Inconsiderate Parking

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Hi All. Just looking for some advice. We own our home and have a driveway with greenspace on either side. Our neighbours both sides do not have a driveway and this has become a nightmare for us. The neighbour to our left has a patch of grass in front if her house. She has been driving over the greenspace to the side of our driveway to park on the patch of grass outside her house. The problem is that she is destroying the grass next to our drive and it looks horrendous. She is also driving over a public walkway to get to the patch of grass. We have asked her to stop as it is not inly destroying our homes curb appeal but is also very dangerous for pedestrians. She has told us that she simply does not care as everyone else is doing it so she can too. She also considers that patch of grass as her drive, which it’s not. There has no dropped curb and she is driving across a large area of grass and a pedestrian walk way to get to the grass patch outside her house. We have complained to the council (as she is a council tenant) they have said that they have emailed the leaseholder, and believe that a letter has been sent to her, but this has made no difference. It is really effecting us as its a large area of grass which now has tire marks and destroyed grass and she just does not care. There is plenty of parking around the corner which is a 1 minute walk away but she refuses to do this as she does not want to inconvenience herself.

Does the grass belong to your property or hers?

If it belongs to hers, then although she shouldn’t be driving over the pavement to get there it’s really nothing to do with you - you can’t dictate what a neighbour puts in their own garden.

Put up a fence or large potted plants so she can’t drive across. It’s the only way really

Put something round your bit of grass (fence, heavy plant pots) so she can’t drive across it?

@BassesAreBest she does not own any of the grass areas. It belongs to the local council. And it’s not a fromt garden, its literally a patch of grass.

But do you own any of the green area? If not, keep your nose out.

Wouldn’t it be a shame if a tub of nails got spilled on the grass……

@BassesAreBest thats easy to say when you are not in this situation. We live in a green space area and take pride in where we live. Not everyone likes to live surrounded my mud and destroyed grass. We worked very hard to buy this house and its a shame that the surrounding areas are being destroyed because someone is too lazy to walk 1 minute around the corner.

@JoyousEagle its a very large patch of grass so that is not something we can do. The local council has signs up stated that parking on green soaces is not allowed but people still continue to do it.

You are unlikely to make a change as you don't own the land.

I'd suggest you either accept it or move.

I have to agree with the other comments, if neither you or the neighbours own that bit of grass, your not in the place to say nor dictate anything. It's down to the council to say, unfortunately.

I sympathise with you OP. They sound like losers and they obviously have no pride in their neighbourhood.

I think your best bet is pursuing it with your council/their parking wardens/your MP.

I'm sure all the normal neighbours in your area will support your efforts.

All neighbours are not the same.

Can you fence in your part so it’s obvious that it’s not your property she’s driving over.

A council tenant lowering the curb (sic) appeal for proud homeowners... have you tried a Daily Mail sad face?

From experience (both growing up in a council estate where people took the mickey with parking) and a new build estate - the more complaints to councils / management companies, restrictions start being put in place. That means parking permits and enforcement officers which in the long run just ruin it for everyone. We have some annoying people parking around but chose not to die on this hill as the rest of the estate have been issued crazy visitor restrictions we just don’t need the headache of.

@ArtTheClownIsNotAMime its not about council tenants or homeowners. Anyone should take pride in where they live. We have a very green area and regardless of whether you own a home or not, you should take care if the local community. We have surrounding neighbors who are also council tenants and they take care of thier surroundings areas and are so considerate and absolutely lovely, It’s attitude like this which leads to these kinds of problems.

@Ecocool we will be writing an email to parking enforcement and the local council this week. We have tried to talk to her and just get attitude back. She feels too entitled to talk 1 minute around the corner and would rather destroy the local areas green spaces and drive over a pedestrian footpath just for her own convenience.
yes the other neighbours are lovely, and I hope they will support in this. Other than parking there has been other issues with her that other neighbours have asked her to stop but she has just ignored them too.

Needs bollards or something in place to block her.