Not so much of an AIBU, but I fell down the rabbit hole of all the other subforums and didn’t know where to post or where gets traffic and I spent time drawing so…
We live in a new build estate, which is terrible for parking. Everyone has spaces for two cars on their drives, but there’s not a lot of parking for larger families or visitors. We have lay-by style spaces as shown in blue about 5 houses down (I’ve condensed them in the picture so it’s a little further away than it looks but not by much).
We live opposite a really wide junction. You can’t park on the road outside of any of the houses without blocking the road, except for outside of our house because the wide junction means people can pass by if a car parks there (the red). People will park here instead of the lay-by. It doesn’t massively bother me that they park there, as it doesn’t stop us getting off our drive, but we’ve got flowers/bushes along the front of our garden and so people who park there have to park close to our garden to ensure cars can get past, and they step onto our flowers to get out of their car or swing their door open and swipe into them all.
It’s usually visitors/ delivery drivers etc who park there, so not always people I can catch and speak to. We don’t speak to the neighbours (not in a falling out way, just we’ve never spoken to them) and I don’t know where the visitors are going, but I suppose I should speak to them. I don’t fancy going knocking on loads of doors to ask them not to let visitors park there, and it feels silly to post notes through their door.
So I’m looking for something that would deter people from parking there? Maybe a low picket fence? I thought about some large white rocks in amongst the flowers but I’m worried people will ding their car doors in them and I’m just out to deter and not damage.