People taking advantage

[Mcgooch23]

Hello all, apologies - I would appreciate some space to vent? A distant neighbour has started taking advantage of use of my parent's driveway, stating they had permission from my parent. Parent has dementia and cannot remember. We have told him repeatedly that the drive is needed for ourselves and carers, but he doesn't seem to care, and keeps his car on a driveway that is not his.

Hmmm, difficult one if your parents have said that he can.

Can you and the carers park on the road? How far is it from the house to the road, lots of people don't have off street parking and have to park on the road.

In a way, it's a good thing your neighbour parks there - they kind of keep an eye on your parents. I'd tread carefully here, they could be quite useful to you in an emergency.

How are they generally? Are they kind? A DNeighbour parks in DFIL's drive. Like the PP said it's useful as it makes the house look more occupied. They will move it though if that know we need it.

It's not useful if the drive's required by the resident's family, and they won't move it on request. My aunt has a similar arrangement with a neighbour, but there's an alternative space if it's occupied, and I know she agreed to it. FIL, on the other hand, with (so far) mild dementia and a habit of people-pleasing, was persuaded by a new neighbour to let him park partly across his drive, and frankly it's becoming a pain in the arse. However I don't want to say anything in case I need to call on them for physical back-up if FIL falls when I'm there by myself.