Parking problems!!

[Hayls]

WE live in quite a small road where all the houses have a driveway. THis is fine for us as we only have one car but our neighbours have 3 or 4 depending on whether the daughter's bf is there!! They live right next door to us and cut down a tree in their garden so they could fit 2 cars off the road but never do so. They always park outside our garden up to the edge of our driveway so we can't turn right out of it so that they've got space outside their drive to get their car off without moving another one (hope that makes sense). It's driving us mad bacause we have to negotiate past it every time and also because whenever people visit us they can never get parked outside our house.
Am I over reacting or is this inconsiderate? WE are quite friendly with them and I would be worried about saying anything to them- although when dh had a hire car for work last week their daughter told me they had been talking about it being parked outside our house!!

Finally what are our rights? I suspect that we don't have any on the road outside the house but what about outside the driveway? THey often block us in as well. If we were to turn the whole garden into a driveway for 2 cars could they still park in front of it?

Sorry to ramble on but dh gets fed up of me moaning about it without actually doing anything

if you turned the driveway into a 2 car driveway and paid the council to drop the kerb they would not be able to park outside it. We had problems with parking where we used to live and the council drew white lines accross our drives so that people didnt park accross.

Apart from people parking outside your house, you cant dont do anything about it. I know its annoying but try not to let it wind you because it starts to nag at you then

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Not sure what you can do other than talk to them but just so you know it is not illegal to park across an empty drive but it is illegalt o block someone in!! (Gleened from Fireman uncle who moved car blocking him in!!)

I'd have a 'nice' chat to the and appeal to their better nature.
Say it makes you really nervous not being able to turn right when you can't see the road clearly and would they please park a few metres further down or somewhere else!!

If that fails, how about doing the same to them for a few days?? (But you really don't want a war next door to you!!!!)

I got loads of useful advice on this website:
neighbours from hell

gingerbear, what a terrific website

Hayls do u live next to my MIL? lol. they have paved their front garden so they can fit 4 cars on there. somestimes we cant get on the driveway so we park outside the house on the rd. (Fil has 2 cars, one is his sporty one, MIL has her own car, older BIL has one car, but also has a fleet of vans, younger BIL also has own car). One of their neighbours have complained that they have too many cars. it is very rare that we have to park on the rd when visiting as FIL, and BIL's are rarely there when we visit. But when we do the lady opposite says she cant get out of her drive. we just say that if she practised driving/reversing out of her drive more she'd managed it, as there is actaully plenty of room.

if it is restricting your access, call the council and ask for yellow lines to ensure your clearance
They do listen honest...

a white van parks outside our house - unless I get there first - and keeps the engine running v early in the morning (5,6am depending on where he's working the next day) and it peevs me so much that he wakes up dds, their bedroom is at the front and obviously we have the windows open in this weather..
dd1 "oh look mummy, there's that bloody van"

Why not tell them you've occasionally nearly hit their car when turning out? And that of course you're very very careful, but it does make you a bit nervous and you'd hate to do any damage, so if they could just move it along a bit...

We had this trouble when we first moved in. We couldn't get in or out of our drive without doing a many point turn, because of the neighbour opposite parking inconsiderately. We rang the council, and they said that unless the car was actually blocking access to the drive then we couldn't do anything about it. We ended up having a chat to them, and they did move the car slightly, (by about 2 feet),so we can now get out in one, very slow turn, but it's a v close call. Nowadays when a stranger parks opposite the drive , which also stops us from getting in and out (v narrow road), dh slaps a flyer on that we have saved on the pc, telling them they are blocking our access, and they don't do it again usually. I think most people just don't think, they aren't doing it deliberately.

We also have this problem & it drives us mad. Not much you can do about it though. I wouldn't dream of parking where I would restrict someone's access but unfortunately it seems other people don't think like that (or care).

We live in a very narrow road with flats opposite. They have a car park, which we are forbidden to use, but every time a new tenant moves in they park on the road so that their car is in front of the front door. If our car is outside our house this completely blocks the road so people come & bang on OUR door to move. If we aren't here it just blocks my driveway (road too narrow to manoeuver). Why are people so thoughtless & self centred?

Well at least I'm not the only one! I got so annoyed today that when I came home in there weren't any cars in the street so I parked on the road slap bang outside our house. They came home a while later in 2 cars and manoevered them so they were only outside their house. Petty I know- it'll probably be back to normal tomorrow but it made me feel better!