Suggestions Needed Please (Legal Ones Only!)

[mrs_overall]

We live next door to a bunch of chavs who are unreasonable and we don't speak. One of them runs a business from home and there are cars pulling up at all hours of day and night. We live at the head of a small cul de sac which is circular at the top and street parking is limited. They have two cars and a Lambretta but have only room for one car on their drive so they hog all the street parking. We have a wide drive with more than enough room for our cars and visitors cars so we don't need to park on the street.
Whenever we go out the chavs and their visitors park on our drive (other neighbours have told me this) and even when we are home their visitors think nothing of blocking our drive.
Installing gates is not an option. We have in the past dragged all our wheelie bins out to block the drive but they have even had the cheek to move them.
Any suggestions welcome.

[tonyav]

I'm afraid mine are all illegal mrs o, but I'll come and nick the Lambretta if you like.

[mrs_overall]

Erm....isn't nicking the Lambretta a tad on the illegal side? lol
I wish someone would as he spends hours tinkering with it and it sounds like a farting wasp

[sandyRoe]

That must be a curious business that has cars pulling up day and night. Assuming it's not a chip shop they're running from the kitchen would the business be of interest to the local drug squad?
Wouldn't solve the parking problem but might give you some satisfaction reporting them.

[ummmm]

Is it illegal to block someones drive?

Buy a clamp.

[ummmm]

Sandy, that's jumping to conclusions.

[mrs_overall]

sandy, it is nothing as interesting as drug dealing I am afraid. I know what the business is and it is completely legal

[tonyav]

mrs_overall
Question Author
Erm....isn't nicking the Lambretta a tad on the illegal side? lol


Only if you get caught mrs o.

[naomi24]

Something like this?

http://www.marshalls.co.uk/transform/products/Driveway/driveways/range/driveway-security-post/

[tonyav]

Yep, good idea naomi.

[mrs_overall]

Hmmm, those posts are ugly and expensive but I might consider them.

Buying a clamp is not an option as it became illegal to clamp on private land when the law change last October

[naomi24]

You could always pretty them up by painting pictures on them - maybe smiley faces to greet your neighbours. ;o)

[mrs_overall]

:-)

[Eve]

I was going to suggest similar to Naomi. We had underground parking in a flat I lived in some years back in the city centre. It even had secure entry by a fob but people who used to live there (we assumed) or knew how to get in the apartments and down to the basement to open the car park doors used to come in and park there to avoid town parking charges, especially round Christmas etc...

Some people got these posts and they seemed to work really well.

[SlackAlice]

Are the premises registered with the council for business use?
It's an offence to block you in on your drive, I always find a reason to leave the drive if someones trying to park across it. I moved my car out once and then parked it across my drive so they couldn't move their car back.
Leave one car in your drive and use any others to park in the road outside theirs.
Lockable gate posts for your drive.

[mrs_overall]

We tried leaving one car on the drive and one car on the road (blocking our own drive). The car on the road mysteriously had both wing mirrors ripped off overnight.

[ummmm]

Security camera?

[mrs_overall]

Thanks for your suggestions. I am going to look into the parking post/bollard thingy

[SlackAlice]

In that case, I can offer no further legal assistance.
I do have some friends, big ugly ****ers expletive deleted who would help you solve the problem once and for all.

[yogasun]

That would make OH (ex police) very stressed if we were in this position.
How inconsiderate (and illegal when parking across your drive).
Naomi's suggestion excellent for driveway but the idiots will still continue to park across your drive.
So lucky we have never had neighbours like that
Hope you solve it x

[mrs_overall]

lol Alice

I have some friends in very low places who have offered to "sort out" the neighbours for the bargain price of £50. I think kneecaps were mentioned in the offer....