Neighbours blocking shared Access-way - no dropped Kerb

arcon5

Summarise a bit further. Photo unnecessary. Then good to go

makara

arcon5 wrote: »

Summarise a bit further. Photo unnecessary. Then good to go

Thanks for the feedback.


By "summarise" I assume you mean condense to read as briefer that its current form?


Also - wouldn't the photos be useful as in the Landlords may not be aware of what is happening?

Plus IF this goes to Court (IF the Landlord and Tenant don't respond in an apt way)...we could then attest that we provided photographic proof (and still nothing was done)?

pathtofreedom

I haven't read all of this but why are you wasting police time with this? It is private land.

Get the landlords contact details from the land registry, and just sent them a much more friendly note. If you go down the path of solicitors letters like this you'll have to declare this when you sell. If I was buying a place and saw there were problems with the neighbours with shared access like this it would put be off completely.

You said you haven't actually asked the neighbour to move the car this year. Why not just talk to them? You suspect they damaged your car, yet all this passive aggressive disruption you want to cause them is so unnecessary. If anything it is just likely to annoy them more, and again if you're not planning to move why would you antagonise people this way? Especially when you'll have to keep seeing them all the time.

If they have 3 kids including a baby I think you said, then it might just be absent mindedness. Do they even have a wheely bin? Is that why they have been putting the bags out? Wouldn't it be more neighbourly to just give them the number for the council department to get a bin which would stop the rubbish problem.

You could also setup a shared calendar in gmail or something, and just share the drive and just block out the Sunday evening each time so you can put your bins out then. So when you are having friends round you can book the drive and vice versa then if you don't want to keep knocking on the door, or just get their phone number and text them.

You've wasted days, if not months stressing about this when they probably don't even know, if you're not even telling them it is a problem. There is a saying it is like taking poison yourself and expecting your enemy to die.

makara

pathtofreedom wrote: »

I haven't read all of this

We've tried all you suggested (to a point) - they are well aware of what they are doing - I even spoke to them a couple of weeks back, and made clear what we are unhappy about - but they keep reverting to type.


So this is the only way forward with such types.

pathtofreedom

makara wrote: »

We've tried all you suggested (to a point) - they are well aware of what they are doing - I even spoke to them a couple of weeks back, and made clear what we are unhappy about - but they keep reverting to type.

So you have helped them get a wheely bin if they don't have one? From what you've said you've not spoken to the landlord once to get them to help. Threatening to go to court, although I'm not sure what you would be going for exactly, getting a letter like that as the first time you talk to someone surely isn't the simplest way to deal with this. Why would you want to antagonise people like this when it just needs some ground rules set over a cuppa tea.

Is this your forever home? I don't know how old you are but if you're planning on living there another 5 - 10 - 20 years why would you approach this in a way that this could cause you problems for years to come. It isn't too late to just mediate this so you can just both go back to living your lives without all this stress and passive aggressive game play.

How about just asking the landlord how much they'd sell their half of the land for, then you can gate it and even get the kerb dropped so you could use it as parking or whatever you wanted.

rich13348

I haven't read all of this but

I have followed this from the start. It might be worth reading the whole post. Many thinks have been suggested. Many things have been tried.

LL doesn't want to get involved.

OP has spoken to tenants directly and indirectly and they are unwilling to discuss as it makes them money.
The wheelie bin argument is hardly an argument when bin bags are thrown all over the entrance. If you didn't have a wheelie bin wouldn't you stack in the back garden or by your back door instead of leaving littered across the entrance to a accessway and not even on bin day or the day before.

I implore you to read the whole thread yes it's 15 pages long and almost 300 posts but so many things have been tried by OP and dismissed by LL and tenant.

Also some handy photos too.

makara

rich13348 wrote: »

I have followed this from the start. It might be worth reading the whole post. Many thinks have been suggested. Many things have been tried.

LL doesn't want to get involved.

OP has spoken to tenants directly and indirectly and they are unwilling to discuss as it makes them money.
The wheelie bin argument is hardly an argument when bin bags are thrown all over the entrance. If you didn't have a wheelie bin wouldn't you stack in the back garden or by your back door instead of leaving littered across the entrance to a accessway and not even on bin day or the day before.

I implore you to read the whole thread yes it's 15 pages long and almost 300 posts but so many things have been tried by OP and dismissed by LL and tenant.

Also some handy photos too.

Rich - thanks for laying it all out perfectly...I am too exhausted to try to explain it all to someone who hasn't followed this at all.


And yes...why would they use a wheelie bin if they are deliberately throwing sacks loosely all over the place...


As I also mentioned to that poster...I told the neighbours our objections...to which they smiled and nodded...before reverting to their obnoxious behaviour...


And as you rightly say...the photos say a lot...


Thanks again.

pathtofreedom

rich13348 wrote: »

LL doesn't want to get involved.

I did read it all through before posting again about talking to the landlord. OP said they have no way to contact the landlord, and don't know their address, that is why they are talking about sending two copies of the same letter to the tenants. In my mind it would make much more sense to speak to the landlord at least once less formally before going that route. How do they know that letter will even get to the landlord if the tenants are that bad. Getting the address from the land registry, and trying to contact them that way, would make for better relations long term and wouldn't have to be declared when they come to sell.

makara

A relative of the landlord is also my schooldays friend. Although we don't have their new address I did try going through my schoolfriend but the LL had told them they don't want to get involved.

I can't push further via my friend. And it's clear the LL doesn't want to willingly get involved. So they've had their opportunity to go the less formal route.

No point trying the friendly way again.

I'll leave it at that.

stator

Have you painted the markings on your side of the road yet? Big white line down the middle and words saying something like NO PARKING on your side.