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?

Exactly

What kind of favour do you think someone who walks all over you would for you. You’ll have other neighbours who you’ll get to know who will be more like you than these people who are being disrespectful of you.

So you’ve talked to 5em to know it’s the step dad? But not to say. It to park on your property. Get a spine. Come on!

I asked my lawyers to change use of a strip of tarmaced land alongside my neighbours drive. It was proposed as a turning point, but it's not needed and is now my second driveway. I put my house number on the fence so it's clear whose driveway it is. My neighbour said they were disappointed cos they wanted to use the space (its my land!), so I agreed they could if I'm not using it but to check as we are a 5 car household.

Can you add a post with your house number on the space or a sign?

But honestly just speak to your neighbour. Your neighbour should be telling visitors where to park not you, but there's nothing stopping you pointing this out to them as they look in and wave! You don't have to make a song and dance but be assertive - it's OK this time to park in my space but next time pls can you park in .... space and then point it out. Thank them, tell them to have a lovely day and fingers crossed that'll be enough.

Its highly likely the neighbours knows exactly where they are parking. I wouldn’t see the point in saying anything when they are clearly very entitled.

Wow! Why would you go to this trouble. It’s simple, it’s her drive, keep off. Don’t start buying things to accommodate cf’s

Please get a giant inflatable santa covering half the driveway

Sign in the window saying “Don’t park in my driveway!”

Done this ourselves once. It's hugely entertaining. Enjoy.

Seconded.

Put a sign up under your living room window saying ‘no parking except for No. … (your house number).

I would knock and tell her that you don't want to cause any grief, but would appreciate it if she told her visitors not to park on your drive, because you don't like strangers/other people's visitors parking on your drive, and looking in your window. Plus you are getting a car yourself, so will be requiring both of your own spaces.

Or put a sign up saying PRIVATE PROPERTY, NO PARKING!

So your drive is separated from next door by a hedge and the CFs are still parking on your drive?

If your DH isn't around during the day when this happens, he clearly isn't being impacted by it so gets no say in what you want to do to sort it. If you don't see the NDN putting the bin out etc, then pop a polite note through the door. I'm sure your DH would change his mind if he came home each evening and couldn't park where he wanted!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-61760338.amp

Please read this and others who are advocating things.
Someone said put broken glass on their driveway.
Just think.
Her husband is partly right, you have to live amongst your neighbours.
Nothing is worth rising what happened in Somerset is it?

Trouble is everything thinks they are right, whether they are or not.

Bloody hell that's really cheeky! We had a huge issue with our neighbours family, she was 90+ years old, and our driveway had a right of access to get to her garage, except the garages are too small these days for cars, so they took that as 'I'll park on Floof's driveway instead! We were late 20's earlyb30's at the time and think they were just cheeky as we were younger than their children, so bossed us around somewhat. Anyway a long story but one of the old woman's children was really nasty, left the mums garage door open enough so if one of our small children ran to the car, not unusual, they'd turn a corner and run straight into the corner / edge of the metal Garage door - thankfully it was when they were trying to sell as the mum had then died, so that all stopped
What I would say is just get it sorted amicably otherwise they'll take the piss

This can ba a problem with newbuilds, which don't tent to have fences to make boundary lines clear, also lazy CFs!

Time to step up the boundary line, pot plants, bushes etc possible? Best to nip in bud early on or it becomes expected. Some people will take a mile. X

And we need a picture, drawing etc!

Why even post this here? Remind your neighbour the sauce is yours. Simples 🤷‍♀️

yeah I hate it when neighbours nick my sauce

@ricecakes90 - did you talk to the neighbours?

Need a diagram OP! Having difficulty envisaging it but it's obligatory in any case!

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Simple solution available on Amazon or tell them you have a large delivery due, open the door and say "can I help you?" Maybe clamp their car, or call the police and say you think a stolen car has been dumped on your driveway, or get hubby to grow a pair.

Did you find solution OP?