Aibu over lady using my parking spaces.

[Nannyplum2015]

We live in a housing estate and each house or flat has one or two spaces allocated to them. Most of the spaces are directly outside our houses except a few that are round the side that have garages. The spaces aren't numbered but everyone seems to know who's is whose. There's a new neighbour that has moved in next door to me (a corner house) and has a garage parking space round the back of her house, however she uses both my spaces as she parks in the middle of them. It's quite annoying when there's nowhere else to park as you have to park further down the road.

I went over today and introduced myself and poilitley told her the spaces were mine and hers was round the back but she was welcome to use our other space when we don't have guests but could she park to one side so I can fit my car next to hers. She looked at me with a blank expression, said no and shut the door on me! What do I do now!? I just stood there for a moment open mouthed and then went home.

Now I'm not sure if she has mobility problems as she's not exactly nimble anymore (about 65) but I am shocked at her one word reply!

Can't clamp apparently, tried that one. Stinger mats also frowned upon. I don't think they've learnt how to work the Internet yet

You can clamp on private estates, plenty of companies will clamp or tow (many don't even charge they charge the driver) maybe your management company don't want you running a parking racquet but I unless they've got it in the management agreement / lease I don't see why you can't.

Really want to know what happened with OP. People are nuts

Bugger about the clamp. You can download the photo from the net and stick it under their window wiper.

if she doesn't answer door rock her car so the alarm keeps going off, she will soon come out the house to see whats going on. you can also get stickers to put on the side windows to say do not park here, gets the ones that don't come off without leaving a lot of backing paper on her window. its not illegal as you aren't blocking her view through windscreen.

The last note got ripped up with "fat bitch" written across it

Have her towed. Every single time.
Doesnt usually cost you anything, they get the fees from the car owner.

Can you let the air out of their tyres?

No stinger mats involved, no clamping involved. If you keep letting the air out of their tyres they may think there is something up with where they are parking and they might stop parking there, especially if they keep having to make a pit-stop in the local garage to fill their tyres with air.

Problem is with mine it's consistently different people. And I can't do anything like clamp or tow due to the aggression
Line markers are coming next week, they've agreed me a decent rate

Print out notes and leave them under the windshield wiper each time they park in your spot and through their letterbox. The note should read - "If you continue to park in this space after X date, your call will be towed. Each time. Every time. I may decide to use one towing company or several to carry this out. I call it 'Let's find who has your car now'. Consider this your warning." (evil smile)

Also been done. Notes get ripped up or thrown on floor. Solicitors letter was ignored. Can't post anything through door and can't knock on door when blocked in. So bollards are the only way really. Looking at the flip down locking ones

Take a copy of the deeds, take two highlighters. Highlight yours in one colour and hers in another. Write on the bottom a little key saying YOURS (Colour), MINE (Colour).

Post it through her letter box.

If she keeps doing it contact whoever you need to complain, council, management company etc.

Every time I check this thread for updates I get the rage reading other folks' stories

Jesus christ you people have got some absolute arseholes for neighbours. How come they're not scared of any retaliation?

You cannot tow off private land anymore, thanks to a few private parking companies that got too agressive towing illegally parked cars.

you need to ask your management company to get a private parking company to regulate it. Every car must display a sticker with the assigned number of their space. Those that don't, get fined by private company.

You pay stupid money for the signage (about 150- 200) asthe private parking company doesn't really make money off actual parking tickets (and the signs and stickers act as deterrents).

But split among all the houses, it wouldn't cost that much between you.

I love a good parking thread. Any news op?

I'd also show her the deeds. I wouldn't tell her she can park there when you are not using it. I'd tell her not to park there at all.

Probably because they're too dim to think they will be retaliated against?! After an assault on a relative I would be stupid to knock on the door
Management company won't put towing/clamping in as its only two spaces affected and it's not cost effective
I think her using her child to block me in was the worst. I had walked in front of her, got in the car, started the engine, put reverse on... "Sorry I didn't see you" she said. Bullshit

Ah the parking wars! New estates and allocated parking are always a recipe for disaster! We hated ours, had two allocated spaces in a parking court behind the house - outside our own garage. NDN had one space outside their garage which was behind our back garden . All was fine until they parked two, one behind the other in the parking court - completely blocking us in. Nightmare.
The amount of notes left/ doors knocked on/ confrontations etc. - we gave up and moved house - to one with a very long driveway of our own!!!!!

Hi thanks for all your support. I've been out and back again into my own space, I'm parking in the middle of them so she can't park next to mine. However she is parked in another neighbours double spaces (in the middle again). I'm sure it's not any closer to her house than using beer space and her back door. I haven't spoken to those neighbours before so not sure if they are annoyed or not. Hopefully she'll stop when she gets the letter.

Those if you who say it's only £3 for a copy of the deeds, what site are you using? The one linked previously is trying to charge me £16.95.

Massive relief on seeing she is out of your space has dissolved upon reading that she's now in the middle of someone elses two bloody spaces! OM good G, the sheer selfish bare faced entitled front of this cow!

www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry

Always got to be a gov.uk site, other sites are just re-selling for profit.

I'd knock on the other neighbours door and ask them to join you on putting pressure on the management company to sort it out. Join forces. Go round together to talk to her if necessary.

If you can't block her in by parking behind can you park so close to the drivers side that she can't open the door?

Years ago someone kept parking in a parking space at my work, not my space but I watched the person who had that space put a bloody heavy chain and padlock round the car and a concrete pillar. The car owner returned, did not seethe chain, drove off for a few yards and ripped the back axle off his car, We were nice to him and told him that if he got the junk that had been his car moved in 2 hours we would not charge him. It must have cost him loads to get it lifted onto a transporter.
Can you do something similar, chain a bloody big lump of metal to her car, even a chunk of chain would make a real noise as she drove.
Another idea is to spray expanding foam up the exhaust pipe, it can do loads of damage and no need to touch the car so no fingerprints

She sounds so rude and entitled.

Walk everywhere this week please Nannyplum! Do not move your car. Force her to park elsewhere - by the sounds of it she will park in other peoples spaces. The more other people she pisses off the more people will address it and ask her to move. She may eventually realise she is a selfish arse.

I cannot believe she thinks this OK to do let alone take up 2 spaces everytime she does it!