Shared access driveway

markin

The only reason to take photos is to try and sue you, you may receive a warning letter first, have you just moved in? Put cctv up so you can prove you were only unloading and do it in 15min.


Do they actually reverse park ever or was that just an example?

KJB9

My childhood home was a very similar situation - we were the end house on a shared drive, with a small section at the very end that belonged to us. We also had a neighbour who was very keen on enforcing the rules of a shared driveway to the letter, with him taking great umbrage to anyone stopping on the shared portion of the drive, however temporary. This included delivery drivers, friends collecting children etc, leading to a number of arguments between our family and himself which escalated very quickly. We eventually had the police called on Christmas Day when we had a car stopped briefly outside to collect my severely disabled grandmother who was unable to walk up the drive.

To echo Davesnave's comment, I'm sure it could all have been avoided had we have all just had a reasonable talk about it, rather than let things escalate. Trust me when I say it really isn't worth getting into an argument with a neighbour which could potentially last years and really sour your experience of living where you are.

EmmyLou30

I understand where the OP is coming from in that their part of the shared driveway being parked on might not block anyone as they see it so it should be ok.....what they fail to understand is that the shared part is not to be parked on by anyone, not even at the end, it's the same rule for all.


It may be that a neighbour needs that bit to reverse off their drive easily? There's a big difference in a delivery driver or picking up a kid with the engine running to a half hour stay....anything where the engine stays running or a 5 minute unloading the neighbour may have been ok with but he wanted to nip it in the bud in case 30 minutes escalated to permanent. He may have had issues with previous people living there doing the same so came across as overreacting with the camera.

PasturesNew

Shared should be "for passing over" only, not parking. Maybe the neighbour has that land marked on their deeds as "theirs", but allowing neighbours "to pass over but not stop/park" there - and, maybe, they're annoyed when they see somebody who has their own/private spots to use, opting to stop on their bit of land.

Maybe, too, the neighbour saw a situation of "why did he choose THERE to do that, when he could've used/blocked THEIR bit and not MINE".

You can't just help yourself to things belonging to other people because it suits you, when a solution is right in front of your eyes, e.g. use YOUR bit for the unloading/loading. If you have the space for all that, then you should try to contain your activities within your own boundaries, except in exceptional circumstances. If that neighbour had wished to do something similar in that space at that time they'd no longer have an option, or a choice to do so.

You have rights to pass over. You have responsibilities to not take the p155.

Exodi

Reading the replies to this thread, it seems a lot of people are under the impression that this is a single occurrence (and the OP does steer us in this direction), I ask people to re-read:

Diane1987 wrote: »

My issue is my dad was emptying the car today and he was parked on the ‘shared’ part of the driveway. And my annoying neighbour came out and instantly started taking photos. This has happened a couple of times now. Do they have any grounds for legal action. No one has ever parked there for longer than 30 minutes and they are always emptying the car or similar

Whilst we don't know the frequency, this certainly isn't a one off or a mentally unstable neighbour. The OP fails to see that the neighbour has exactly the same rights to park for 30 minutes on this part of the shared access as you do. In fact, if they found they were inconvenienced further because of your repeated actions, I would encourage them to park in the same place as your family/friends do and see what your reaction is?

If you know you're going to have an elderly relative that has to picked up outside, or your dads doing his weekly drop off of tools, or even you're having your weekly food shopping delivered, can't you move your car? Why don't you have issues with the neighbours having cars blocking the shared access all the time for 'quick' 30 minute drop offs?

sheramber

On the deeds of the house a small potion in front of my house remains shared access the rest is private parking and driveway for me.

Why did he park on the small shared drive and the your parking and driveway?

Mojisola

Diane1987 wrote: »

On the deeds of the house a small potion in front of my house remains shared access the rest is private parking and driveway for me.

My issue is my dad was emptying the car today and he was parked on the ‘shared’ part of the driveway.

No one has ever parked there for longer than 30 minutes

It would only have affected them if they wanted to reverse park at that particular moment as it would be the turning circle.

Sorry for the essay I’m just baffled.

I don't know why you're baffled. You are blocking part of the shared access for up to 30 minutes at a time.

Why don't you park on the part of the drive you own that isn't shared access?

From your neighbour's point of view, these things have a tendency to escalate - first time, you only park for a few minutes, then it stretches to 30 minutes, then it's for a few hours and then it's a regular event.

If your neighbour came on here asking for advice, the first option would be to talk to you (but it doesn't sound as if you're on good terms) so the next advice would be to collect evidence (which is what he's doing).

Either talk to him and ask if he minds if it happens occasionally (and hope he's amenable) or stop doing it.

Exodi

sheramber wrote: »

Why did he park on the small shared drive and the your parking and driveway?

I've been imagining it as some variant of the below (where the hatched yellow lines represent shared access):



I'd imagine the reason the additional vehicles can't park in his parking space is because his car is there and/or it's just easier to unload directly outside his front door.

jaybeetoo

What a world we live in. !!!!!! lets have a bit of give and take. I live at the end of a shared drive. It works because we’re all reasonable. People sometimes park in the shared bit but always leave a gap. If there is a problem then we talk nicely to each other. It’s never been an issue even when work vans are parked in the shared bit because we talk.

That could all change if one of my neighbours sold their house to some of the people on this thread.

hazyjo

I would NEVER EVER buy a property with a shared drive for reasons like this. I too would be incredibly wound up if you parked on the shared bit for 30 mins. Even 10 mins would annoy me if it happened often. Even if I didn't need it or didn't have a car - there's always one who thinks they can adapt the rules to suit themselves. Not really on.


I get wound up when people decide it's okay to park on my dropped kerb for X number of minutes when I paid more for a house with 2 parking spaces. Some of the attitudes of those people doing it has been astounding! (Including my next door neighbour's dad who thought it would be fine to keep parking there, plus the other side who sent their visitor to park there and stick a note on their car saying if we needed it moved, we should knock!)