Parking - Can I do anything about neighbour deliberately blocking me

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almillar wrote: »

paul - first suggestion would be to ask him to let you out, every time he does that. You would both get bored of that (think of the resources he's throwing at blocking you in!) but that's not an option.
So, how about preventing yourself from being blocked in, by parking TWO of your cars on the street. Leave a decent gap between them so that you can manoeuvre either of them out if he tries to block...

might have to do that

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ampersand wrote: »

2 households. 7 vehicles.

1st world problems need basic courtesy, rewired.

Any pro-active move by op requires the expense of cctv to record likely retaliation: paint/tyre damage, verbal harrassment.

A PCSO overseeing a 2-way written undertakin, spelling out the dear old MUTUAL 'right to quiet enjoyment' could be worth the paper it's written on.

Toxic neighbours are a by-product of cheek-by-jowl living.

This particular neighbour has caused lots of hassle with other neighbours.

Don't know what happened but a few years ago they had paint stripper poured on all their cars and comments painted on the pavement.

Not condoning this at all and I've no idea what it was all about to be honest but I dont think they're the type to escalate - its all words and silliness with them.

clayton16749

I'm so glad I get on with my neighbours. When you live near someone, you need to get along.

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If you are contemplating a childish and immature act of "revenge", (which I certainly advise against) leave it for a month or so so they don't assosciate it with the dispute with you.

forgotmyname

You have more than one car? Park 2 cars on the road giving plenty of space between them but not enough to get a car in.

AdrianC

Bigphil1474 wrote: »

If it's a mini, just get 4 strapping people to lift it out when you need to move it.

Umm, you might be OK with that for an old-school Issigonis Mini, but I think you'd be struggling with a BMW Mini...

clayton16749

[quote=[Deleted User];68430683]Hang on now this is a public road we're talking about. No-one owns it - if you've got tax you can park on it. Last time I looked no-one could reserve a space etc.

For some of you to say its my fault for upsetting him because he "normally" parks there is nuts.

For instance, if my elderly father comes to visit, I ask him to park 1/2 mile away and walk because the large space on the road is usually used by the nice man with the motorhome? Sorry public road first come first served.

Mind you if it did work like this perhaps I should leave a note on the city centre street I park on for work. "paul parks here - its reserved - so don't upset me because I want to park here every day". What do you reckon?[/QUOTE]





Sorry, I only just saw this response to another poster.


From what you've written here, you're just as bad as you make your neighbour sound.


If I come home and someone has parked in front of my house and the wife is already on our driveway, do I then park in front of my next door neighbour's house and inconvenience him by making him also find someone else to park? Or do I think about it and decide not to inconvenience others and instead park at the end of the street or where nobody usually parks?


That's right, I choose the latter, because I'm just considerate like that.

pendragon_arther

clayton16749 wrote: »

I'm so glad I get on with my neighbours. When you live near someone, you need to get along.

But Poppet, not everyone has nice neighbours however considerate you are. I used to live next door to a man with a severe personality disorder who used to let people's tyres down in the middle of the night if they dared park outside his house.

Where's The Equaliser Edwood Woodwood when you need him?

Herzlos

pendragon_arther wrote: »

I used to live next door to a man with a severe personality disorder who used to let people's tyres down in the middle of the night if they dared park outside his house.

That's a prime candidate for a 20 minute compressor session at 4am.

aileth

Definitely think PCSO is the best route, as said before I don't think relations can get much worse. He probably views you as a pushover and so delights in passive-aggressively antagonising you. We've had neighbours like this, and they were pretty shocked when we finally lost it and got the Rozzers involved. Haven't had anything since.

Unfortunately some people are very precious about public roads. At our old house (which was in a small cul-de-sac), we used to park our car outside our house, but when we couldn't it was no bother and we'd go elsewhere.

Our next door neighbour was incredibly funny about it, and if her spot was taken she would happily park in front of our house (which we didn't mind), but if we parked in front of hers due to there being nowhere else left to go, she would bang and slam on the door demanding we moved.

Our current house is on a cul-de-sac with very limited parking, however people would much rather park their car on it and make access incredibly difficult for others, even to the extent of people at the bottom of the cul-de-sac being unable to get out, instead of parking it on the residential street our cul-de-sac connects to, which has tonnes of space.

Hope you get it resolved, although I fear that solving this issue he will just find other ways to get at you, and the only way to truly fix it is to move.