AIBU about neighbours

[Lk265]

We've had new neighbours from February. They are retired and have downsized from a small holding to 4 bed urban house, except they haven't as they've proceeded to completely renovate the house from top to bottom. They've filled their driveway with cars, a digger and enormous motorhome which comes and goes and yet they and their adult children (also living with them while they renovate their own house) continue to fill the road with their cars and tradesman's vans with no consideration for anyone else. They deliberately park outside my pregnant neighbours house which is opposite them so she can't park there and yet have a driveway. At the end of our road is a non permit road with the backs of houses on that all of these people could park on without taking up all the space in the road. When I say they haven't downsized they have built 5 sheds in their garden to hold their stuff, which doesn't bother me but our conservatory looks almost straight at this as we are slightly raised above them.
We have been really patient with all the constant noise from construction, trades people etc but the thing that has really annoyed me is we came home from holiday (for one week) and found they had put a drop curb in joining up with the drop curb to enter our driveway, when they have their own drop curb already on the other side of their driveway. They had said when moving in they would extend their drop curb but never said they would join ours. It completely changes how our driveway looks and has effectively made a delivery drivers stop layby and all these trades people use it with no consideration. When they first moved in we saw them regularly and would chat over the fence but now they are never seen so no chance to have a friendly, nonconfrontational chat about this as I feel it's really going to grate on me that they can be so unthoughtful to their neighbours around them. I'm ready to passive aggressively grow flowers in the grass outside our house to try and block one verge way for them to park on! I'm dreading the motorhome being permanently there as we are going to have to grow some trees or something! Appreciate anyone's thoughts! Time to move?

Just let them live their lives. You don't own the roads, if they've applied for a drop kerb and it's been approved you need to get over yourself and your ideals of it changing the look of your house - it's the pavement. Move out of town if you don't want neighbours.

Wow you're lovely Springadorable! So you'd like someone to move in and sneakily change your driveway (which I own) without talking to you while you're on holiday? If quite like to live my life peacefully in town or in the countryside!

When you say you own your drive way - are you sure that’s the case?

It’s rare for home owners to own the kerbs.

Curb no, driveway yes and they have joined to our driveway while away. Perhaps it's difficult to understand without a photo.

Commiserations OP, it's like this at my mum's house too. The only thing is that it can't go on for ever, and at least you know that they are selfish twats so can be prepared for that. Hopefully once they have finished building their skyscraper, peace will descend once again... 🤞🏻

How have they joined to your driveway? The kerb is usually the council responsibility?

weve had some new builds go up near us and they have interlinked curbs, it’s a tight road so people just use the pavement as the road now. I’ve seen near misses with kids in the dark. It’s awful.

sorry op nothing useful to add. It can become all consuming so try not to let it, we’ve a business next door that means our driveway is blocked more than it’s not. I occasionally lose it, mostly manage to contain it though

Time to move, it won't get better and will most likely annoy you more as time goes on. Commiserations.

I think you are spot on with your planting ideas. Screen them out and create plant boundaries.. lovely to look at and effective. They sound oblivious, but let’s hope they aren’t actually obnoxious and that things calm down once they’re settled.
Five sheds, though! Jasmine grows quickly and is great for covering high trellis!

Round our way there’s a minimum gap required between dropped curbs/ maximum dropped curb width. I suspect they didn’t have permission to touch the curb. Maybe enquire at the council/ highways/planning departments.

the council are the only ones who decided the design of the drop kerb. If they think it makes more sense to join to an existing one then that is because it makes more sense (aka was cheaper).
Doubt your neighbour had any say whatsoever in the design, they merely requested it be done