Neighbour's visitors keeps parking on my driveway

[ricecakes90]

We have just moved into a new build about a month ago and all the neighbours moved in the same day through the HA.

The neighbour seems OK but ever time she has visitors they will park on my driveway.
It has happened a handful of times now, and our living room window is practically right next to the space and the visitors will look in which makes me feel very uncomfortable.

My partner thinks I am over reacting as he points out that there there are two spaces but that's not the point.

The neighbour doesn't even ask, one or twice but it's stating to become a regular thing whenever she has a visitor and I don't think it's right.

I don't want to fall out with her but it's really getting on my nerves, AIBU?

Either your OH parks his car in front of the living room window so they can't do the same or you speak to your neighbour. Then if the visitors still do it, put a bollard there.

Just say something!

Hello neighbour, please can your guests not park in our parking spaces!

If her argument is 'but it's empty!'

Say then you won't mind me using your bathroom as it's empty right now!

Stand your ground /

YABU because of the lack of diagram.

Thems the rules, even if neighbours mates are parking in your front room.

Are the spaces lined? If it’s a driveway I’m imagining not. The easiest thing I’d do is park at an angle that makes it not obvious I’m doing it, but also impossible for two cars to get onto the drive. It’s really rude of them.

Grow a bloody spine! Just open the door and say excuse me, can you not park on my drive as we need it accessible and no one has ever even asked permission.

I've already suggested speaking to your neighbour, or popping a note through the door, but if your OH is scared that this will cause bad feeling, then it's probably worthwhile investing in a couple of locking parking posts, as not only will that solve the current problem, but will also stop thieves attempting to steal your car/s.

Mmm. Is it just the neighbours that are HA or are all the houses? I wondered why HA was mentioned

What I meant was we are all HA and moved in the same day, I was just giving the back story of the situation.

If they’re waving at you when they park. It’s because they clearly believe it’s ok to park there and they think you’re being a nosey neighbour.
theyre being passive aggressive at you by waving to let you know they can see you nosing at them.

you need to speak to the neighbour, at the very least drop a note through the door or go out when someone pulls up.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they are instructing their guests to “park in one of the four spaces outside our house”.

It is an absolutely not. It people on the street walking by were looking in then sure. But people trespassing onto her property and looking through the windows is entirely different.

The solution is to stop them parking, not accommodate it by spending money on something you shouldn’t have to and to stick film on your window.

YANBU! Talk to your neighbour.

Pop some planters down until you get your car.

I agree, this seems to be the most pragmatic solution.

I always think filling a space with random things like bollards is a bit passive aggressive. Much better to actually talk to a neighbour. If they are normal people they will appreciate being told as they presumably won't want to fall out with you.

Get a metal pole that can be fitted into the ground and they won’t be able to do that in a hurry we have one and it’s been brilliant otherwise we get all sorts of people backing into our driveway just to turn around

I can understand wanting to stay friendly with your neighbour but there is a point that it just turns into a complete piss take and I don't think any future favour you may ask them will be worth allowing them/their guests to use your driveway whenever they feel like it.

DH coming back from work and not being able to park on your own drive was when you should have put an end to it. Did either of you knock and ask them to move it or did he just do nothing and quietly park somewhere else?

They clearly know it is happening and don't care or they would have stopped it, it's disrespectful and shitty.

Ask planning who’s the parking space actually belongs too you your neighbour or anyone who wants to park there then you will get your answer

Doesn’t have to be. Put the bin out on bin day and then just move it back into the driveway once emptied.

2 spaces per house is generous, can't beleive they have the nerve to use yours aswell. Put your bins on that parking space and have house number stickers on bins too. Nice and clear. If you hear a CF moving your bins, then pop out and say it's your parking space. Got to nip it in the bud.

Clamp the fuck down on it now or you'll end up in the situation I was in where I was still having to shift people out my parking space TEN YEARS after I moved
Now they just park behind me and block me in but after 17 years, solicitors letters, the police... there's not much more I can do

No no no, never say youdon’t mind it occasionally that leaves an open door for however often the parking space thief thinks is occasionally, that’s just asking for trouble.

I did that in London, to a van rental co 75 quid a week and that was about 2009

You are an adult you don’t need your husbands permission - and it’s 2025 (almost), not 1955.

if you allow this to continue you leave yourself at risk of neighbour establishing rights. Ok it takes years but why would you object in 5 or 10 years time when you can do so now?

You don’t make a big deal of it with your neighbour, it’s not your neighbour parking there, next time as soon as they pull in with the car, you go out and tell them they can’t park there and to move and it don’t further the discussion, because move it to where is not your problem, don’t explain why you want them to move it as it’s not their business. It’s. Your property. And you say to the driver and please tell the person you are visiting that I need my space kept free at all times so please could they comply with that request or some such thing, again no explain. It’s called having boundaries.