Neighbours walking past our front door to leave the house

[Bluesea14]

our new neighbours keep walking past our front door and squeezing past our cars when they go out. We have checked our deeds and title and this is part of our property, not a public footpath. We would never dream of walking past their house when we go out so we can't understand why they think it's acceptable to do it. They recently had furniture delivered and this was also carried down the path past our front door instead of going in between their cars.
I have attached a image which is similar to the layout of our house and the blue line is where they keep walking. Any advice on how to deal with this please? We haven't properly met them yet so we don't want to come across confrontational but we also want to make it clear that we don't want people regularly walking on our property and setting our ring doorbell off.

Absolutely, the world needs more passive aggression.

I would be irritated having people walk right next to my living room window several times a day. If I lived on a road with a pavement right outside my windows, then fair enough. But the OP has paid to have a house with privacy. Maybe just walk past their window multiple times a day.

If it bothered me I’d put up a fence on my boundary line. And then nobody can walk along it. We have a shared pathway to our back gardens, we both have right of way down it and can use it (shown on the deeds). And it irritates me so much, because they can see into our living room when they use it and they do often use it just to get into their house! But I can’t do anything about it, because it’s shared.
in your position (and I do get it!) I would literally out a barrier from the house along the boundary line, and put in a path along your drive within your fence to your front door and make it exceptionally clear it belongs to you, and there is a physical barrier stopping them from walking across. I don’t like houses tbh that don’t have something along their boundaries, it feels a bit strangely open to the world and I don’t like it 😂 I’m probably weird. But that’s what I’d do.

Exactly. Parallel world of Mumsnet strikes again. 😆

You need to put some big planters on the space between the two doors but positioned on your own property. Then you should tell them to walk on their own path to access their property and car and to facilitate deliveries.

Put a couple of gates up and some fencing and plants.

What's equally amazing is that everyone is picking over and arguing about a photo which, from what I understand of the OP, is not her actual house.

I have attached a (sic) image which is similar to the layout of our house

So do you share that path with the house on the left of the picture? The attached house should be using the path on the right. They've got a bit of a cheek and a d be telling them to use their own path.

I mean I’m holding my hands up and confessing to being super petty, OP might want to do something a little less pass agg. They have to live there until someone gives in and moves. My neighbours were here when we got here and 19 years later, the f**s are still here 😄

I am assuming covenants won’t allow fencing/gates

Do the people in the house on the left (the one that isn't attached to yours) also use your path, the one marked in blue on your photo?

Honestly, people saying it's petty. If this was a 3 bed 1930's semi, no one is walking up next doors driveway to cut across the front of their bay window to to get to their own front door. You will have to put a large planter trough there along with a large hanging basket. I would be really pissed off. It's ONE thing someone walking past your living room window when you live in a terrace on a main road. This is totally different. I see those car park spaces like front gardens. No one should be walking across your property. End of.

I asked that and I'm guessing they do but they're not walking past the window or door belonging to op

This would annoy me too!

Just out of interest - is your path shared with the neighbour on the other side of your property? On the image you posted, it looks like your path would be shared with the neighbour on the left.

& deckchair on it as soon as the rain stops.😀

You're being wildly unreasonable. It's not their problem if you made a poor choice of electronics.
You claim you'd never ever go past their house - but it appears to me that there's a wall there, so of course you wouldn't.

Wouldn't bother me too much unless I didn't like them. Then I'd play an alsatians bark really loud every time they passed the door and hope they change course.

Oh get a life! If it doesn't bother you then great but it does op so don't post if you think the op shouldn't be annoyed by it .

As soon as I read the post I thought you'll get the same old posters say why is it bothering you - likely the same ones posting the same old crap on the posts where people are complaining about people using their drives.

Turn your Ring doorbell notifications off. You don't need to know when reflections off cars change the light weird or when a cloud covers the sun very briefly. The chances of you recording something of value that isn't you falling in a funny way are incredibly slim.

It's only there to make you feel like it's keeping you safe.

If there's a wall at the left of their house, as in the image, then they always have to turn right when leaving. Their own path also looks quite narrow, so for both reasons the path down from your house is the natural route to take. Still, I can see how it would be annoying for you to have people looming past your window and potentially invading your privacy. Would it help if they added a new path down their garden, to the right of their own door? Then they'd have an even shorter cut. If the houses are newly built, this could be requested from the developers, pointing out the privacy issue.

A spiky rambling rose on a trellis between your doors ought to deter this kind of crap.
Honestly, my neighbours were the same and their very free-range kids would stare in our windows (and leave snot prints) all day. We felt like zoo exhibits.

Knock on their door
wait until they open it
open your mouth
speak...

That's the best way. Shouting from your kitchen won't work as well.
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I know this isn't a picture of your own house, but there's no way this path would be yours. It's a public path.

to me it’s very obviously not a public path. What makes you think
it is?

It could still show as yours even if shared in some cases, just also shows as theirs on their plan. I have personally had property like that being strange. And your photo does not match the description of them having a full path to the road, something that can be used as one isn’t the same thing and the centre looks like a central path for the row - a design far more common.

I would just be absolutely certain first, it only costs a couple of pounds to buy the site plan or their house online for example. Obviously if it is, then feel free to start what could be an unpleasant time with a directly attached neighbour - it could go well to be fair, but it go very badly. People can be insane over far less than this.