Parking Issue

What a bunch of turds, you have my sympathy. Why would you be so stupid when you have your own drive to park on? I don’t really get what they gain?

I’d just park so they can never move their car.
 
Hyburnate said:
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Do this. Turds indeed.
 
Get the lawn taken up and make it all a drive way and get all the curbs dropped then they can't park there. Also why is there a street light post in the middle of your lawn?

Either that or park a banger there.
 
Unfortunately they aren't really doing anything wrong so I'm not sure what you will achieve by doing anything.

When you were away from work did you have your car with you? If so does that mean that your wife was parking on the road while your drive sat empty? If that was the case then your neighbour may have seen that as you trying to be the 'pick your own expletive' and is now fighting back with the game of car tag.

Honestly in your situation I'd just extend the garden path along the curb to your drive.
 
kai said:
Correct, this is the entrance to my drive. This is not a footpath. The white part is indeed the path to my house.

Yes, its parking parallel with my house and front view to theirs. There is no blocking of the drive, the photo is deceptive its a fairly large space it's over 1 cars length. They have a big jeep and does not overlap my drive.

side view hopefully makes it easier to see.

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Where I live a few houses have had yellow lines put across the entrance of the path or gate to there houses....
This is mainly people will need to get out by bicycle, scooter, motorbike, old age

So OP I recommend you buy a cheap bicycle and complain that you can't it out of you're path if a car is parked in that spot...;)
 
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kai said:
Correct, this is the entrance to my drive. This is not a footpath. The white part is indeed the path to my house.

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Like others have said, block the car using your own driveway. Makes it very hard to park or move from that spot then, but you'll loose the use of your car for a while to make it effective, unfortunately.

Would really cheese me off if they blocked my path to the front door every time they parked TBH!!
 
Put a sprinkler on your front grass or hire a skip for a bit :p

I don't how your neighbour can justify blocking your path like that, crazy. Sadly things like this tend to escalate and soon you'll be appearing on neighbours from hell.
 
Sadly they're not as far as I can tell doing anything legally wrong, just being inconsiderate. I'd be inclined in that instance to have a wall built, only a few bricks high between the kerb and the grass - leave a gap for the existing path so you can still use it when they're not parked there, it would at least stop them from stepping out onto your property and if they tried to open a car door when parked there it would cause damage to their car. Something like that it might also be useful to invest in some form of CCTV as an irritated neighbour might want to damage this wall in the night.

You could always then put a pathway down along the edge of the newly built wall, at least then you would be able to get from your front door to your driveway. Does however seem like a silly layout from the developer. Also @MonkeyMan great idea with the sprinkler - and frequent cutting of the grass with a strimmer, it would also be terrible if someone parked there with an old car leaking oil who then drove off making no attempt to clear it up!
 
Ring the council and ask if you can have the kurb at the end of the path dropped for pushchair/wheelchair access to your house, tell them that you've nearly had a case of where the pushchair has tipped over etc .
 
Parking issues are the worst. I'd be tempted to park in front of your drive, blocking them in, then go on holiday for a week. They sound like utter knobs.
 
To be honest you live with it and just laugh at his stupidity or face all out war where it can get very petty.

The guy does sound like a total bell end though. Blocking him in or runa sprinkler next to his car sounds like a good way to test the water.
 
With them now getting the parents to park there too, park behind them blocking them in across the bottom of your drive.
 
Having lived on a new build estate, where I’ve seen parking issues escalate to very nasty situations, I’d take a deep breath and move on. If it keeps going tit for tat it’ll escalate until something gets damaged or end up in a legal dispute with bills and may ultimately then impact selling the house down the line.

Get some nice blinds and cross them off your Christmas card list. People get incredibly territorial over the space outside their house and if their family members are on side it’ll just get out of hand. It isn’t worth the stress and you can still access your drive.
 
kai said:
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I have a closed off drive, my house one side, a wall other side. They dont. They dont need to swap cars around. To the right of their drive they have a full courtyard, they can openly move in and out without moving any cars.
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I'd say you should have tarmac just like the other house does in front of theirs so you don't just walk out onto the road.

Whilst ideally no one would park there, I don't see exactly why they couldn't.

They are probably jealous you have a larger front lawn if you can call it that.

Also your plot is clearly a lot nicer for drive access, so I'd just be smug about that.
 
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I like the wall idea right next to the curb, stops them parking too close then. Also always make sure your bins are out right behind the car that's parked there when its bin day.

Our neighbour is a pain sometimes, if they park a few inches over the boundary we can park one of our cars on the street as it blocks the drive. If the neighbour parks upto the wall line we can both park just fine.
 
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