[Closed] Neighbours parking in our spaces problem

. I'm glad I don't live next door to some of you lot. Compromise isn't a word that seems to figure very prominently

As I understand it compromise involves give & take. As far as I can see your advice to the OP is that they get to park on your land & you get to let them. Where is the compromise there?
If I were the OP I would pop round to the neighbours, invite myself in, switch on the TV and ask them to make a cuppa. After all, isn't that what sharing is all about? Treat thier living room as if it were your own.

I always think the word polite, when applied to notices, could be replaced with 'passive/aggressive' or 'self important' or maybe 'terminally lacking in either empathy or self-awareness'. Or prefixed with 'anything but....'

These threads always make me giggle though. They remind me of the classic Eddie Murphy quote from Beverley Hills Cop. "I've never seen a white guy in more desperate need of a ...... "

Don't know why 😆

ahh I just remembered something that happened last year to one of our cars when it was parked round the corner (legally, taxed and insured on a quiet side street).

We had an pissy neighbour stick a big yellow "police aware" sticker on the driver window of the OHs car just because it had not been used for a few weeks (she was cycling to uni and had been away on rotations).

I cleaned it off and put the car back but I really wanted them to do it again as I was going to knock door to door until I found out which one did it and then make them clean it off.

Compromise is a two-way street.

Appeasement is a one-street with double yellow lines.

Appeasement?

In my hand I have a piece of paper.....

It is a photocopy of the deeds

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Appeasement =

I'm fine with it if you use some lubrication 😯

My old house had a private driveway which we owned but the other 5 houses had a RoW across it (and also a 5th share in upkeep). To get to the other houses you had to either come straight and then reverse up to them or turn around. Our place had a double garage and also spaceoutside to park but the general area needed to be clear to give enough access. The house next door had a new bloke move in who insisted on parking his car on our property so that he could fill his garage with sh1t. It destroyed my grass and smashed the sewage cover. I had a chat with him and pointed out that he was parking on my property and that it would be appreciated if he would not do that. He was obstructive, rude and generally quite arrogant. I did a quick check and his garage had no planning permission so i shopped him and he had to have it removed....he wasn't happy. To be fair though it was completely in the way and i would come back to find his vehicles parked in front of my garage "becuase it was easier to leave them there", the straw that broke the camels back was getting a SAR callout and opening the garage at 3am to find his funkin cars blocking me in, i shifted them into the middle of the drive and stood on the horn until he appeared, he was a bit upset about that as well but was insistent that even though it was my driveway he was parking in he thought that I should be more 'understanding'. He was a knobjockey of epic proportions.
EDIT: parking is one of those things though that really divides. I am making a mental note to make sure we buy a house with parking !!

i shifted them into the middle of the drive and stood on the horn until he appeared,

was his doorbell broken then or did you just feel like waking everyone else up?

Going back to the OP.

You purchased a house knowing there is informal parking agreements because its a close. Now you wonder what to do because you don't want your neighbors parking at various places.

How did you not expect problems... I just wouldn't have bothered buying that house.

I think your in for years of hassle!

I feel this pain - for 13 years I had a house at the end of a narrow owner-maintained lane shared with 19 other houses, over which I had right of vehicular access. By the end I could feel my stress levels and tension rising everytime I neared the house in expectation of not being able to get to our parking space. Same thing everytime I left - wondering if someone had blocked exit (like the time I was rushing to get to the train station and someone was having a big delivery made).

Just moved to a house with its own drive, garage and plenty of 'occasionsal' space in the cul-de-sac and it is bliss.

i shifted them into the middle of the drive and stood on the horn until he appeared,

was his doorbell broken then or did you just feel like waking everyone else up?

Ooh get you. It would only wake him up as the other houses are miles away, and yes he has no doorbell and wasn't answering his phone either.

EDIT: parking is one of those things though that really divides. I am making a mental note to make sure we buy a house with parking !!

Philly - i'm common as muck! hence getting on well with all my neighbours.

Now you wonder what to do because you don't want your neighbors parking at various places.

.. on his property.

I don't think anyone's said this so far, but why don't you put up a small fence and some gates? Car out, close gates. Perfectly ok and expected you should fence off your own land. Tasteful chain link or rope affair should be enough to keep costs down.

Is this a troll? OP seems to,have disappeared. But a pic of the layout would really help

Parking makes for neighbourly fun sometimes.....We've got friends in a mews block. 20 odd years ago they were built with 11 normal mews houses and one with a chunk out of it at ground level acting as sort of bridge over the entrance to car park behind the houses with a space for every house. 6 months in matey with the odd house discovers the way the legal bobbins was written he was the owner of all the parking spaces. Residents to the other 11 houses came home one day to find a large metal gate across the car park entrance and a letter inviting them to enter a leasehold agreement with the new owner on condition that they all bought in or no one got one. He set the leasehold at one eleventh of what he paid for his house each (i.e. he would end up with a house for free). Consensus was never reached and no one has parked there since. The car park now has trees growing through the tarmac and all the houses have dug up their little front gardens and squeezed a car onto them. Place looks shit - can safely say that everyone lost that day!

No idea if anyone has suggested it (can't be arsed to read 6 pages of angst) but surely if you use the spaces on the opposite side that only leaves the ones outside your garage? Surely nobody is going to park in front of them?
If anyone asks why you park on the other side "I can park where I like on my land"

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No, not a troll, just busy. Thanks again everyone. It's funny, this is the first thread I've ever started that has caught people's imaginations. Never expected such a lot of response. All was quiet last night, and the spaces were unused, so it looks like the previous, slightly fraught conversations may have done the trick. We'll see.

Edit: On reflection, no, it isn't funny. My previous threads have been pretty dull.

You hit the STW sweet spot! Allowing the passive aggressive's to competitively vent their righteous middle class fury, booming disapproval, and knowledge of arcane by-laws!

It's like they've rolled over and your tickling their tummies 😀

STW Nirvana 😆

It's like they've rolled over and [b]your[/b] tickling their tummies

And with the correction of a grammatical error the mythical perfect thread is attained! 😉

Is there the tiniest chance that this somehow results from the wider availability of former council housing, and is therefore Thatcher's fault ?

[quote=scaredypants ]Is there the tiniest chance that this somehow results from the wider availability of former council housing, and is therefore Thatcher's fault ?

I think we can haul it back to enclosure and the royal family robbing all the land of the common man (with nice bike and house and 3 cars)

Fab thread, well done bol, cat amongst pigeons. 🙂

Likewise havent read all the pages but the first step is clearly going to talk to the offending neighbours, go in softly and politely, tell them its your land and you dont want to fall out with them, be nice....

... THEN

if they continue or are ar$y about it when you talk to them, simply do what others have said and put parking bollards up as suggested.

Two level approach...

clearly the next level after this is nuclear warheads activated when they park there ! 😉

And with the correction of a grammatical error the mythical perfect thread is attained!

Nope, we've had no mention of religion and race, nor nuclear power, and despite it essentially being a car-related thread, we've not yet got on to "why do you need a car" / "speeding is worse than raping someone's sister" / top gear whinging etc.

And the fact that neither the OP nor his neighbours have been referred to as being Nazis.

Well the OP has "annexed" their parking spaces, so he "could" be a Nazi....

What if Hitler, God and Jeremy Clarkson all rolled up at 37mph and parked in your space in a massive 4x4 while running over a cyclist on the 5:2 fad diet (with Racing Ralphs on a 6inch travel DH bike with poorly aligned valves and logos) and then tweeting about it.

Would you be so amazed you'd let it pass or would you be so incensed that you'd explode and punch a child in the face?

Have you considered a Skoda Octavia vRS?

Thread complete.

Dogs at trail centres?

And do you have a pet cat?

And do you have a pet cat?

And some Sudocrem?

Sure, but we still have to debate what tyres etc. Also what size wheels...

Have the neighbours resorted to the Edinburgh defence yet?

Remember to put a helmet on (or not) when you talk to them but don't bother if the conversation happens at above 30mph as the effect would be minimal.

What a lot of do-gooding **** being spouted!

You no doubt bought the house for a number of reasons, and the parking was a feature of the house. It's something that contributes to the value of the property and therefore contributes to the price that you had to fork out to buy it.

The land is yours, and if you want to occasionally park on it, and leave it empty for the rest of the time then you should be able to do so without hindrance.

I'm not advocating falling out with your neighbours, but if they take offence and get arsey to you nicely asking them not to park on your land, then they're probably not the sort of people who you want to be friends/neighbourly with anyway.

Any chance we could get a picture of the lawn, shrubbery and any outdoor furniture? Thread seems incomplete without a general garden critique.

I'm not advocating falling out with your neighbours, but if they take offence and get arsey to you nicely asking them not to park on your land, then they're probably not the sort of people who you want to be friends/neighbourly with anyway.

This is pretty much all that needs to be said.

This is pretty much all that needs to be said.

But is it?