Only CF don't park on their driveway?

[rubyjan]

So neighbours next door recently dropped the kerb outside our houses and built themselves a driveway. They can fit 2-3 cars. They have 2. A small pick up truck and a car.

Doing this they removed 3 parking spaces that were used, and inconveniently the next available parking space on our side of the road is in front of my home where I've managed to park for years with no issues.

Each neighbour sort of parks outside their homes but before they dropped the kerb they would park outside theirs but there was extra space for other cars to. (Their drop kerb spans more than 3 curbs) because they wanted to ensure they could reverse out as people opposite park on the opposite road in front.

My aibu is, they never fucking use their drive. But they don't park on their dropped kerb either. They park opposite!!! So the residents who usually park there, now fight for my parking spot or the woman's next door to me.

Because of working hours, I've now found myself without a parking spot and I have to park round the block as if I manage to park outside mine if I dare leave, it be taken.

I actually want to shout at them for not using their drive! But my mum said I would be unreasonable as it's a public road.

Im council and they won't give me permission to turn my front garden into a drive either! And it's just a ball ache walking an extra 10 minutes to my house heavily pregnant with small children purely on the basis they don't use their drive they put in 4 months ago!!

Would I be unreasonable to actually have a word with them?

I get it. I absolutely love my neighbours, but for some bizarre reason they park their car on the road during the day, meaning traffic builds up and has to wait to pull round. They have a drive they use at night. It doesn't really bother me as we have a drive ourselves, but I do find it odd. I THINK they do it to slow down traffic through the village as they are both really hot on campaigning to keep the speeders at bay (we have a 20mph limit anyway through the village) but all it does is cause a line of annoyed motorists outside our houses who then floor it and speed past the parked car.

I was going to say YABU they’re allowed to put a driveway in if they got permission etc. but when you said they don’t even park on it!!!!! Like wtf!!?!?!?!?

YANBU! That’s so bad!!! Our neighbours do this, they have a car parking space out the back which all the properties do but instead of using it they park one car outside their house (fair enough) and their second car outside ours!!!! And they don’t use their space! It makes me really angry!!!!

Mostly because I hear a constant car door opening and closing which sets the dogs off barking… the very dogs that they complained to the council about for barking too much… it’s just ridiculous! I’m not even sure how it’s more convenient parking round the front instead of the allocated space round the back!

I literally hate our neighbours cuz they’re right busy bodies with cameras looking out their house at every angle so them parking outside ours infuriates me more than it should!

You would be reasonable to speak to them.

You would be totally unreasonable to begin by shouting at them.

Their dropped curb is 3 car lengths long? How big is their house?! Surely the dropped curb could still be parked across and leave ample space for access.

That said it drives me nuts when people decide to just claim a bit of a public road and gets annoyed when people park there. I used to live somewhere where people would put up aggressive no parking signs on bits of public road outside their house 🙄. Parking on a public road is first come, first serves whether it’s outside your house or not.

YANBU, our neighbour has a car so big it barely fits on the drive so he parks on the opposite corner, but across the corner so it makes it hard for anyone to see, let alone kids that are way smaller than the car. I wish he'd at least park it sensibly. They've spent 6 years with builders vans to, redoing the same jobs because he works in construction but somehow all the jobs need doing at least twice, so also have to fight the vans or deal with constant drilling..last weekend he woke me up both mornings drilling. Some neighbours are really really crappy, you can't change them, they won't park elsewhere. You just have to pray they move! That's what I do!

Well that's exactly what me and the other neighbours have discussed.

It's very strange how they have managed to get such a large drop kerb.

Maybe they are on mumsnet because one of their cars is on the drive tonight

You can still request permission for a dropped kerb in a council/HA property.

Do you have a ring doorbell OP, can you see if the car is still there.
If not
This is one good reason to get one 😄

Cant wait for the update. 🤪

Ugh we have a knobhead family on our street who do similar. Everyone hates them. They have a massive driveway that could easily fit 4 or 5 cars (I'm not even exaggerating). They have a car and a work van, both of which would very comfortably fit on their said mahoosive drive. But instead they park their giant work van outside literally anyone's house but on their own driveway. The husband is shit at parking too. His favoured place to park his work van is right outside our house, at such an angle that it makes it a pain in the ass for me (and my neighbour) to drive off our shared driveway. He's not parked illegally, just parked like a knob iyswim

My neighbour once asked him why he does it and he said "I don't like looking at my work van from the window while I'm sitting down in my living room watching television in the evening"

Twat