Parking and Neighbour

[PeaceGoodMercutio]

Who is being unreasonable, me or my neighbour?
The space in blue is a "shared access driveway" but part of it outlined in red is owned by us.
We park in our parking bay (23). Our neighbour (24)keeps parking where the yellow box is on my picture, which blocks access to our drive and stops us being able to get out.
She says so does this because she says she should be able to get into her drive without doing any manoeuvres (no idea what she means) and she has to be able to get up close to our back gate.
She has two spaces, and if she has a visitor she parks in the yellow rectangle. Sometimes she parks there anyway. (Sometimes her visitor parks on our drive) .
Is she allowed to park in the yellow rectangle when it blocks our private parking spaces?
Also, am I allowed to park where the pink car is or does it block her parking spaces?

So she’s parking blocking your drive or just making it a pain to get off?

If she has guests parking on your drive, she’s being a CF!

No one should be parking on the blue section

I’ve just reread your post again and, if I’ve understood it correctly, she’s parking half on your land? If it’s shared access, no one should be parking on it other than designated spaces because it’s meant for getting onto driveways.

She's wrong. She needs to park in her parking spaces and just use the shared access for access, not parking, especially because you own the part she's parking on, but no one should park there anyway. Manoeuvres are part of driving and she doesn't get to not to do them at a whim.

Please can I check what the pink box is in the first picture?

Based on the diagram, I would say that no-one should be parking in the blue section as this is for access. She should be parking in the designated parking bay.

What do the deeds say?

No one should be parking on the blue bit, it's for access only. She is blocking access by doing so. Why can't she park in her space?

If your neighbour doesn't know how to park without manoeuvring, she needs her driving licence taken away.

OP is asking if they can park in the pink box.

She says she can't get in to her spaces because "her car is big and she shouldn't have to do manoeuvres".
I park in the pink box when my mum is already parked on our drive and my neighbour is parked in the yellow box (so I can't get to my parking spaces).

No one should park in the blue, it’s not spaces, and if she has 2 spaces for her property even with a visitor she has room!

Sorry I just re-read your post again regarding pink rectangle. No you would not be ok to park there as the area needs to be clear for access.

It looks like she can't be bothered to park and is dumping her car outside her house. She must be doing a 'manoeuvre' to turn and leave again, so she's just being lazy.

And if her car is too big for her skills to drive and then she needs to change it. She cannot park in the blue zone

I drive a big car. That doesn’t exempt me from manoeuvring it because I can’t be arsed! To be honest, I don’t have to manoeuvre it any more than a small car so she’s just a lazy CF.

If she's not capable of driving/parking her car, then she shouldn't be driving. Also, don't buy a car too big for your drive/space. Surely that's basic?

But, yes, I'd be super annoyed at this too. Can you contact your factor/site manager, and get something done? Big NO PARKING on the road, or people with spikes😂?

So she doesn't have to do manoeuvres in her car, but you do in yours? She needs to get over herself. We have inconsiderate parkers here who routinely park over the dropped kerb at the end of the road, making it difficult to pull out, and I always find that writing across their windows in red lipstick DROPPED KERB, MOVE ME! means people do not repeat offend. I'd do the same to your neighbour except as she's deliberately being a twat, the message would be less polite. She'll soon decide that cleaning off lipstick is trickier than parking properly.

If her car is too big for her to park in one of her spaces, she needs to park it across both of her spaces and any visitors can go park on the road elsewhere. Don't be fobbed off by her entitled BS. There is zero doubt, she can't park there.

Your neighbour is unreasonable, they shouldn't park on the blue bit. If they have right of access it doesn't mean the right to park there.

Seriously though, you should consider taking that image down. It's really easy to find out the exact location. At least hide the names of the blocks.

Did we not have a similar thread a few weeks ago? No she should not park over the boundary. However she may be getting confused by deeds stipulating that you need to emerge forwards onto the road. Do you park such that she cannot easily reverse into her bays?

We park in our bay. Fully in the bay. No overlap. The bay is big enough to park in and there be about 4ft of space left in front of the car.

Presumably your deeds say what can and can't happen in the shared access area. Most likely not parking. Your problem, though, will be enforcement options.

You both need to check your deeds and likely the Transfer document which is referred to within your deeds

looks like 2 parking spaces each though so she needs to park her car in her space. The blue area most likely says on the deeds ‘no parking’

I can't see a diagram.

ugh why can't I see the diagram??

Still annoyed on your behalf @PeaceGoodMercutio

I was so excited to see a diagram when I clicked the thread. Gutted