Open plan garden ... neighbour driving on it
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Hi
I live on a modern open plan estate, where my garden borders the next door neighbour's driveway. The drives are wide enough to fit two cars on side to side (and are long enough to fit two cars front to back). Unfortunately, they have a habit of parking as close as possible to my garden so that they have to walk all over it to get out of the car. Quite often, they will actually park on the grass
I had some edging stones at the bottom that they have damaged by reversing and turning, so that their front wheels went completely over the garden and cracked the stones in half.
I've been patient but have now had enough. I've discussed this with them before, but led to them ignoring me, so any further discussions would be a waste of time. I don't care about that anymore, just want to stop them driving and walking on my garden.
I'm limited to it being open plan (so no wall), but would really like to put a barrier of some kind in place, that can't be easily damaged by them (accidentally or on purpose!). Anyone have any ideas?
I live on a modern open plan estate, where my garden borders the next door neighbour's driveway. The drives are wide enough to fit two cars on side to side (and are long enough to fit two cars front to back). Unfortunately, they have a habit of parking as close as possible to my garden so that they have to walk all over it to get out of the car. Quite often, they will actually park on the grass
I had some edging stones at the bottom that they have damaged by reversing and turning, so that their front wheels went completely over the garden and cracked the stones in half.
I've been patient but have now had enough. I've discussed this with them before, but led to them ignoring me, so any further discussions would be a waste of time. I don't care about that anymore, just want to stop them driving and walking on my garden.
I'm limited to it being open plan (so no wall), but would really like to put a barrier of some kind in place, that can't be easily damaged by them (accidentally or on purpose!). Anyone have any ideas?
Ooh, some great options there! A drainage ditch sounds like a great idea, filled with some foul concoction 
I do have a large boulder at the bottom end of the garden, where they blatantly drive over it; found it dumped in a public landscaped area with gouge marks on it (presumably, they hit it with their car and decided to move it). So, boulders are the obvious solution, but the garden is more than two car lengths long, so quite a few boulders needed, and then the extra maintenance of cutting the grass (hate gardening, but like a nice garden
) So, a flower bed is out, as they need bloody weeding.
The buried nails is sheer genius, especially if they were painted green, but I fear that option might just breach the covenant. Could be wrong though.
Saturating the area with water would take me ages every day to do. It's a long garden!
The rope fence is defo an option, I quite like that. I have a couple of berberis's (sp?) around the corner, they are nasty things, but again, that means a border to maintain. But, guess I'll have to bite the bullet
I've got a photo of how close they park, I'll post it up shortly.
I do have a large boulder at the bottom end of the garden, where they blatantly drive over it; found it dumped in a public landscaped area with gouge marks on it (presumably, they hit it with their car and decided to move it). So, boulders are the obvious solution, but the garden is more than two car lengths long, so quite a few boulders needed, and then the extra maintenance of cutting the grass (hate gardening, but like a nice garden
) So, a flower bed is out, as they need bloody weeding.The buried nails is sheer genius, especially if they were painted green, but I fear that option might just breach the covenant. Could be wrong though.
Saturating the area with water would take me ages every day to do. It's a long garden!
The rope fence is defo an option, I quite like that. I have a couple of berberis's (sp?) around the corner, they are nasty things, but again, that means a border to maintain. But, guess I'll have to bite the bullet
I've got a photo of how close they park, I'll post it up shortly.
Butter Face said:
At our old house, our neighbour opposite would reverse off his driveway straight acorss the (admittedly not very wide) road onto our law. He kind of used it as a turning space.
After asking him to stop, and being ignored, I parked the rear wheels of my 200SX on his lawn and lit up the rear wheels covering his house in a spectactular amount of grass and mud.
Yes it almost caused WW3, but by golly it was worth it.
That is awesome! I think this would cause WW3, but I can see how it would be worth it After asking him to stop, and being ignored, I parked the rear wheels of my 200SX on his lawn and lit up the rear wheels covering his house in a spectactular amount of grass and mud.
Yes it almost caused WW3, but by golly it was worth it.
Munter said:
Either my eyes are bad or the part of the OP I quoted above might cover that.
Hence only one other person suggested the talking thing and the rest of the posts having taken this into account are suggesting the more militant options.
-10 PH points for not reading the OP.
Thanks Munter, yes I have discussed it. No point any more.Hence only one other person suggested the talking thing and the rest of the posts having taken this into account are suggesting the more militant options.
-10 PH points for not reading the OP.
Thanks for all the suggestions, some really good ones (like the sleepers) but I think I'm going with a box hedge, possibly interspersed with berberis and some strategically placed boulders. Should keep me busy for a couple of weekends
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