Parking one (with a photo!!)

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Photo taken from my house. Red line is the boundary line. Blue line is where the drop kerb ends. It’s a joint drop kerb serving us and our next door neighbours. Next door neighbours have parked this black car blocking their own driveway, but we cannot get onto ours based on the location of the black car.

AIBU?

(Hopefully photo gets approved soon…)

I’d be knocking their door if I needed to get on/off my drive.

Thanks. We did. This was at 8am and we needed to get DH to work and DD to school. No one answered the door or the phone. Car finally moved at 1pm.

Really ignorant of them. They need to move it.

Has it been moved permenantly

Hopefully it was a one off but you are definitely not being unreasonable

If it is a joint dropped kerb, could you not get round behind it? Is there a blockage on the right hand side?

They’re new tenants - it’s an HMO (don’t get me started). 2 parking spaces for a house that’s been converted to have 6 bedrooms. We’ve had issues before so I was fair but firm in my message to them and the response was ‘I’m sorry we slightly edged over your boundary’.

We’ve had issues before with previous tenants of that house when DD was late to school (they parked over the boundary and then couldn’t be raised at 8am when we needed to leave because of sleeping off hangovers) so I am trying to set expectations early… I’m just a bit enraged by the suggestion it was ‘slightly’ over the boundary.

That is so rude and inconsiderate of them. Are they the kind of people you could mention it to in passing?

Sorry, I cross posted with you.

Right hand side has a low wall, but is also a raised kerb anyway. Everything right of the blue line is ‘buggering your suspension’ territory. The joint kerb is between us and the house on the left (the drive mostly blocked by the car).

No worries! I am mostly posting on here so I don’t go around and give them a piece of my mind… new neighbours so trying to stay civil! I’ve already gone over to say hi, trade numbers (because of stuff like this with the previous lot) so don’t want it to be an issue. Mostly trying to work out if they’re right and it’s ‘slightly’ over the border or just ‘they are CFs’ 🤣

Theyre rude then!!

Do what you need to, be firm, they need to be respectful!

Can you contsct the agent? Might be on the hmo license? X

Tempted - but I don’t want to go nuclear. The owners are some offshore shell company. It’s a student let so I do have the option of complaining to uni but I try and save that for raves rather than just parking niggles 😬🙈

Nope, you are not being unreasonable at all. It’s worth explaining that you need access to your (own!) drive for work and school purposes so it needs to be kept clear. Stick to your guns, you are in the right!

We have. I do wonder what goes through people’s heads though! They know we are a couple in our 30/40s with two school age kids - on what level do you not think we need access to our own drive?!? And even if we didn’t… anyway. Madness. I’d be mortified if this was one of my DC at uni in 10-ish years!

Some people just don’t give a shit ☹️

I want to believe they’re just a bit naive and silly - we are used to students getting confused about what you can put in the bins etc and living in a bit of a bubble.

The response to my text was v defensive saying we’d been aggressive… this was my text at 8am:

“Good morning. There is a car parked across our driveway and we need this to be moved immediately, we are taking our children to school and going to work. The registration plate is Xxxxx. My husband has rung your doorbell/knocked on the door to no answer. Please move this car immediately and do not park across the boundary line in future.”

Maybe I’m just old and grumpy about Gen Z but I don’t think that’s aggressive 🤣 the text didn’t get read until 11am…

Where is your car (where did you take the picture) as there doesn't seem to be a car there.
Just for the moment go over the raised curb. There doesn't need for your child to be late for school for this reason as there is plenty of room.
I would pop round to your neighbours and explain this issue though.

It’s just out of shot tucked around the corner. The grassy area starts at the beginning of the blue line. Here’s it tonight now we are parked up. There’s a low wall - not an issue unless our access is impeded. Want to get rid of the wall, but have been quoted £k to do it as it would involve making good the public pavement to the standard of the LA and it’s only an issue when our drive is blocked.

I'd get myself a cheap cone off Amazon and make a point off leaving it in the road at the boundary line to remind them where it is. Alternatively, a can of line marker spray paint, and mark a small line in the road for the boundary line. They sound thick and need help staying in their own space.

I was thinking this but I don’t want to get into trouble with the council putting lines on the pavement! And a cone can easily be moved… they’re students, putting cones in funny places is kind of in the job spec 🤣

Honestly, I do think your message is aggressive. There is no “please”, but plenty of imperative demands to do something “immediately” and something else “never again”. Also, it’s overkill to suggest that driving one side of your car off a normal kerb will bugger your suspension. Yes, they shouldn’t be doing it. Yes, you’re in the right, but you are sounding self righteous.

The uni will absolutely not care or get involved in parking disputes or loud parties in properties that are not student halls.

Ring the police if you can’t get off your drive and keep your finger on their doorbell and phone on repeated ringing until they get off their arse! You’ve been too nice imo for too long

Get the number for the local authority. Parking enforcement will happily come out and give them a parking ticket if they are blocking your drop curb. Some people need to feel it in their pocket.