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Original poster

Would you mind your neighbour’s visitors parking on your driveway?

81 replies

fudgiwee · 11/09/2025 15:01

I don’t have a car at the moment (looking for new car) but my neighbour’s visitors have been parking on my driveway

It is definitely my driveway (has the numbers of the houses in front of the driveway).

AIBU to be annoyed?
She dosent even ask.

Its happened a few times now, if it happens again I am going to tell them to move their car.

AIBU to do this as I don’t have a car at the minute?

OP posts:
Tkaequondo · 11/09/2025 18:19

Get it towed away. Or tell your neighbor that you will be charging parking fees if she wants someone parked there again.

Shuddabeenabloke · 11/09/2025 18:29

I agree with pp that repeated use creates a sense of entitlement so best to nip it in the bud. Ideally have a word but if you can't bring yourself to do that put some planters or similar on the driveway.

We had sort of the opposite with some neighbours. Neighbour 1 didn't have a car for a while and Neighbour 2 (next door to them) extended her collection of planters on to the edge of Neighbour 1's drive. He didn't mind as they weren't using it and it looked quite nice. N1 told N2 that he was buying a car and she would need to move her planters and she was livid. She told him she would no longer be able to use her living room with the curtains open as she would be able to see his car through the window instead of her lovely flowers and for the next few years referred to him as 'the nuisance neighbour'

GonnaeNoDaeThatJustGonnaeNo · 11/09/2025 18:30

It’s very rude and they should ask first

the5thgoldengirl · 11/09/2025 18:38

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Jamesblonde2 · 11/09/2025 18:44

What?! This is crazy. They shouldn’t be parking on your drive. Your CF neighbour has obviously told them to.

bugalugs45 · 11/09/2025 18:45

It would definitely annoy me if they didn’t ask, but if they did it’s no problem . Very rude not to ask !
I live in a permit area as close to a train station and it’s not unusual for a couple of us to park on other drives if visitors or tradesmen arrive , but there’s a always a text to check it ok first

caringcarer · 11/09/2025 18:45

FinnalyCracked · 11/09/2025 15:05

It would be shame if someone you knew came to visit (and to stay the night) and parked across your drive and blocked your neighbours visitors in.

Even worse if you both left on foot to go somewhere for the night and thus weren't even around for them to ask if you could move the car blocking them in.

🤣 What a huge pity that would be.

ReplacementBusService · 11/09/2025 18:47

It is absolute bellend behavior. Id have the drive dug up, laid to lawn, maybe some beehives put in.

Hmm1234 · 12/09/2025 18:57

Rude entitled behaviour. I’d put up a fence

Dearnurse · 12/09/2025 18:59

Without them asking id be livid , if they had asked really nicely & it wasn't a regular thing then it wouldn't upset me ... make sure you go round & say something or they will try to claim your drive ..

Original poster
fudgiwee · 12/09/2025 19:08

I’m glad it’s not me being petty, I really hate it when it happens and I hate confrontations but the next time it happens I will be on knocking on her door.

I have heard her complain when workmen have parked on her drive, the cheek of it.

OP posts:
Shoulderss · 12/09/2025 19:10

Yes, a huge problem with it.
CF behaviour that shoulder be tolerated.

SunnyD4ys · 12/09/2025 19:10

TheSandgroper · 11/09/2025 15:25

I would just be out with the cow shit fertiliser, fertilising my driveway. Lavishly. Regularly. Every time my neighbour was happy to have her visitor inconvenience someone else while she played lady of her manor.

Have you lost the ability to have a normal conversation? I absolutely refuse to believe that anyone In their right mind would behave in such a bizarre way

Tesremos82 · 12/09/2025 19:12

Is it a driveway or a new build allocated parking space? If it's a proper driveway then, yes, they are being a CF.

Antimimisti · 12/09/2025 19:12

On one-off occasions, if the neighbour asked first, I wouldn't mind. Not if they took it for granted or wanted to use it regularly.

Osirus · 12/09/2025 19:13

bitterexwife · 11/09/2025 15:03

I’d say “just to let you know, I’ll be getting a car soon so your visitors won’t be able to park. Here’s my number though in the meantime for you to check if my drive is free that day”.
she’s a CF.

Don’t do the second bit. Don’t offer it to them!

Moonnstars · 12/09/2025 19:14

How long have you lived there? Have you ever had a car while living there?
Yes it is cheeky and it would be polite for them to have asked - saying they noticed you didn't have a car and wondered if you wouldn't mind then using the space for visitors.

Are you always at home? When is it they are using their drive? Is it constant visitors?

Itiswhysofew · 12/09/2025 19:17

How rude. Why would they even think that's ok?

Are your neighbours actually aware of this?

MyDeftDuck · 12/09/2025 19:20

CF’s! Tell them you are expecting visitors who need to park on your drive !

nomas · 12/09/2025 19:25

My neighbours are lovely so I would always say if they asked. Your neighbour is very rude for not asking. Maintain boundaries by telling them that ‘Please could you not park on my drive. If you do have an emergency, ask me.’

MayaPinion · 12/09/2025 19:28

Put your driveway on a parking app and let your neighbour know. You can send her an email like this: ‘Hi Sandra, my driveway is on xxx parking app. Your guests cannot park there anymore as it will be in regular use at unpredictable times. If they want to book it themselves here’s the website with the link’.

Bridget57 · 12/09/2025 19:42

I have two spaces in front of my house and I only have one car. My neighbour who lives across the road has only one space in front of her house, her other space is round the back, she has two cars. Without asking, she started to park one of her cars in my 2nd space, so I started parking smack bang in the middle of the two spaces so there wasn't enough room to park at either side. She then did the same with the guy who lives next door to me and he immediately put a plant pot with a large tree in it in the middle of his spare parking space, no conversations/confrontations with her were needed and she soon got the message.

ParmaVioletTea · 12/09/2025 19:52

I don't drive so don't own a car, but I would still be annoyed by a neighbour parking on my drive. It's my piddling bit of land, not theirs!

CoffeenWalnut · 12/09/2025 19:55

thaisweetchill · 11/09/2025 15:06

It’s a bit cheeky but if you don’t have a car I don’t understand why you’d want to cause friction with your neighbour? When you have a car absolutely tell them they need to move.

Perhaps the OP has visitors of her own who do have cars!

BernardButlersBra · 12/09/2025 20:53

Rude and disrespectful. It's a no from me