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New neighbours - shared drive shenannigans

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Nightpain · 02/10/2022 00:15

We have new neighbours.

We have lived for 10 years at our property, with the departing neighbours having been there for 24 years. We have a shared driveway. We own the bit that has block paving, the tarmaced bit belongs to the other property.

For 10 years we have had no problems at all and a good relationship where we put each others bins out etc.

I came home last night to find the new neighbours have moved in. They have moved all the bins from where they have been for 10 years and put a caravan there. The drive is not visible from their house, however it is right in front of our kitchen. All we can see at the moment from our kitchen window is their caravan.

They have also squeezed 2 cars into the drive, meaning I can no longer park on the area that I own because their car is preventing me from manoeuvring onto my drive or turning round, I now have to reverse out.

They are insistent that it is their drive and they can do what they like on it, totally pissing all over the way we have lived for 10 years after living there for 1 day.

This is our deed. Our property is indicated in red, the brown hashed shaded area is the drive. Number 1 on the diagram is our garage, number 2 is their garage. The yellow area is the road.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

New neighbours - shared drive shenannigans
OP posts:
deedledeedledum · 02/10/2022 10:26

OP what is the 'tarmaced' bit you say they own? Is it the entire brownish striped area? What is the shared portion? We can't really know what is going on from the pictures and your description.

Rainraindontgoaway · 02/10/2022 11:00

Looks to me that they are not blocking your drive at all but you would prefer the set up you had with the previous neighbours. Also, unless the deeds specify otherwise, they are entitled to park their caravan on their drive.

BruceAndNosh · 02/10/2022 11:32

You need to create a parking /turning area on your own land, maybe within the L Shaped bit at front of your house.
We've been lucky that none of our 3 shared access properties have had problems with neighbours but I can see it would be easy for one of our neighbours to be an arsehole with parking but thankfully they're lovely

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