New neighbours

[Stumpy54321]

After 10 years in our current property we have now have new neighbours. We have a side by side driveway and have been overlooking them partially on our drive as they were moving in with a van. Today they have finished moving in and have their own car and van at the property. We noticed today that their van had been parked completely on our drive and up against our garage. We could neither access the garage, which we need to as hubby has motorbike in there, or get out of our gate. We left in an hour or so then knocked on the door. They said sorry but they needed access to their drive as they were expecting a delivery. We said we didn’t mind but would have been nice if you’d just knocked and asked as how were we to know if it wasn’t gona be there at 5 in the morning when hubby was going to work. I think they were being very cheeky with their assumption that could could just do that but aibu?

I probably would just have let it go as they're trying to move in (agree that it was cheeky tho). But one knocking on their door before 5am to move it should sort it, anyway!

I think you need to nip this in the bud now. Who moves into a house and parks on next door’s drive without even asking? Very impolite.

Start as you mean to go on op. Yes they were trying to move in, but a polite knock on your door to ask if it's OK and explain they were expecting a delivery would have been the right thing for them to do. How were you to know the situation? And how did they know you didn't require access to your own drive!

This could be a genuine one off, or it could be the start of "oh but we were just...". Keep an eye incase they are CF neighbours.

Yes it's cheeky. You've addressed it now so hopefully it won't happen again

Cheeky fuckers. No way can that be considered reasonable.

What did they say when you said it would have been nice if they had asked first!

I'm dreading this in a couple of weeks time. At least we totally changed our driveway and it no longer matches our neighbours (inherited the matching ones), there really can be no excuse for not seeing the divide.

They have shown you that complete CF's have moved next door.
You have been warned, be on your guard.
These are not going to be people to give an inch too.
Unlucky.

They just apologised. I actually havnt spoken to them at all it was hubby that did but hes spoken to the lady the other day when they were moving in she said sorry for any inconvenience they were causing and we completely understood that. But it was just they didn’t think to ask. We were unsure how long the van would be there for and we couldn’t even access the gate to the garden.

the lady did seem really nice when hubby spoke to her. It was the man that parked the van on the driveway. Hubby said he seemed genuine with his apology so hopefully a one off

They were being huge CFs by not asking but they've apologised now so I'd let this drop.
Obviously if they continue to do things like this it's different.
But you say they seem sincere and seem otherwise pleasant then don't hold a grudge. Moving house is exhausting and I'd give them the benefit of the doubt this time that they just didn't think.

I don't see the issue or question that needs addressing really,. Were they being cheeky? - who knows what they were thinking but don't overthink it.

If you've been without neighbours for 10 years you'll be used to not having other people in your space, so it will be a shock when people literally get in your space, but if they are reasonable people you'll rub along ok if you keep on communicating (and not ruminating)

Hopefully it is a one off.

They'll probably move out pretty sharpish after a few weeks of hearing "hubby"'s motorbike at 5am.

Hopefully it was just a bit of thoughtlessness as they were busy moving in. You're absolutely right to address it though, it's amazing how quickly convenient things become habit if people think you don't mind.

Fence - ASAP.

Doesnt matter if they have been nice about it, after the fact.

Fence is the way to avoid aggro.

If you didn't have a car on your drive, maybe they thought you were at work. I probably would have just let it go. Moving is hard work

I mean I understand they might have needed their side of the drive, but surely you'd park on the road before blocking your neighbours side without asking!

Give them a couple of days grace then layeth the smacketh down.

depends if the "hubby" is considerate or not. My husband used to have a motorbike when we were younger, and we lived on a culdesac that went down to a main road. He walked it down the culdesac and started it around the corner, as..like us, our neighbors had small children and I (and my neighbors) would have been mighty pissed off if he woke our kiddos that early!!!

We have had neighbours just we had the same ones since we moved in 10 years ago

That was SO tactless of them. If they'd knocked, introduced themselves and asked if they could use your drive for a couple of hours while moving in, then you might have been delighted to help a new neighbour, but they've made things awkward by failing to ask. At least now they hopefully know that it's not OK to do it whenever convenient.

Maybe, you've been planning to landscape your drive for ages and now is the time. Decorative fence panels with a narrow shrub/flower border at it's base. While you're at it, you should really address those security concerns about DH's bike getting nicked out of your garage and install a surveillance camera on the corner of the garage. It's not very expensive to achieve these long awaited upgrades. Aren't Amazon and eBay a boon for little garden jobs? 😉

If the garage was blocked in and he was unable to get his bike out that would of been an issue obviously

yes obviously! I was responding to the fact that they won't like his motorbike starting at 5 am, not saying the new neighbors were fine parking there in the first place!