. There are also websites where you can rent out your parking space to people for cash. Is it possible your neighbour has done something like these with your spot? Because two CFs in one day makes me wonder, especially with one being the neighbour.
Also this is a parking thread. You know the rules OP. Diagram required. 😁

I think I know the set up op. I live very close to a seaside town which is inundated with camper vans. There are flats facing the sea on Xxxx Road with garages in yyyyy Road.each garage has drive and a BIG notice on each door: Private. No Parking. Anyone who does and doesn’t live in the flats gets told to move sharpish.

Get a wheel clamp £20 off eBay leave a note with your number

YABU to do a parking thread with no diagram.

It's not even late, knock on their door now, inconvenience the blighters!

I was hoping it was going to be like the Lady in the Van for a minute there and she’d end up staying and you’d all end up being good friends in a heartwarming way.

This!

I had this a while ago. Same set up at yours OP. More often than not i use it for storage.
Needed to get into it last month to store some furniture for my sister. Car blocked right in front of it. Knocked on doors etc, couldnt find who it was / no answer etc.
Anyway goes back day after and it belonged to the lady who lived next to garage. Instead of parking it about 2 foot from her house, lazy bitch dumped it outside my garage.
Entitled fuckers some people!

Buy a wheel clamp and put it on, with a message on the windscreen informing them of the release fee!

Ha ha ha love this

I see that penguin bollards have already been mentioned so I shall merely suggest a rugby team (although in your case, you may need two)

There's a website called youparklikeac*nt which might be useful.