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petuniasss · 2025-05-02T10:57:40+00:00

For a while now my next door neighbour’s visitor’s have been parking on my driveway. We didn’t mind once or twice but it has become a regular occurrence and happens when DH is mainly at work (he has the only car in household). Im in the process of buying my own car and in the meantime I have put planters there now so nobody can park. It is a bit of a hassle for DH as he has to move the planters every night. The neighbour has took the funnies since I put the planters there. AIBU?

Pandimoanymum · 02/05/2025 15:02

MoominMai · 02/05/2025 14:42

So new fear unlocked for me! 😱 I’ve always lived alone and work FT so would be awful if my neighbours either blocked my drive or actually parked on it! When I saw the first thread on this I thought it must be a one off but in the short time I joined this forum, I’ve seen it posted a few times! Can’t believe that this is even a ‘thing’! I wonder if this is a new phenomena or I’ve just been v lucky and it happens more than you’d think?

I think it depends a lot on where you live, and as to whether you CF neighbours.
If you're close to a school or shops or anything that the general public want to use, its so common as to be almost normal. I've got a friend whose near a Sainsbury's Local and a sister who lives in a road with a primary school. They get cars blocking their drives pretty much every day.
If you don't have those things nearby then much more unlikely, unless you have a random CF neighbour like OP seems to have.

MoominMai · 02/05/2025 15:05

Pandimoanymum · 02/05/2025 15:02

I think it depends a lot on where you live, and as to whether you CF neighbours.
If you're close to a school or shops or anything that the general public want to use, its so common as to be almost normal. I've got a friend whose near a Sainsbury's Local and a sister who lives in a road with a primary school. They get cars blocking their drives pretty much every day.
If you don't have those things nearby then much more unlikely, unless you have a random CF neighbour like OP seems to have.

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Ah thank you, that makes a lot of sense! Certainly something to be aware of if I move again re the landscape around me 👍

Nicecalmsmells · 02/05/2025 15:40

@MoominMai people park in front of my drive on a weekly basis. It’s a combination of my neighbours and neighbours visitors who don’t give a shit. I ask them repeatedly not to do it. It’s also just sometimes random people who don’t seem to care that they are blocking access. It’s infuriating and makes me very depressed about where I live.

EmmaJane2025 · 02/05/2025 15:46

Actually on your drive?!?! That’s an insane level of CF’ery! Wow. Can you afford to invest in a retractable bollard? Also has the added feature of preventing car theft

EmmaJane2025 · 02/05/2025 15:48

I hate to say this though and I don’t mean to blame you in any way OP but it sounds like the neighbours have told their visitors they can park there, because they know you’re…erm…a bit soft? Or are unlikely to kick off about it. At least properly kick off, anyway. In other words they know they can get away with it

Allseeingallknowing · 02/05/2025 15:51

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 02/05/2025 12:07

I can't believe you went to the effort and expense of buying planters that your husband has to move twice a day rather than saying "Could you please stop parking in my drive?"

Some neighbours can be very confrontational. The mere fact that they had the cheek to suggest that their relatives park on OP’s drive indicates that a friendly response wasn’t likely!

skinnyoptionsonly · 02/05/2025 15:52

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MoominMai · 02/05/2025 15:55

Nicecalmsmells · 02/05/2025 15:40

@MoominMai people park in front of my drive on a weekly basis. It’s a combination of my neighbours and neighbours visitors who don’t give a shit. I ask them repeatedly not to do it. It’s also just sometimes random people who don’t seem to care that they are blocking access. It’s infuriating and makes me very depressed about where I live.

Sorry that you have to put up with this nonsense. It’s so unfortunate as with so many people engaging in this anti social behaviour, it’s difficult for you to take back any control I imagine 😕

Allseeingallknowing · 02/05/2025 15:55

Pandimoanymum · 02/05/2025 15:02

I think it depends a lot on where you live, and as to whether you CF neighbours.
If you're close to a school or shops or anything that the general public want to use, its so common as to be almost normal. I've got a friend whose near a Sainsbury's Local and a sister who lives in a road with a primary school. They get cars blocking their drives pretty much every day.
If you don't have those things nearby then much more unlikely, unless you have a random CF neighbour like OP seems to have.

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It may be so common as to be almost normal, but it’s also entitled, rude, inconsiderate and a colossal cheek. Wouldn’t dream of parking on someone else’s drive or blocking it. Such people aren’t normally likely to take kindly to polite requests not to do it. Speaking from experience here.

Allseeingallknowing · 02/05/2025 15:56

skinnyoptionsonly · 02/05/2025 15:52

We need a diagram to properly comment

You really don’t- it’s just wrong to park on someone else’s drive.

Pandimoanymum · 02/05/2025 15:59

Allseeingallknowing · 02/05/2025 15:55

It may be so common as to be almost normal, but it’s also entitled, rude, inconsiderate and a colossal cheek. Wouldn’t dream of parking on someone else’s drive or blocking it. Such people aren’t normally likely to take kindly to polite requests not to do it. Speaking from experience here.

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Oh, I agree and when I said it's almost normal I didn't mean that makes it right. I just meant that it's extremely common, which is depressing really.

NC28 · 02/05/2025 16:02

This is mental. Some cheeky bastard is so incredibly entitled that they have the front to park on your drive, repeatedly. Then you ask them to stop and they walk away from you like you’re a piece of shit in the road. Then you go and pay for planters which your poor husband is forced to move back and forward after a day at work?

Can’t understand this at all. The first time it happened, you should’ve had their car towed away. No messing about, no polite requests, no appealing to their (non-existent) better nature. Just towed and away to storage. The bill would’ve ensured they never did it again.

Yes some neighbours can be confrontational, yes the visitor could’ve stabbed you. But those “what if…” scenarios are unlikely and shouldn’t render someone to feel powerless as to what happens with their property.

Allseeingallknowing · 02/05/2025 16:04

NC28 · 02/05/2025 16:02

This is mental. Some cheeky bastard is so incredibly entitled that they have the front to park on your drive, repeatedly. Then you ask them to stop and they walk away from you like you’re a piece of shit in the road. Then you go and pay for planters which your poor husband is forced to move back and forward after a day at work?

Can’t understand this at all. The first time it happened, you should’ve had their car towed away. No messing about, no polite requests, no appealing to their (non-existent) better nature. Just towed and away to storage. The bill would’ve ensured they never did it again.

Yes some neighbours can be confrontational, yes the visitor could’ve stabbed you. But those “what if…” scenarios are unlikely and shouldn’t render someone to feel powerless as to what happens with their property.

Don’t think it’s that easy- you might end up paying the bill!

NC28 · 02/05/2025 16:05

Allseeingallknowing · 02/05/2025 16:04

Don’t think it’s that easy- you might end up paying the bill!

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Only if the car is damaged, I believe. Though it might be different from country to country.

My other suggestion was going to be to slash their tyres, so I went with the least criminal option. 😄

Bulldog01 · 02/05/2025 16:13

We moved house, as we were living on a New build estate.Prior to us moving our neighbours next door used our parking space to park their car! even when we moved in.We had endless issues.It seems to be a problem now.Small parking areas,lack of parking areas.I Could not care less attitude.I'm more important & entitled I could not possibly park any distance from where I need to be! If it means I can park & inconvenience the Neighboughs who are paying a mortgage on the property who cares!

Allseeingallknowing · 02/05/2025 16:17

Some think adjoining drives are shared drives- they’re not! Many rue the day that they buy houses with these- I know I do!

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petuniasss · 02/05/2025 17:11

The neighbour is very bad mannered, but seemed to think because there was no cars parked it seemed to be OK.

To be fair we were going to get planters eventually but the parking just sped the process up lol.

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TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 02/05/2025 17:23

Ignore them. This is not your problem.
Enjoy your new car when it comes.

NC28 · 02/05/2025 18:10

It would be good if you friend a friend or family member who’d come over and block them in, every single time they do it. Make them chap your door to ask the friend to move. Then you tell them sorry, we’ve had a drink. It’ll be tomorrow before they can move their car. Adios.

Straycats · 05/05/2025 18:16

Can’t believe how some roll over and accept others using their driveways or blocking them in! I love love stick on labels, white ones with 100’s in a roll, they’re exceptionally sticky nightmare to get the off.
Had charity marathon runner block me in for hours, she came back to her car plastered with these, many with messages regarding her blocking my car in the driveway. I certainly managed to vent my annoyance!

Retiredfromearlyyears · 05/05/2025 22:05

How rude of them! Tell your husband to park across the driveway when he's at home and keep using the planters when he's not.

orangedream · 05/05/2025 23:03

Order a pack of the hard to remove 'Don't Park Here' stickers from Amazon.

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 06/05/2025 10:11

RunningJo · 02/05/2025 13:23

She shouldn’t have to if she’s spoken to the neighbour 🤷🏼‍♀️

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She clearly does since the neighbour walked off 🤷🏼‍♀️

chattychatchatty · 06/05/2025 10:14

You’re not being unreasonable. Crazy that they would think it’s OK to park on your drive rather than kerbside.

Badbadbunny · 06/05/2025 10:18

You actually think a polite request would work?? An entitled idiot parking on someone else's drive already means they're an entitled idiot. "Normal" people don't do that kind of thing.

I had the same years ago, a neighbour constantly parked on my drive because they couldn't find a space right outside their house. I mentioned it to them multiple times and it was always the same "there wasn't a space" excuse.

I bought a folding lockable parking post!

Then the moron started parking across my drive and when I asked them not to, it was then "well I can't park in your drive, so where do you expect me to park?"

There's just no talking to some people.