Neighbour parking dispute, car parked outside your house?
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Problem neighbours
We used to rent a house in a place called Caversfield and experienced similar parking issues with my neighbour. She introduced herself by complaining to us that according to her deeds our parking space was actually hers!
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I've asked them countless times not to allow their visitors to park outside our house and the response was 'What's the problem?' Well I think the problem is that some people are incredibly selfish and inconsiderate!
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| 03-8-2010 | PS; The downstairs neighbours do not have a vehicle, we do, and we both have visitors that are currently having to park elsewhere (halfway down a busy main road in a min-shopping complex!). | meesh |
| 03-8-2010 | I live in a privately-rented house converted into 2 flats, which has a double driveway at the end of the garden - a parking space for each flat. My next-door neighbour owns her house, also has a double driveway with a garage directly on the property, another garage wihthin the car park (it is a rear cul-de-sac if you understand) and another 2/3 garages within the local area. These garages house steam engine bits and pieces (her son is an enthusiast and still lives at home), but they have 3 cars to park. They have previously, without permission, parked on our driveway, as have their guests - even if there has been space available on their own driveway.
Recently they asked permission to park one of their vehicles on our drive whilst said drive has work completed on it. We agreed, on the proviso that when the work is completed, the car is moved - also agreed by the owners. The work has been completed over 2 weeks ago now, and we have subtly mentioned the car being moved back twice since, to no avail.
Problem is, we think our next-door neighbour has spoken with our downstairs neighbour to ask their permission for the vehicle to remain on our driveway!!!
Anyone have any thoughts on how I sort this out without resorting to criminal damage/neighbour dispute? My only thought at this time is to ask the downstairs neighbour if they have actually had such a conversation, but these neighbours keep very much to themselves... | meesh |
| 08-7-2010 | At the end of the day you don't own the road outside your house so anyone has the right to park there. However it is just inconsiderate of people who do it on a regular basis when they have somewhere else to park. | windy miller |
| 22-4-2010 | I am currently experiencing something similar and I can now understand why some people end up in jail over this stuff. I just don't understand the inconsideration of it. WHY??? | Parkinyourownbloodyspace |
| 31-3-2010 | sarah44, stop being so 'wet' and damage his car proper, and then look the lazy police in the eye and deny that you had anything to do it. The police always go on about needing evidence - I lived next door to neighbours from hell and the lazy git police did nothing because there was no direct evidence -so use that against the miserable old sod and his car. Going out in the dead of night and damaging his car; letting down his tires, scratchign the paintwork; hell, putting a brick through the window; all this is a legitimate thing to do if the ignorant sod refuses to be reasonable. | miserablemoaninggit |
| 25-3-2010 | The WEEKLYGRIPE sounds way out of line with his attitude to the parking space at Caversfield. The space was on the woman's deeds and you made it yours? Isn't that hypocritical? And yes you should all have moved down to accommodate her if the space was on her deeds. That means it's hers! Belongs to her, not YOU just because it was more convenient for you to continue the way you had been behaving. | Lotto |
| 19-3-2010 | We have the same problem. We just have one old man who doesnt even live here but visits his son all the time and as he doesnt want to block his son's drive up or park there he parks right outside our house. We've left him a note and a week ago I had a polite chat (me being the polite one, not him!) I told him that whilst I knew he could park there it was courtesy not to, to which he wasnt very disrespondent - he sat in his car for a hour or so after I'd asked him not to do it to wind me up and then the next morning came back and did the same thing seemingly as an act of rebellion. His son unfortunalty has a drive and a white line paid for on the street (which we will now do, despite the high cost as we have to get the ground excavated to put a drive in) so it would be illegal if we repaid the favour. He seems to be doing it more since I talked to him which is even more annoying as I hate the idea of him laughing at me. This led to my partner putting conditioner on his car!!! Its not criminal damage (if you were to put a sledgehammer to a car you'd be big trouble with the police!) but I've still just had the police round even though no damage was caused and they dont know we did it (and as theres a school right by us it could have easily been a kid). Very unfair as it feels as though he is sat there laughing at us. When we ask nicley he acts up even more and if we try to do something about it he just goes running off to tell on us! Not sure what to do now as he seems like a proper stubborn old man. Seems the only solution is to either be inconsiderate to others or pay thousands we dont have to get a drive dug out. Partner seems to think it'd be a good idea to just keep putting conditioner on the car as the police actually cant do anything if there's no damage but I'm not so sure. Any other solutions? | sarah44 |
| 11-3-2010 | @ Sort out your own parking... I'd start from displaying a warning this is a private property and if they park there again, have their cars removed at their own expense. | Ostry |
| 09-3-2010 | what I do is take my sledgehammer to their car and if u did that I guarantee they wouldn't do it again | ryzo |
| 09-3-2010 | Sort out your own parking... I'd have put their cars on bricks or just parked infront of their cars and refused to move it till I was ready. If that was the polices response to it, I'd have asked THEM to move the cars and have a non friendly word with the owners. | chris |
| 26-2-2010 | I am sick of inconsiderate parking. I have one motability car , parked on road outside my house. next door has 4 cars , all on road, people in corner have 3 plus numerous visitors parking outside. I am always on pins as I arrive home , knowing inconsiderate people will park outside my house. what has happened to courtesy? | patsobee |
| 13-2-2010 | Sort out your own parking, I would have done absolutely everything in my power to get those cars off my drive. One thing I would not have bothered to do is to phone the police. A complete waste of time, in my experience. Sometimes, you need to take the law into your own hands, protect your property and demand respect from these miserable, arrogant little gits who had the gall to park their cars on your property. You need to demand some recompense from the owner of the house 5 doors away and, failing that, engage in some sort of 'compensation scheme', if you know what I mean. | miserablemoaninggit |
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