Potential Dispute With New Neighbour

tooldle

Put your skip in front of the car, assuming it is still there when the house becomes yours. 
The vendor is responsible for ensuring any arrangements they have with neighbours to park on the drive, are concluded prior to the sale completing.
A similar scenario occurred to a friend. They had scaffolding going up which blocked the interloping car in for a considerable number of weeks. 
The problem with chancers being you give an inch and they take a mile. I'd only allow a neighbour to park on my drive if i was absolutely certain it would be a one off, and no possibility whatsoever of popping home randomly, to find their car on my drive. 

user1977

tooldle said:

The vendor is responsible for ensuring any arrangements they have with neighbours to park on the drive, are concluded prior to the sale completing.

Or more generally, they're obliged to provide vacant possession at completion - so refuse to complete if the car is still there.

Mr.Generous

This is a complete none issue. It isn't your house. They may have permission. If they don't they are doing you and the owner a good deed by making it look occupied. Most drives dont take 2 weeks!! Normal people won't be parking on someones drive once the house is occupied, if it happens after you get the keys you need to have a word. Before that nothing to worry about.

newsgroupmonkey_

tooldle said:

Put your skip in front of the car, assuming it is still there when the house becomes yours. 
The vendor is responsible for ensuring any arrangements they have with neighbours to park on the drive, are concluded prior to the sale completing.
A similar scenario occurred to a friend. They had scaffolding going up which blocked the interloping car in for a considerable number of weeks. 
The problem with chancers being you give an inch and they take a mile. I'd only allow a neighbour to park on my drive if i was absolutely certain it would be a one off, and no possibility whatsoever of popping home randomly, to find their car on my drive. 

This is a troll.

DO NOT DO THIS.

You will have committed a crime (It is strangely not a crime to park on someone's driveway - that's trespass, a civil offence. However, if you block someone in or they block you in, the Police ARE interested in this).

Not to mention that you have now created a proper dispute. Good luck selling your house.

london21

Choose your battles.

When it is legally yours then you can worry about the drive.

Schwarzwald

As others said, complete waste of worries at this stage. 

99% chance that once you move in and ask them to move their car, they will do it.

EAB_

I'd concentrate on actually completing on the purchase first 😊

ka7e

Pop a polite note on the windscreen to say you hope to complete on such-and-such a date and will need the drive clear for removals/skip. If they have permission from the vendor they may not know when vacant possession will be required. If they are just chancing their luck, I'd assume they will realise they need to make other arrangements.

Flugelhorn

have you exchanged? if  not then ask for a pre-exchange viewing via the agent, interesting to see if the car is there then. If it is there - mention it to the estate agent and get them to query it 

powerful_Rogue

ka7e said:

Pop a polite note on the windscreen to say you hope to complete on such-and-such a date and will need the drive clear for removals/skip. If they have permission from the vendor they may not know when vacant possession will be required. If they are just chancing their luck, I'd assume they will realise they need to make other arrangements.

Don't do this either. It's not your property 'yet'.