Neighbours!! What would you do?

where is the photo Germanshepherdsmum?

If the pots are on their land i gone think much can be done about that but I can't see the photo. All well and good but I d just jeep things to a cheery hello then walk on by in future . No more favours . You can't be a mug in this life .

Set up a few posts with a fence parallel to their fence to support your lights. For thecrest, without seeing the photo, the idea of laying gravel or slabs so that you can get out of the car, is good. I definitely would not be available to help the neighbours with anything in the future. Sore back, no time, not now, maybe next week/month/ year.

Some people just take ‘an Englishman’s house is his castle’ to ridiculous lengths. ‘Give and take’ has no meaning for them.

I can understand people being protective of their property but this does sound a little more than being protective...I really can't see that an open car door for someone entering / exiting a vehicle is a massive issue...unless of course that's interspersed by an interpretive dance on their drive!

As someone else has suggested, perhaps being busy or unavailable should they need anything in the future? Although I normally dislike tit for tat behaviour. Sometimes it's the only response.

Yes - and has a short memory. I wonder if the lights issue triggered this - I wouldn’t be surprised.

The neighbour seems very petty.

I disagree Baggs. The OP isn’t legally entitled to move the pots. Neither party has a right to open a car door over the property of the other unless it can be proved that it has been done without permission or objection for the last 20 years. And nobody is going to go to court to try to prove that such a right exists. The OP can park further down her driveway, as the neighbour does. Make a dispute out of it and that will have to be disclosed when the property is sold. By all means ask politely if the pots might be moved a little but if the answer is no, just stop helping them out with things and accept that you need to park further down the drive than you would like and that visitors will have to park on the road.

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

Yes, you can be too obliging.

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.

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.

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 😜

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

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.

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.

Good to see HQ are on the ball.

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 😜

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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