Nuisance neighbour

[candaceswap]

Since we have moved here there have been some issues with the neighbour.

Firstly she would reverse into our drive most days and her visitors would frequently park in our designated parking spaces.

We had to move the bins to stop this.

Now her living room window falls outside the parking spaces.
There is a bedding area under her window and today she came onto our property to start ripping out the plants.

We are unsure that this bedding area even belongs to her, I have had to call the HA to check - will call back as these are new builds.

Main principle is she shouldn't be coming onto our property at all.

I want to move my garden bow from the back and put it int front of her window to stop her coming onto the property.

We have never parked in her space, never even stepped foot on her property.

AIBU?

@candaceswap can you answer a question for me please? Are your driveway and the "designated spaces" you refer to one and the same? Because you've written "my parking space" on the diagram which isn't either of those..

Get some one way privacy film/net curtains to twitch if you're that bothered about people seeing in.

@MassiveOvaryaction - hi sorry, they are designated parking spaces. They are two allocated parking spaces for each property.

Sorry for the confusion.

The neighbours parking space is on the left hand side of the diagram, what separates the two properties is the footpath to her front door.

I’d pick my battles. Flower bed — not a big deal, it’s probably small, won’t need tending daily. Better to have nice flowers than a load of weeds.
Parking is a no, I’d point out that parking on others designated parking places can be problematic if there should be an accident, a car gets damaged involving insurance claims so as you’d never park on her drive, she shouldn’t park on yours for her own protection as much as anything else.

@Hoardasurass

There is no confirmation that the flower bed is the neighbours, the flower bed is also by my front door so it just as well could be mine?

The HA will have to confirm this as there is no information on the Land Registry.

I am not about to go out and leave my baby to go and start arguments with people parking in front of my window and looking in.
I put the bins there to avoid any nastiness and confrontation and to do it in a subtle way.

I don't see how I can see harassing her considering I have never even stepped foot on her property or parked there as I have respect for my neighbours.

I get on well with everyone else, it's her that has had rows with her other neighbours ironically about parking in her parking spaces.

@YourHappyJadeEagle
Thank you for sharing this, I didn't know that.

It isn't very nice to put a bin in front of your neighbour's living room window

@Whoarethoseguys
I didn't put a bin outside my neighbours window.

The bins are the entrance to our parking space to stop her visitors parking.

I said I would consider putting the garden bin by her windows
The bins are more of a nuisance for us than for her, we have to get out of the car and move them every time.

As it is a new development of houses, all the land and ground will be allocated and owned by someone, whether house occupant or housing association owner or someone else - there won't be any stray bits of land that nobody owns - and there will be detailed plans showing the layout and details of the houses and the land belonging to each house. The houses may be shown with Plot numbers which may be different from the house numbers you now have.

You can look up the development on the local council's planning database where you will be able to see the detailed application and the approved plans and all the drawings.

@Abitofalark - thank you so much for sharing this.
I will have a look now.

So are they actual driveways or bay parking spaces?

@GretchenWienersHair
They are bay parking spaces, 2 allocated to each property.

So your complaint is that she is stepping on a bay parking space to tend to her flowers, not that she’s stepping onto your property?

I have a very similar set-up to you OP. The parking spaces are allocated to each property and are in front of the new-build terrace. My two spaces are mostly infront of my house but not entirely because the width of the properties don't entirely match with the width of the parking spaces. I wouldn't park on another properties space and ask my visitors to move if they accidently park there, but of course people walk across them. People may glance in as they walk past, that's part and parcel of having a property with parking in front rather than a front garden. But if you're bothered by that, then get some film for your windows, or net/shear curtains, or blinds, or stained glass hangers, or put some plants on your windowsill and maybe some hanging ones.

lidl have got big planters coming up Thursday which might be quite useful

@noctilucentcloud

Yes people do walk across but that doesn't bother me tbh.

It was the neighbour & her visitors parking in our parking spaces and us having to move bins there to stop her doing this that was the main problem.

Did you ask them to stop doing it before starting to use the bins? It sounds to me like you have already solved that issue. Why are you now getting worked up over nothing? Sounds to me like you are looking for drama.

Right ok. I think most of us would agree that using your allocated parking spaces without permission isn't on. Fair enough. It is reasonable to be annoyed about that.

Getting worked up over her stepping on your parking space to access and maintain a flower bed, is petty.
I personally couldn't care less if someone uses my driveway to reverse to get out so i think that's petty too.

Pick your battles.

Yes we asked her nicely if she could not park/ have her visitors park on the spaces and she still continued to do so.

We hate having the bins outside as they are a right eye sore but if we move them it will just start over again.

The flower bed isn't confirmed that it is hers, still waiting to hear back from the HA on that.