Just moved into this converted big Victorian house, garden flat, so just another flat above. Downsized to get rid of my mortgage from a 4 bed with big driveway, lovely considerate neighbours & area.
I viewed twice, each time plenty of parking spaces and a bay across the front of my property, space for 3 cars, so thought it wasn't a big problem to not have a driveway, how wrong was I!!
My 2 neighbours either side have their cars permanently parked outside my house, they move them once per week for a shopping trip, but immediately swap with their other car, so no chance of my moving in to park. On the left they don't have a driveway or bay, on the right he has a big caravan on his driveway & parks his big works van over the front of this.
Over the road, where there is enough parking for another car, he parks in such a way I can't quite get in and without doubt does this on purpose! He has a driveway but never parks on it but along side it, half over and half over where I could park. On the occasions I have parked there, as he is at work, when he gets back he parks right onto my bumper so I can't even open my boot to put my work bag in. But on my return he has moved his car a few feet preventing me from parking there again! The next parking spot is about 1/2 mile away, or the last 2 times I've had to go right round the block again [one way st.] to park in the street way before my house. I have to drive down to my house to check if there is a space to park and when there isn't have to then drive round the block again.
My daughter has the same problem when she visits with her little ones, when I assured her, when I moved, she'd be ok with parking. My son and I meet her on arrival, to help get the little ones in safely, same on her departure when my son carries one to the car and comes back for the other as it's a busy rd.
After 2 months of this it's really doing my head in! I am going to ask the elderly guy upstairs if I can knock the wall down in the front garden to create a driveway for me, he doesn't have a car, but as he owns the front garden I feel he will say no.
