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My wife and our neighbour have been having car wars for a few months now. Our driveway doesn't have enough space for 2 vehicles, so my wife parks her car on the grass verge next to the road, this is directly in front of our neighbours - she cannot park it outside of our house because the grass has a street light in the way. He was being a bit of a lemon because he kept parking his van so that my wifes car didnt have room either side to park up. And about 2 months ago he came out swearing at my wife and calling her all the names under the sun for parking outside his house.

Anyway fast forward to the 7th April the neighbour knocked our door claiming that my wifes car had touched his van when parked on the grass. (his van is a rusty old astra van or similiar).

After talking to my wife at the time she said her bumper did not touch his bumper when she parked up and that she believed that he moved his van forwards to touch, for him to have a reason to moan. He did take some photographs too of the two bumpers touching.

The annoying thing is that I went and spoke to the neighbour only 10 days ago and gave him a resolution which made both sides happy and since then no problems.

Today my wifes insurance has emailed her to say there has been a claim made against her for a collision. I have called our insurance comapny and explained we believe this is not the case and he is just trying to make a false, fabricated claim due to the previous history between my wife and him. Our insurer said they will send round an engineer to inspect my wifes car and check for any damage. There is no damage to my wife cars, they also said that the claim could end up in court.
If the neoghbour is found to be making a wrongful claim, then he could also be in trouble for fraud.

All in all, a messy situation, but what I do know is, he is just trying to pull a fast one. The annoyance is that his van is a rusty old astra-van with the whole body work being in very poor condition.
 
If there's no damage to your wife's car or the claimant's van and it's one person's word against another I don't think this will go very far in court and you don't have anything to worry about. Your neighbour's false claim on the other hand should be worrying him. If the counter story is as you state then it's again one person's word against another so difficult to prove.

Parking on the grass verge is a bit of an eyesore you'd have to agree? Doesn't it churn the verge up and turn it into a muddy mess every time it rains? Is your neighbour just wanting to park his van there? Got to love petty parking disputes!
 
as for the grass verge, there is actually no grass. Because he has been parking his van there for a few years, before my wife passed her test and got a car. The grass verge isn't really grass anyway. It is just dust, it was like this when we moved here.

Here is a photo of my wifes car on the area in question. (i parked it here for 10mins when i nipped home before going back out again during the day when he wasn't at home)
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he has been parking his van there for a few years, before my wife passed her test and got a car.


This is why he's upset and causing grief. You've 'stolen' his space. :p
 
Aside from the issue of whether she did hit him (and I assume you're correct in that he's just done it out of spite), it's obvious that parking there regularly is just going to annoy your neighbour.
 
My dad had a similar issue a while ago - he came over a hump back bridge to find a car stopped in the middle of the road. He didn’t hit it, but the guy got out and pointed to some damage on his bumper, then accused my dad of going into the back of him.

He submitted a claim, an assessor came round and agreed that there was not a single mark on the bumper of my dad’s car, and that the damage on the claimant’s car couldn’t have been caused by him. However, the claim is still ongoing and nobody seems willing to resolve what should really be an open and shut case.
 
I feel for you mate I really do, people get so petty and babyish over parking, I don't get it!

My neighbour attacked me because I wouldn't move my car which was parked against my garage, he said it makes it hard to get his car out (the whole street laugh at how bad a driver he is, when we moved in a few neighbours also warned us about him and how petty he is with everything) we offered to get him driving lessons to help him reverse into the garage instead, or offered to teach him how to reverse out of the garage with a car opposite but nope, he wants to drive in straight and reverse out straight in a long run up. I said if he was ever genuinely blocked in we'd happily move the car, and tried to be civil at first by moving it whenever he asked, but he'd start knocking at 7am on a Sunday morning, I suggested if he sees a bay, as he's home all day when most people are at work to use that instead but he just looks at you blankly, absolutely no compromise from him whatsoever.

I do try and keep off the garage Saturday night to avoid being woken up because it really isn't worth an argument on a Sunday morning but as with many streets, parking is a premium so we are usually one in the garage the other in front of it. Good luck and try not to let it upset your missus because its so petty it isn't worth getting worked up over if you can help it.
 
Not much to add except good luck and it should pan out for you. And yes, you really do live close to OcUK!
 
Kenai said:
he has been parking his van there for a few years, before my wife passed her test and got a car.

This is why he's upset and causing grief. You've 'stolen' his space. :p
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Pretty much this.

You've got every right to illegally park there has him :p
 
Hades said:
Aside from the issue of whether she did hit him (and I assume you're correct in that he's just done it out of spite), it's obvious that parking there regularly is just going to annoy your neighbour.
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The other thing is his drive does allow 2 vehicles to be parked on his drive.
He only parks his van there "occasionally" well, that was until my wife started to park her car there, then it became a bit of tit for tat.

The best was when his van is parked on his driveway and then when my wife went out in her car, I would watch, and wihtin 2mins... he would go and move his van from his drive to the verge but put it slap bang in the middle so not other car could fit either end and then go back into his house.

For the past 10 days the issue with parking has been resovled, my wife parks her car at the end of that verge way, in front of the next-but-one neighbour, who we asked if it was ok to do as they dont have a car, and they said fine. I went and had a chat with him about it, and explained we would do this, he was happy with that, but hasn't parked his van on the verge once since then, he puts it on his driveway.

So my wife now parks here.... in the orange box now.
The blue area is outside of my neighbour - whpo is being a pratt.
And the red area is the front of my house.

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Neghbours are *********, I've run in to trouble with one across the road on more than one occasion because the Mrs parked her car outside his gate...on our side of the road. And no, no dropped curb ... the lonely old busy body even looked our cars up on the DVLA website to try and dig up some dirt on us (none to be found of course) I know this because the dosy old git even told me so. All this because it "makes it hard to get his (motor) bike out the gate". Not my problem pal, get a dropped curb installed if its so difficult. Better yet, get a driveway and stop struggling to get your two wheeled tank out of a garden gate :rolleyes:

I wouldn't mind so much but our road is a narrow culdesec and we dont all have driveways, we have to park where we can but we always make sure we aren't blocking driveways and I had said to him on a good number of occasions that if our parking causes an issue, he only needs to ask and we'll move the car. Instead all i got back why "why should I ******** have to ask, you need to stop parking there". Pillock. He's as racist as the come as well, he said 'at least they aren't **** or **********' to the guys next door to us when we first moved in :o
 
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I love how petty people can be. We have one guy down the road who is pretty small minded about such things, but luckily we don't have regular issue and he was pretty easily laughed off.
 
My wife is stubborn and when he started being a bit of a muppet all he needed to do was come and chat to us properly and we could have avoided the situation. My wife though just left him to do what he was doing, and parking so her car couldn't get on the verge at all. She started to treat it like a game and that's when I suggested she park at the further spot even when he isn't around and even when his van is on his driveway. Just because of not wanting the hassle of it all. My wife said "ok" and since then her car is parked out of the way totally from the front of his house now. She agreed so I went and had a chat with him explaining what we will do, and since then it has been fine.

Part of the reason for not wanting the hassle is because I didn't want him to go all mental and cause any damage to either of our cars, especially my £40k car.
I think the best option now is to get a CCTV camera fitted to the front of my house pointing at my car and the verge so in future nothing like this can happen.

As you can now imagine my wife is not very happy at all over this. Neither am I.
 
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I hate it when people park on grass verges, it completely ruins them. That said, definitely time for CCTV, if only to prevent it escalating. Neighbors are a pain, even when you are on friendly terms I find that they try to take advantage.
 
Glanza said:
Should either of you be parking there anyway?
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I get your point, but the whole street has cars parked along the grass verges. Legally it is a grey matter. Enforceable - well considering we had two police officers at our house about 2 months ago to deal with my son being assaulted and they didn't question the parked location of my wifes car or the neighbours then I'm sure that isn't the major point of this thread.

Here is a better image of the area from my porch. Also showing my wifes car.
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