Was this rude of neighbour?

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Basically I don't really get on with my neighbour. We haven't fallen out as per se but I just don't like her and keep her at arms length.

Shes very nosey, intrusive, talks about herself all the time (and other neighbours) and just isn't really my kind of person (I get on very well with my other neighbour) we say hello and that's it now as I think she got the hint that I didn't want to engage with her past hello.

Anyway we both have two allocated parking spaces each.
She had her some cleaning company come and park in my parking space.
She had parked her car in the middle of her parking space for some reason and she must of known the cleaning company was coming and could of moved her car to not inconvenience us.

They were only parked 30 minutes or so but she could of at least moved her car or asked.

Do you use your spaces? If so, definitely rude, and if not still rude not to ask you.

Yes we use one of the spaces and in the past has had visitors park in our spaces.

We usually move our bins to stop people parking there but as it hasn't happened for so long now it caught us off guard and concerned it may become a regular occurrence again.

Probably a bit rude but for the sake of 30 minutes, I don't think there's any point in wasting any time getting annoyed about it. If it happens regularly, then I could see that it would be irritating, but as a once-off I think you should just forget about it and move on.

The problem with one offs is that they can soon become regular if you dont act. Let it go this time but if it happens again a word with your ND or a note through the door.

You only need one space and block the other with bins? it’s not your neighbour who is petty.

Penguin bollard? 😆

Did you actually need the space in that 30 mins? Did you arrive home to find them in your space? If so why didn’t you knock and ask them to move. If you didn’t need the space and were just annoyed she inconvenienced you and not herself, then you’re not wrong to be annoyed, but I doubt she is going to change. I am moving to a new build estate soon as I have a drive but I can see from the plans that some areas further down have 1 or 2 allocated parking bays and 1 allocated visitor space. I can forsee there will he lots of parking issues there, and the roads in this new estate don’t appear to be very wide so little other parking spots. Parking is definitely the cause of lots of neighbour wars.

I couldn’t get worked up about this unless I needed access to the space myself - I suspect you’d have said that in the op if you did.

It would have been polite for her to ask, but it wasn’t for long and it might even be the person that parked there thought it was her space. We have a shared driveway and everyone always thinks our parking spot is our neighbours in front of us, and the space to the side is ours when in fact it belongs to our other neighbours. We try to always remember to check where a trade person has parked, but sometimes we forget. If anyone parks in the wrong space and we need access, we just go and knock on the neighbours door and vice versa. I remember coming home one night one the neighbour in front of us had guests round - one had parked in our driveway. I just knocked and asked if they could let me park there, then they could park in front blocking me in as I wasn’t going to need to get out again. It really didn’t matter to me that they used our space if it was empty! If we’ve gone away, I usually tell the neighbours we won’t be there and to use our spaces if they have the need.

She has intentionally parked in her space in a way that the van wouldn't be able to park there (she never parks like this).

She was well aware that they had parked in our space as they knocked on her door and she would have been able to see from her living room window.

If it happens again I will be telling them to move as she used to do this before until we got the bins on the drive.

If she was a nice considerate neighbour we wouldn't have minded but she had loud music on in the garden almost daily, throws water from her hose pipe over the fence, she is a nuisance.

This is a non-problem

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