Neighbours parking on drive and across drive.

PenguinJim

man_of_faith wrote: »

I have tried to get a camera but finances are not able to stretch a long story.

Do you have something with a camera lying around? An old mobile or old digital camera with a video mode? Leaving it charging and propped up at the window, recording at a lower quality setting, should get you quite a few hours of video, and you might just need a 32GB (for example) SD/microSD card for it.

I'm sorry to hear about your situation. I find it absolutely baffling how these simpletons can be so selfish in their society-damaging behaviour - and get away with it, too!

princeofpounds

A barricade?!?!?!

It's called a gate.

Is this a wind-up?

LandyAndy

man_of_faith wrote: »

I am currently building a barricade out of some pallets I have acquired.

As soon as I need to I intend to build a large wooden barricade and nail it together. My intention is to have a large immovable object. That I can assemble in a very short amount of time before going out.

I am not sure if this is going to cause a problem but as it is my drive I cant see a problem.

Faith.

Might be a problem when it meets a gallon of petrol and a match.

moneyistooshorttomention

LandyAndy wrote: »

Might be a problem when it meets a gallon of petrol and a match.

But then the "firebrand" would cop it too...or are they too dim to realise?

kimbyanne

I feel for you. I have experienced this sort of thing and it's not nice.

My parents had a neighbour from hell. He would park in our parking space (allocated parking) purely because it was closer to his front door than his own space. However, he also wanted free use of his own parking space and if anyone dare park in his space he would go mental. If he was asked to move, you were met with a torrent of abuse and the door slammed in your face. He then began telling his friends to park there, one even left their car there and went on holiday for two weeks.

When we did manage to park in our own space, quite often he or his friends would park behind us and refuse to move. Police were called but they would just ask him to move it, which he would but once they were gone, move it straight back or if we had gone out in the meantime, he would park in our space.

We once came home to find that he had told his kids to leave their bikes in our parking space (they had five kids so bikes everywhere) and when we moved them he shot out the door screaming at us for criminal damage and touching his property.

I am sorry to say, it never ended - no one could speak to him or try to discuss the situation because he was one of those people who did whatever he wanted and if you didn't like it tough.

My parents moved. I hear from some of the old neighbours that he is still claiming that parking space as his own and no one dares stick up for themselves.

Where I live we have a communal parking area and I have noticed the beginning of another space claimer. The spaces here aren't allocated but there is plenty to go around but there is one guy who has decided one particular space is his and anyone who parks there is getting notes on their cars warning them not to in future.:rotfl: People are weird.

man_of_faith

My idea was to nail a large pile of wood accross the drive and leave it as a barricade. In short this has been a rubbish idea as I now have a load of broken pallets where the local kids on half term have bust them up. It has been a nightmare to clean up nails and big bits of wood every where. I thought it was a clever move.
It has ent worked in the slightest.
I am going to try and get the landlord to let me install a bollard that collapses.
The whole thing is just a pain. I have parked accross my own drive so I can get out.
I am just fed up with the whole thing.

Faith

pmd123

I can't see these elaborate schemes like barricades working, they have already demonstrated a metal chain won't stop them, so a bit of wood isn't likely to work.

I'd really invest the time and all the money you can muster in trying to get out of there, I can't see any way you are ever going to feel safe or comfortable there after all this has gone on.

If (as you have said) this is not possible for the foreseeable future, then there are 2 likely conclusions, either a) you let them have the drive, and give up on trying to stop them parking there or b) you're going to have to confront them and hope that standing up to them will make them think twice.

sadly, as kimbyanne and others will attest to, police and local authority are unlikely to provide a long term solution, because as soon as they leave, you still have to live there and put up with this happening over again.

moneyistooshorttomention

I was googling away the other day re people using other peoples drives. Seem to remember it was that "mums" website where suggestions came up from a couple of people there putting out accidentally on purpose things like glass bottles for recycling (in a plastic carrier bag) or carpet gripper strips (also in plastic bag).

It wouldn't help keep the use of your own drive, but might make them think twice if they found they had accidentally driven over some "recycling" you had put out in said drive. After all, how would you know to expect a stranger would try and drive into your drive and hadn't thought there would be a problem about putting out your own recycling on your own property;)

(sympathising here because I'm trying to figure out how best to deal with a marauding neighbour myself and I'm a home-owner!). Some people do expect all sorts of favours as if its their right and they will tell you/anyone else its their right (even though it isn't).

rippers255

I cant believe some people when reading this - sorry to hear about these problems.

Can you post some pictures to give us an understanding of the layout of your drive?

R

man_of_faith

Thanks for the replies.
I really am fed up with the whole thing.
I have had the thought that somebody may know me on has seen my posting on here. With that in mind I dont think that pics are a good idea.

I am now just waiting on the landlord to get back to me.

I am hopful that it will let me get the bollard in place.
Thanks for the suggestions.

Faith.