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?

Looking at that latest photo I’m not sure I’d even be parking a car that size on that tiny driveway.

If you ripped the wall down would it even effect the pavement- the wall is on your land?

What other neighbours do you have? (Students, families etc)? Would just leaning on your horn cause a disturbance to others?

The message was not at all aggressive and there is a “please”. Normal people would be mortified and apologetic at blocking a neighbour’s drive.

Your message sounds like you’re annoyed. Rightly so. They are being completely unreasonable.

Getting in and out of that driveway with that huge car looks hard. Neighbour definitely wrong but couldn’t you just park on the street? Is that space outside your home usually free?

I would be taking down that wall myself. It isn’t going to damage the pavement

Their reply saying 'slightly' sounds as if they know they were wrong but they think it's not enough of an overhang to matter. I would show them the original picture you posted and say something like 'unfortunately the entrance is so narrow that we need every inch of space, as you can see'.

It’s not a big car. It’s a pretty standard and popular sportage car.
why don’t you park up the side of your house on the actual drive so you can reverse in and then it would be easier to drive forward minding the wall.
either way though they shouldn’t be blocking your dropped curb.

My neighbour used to do this. All the time.

i got to the point I would chap his door every time and tell him to move it. He grumbled but did move it I even went out at midnight some days just to piss him off. He soon got the message!

he doesn’t park over the boundary line anymore.

that is more than an inch. Underestimating just like the hmo resident.

I know I am missing the point of the thread, but 4 students in one house have cars?! How on earth do they afford to run cars? Are they mature students?

I would never buy a house with a shared drive again. We have the same issue and it’s so annoying. Our neighbours are actually lovely people but they park across ‘their’ half of the drive sometimes and while we technically can get on and off, it is far more difficult and usually means driving over the grass and raised kerb as it’s really hard to get the angle right with half of it blocked.
It really annoys me as if we did it (which we never do) they would also really struggle to get on their drive.
I’m sure I found, during my research of this, that you’re actually not supposed to park over any of a shared drive, it’s not the case that it’s your half and my half, it’s shared so no one should be parking over any of it. But it’s one of those rules that how on earth do you enforce it?
They know it makes it harder for me, they’ve watched me struggle, and because they are decent people they don’t do it often and I think it’s mainly when they have people over who clearly don’t care. But so many people just don’t give a crap do they about inconveniencing their neighbours.
I would maybe find the legislation that says about not parking anywhere on a shared drive (I’m sure it’s online somewhere) and give it to the landlord. This is what I would have done with the neighbours if they had kept on doing it loads and weren’t reasonable people. Then let the landlord deal with them.

well you could get off your drive by driving over the kerb but yes it was very inconsiderate of them. If they do it again leave a note on the car if they are not answering the door.

I think neither you or your neighbours driveways are suitable! Even if that blocking car budged forward a bit you still wouldn't be able to park at the angle you have on your own drive. And I'm assuming the car is too wide to park on the bit of drive that you're supposed to without bashing the passenger door on the wall.

Yes I’d spray paint a yellow line on the pavement and onto the road also to mark where there parking should line up to.

If the council get upset, then tell them the alternative is that every time your neighbour parks incorrectly you will cal them and report their misbehaviour- so it’s up to them.

The alternative is you park on the street and block your own drive and theirs when they are out. So they can’t get in. And then say - if you agree to stop blocking our drive, we will stop blocking yours.

Yeah, then if it continues, it might be time for putting something super heavy in the way to stop them going further back.

Or like I say, to reciprocate. If you can't use your driveway, use theirs (with a car you don't need). Or block them in.

Maybe tell them that you get fined every time your children are late for school, and that you still have to pay full price for any clubs they miss. Therefore, you will be invoicing them every single time.

Might concentrate their minds.

If their boot was on the red line in the photo, would you really be able to get a car that size out at that angle, especially reversing out?

They are being twats and have too many cars, but you have bought a car too big for the parking space (where you took the photo from) and have made life a lot more difficult for yourself by having to squash it into the front garden at a weird angle.

Your message was fine, but if you need more space than the red line to accommodate the size of car you bought, then you might need to be a bit flexible about it all.

Sorry if I’ve missed it, but I don’t think you’ve answered the question of what you actually did when you couldn’t get off the drive and neighbours weren’t answering? Have I got that right, that you were actually stuck unable to get out, and they didn’t move the car til lunchtime?

Maybe tell them 'You seem to think we are being picky, with your 'slightly over the line' comment but actually it is a really awkward spot. It is about getting our kids to school on time, not looking perfect. So please make sure your cars don't hang over the line. Thanks.'

I always think nowadays that you are worried if your neighbours sells thier home, as it might get turned into a HMO.
We have one 3 bedroom house thats been turned into flats and its full of lets say rough, down on their luck types.
Also one 3 bed house opposite thats flats now. You never know who is going to move next door but it worse now with all the HMOs.

Knock every time or encroach on their bit until they stop. Buy a rubber dropped kerb for emergencies.

Hopefully its resolved now, but ridiculous parking.

Speak to the landlord so they know youve had an issue. They are responsible for managing their tenants. Check to see if you can get their car towed if it happens again. It wont help ref time, but come 1pm when tjey get out of the houde and see their car gone and find they need tp pay fees to get it released, they def wont park over your drive again!