I KNOW I don't have a right to park outside my house but....

[jodee]

the neighhbour a few doors down is getting on our nerves now. Two other neighbours have rowed with him, becuase:

They (as we do) have a drive, for one vehicle. They are a 2 adult 2 small children family, yet they have 4 vehicles (two of them are 4x4s) - 3 on the road and 1 permanently on the drive.

I have a car, and DH has a company car. I'm usually on the drive. It's possible to park two cars next to each other on the road, i.e. outside our house and the adjoining house without blocking anyone's drive, but being selfish they always take up two spaces. DH has started parking right up the back of them, across our own drive, but they haven't got the message, so what can I politely say?

Can you approach them and do just that, ask them politely if they could move up a bit, so that you can park your car? Its such a difficult situation isn't it. I have almost exactly the same problem, only its neighbours friends who keep parking across my shared drive. It means that if I want to get off or on the drive, I have to knock to ask them to move.

My road is full of idiots who park outside my house. There is space for 2 cars but they always park right in the middle. We are the only family in my row of houses with a small child. Its a nightmare after I have been to tesco and I have to keep walking to and fro up the road with shopping and a 2 year old! It really winds me up!

I had a different problem in that a guy who lived on our road would deliberately find a double space and then park in the exact centre of it, so that you couldn't fit in either in front or behind of it. He was a driving instructor and I think felt that a student might need lots of space to maneuver out. I felt that he shoudl pick the student up from their house!

I took the cowards way out and put an anonymous note under his windscreen wiper. It was polite, I just said "As it is extremely difficult to find parking spaces in this road, it woudl be a courtesy to your neighbours to park more closely in future." He took the hint.