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Neighbours!! What would you do?

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Cossy Mon 08-Apr-24 14:19:08

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

Beechnut Mon 08-Apr-24 14:09:13

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

Pantglas2 Mon 08-Apr-24 14:03:38

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!

Baggs Mon 08-Apr-24 13:59:10

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 😂

Pantglas2 Mon 08-Apr-24 13:58:23

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?

Baggs Mon 08-Apr-24 13:56:30

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!

Germanshepherdsmum Mon 08-Apr-24 13:41:18

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.

jackypat Mon 08-Apr-24 13:26:36

Our neighbours have never been the friendliest, we have always been there for them. Husband helped when their tree blew down, chopped it up with our chain saw, helped stack logs etc, been there when they had electrical problems. I was there for her when she had nervous breakdown due to teaching stress. But they are fiercely protective of what’s theirs. He objected when I put lights on ‘his’ fence, the type that hook over the top and shine downwards. Now they are deliberately making life difficult for us on the drive. They hate it if anyone goes on their drive. Even workman working on their house have been told to park on the road etc. now they have put heavy flower tubs right on the boundary between us and them, he was heard telling his wife to leave them there “so they can’t open their car door”. But they park at the end of their drive so we can’t park that end. So I as a passenger have to get out on the road before my husband parks on our drive.