Work based parking aggravation

[chewingthefurnishings]

I'm not generally indecisive, but I’m genuinely on the fence about this, so am letting Mumsnet have the final say. Don't let the power go to your heads 😉

My office is in a conversion of three old mill buildings, surrounded by some quite nice landscaping. I work in the main block in the middle of the site and the parking is around two sides of the site - you can tell it’s parking not just because there are signs but also because it’s got block paving.

Now, between my ground floor office and one of the smaller buildings is a nice landscaped area with gravel and flower beds and outdoor seating / picnic tables where you can take a break. Let’s call it ‘the breakout zone’. There is enough room to allow someone to drive through the middle of this, which is handy for deliveries to the offices, like ours, that aren’t particularly close to the parking.

Most of our office windows look over this area.

Two months ago a new tenant moved into the smaller building on the other side of break out zone and they pretty much immediately started parking right in front of our office windows on the gravel bit of the break out zone. Not only that, but they have customers in quite regularly who also park all over this area. And they do this even though there is parking available on the other side of the site, I guess because they can’t be arsed to walk the additional 20 meters to that 'official' parking spot.

So far I’ve tried not to be petty about it: there aren’t any ‘no parking’ signs after all. But it’s just a little bit ‘sand in the shoes’ irritating that my quite nice office view is now basically someone’s Mercedes and you can’t sit out with a quick sandwich because there’s a car 2 foot in front of the bench.

Should I ask them to move / grass them up to the landlords?

IABU = no, leave them it’s not worth it
YANBU = they’re taking the mick. Get them gone.

Ask them to move. Or accidentally drop your sandwich, mayo side down, onto the bonnet of the Merc.
(Make sure there's a LOT of mayo)

Ask them to move? Of course.

'Grass them up to the landlords'?? Why would you do this unless you've asked them and they've refused?

But also, if the car is parked that close to the bench that it's preventing people from sitting on it, they definitely should move anyway.

Haha @NotbloodyGivingupYet we've thought about introducing a rather large number of spiders in there when they've left their windows open.

I have no problem in asking them to move @TwattyMcFuckFace if I can be arsed...grassing them up to landlords is back up option if they won't play nicely. Although, in fairness, it's not at all clear that they are parking in unauthorised space, it's not signed and there's nothing in the lease about how this space gets used, so it's just my inconvenience vs theirs, hence I'm not sure I really want to make an issue of it.

Slugs to go with the spiders?

Asking them to move is not actually going to solve the problem long term. Just ask the landlord to clarify that the area is for recreation with a couple of ‘no parking’ signs.