10 YEAR PARKING DISPUTE WITH NEIGHBOUR.

[eastafricanomad]

Hi all,

I need some serious advice. I'm probably writing this in the heat of the moment so please ignore any theatrics. Let me break it down...

We've lived in this property for about 17 years. Our charming neighbour moved in on our tenth year. She is our attached neighbour on the right hand side. We all have allocated parking - what is the problem you ask?

See the thing is, we live in a cul-de-sac. Every house has an allocated parking spot and we have several visitor spots (families with multiple cars use these visitor spots as permanent parking spots and it doesn't appear to be an issue with anyone including me). My neighbour, has an allocated parking spot at the back of her house, but due to her mobility issues - she parks in front of her house on a public highway - again, no issues with this.

There is still space for another vehicle to be able to park directly parallel to her with no issues of blocking her car or her house. Yet she has proceeded to block off this empty potential parking space because she doesn't want anyone 'parking in front of her house' - bear in mind, this is a public highway. No one can reserve rights to a public highway.

Living in a cul-de-sac, naturally parking is tight despite the allocated spots we have. Households do sometimes have more than one vehicle and everyone else on the street is incredibly understanding.

However, this woman, has proceeded to put CONES! In an empty slot on the public highway, not reserving it for any reason as she has one car. No daily visitors - her sole reason is 'I don't want anyone parking in front of my house' (???) ITS A PUBLIC HIGHwaaaaay. Anyway.

Now that we are adding a vehicle to our household, this has only really started to irritate me now. We've ignored her a long time, DESPITE her harassing anyone that parks there. She has harassed my family, construction workers, delivery drivers - you name it! I'm at my wits ends. The straw that broke the camels back was this week, when we had a lovely gentleman come out from Hillary's to do measurements for my blinds. She left a note on his car and yelled at him when he left my property.

I've spoken to the local council, they have confirmed - no one can reserve rights to a public highway. I've spoken to the police, they have confirmed - this is illegal. I've sought legal advice, again - confirmed my perspective.

What on earth do I do with these cones? We work 7 days a week in my household, and coming home after a long shift, moving cones to park my car is proving tiresome! It's not even the inconvenience, its the AUDACITY!

Am I being unreasonable? What would you suggest? What would you do with these cones? I want to put them in my boot and dump them 500 miles from my house. Any advice on this issue would be helpful.

Take the cones to the tip. And if she replaces them take them again.

Disabled parking bays can be put on public highways, we have some here.

Remove the cones when you need the space, keep the cones!

1. Draw the diagram.
2. Melt the cones.
3. Do this noooowwwwwwww.

😂😂

Could you ask her if you could use her empty parking bay round the back?

Bin the cones OP.

I've always wanted to drive through road cones, but feared the BigFoot ones would damage the car. These ones sound squashable so happy to offer my services if you are Suffolk/Essex border. 😊

Put the cones in front of her car so that every time she wants to drive out she has to move them to be able to do so. That should annoy her!

Just before we moved house the tosser house across the road with a million car had got in an argument with our neighbour over him parking in “their” spot. In the end they tried this whole cone bs and I kept moving it away. On moving day I slung it in my van. Then watched the idiot looking around for it with a dumb look on their face. According to old neighbour a new cone hasn’t appeared but they are still tossers but now they have to fight for parking like everyone else again.

I’d deliberately park in that space as a first option. That way the person coming home in the middle of the night can park in your designated spot without the faff of moving cones. And she’d have a car permanently in front of her house.

If she shouts at you, you need to immediately call the non-emergency police line and tell her what you’re doing.

I’d put any cones somewhere in her way so she has to move them every time she wants to get in the car.

Not every person on high rate DLA or PIP is visibly disabled.
You would never know who the motability vehicle is for in my family just by looking, but yes they qualify just as much as the next person.

How has this managed to drag on for so long? Just move the cones. Toss them into her garden or arrange them around her car. Stack them on the car bonnet. Just keep doing that. You aren't doing anything illegal. When the cones never work, she will either give up or escalate.

Yes on getting cctv in case she decides to get revenge by damaging your car.

I'd be tempted to agree with neighbours to buy a load of these cones she uses and put them all up and down the street and then you all just park on the street as normal, including in front of her house, right by the cones, without moving them, thereby rendering the cones meaningless.

@Whatthetrolley So I've been told! I'm very shameless in the sense that tomorrow morning at 9:00am I will go outside, stand in front of her house and take a picture in 4k. I need you guys to weep with me, she's nuts!

Does your council use the LoveCleanStreets app? You upload photos of fly tipping on the road or pavement and they come and remove it. I would use this, or other fly-tipping / rubbish reporting to get the council to take away her cones! (can you report online so that you don't have to pay? Look up reporting fly tipping on their website)

And speak to her. (Deny all knowledge of cone -removal involvement) . Tell her that you have clarified the legality, and she is in the wrong. Also tell her that next time she harasses a member of your family you will report her to the police for Harassment. Tell her She will get an injunction against her and that won't look good. Park your car there, run over her cones if not collected by the council, Keep a log of all her harassing. And then do report her for it.

My tosser of an ex neighbour used to do this, I used to throw them over his hedge and reported him to pcso when he whined. It stopped and the council got them back when they were working nearby. It stopped and thankfully he had one row too many with his partner and moved out.

Friend of mine had 6 electric blinds at £4000 and someone who had a company who did their conservatory that was £2700

Where's the diagram OP??

I'd just remove the fucking cones every single time. It's just not on blocking a parking space on the road.

@Emmelina No but please can we discuss where they get all this time from? I've convinced she permanently sits at her window, we are all employed in my household and are genuinely not home throughout the day unless I am working from home. I have zero idea what goes on in the streets and couldn't care less either. She's not elderly, she's maybe mid 60s. Waaaaaay to young for this!

Where do you live and how do the council charge you for speaking to them ?

Chuck the cones in her back garden, what a loser

THIS

There was a really hilarious parking thread a few years ago where the OP started decorating the markers that the CF neighbour put out. Think Christmas decorations, gnomes with notices. It was really funny.

No, THIS