Neighbours!! What would you do?

I have read this twice, looked at the photo twice, and don’t understand your complaint. Surely the low wall, not the pots, means you have to leave sufficient room to open the car door, and that looks to be an original feature.

Is the low wall the boundary? And is that where they are putting the pots?

I suppose your car door could knock one off accidentally.

Oops!

If your husband reversed in to just past neighbours car there looks to be enough room for him open the car door with no restriction and I assume you can do the same on passenger side?

The narrowness of the drives is the real problem, I think. We had that in a previous house. Passengers had to get out before we backed into the drive, which we did to stop a neighbour across the road saying we were "sterilising" the whole street if we parked in the road in front of our house 😂

A few slabs on your own edge of garden would solve that problem Baggs so the passenger wouldn’t need to be standing on grass/flowers. Those neighbours wouldn’t get the better of me if that’s the way it’s going!

That is what I would do too Pant or use gravel.

Germanshepherdsmum

I have read this twice, looked at the photo twice, and don’t understand your complaint. Surely the low wall, not the pots, means you have to leave sufficient room to open the car door, and that looks to be an original feature.

I’m also a bit puzzled and have done exactly as GSM

However, it’s not nice to have unfriendly hostile neighbours

I can’t understand it either presumable the pots are on their pathway so no infringement to yours
I don’t understand what harm the pots are doing
Please come back and explain your photo it looks fine to me

I have good neighbours with a lot of give and take but they own the fences and I wouldn't hang things off them and I wouldn't block their drives either. If the drives are narrow then maybe they have experience of workmen and others trashing their grass, hence requiring workment not to park there. Our previous neighbours on one side had several teenage children and I got really fed up of going and asking for cars to be moved so I could get in and out of my house.

oh Ps what would I do? I wouldn't annoy my neighbours!

If that's neighbour's car you might have more problems with them as reg number is clearly visible!

Agreed. I think it’s bad form to show what appears to be personalised number plate on a public forum.

These people may be a bit mean spirited but they have done nothing wrong. It’s up to you to figure out how to get in and out of your vehicle within the bounds of your own property. If you had a driveway running the length of your house leading to a set-back garage, there would be a whole wall in the way.

The neighbour was correct about the lights if he owns the fence. Hooking lights over it was a trespass. They have every right to protect their property.

I think we need another photograph please, one that shows both cars perhaps?

Pantglas2

A few slabs on your own edge of garden would solve that problem Baggs so the passenger wouldn’t need to be standing on grass/flowers. Those neighbours wouldn’t get the better of me if that’s the way it’s going!

Pretty much what we did except they were stepping stones so that the rare wild flowers I was encouraging didn't need to be flattened. The houses were built before many people had cars and when cars were narrower anyway.

Funnily enough, Minibaggs visited her first home a couple of summers ago and the street was completely full of parked cars on one side of the road because most households had two cars or more by then. Its 'sterility' must have been awe-inspiring 😜

Good to see HQ are on the ball.

jackypat, is the issue that your neighbours don't want your car too near their house, do you think? Presumably you could park near the road as they appear to have done and still get in and out okay.

Hope you find a resolution.

Germanshepherdsmum

I have read this twice, looked at the photo twice, and don’t understand your complaint. Surely the low wall, not the pots, means you have to leave sufficient room to open the car door, and that looks to be an original feature.

I've read it twice but can't visualise it.

Do you want to re-post the photo, blurring the number plates and any identification?

We've had a shared drive before now which split partway up but it was all very amicable.

The low wall is 6” high at the highest. Simply because the road slopes down. People have always opened their doors so they overlap the neighbours driveways. Only to get in and out of the car. You can’t do this with the ceramic pts there

jackypat

The low wall is 6” high at the highest. Simply because the road slopes down. People have always opened their doors so they overlap the neighbours driveways. Only to get in and out of the car. You can’t do this with the ceramic pts there

In that case, I think you'd be within your rights to move said pots for getting into your car. The getting out might be trickier 😜

Could you make a parking space in your front garden so that you drive in and turn left or right to park and can open the door easily?

We did that instead of having to lug shopping bags on steps as there's a slope.

Well, without seeing the photo I can't really envisage the logistics of the parking and the drive layouts but I have to say that your neighbour does sound a bit of a pillock.
Perhaps, next time he wants help or a favour you will both be very unavailable.

Perhaps, next time he wants help or a favour you will both be very unavailable.

Yes, you can be too obliging.