Neighbour keeps cutting across our driveway!

siw8158

This is really gettting annoying.

We live on a corner so our drives are narrow at the top and wider at the bottom in a dog-legged inshape. Hers is much wider at the bottom compared to ours. Myself and wife have to play musical cars at night to swap them around for the commute in the morning.

Our next door neighbour has 3 vehicles on the drive. An unused sherpa (been there for 3+ years and never used), her car and sons car.

She keeps cutting across our drive (2 or 3+ times a day) to get off save moving her sons car.

She is also a little unhinged having had many rows with her other other adjoining neighbour but not us as yet!

We've started parking our cars further up to block her from doing this but she nips in when we've nipped out.

It is also block paves, and such is the frequency of her doing this, that there are two dips on our side from her using our drive.

She has now noted we're doing this to deliberately stop her cutting across and has been know on at least 3 occasions to randomly blow her horn when she moves the cars around, the last two incidents being around 8pm when our daughter (2yrs) was due to go to bed!!!! So she's already strted being petty!

There is no common right of way across either drive according to the solicitor when we purchased it 4 years ago, even swinging round the awkward corner at the botton.

The drive is also about 80/90ft long so fencing will be expensive.

Any suggestions on how to stop her besides a pot plant and a few troughs down the divide????

Thanx in advance,

Si

isplumm

Hi,

Are these a joining drives? If so why don't you get some big stones / bricks & place them along your driveway ... stop her doing it?

Mark

dander

Your only option is physically blocking it. Yes, technically she is probably trespassing on her land, but you are only going to make the situation harder by sending solicitors letters or anything like that. Far easier and simpler to just mark out your territory more clearly.

What about some thing like a run of short posts and a chain between them, if you see what I mean? You don't need anything big and heavy, just enough to mark the boundary and prevent a car driving through. Probably best to place the posts just closer than the width of a car though!

siw8158

Yeah,

They are adjoining.

Only ours seems to be the narrower of the two so we can't go too overboard as the width would cause us problems.

Also the length we need to block is around 60 feet!

Think of several strategically placed troughs with bedding plants in maybe, but need to be careful of slip/trip hazards too with out daughter, postman us etc!

Timmne

You could drop a bag of little nails, accidentally?

lalli_pickle

Timmne wrote: »

You could drop a bag of little nails, accidentally?

This made me laugh as it was exactly what I was thinking

How about a strategically placed trailer or some rubbish bins?

ormus

a few wheely bins. full of bricks!

ic

Cheapest option is to have a polite word. She won't like it, but if she doesn't pay attention, then consider posts perhaps. I wouldn't go down the route of solicitors or letters, it can only go downhill from there.

A relatively inexpensive way, assuming your drives are block paved up to one another is perhaps bolt down post supports (http://www.wickes.co.uk/Erecta-Plate/invt/542501), with short fence posts, painted black/white with a decorative chain between each. Make sure that these are installed only on your side of the boundary, not hers.

Out of interest who lived there first? If you moved in last, perhaps the previous neighbours were happy to let them drive across the driveway, and she's thinking nothing of it. Also consider that she may have been hooting the horn to hurry up her son - not intending to bother you. You might be reading more into her actions than you realise.

27col

Timmne wrote: »

You could drop a bag of little nails, accidentally?

Clout nails are best as they nearly always fall point up.

michellep45

could you use some large plant pots?

justjohn

trouble is if you give an inch some peeps take a mile. nip it in the bud asap. Confront them directly and too the point they are taking liberties and they sound as if they are aware of it. If they do not take onboard what you say. Then physicaly block your drive and ask a solicitor to send a letter.

If it gets out of hand maybe think about installing cctv.