Basically that. Advice please!
Our house is on an unadopted road so neither the council or highways agency want to know but when someone parks across the entrance to our house it is extremely difficult to enter or leave.
We have left polite notes on cars who have blocked us in just requesting that in future they leave a gap and for a while it seemed to work (although a couple of neighbours were rude and told us the people living here prior to us never had a problem etc, but they didnt have children) So a couple of weeks ago we decided to put some signs either side of our front garden walls saying along the lines of 'please do not block entrance, access required at all times' as we noticed more and more cars were blocking us in.
We have 2 small DC and so getting in and out of the house with them is extremely difficult if the entrance is blocked, especially if I have the pram as well as putting the bins out. Not to mention if we ever (hopefully never) needed an ambulance or fire engine we'd be screwed.
But people clearly cannot read or they are just purposely ignoring the signs as over the past couple of days we have been blocked in on multiple occasions.
This morning a van parked over and I was about to leave the house with DC. So I politely asked the person to reverse slightly when our next door neighbour appeared and had a go at me telling me the van had only just parked there and was going to move in a few minutes. I didn't really say anything back as I had my DC with me and was quite frankly shocked how rude they were.
I now don't want to leave the house as I feel like we're being a nuisance for asking that we have access to our house and it's made me resent buying the house a year ago and if I'd have known how rude and horrible our neighbours were I would have never moved here.
Thank you for reading and apologies for the rant, just fed up and feeling a bit down.
AIBU for asking not to be blocked in
YANBU and should be able to enter and leave the house freely without fear of being blocked in or out constantly.