Neighbour blocking drive way

[Hockorydickerydock]

Car has broken down and I have asked many occasions to get car moved

1 tow truck to garage
2 hand brake off and move it
3 contact landlord to sort this out

AIBU to wanting to use my drive way??
and it infuriating they basically look at me like I’m mad and I shouldn’t have access to my driveway

can I pay a tow person to remove the vehicle?

Your description of the problem doesn't match the photos, so it's all very confusing.

It's really starting to get annoying when people demand a sodding diagram for the most basic situations. It isn't that funny anymore.

I'm not a great fan of the diagrams either but I'm going to be honest I think in this case it would actually have been quite useful. The photos and description the OP has given are making it all very unclear.

Absolutely nothing she has posted confirms that this is actually the position she's in. It may allude to it, with the crap photos, but at no point has it been clarified. 'No dropped kerb as such' doesn't say that the drive doesn't front onto the road, but onto a communal parking area.

If she'd just spit it out, she may get a better response.

If it is a communal parking area on a new build estate, she should contact the management company to ask them to intervene.

I think the point is there’s no dropped curb because there is no curb? It looks like it’s all private road at that point.

I’m not sure what you can do about it, OP, but your neighbours are obviously being unreasonable.

Did you trip up the kerb?

Do you have an actual dropped kerb in front of your driveway?
I ask because you said you dont have a dropped kerb "as such" and a driveway without a highways approved dropped kerb is not a driveway youre allowed to access

I know this because my idiot parents put a 'driveway' in their garden that they accessed by driving over the pavement at the knobbly dipped thing for pedestrians not sure what its called.

Tactile paving. But I prefer your description!

Neighbour is blocking dropped kerb but it does seem to be communal shared drive way

every house has a driveway in the area so it must be a dropped kerb way

Not if it's accessed off a communal parking area!

Please just take a photo from your house of the actual driveway.

A case of a very poorly explained issue.

Op, we don’t understand from your description or pics) where you normally park and what the access to that is like.

A traditional drive might have access that is the width of a car with walls either side. If a car parked across the drive way (on the road - across a dropped kerb) then a car would find it impossible to get on or off the drive way.

It isn’t clear whether it is possible for you to get to your personal off road parking space because of how neighbour has parked.
Are you saying their parking has prevented you accessing or getting out of your space?

New build estates seem to often have parking areas rather than private drives. They can be a bit like car parks - often with allocated spaces. Poor parking from one person might create issues for someone else accessing their private space…but it’s not quite the same as blocking a drive.

Please clarify what the parking spaces you have are and how you access them and if neighbour is preventing you getting onto or off your space?

Re estates with parking areas which don’t have traditional private drives with a private access from a public road - it’s g difficult for people who gave neighbour parking issues to get it sorted. Often the parking and blockages are all on private land and any council parking enforcement or Police won’t be interested. It’s likely to be an issue for the estate management company or a private company who monitor parking. If that doesn’t exist, there might be no external body who can intervene but up to residents to sort out.

Whilst traditional drives can face issues with people blocking etc, modern parking areas which don’t have individual private access often have much worse and tricky to solve issues. I know it’s not point of thread, but I’d never choose a house with that parking et up. I’d rather have in-public road parking, than a communally accessed area with lots of private spaces - worst of all worlds.

Neighbour is blocking dropped kerb but it does seem to be communal shared drive way
every house has a driveway in the area so it must be a dropped kerb way

I don't understand this, every house has a driveway, but there is also a communal shared driveway, and you aren't sure if there is a lowered kerb on the pavement for everyone's individual private driveways?

Is anyone else confused?

I suspect driveway is the wrong word. Private parking space might be more accurate.

We have a driveway (which is an obvious driveway) which is off a communal parking area, so it may be like ours.

Some have driveways, most have numbered parking spaces.

No, people are being obtuse for fun. It’s obvious at this point in the OP wasn’t clear that people are (not clearly) saying that if you don’t have a dropped kerb then it’s not officially a driveway from a legal access perspective. There’s no need for the slyness.

They mean a flattened kerb. Is it flat in front of where you access your driveway / parking area.

Housing estates often don’t have pavements in front of all houses or public roads that lead somewhere (beyond other houses) so the parking set-up often isn’t traditional private driveway across a dropped kerb direct from public road.

I suspect there’s something of this here….but details not clear.

why can't you just post a diagram, showing where you park, where the neighbour's car is currently parked, and make it clearer to all of us what exactly the problem is?! Until then, YABVU

Photo or very good diagram needed

I am!
So the photos are not of the current situation?

Sorry it looks to me like a communal parking area and their car happens to be broken down in the part of that communal parking area closest to your house?

They're not blocking you in or preventing you accessing anything - they are just parked where you usually park (which I don't believe is your driveway anyway, it's part of a shared hardstanding). Presumably you can still park relatively close to your home - you just can't currently park in your favourite spot?

Or have I got that wrong as it's not very clear?

@Arlanymor, I think it may be an actual driveway, but it's accessed from the communal parking area, so doesn't have / need a dropped kerb to make it a legal driveway.

But it's really not clear and @Hockorydickerydock hasn't been back to clarify / provide a better photo.

If it is as I've described, she should get the management agent involved (we had to do this when somebody was parking like a dick in our parking area).

Yeah I'm really not clear. Looking at the photos and the OP's comment of 'communal close drive way' makes me think it's just a shared hardstanding. But it might be the case that she has some kind of offshoot from that which she considers to be 'her driveway'. It honestly looks like a free-for-all from what I can see in the photos however. Either way, not a police matter, but possibly a landlord matter if there is a genuine obstruction.