Neighbours parking dispute

Hasbeen

OALM said:

Our property is marked in blue, as is our garage and parking space. Rest is shared driveway with properties marked B and C. 

I would assume then that it is C that is complaining about you parking at the side of their house. 
But if they wanted to park there they would be stopping you from entering / leaving your space. So that space is not usable by them?

But you said attached neighbours, do you mean the other B house? If so what is it to do with them as they can park at the side of their house on the "shared drive" or use their own parking space?

Perhaps posting in colour what belongs to who might help? Because I thought that the 2 spaces bottom right belonged to the C houses?

comeandgo

Would your car parked there be blocking the view from their windows?  The area is not for parking on and while a nicer neighbour might let it go obviously this one will not.

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Yea it’s house B. Houses C both have parking spaces in bottom right. We’re not blocking the view and as far as we can tell it’s more of a ‘must abide by the rules’ type job. The shared area isn’t for parking on, but we’re not blocking any one else in. It could make their manoeuvre a little more tricky, but that’s not what they’ve stated. 

Scrapit

What is their complaint? Or is it just "you cant park there"?

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Scrapit said:

What is their complaint? Or is it just "you cant park there"?

Scrapit said:

What is their complaint? Or is it just "you cant park there"?

Pretty much and that it’s written on the deeds that we must. They’ve said it’s not fair on everyone else and that we’re blocking people, but we’ve been very mindful of that and no one else has approached us.  

nosferatu1001

Land disputes can get very, very expensive very, very quickly.
Are you in breach of covenants regarding the shared driveway? Get the title docs out and check. 

Coupon-mad

Keep your head down and ignore idiot neighbour then if they can't discuss normal things in a friendly way.  You are not obstructing anyone by stopping short of your space briefly.

warby68

If its actually shared access which isn't for parking on, I think its a tricky one to argue at all as its a rule.
The fact that you are doing no harm probably makes most of the neighbours shrug it off but not this one unfortunately.
I did wonder whether they realise its your own space that you are blocking ( if I'm reading the plans right )and think you are blocking someone elses space and garage.
If you only have a few weeks to go, is there anyone with more space that you are friendly with and would trade with you just for a few weeks.
Although if you can't get yourself out of the car now I'm not sure how you will manage with car seat and baby. Perhaps your neighbours have seen the longer term possibility. 

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warby68 said:

If its actually shared access which isn't for parking on, I think its a tricky one to argue at all as its a rule.
The fact that you are doing no harm probably makes most of the neighbours shrug it off but not this one unfortunately.
I did wonder whether they realise its your own space that you are blocking ( if I'm reading the plans right )and think you are blocking someone elses space and garage.
If you only have a few weeks to go, is there anyone with more space that you are friendly with and would trade with you just for a few weeks.
Although if you can't get yourself out of the car now I'm not sure how you will manage with car seat and baby. Perhaps your neighbours have seen the longer term possibility. 

We were. Bit naive about the shared rule in the first instance, but when they asked us to move it we did. We just asked for a compromise that we could leave it there occasionally so that I can get out, also thinking longer term that we’ll need space to get the baby in and out. 

We have another car that we’ve kept in the garage to keep out of peoples way, as otherwise that would have to be parked on the main estate road, which is where everyone else who lives by us also has to park, so we didn’t think it was an unfair compromise, but it turned ugly today. 

nosferatu1001

Main thing is get out your actual paperwork, and see what it says. 
Theyre claiming a rule, its obvious to check what the rule actually says.