Problems again, Neighbour sent my contracter away because she wanted to park outside her drive, her actual?

Question

drive has a skip in it, she got her barrel boy contractor to argue the man away. All the contractor wanted to do was to park outside my drive (my car was parked in my drive).

In the past she has had her contractors parked outside my drive without asking (plus they've been rude and try to use aggression, she also slightly blocks me as well, but seems I have to lump it as i'm not middle class.

What should I do? really all this is a drag

Answer 1

tell whoever you hire that you are paying them. that the neighbor is full of hot air and to ignore her. if the person you hire has an issue with her, inform them they should call the police on the neighbor. sounds like she gets to do whatever she wants to.

Answer 2

Take it up with the contractor. What's wrong with him?  If he was legally parked why did he just not ignore her?  Your post suggests that there are other issues and this has some history.  You also contradict yourself - did your contractor want to park outside her house or yours?  If he was parking outside hers then I guess she has more of an argument but surely she does nor own the road.  And why could he just not park somewhere else?  Maybe he has another agenda - maybe he preferred to do something else that day.

Answer 3

It seems this is a fight over personal pride - "not letting the other person win".

You, or she, cannot block drives if they are recognised drives with dropped kerbs

The rest of it just seems personal.

If you have a dropped drive and its blocked, ask them to move, them call the police if they don't.

Just because she has blocked your drive in the past does not mean you can now block hers today.

Answer 4

Have mini cabs turn up at her door at all hours and have Pizza's, Chinese and Currys delivered to her house at all hours. That'll get right up her snooty nose!

Answer 5

I would p*ss through the stupid cow's letter box - but that's just me!

Answer 6

set her car on fire, she wont bother you again.

Answer 7

well if she's gona be anal about something she does herself you should confront her as well....forget class that has nothing to do with it you have your rights....just because you of the same class dosent mean that she gets to do whatever she wants and you have to bite your tongue.

Answer 8

Provided there are no parking restrictions, your contractors vehicle is taxed and your neighbours drive is kept clear.

There is absolutley no legal reason why your contractor cannot park outside your home.

In fact, if you go to the local police, they will tell you the same thing.

Your neighbour has no right at all to move anyone along.

Answer 9

Wow you have to live next to this moron 24/7?

You should park YOUR car in front of her drive and let your contractors park on your drive.

now that WILL p**s her off lol

Answer 10

My ex next door neighbour was a complete pain in the butt.  She would phone me and complain about the kids/tv/radio/talking too loudly.  She once cut my bushes overhanging her fence.  As we went to the local park to play, she had her son ( my ex best mate, godfather to my children) & her daughter. They were tidying up her garden.  Off we went but when we arrived my daughter tripped and hurt herself and was covered in mud, so we drove back.  A total time of 15minutes, we arrived back and on our DOORSTEP were 3 black bags full of my bushes cuttings.  NO problem with that, although they could have put it next too my fence. What the real  problem was there was NO bush left, she had cut it right back to the roots. Which meant she had to have been on my property.  I dumped the cuttings and placed her 3 bags on HER doorstep.  Dirty looks carried on.. Then her sweet boy decided to put ply wood on our back fence. 6ft high, but spaces between the boards about an inch.  This was to prevent the wind pushing the fence over.  SO he put 7x 5ft boards from  floor to top of the fence.  Good I thought, her fence, don't need to see her.  During the heavy storms in January I noticed the fence was moving, this fence has been there for over 25years and here it is moving, after a few days it lay at a 45 degree.  NOW we can see all 3 neighbouring gardens.  She just would not listen that putting heavy ply wood made the fence collapse.

I had had enough of this. She took a holiday for a few days and it was piece full for once  One night, I had friends round and was telling them about the problems, one of them got up and looked at her front garden from my lounge room.  He noticed the hosepipe connected to her fence.  She used this hose with reel to wash her daughters car.  So  Dougie went out to the reel and pulled the hose out.  He then turned it on  to spray and  slipped it into her letterbox.  

Overall it was there for 2 days solid.  My postman who also had a run in with her a few times ( usually about his dog coming on the round, leaving her gate open, moaning about the mail arriving late etc.. I am friendly with had noticed this and he did not deliver her mail for another 3 days, his words being, "don't want the mail to get too wet". The day she came there was uproar, when she noticed the puddle in her hallway, her wallpaper was off the wall, her laminate flooring was ruined, the water had run into her lounge and had travelled a good distance to the kitchen door.  She called on me too see if MY  water tank had burst, Had I had a leak, she called her son in and he had a good look, checked all the radiators.  

She now lives in a nursing home and her daughter ( who isn't too bad) still doesn't know how it happened....

Answer 11

unless you live in a resident only(badged)parking zone,,,there are NO reserved parking spaces even outside your own house,,,if you have a taxed vehicle(me ,your contractor or a dustbin lorry)it can park outside anyones house,it can cause an obstruction offence if you park across her driveway(even this by law is riddled with flaws)check the footpath outside her house if the council have lowered the kerb edge,this is a drive and cannot be obstructed,,,if the kerb edge has not been lowered to the road level then you may park right across her driveway,

tell her to get a life and get out of yours,

Answer 12

This worked for me....

I put my contractor in my driveway... since I am writing him checks, and I desire to have the work done, I do not want to slow him down, at all.

Then I checked the online GIS mapping for the county I live in.  (search your county website, for GIS).  I found the right of way to be 30 feet off the street.  So I jumped the curb, and parked my truck in my neighbor's yard, in the right of way.