Inconsiderate Neighbours

[Frustrated]

Hi

I need some advice on the best course of action to take ith my neighbour and a parking issue.

I have recently moved into my new house and my neighbour parks in a manner that makes parking my car awkward and inconvenient

All of our garages are set back from the road and there is a parking/access area that serves the 3 properties. (The houses are 10 years old so it is a new estate). My immediate neighbour and I have one car each and have single parking spaces outside of our garages and we get on fine.

The other neighbour has two cars and a double garage. His wife parks her car outside of their garage but he parks his car in an area that was not designed as a parking space and by doing this he makes turning/reversing into my parking space difficult.

My "good" neighbour drives into her space and reverses directly onto the highway and she is happy to continue to do this. However I am not prepared to do this because of the obvious danger.

I have spoken to my "bad" neighbour about this and he is pleasant enough but his wife is less understanding because "she has 3 kids and leads a very stressful life" - her words. If his wife reverses her car nearer to their garage then this makes an enormous difference because it increases the area for my turning circle and I can get in - if she doesn't then I can't swing the car around and have to reverse back out of the area onto the road and then reverse all the way in from the road. (I can't see from the road whether she has parked considerately or not so only know that when I get into the area). This is a nightmare.

We discussed this a while ago and he said that he would ask his wife to do as I requested and she did for a while but has now gone back to her own ways.

We all have a right of access over land owned by the others but one wheel of his car is parked on my land when he parks it in the official area.

I have come up with three options on how to proceed

I can mention the matter again and tell him that his wife has returned to her own ways (he probably knows this} and get him to ask her to park her car further back. (She has plenty of room in their parking area to the side of the car and has parking sensors on the back so there is no reason for parking the car further forward). I am reluctant to go down this route because she was not very understanding when the matter was originally issued and even if matters change now I can see them slipping back later

I could place a parking post on my land that will stop him parking there and would not restrict the access to his parking area nor would restrict their ability to park. (I cannot see that this breaks any covenant or easement on my deeds)

I could get my partner (who usually parks on the main road) to park on a remaining area of land (mine) in the access area but this would mean that the "bad neighbour" would have no access to their parking area but only by his car when it was parked in the offending space

I would appreciate the thoughts of others as I don't want to fall out with my neighbours but I feel that they are taking advantage of my good nature and the wife is being particularly inconsiderate of things.

Thanks for any help or thoughts on the matter

[Frustrated]

Thanks for all the comments.

I appreciate that she may have a lot to do but she is already reversing the car into the space so an extra couple of feet shouldn't be difficult bearing in mind the width of space is twice the size of the car and it has sensors on the back to tell when she is getting close to the garage door!! How long would that take - a couple of seconds! I manage to do it with my car when I consider my immediate neighbours acceess. They have stated that they need access to the garage but they have a side door and I have not seen them use the garage door in the last 2 weeks - they could move the car if/when they needed to use it!!

I have only just moved into the house and his car was never present when I viewed it and looked at it from the outside - I wonder why this was!!

I am moving towards putting something to restrict his access and I like the idea of something less obvious as a post. However it needs to be fixed as I am sure that he will just move it.

I have asked him to park my car when all are present and he is reluctant to do this for "insurance" reasons - I agree it is she who is the problem not him. (By the way one of the children is called Oliver!!!) That is also why I may move to making her access move difficult then she may appreciate why I feel like I do.

I feel that I am being reasonable but I am annoyed that after being nice and finding a resolution that would be OK with all she is still ignoring this. I feel that some physical obstruction needs to be implemented to get the message across.

I appreciate that others may have issues that appear greater than mine but this is bothering me so it is important.

[Frustrated]

Hi

My partner will shortly be moving in with me so we will be parking one of our cars to make parking the second car very awkward - we are looking forward to getting the knock on the door when she starts to complain about how difficult it is to park her car - what goes around!

Thanks for all the suggestions.