How do we stop our neighbours from driving across our drive?

[EstoyRobandoSuCasa]

We had our driveway tarmacked last summer and within weeks it was showing minor signs of wear and tear (not sure if that says anything about the quality of the tarmac). It has since accumulated more surface damage.

We don't have a car at the moment and it's obvious from the tyre tracks that my next door neighbours are to blame. Their adjoining driveway is narrower than ours and they keep two cars parked on it, one behind the other. When they want to get the car at the back out, they simply swerve across our driveway and drive down it. It's the swerving that appears to be causing most of the damage.

We haven't actually told the neighbours not to drive on our driveway, because we're 95% sure they would ignore this and still drive down it when they thought we weren't looking. Parking on the street is only allowed between certain times.

I'd love to put up a fence between the drives, or bollards, but no one else on the estate has these and we're not sure it would even be allowed.

If you don't (and have good reasons to refuse them to come back e.g. threats) then get 3 new quotes and ask them to reimburse you for the lowest quote. If they refuse them make a claim through the small claims court. I did exactly this in my first house. An absolute pain in the arse but I got all the money back I needed to redo it (hence I knew how to get a proper job done the second time!)

PP is making a reference to an old mumsnet thread… it’s a MN joke…

If I was you, I would go to the ladies house and kindly ask her if you have already done this (sorry I didn’t read the whole entire post. Just got a quick idea of the situation.) then skip this part well I’m thinking what you can do actually is borrow some time off of her and show her where your drive is and where your drive ends and if she does not comply and allow her car to stop driving over your dry. I would sue her or something. I’m sorry I don’t have any ideas. I’m just kid!

A fence may not be allowed depending on your covenants. However there is likely nothing to stop you putting a heavy planter in between your driveways. That would stop them driving over it without damaging their cars.