I am fed up. We have two cars and a work van, one car goes on the drive and the other two we park on the side of the road as we have no choice. For the past couple of months one of the neighbours has been leaving petty little notes when friends or family visit on there cars. This i have ignored as she knows where i live. Then she has taken to harrassing them and us in the street telling my sister if she leaves her there it will probably get bumped! The other week she stopped my other half and said she wanted the cars moving, he told her at the moment the garage is full so we have nowhere to move them to, she then accused us of making the street look like a council estate,i was fuming one for the pure snobbery factor and two because we work hard for the things we have. The last straw is today we find a ticket on the car window. Other half contacted the police and they said it wasn't from them it must be from the community wardens. I am at the end of my tether all we want to do is live a quiet life now i am considering moving but don't want this woman to win. Don't want to offend any oldies on here but why is when people get older some of them end up bitter and twisted and take it out on the young.

On what basis was the ticket issued, is it free parking or not?

Are the 2 vehicles which you park on the road outside your neighbour's house ? Do they prevent your neighbour from parking her car(s) ?

Maybe try to talk to her in person and see how to resolve the issue between the both of you.  Of course if you were taking up other people's parking places or blocking people in that would be unfair.  If you are parking sensibly and using either your own drive or communal space, then the woman needs to accept you have more vehicles than average.

hi ive had problems with my neighbours too,every time i park in there so called place i find a new scratch on my new car,its always scratched on the same back pannel with a key and right down to the bare metal now the scratches are being made in to pretty shapes not just straight lines,itsthe only part of the car to key where they can be hidden out of view next to the wall,bought a new galaxy last friday husband washed it on saturday guess what a brand new scratch same place as where they started on my car and he only parked it there for 3 hours,so i went and checked there cars not a scratch on them,so if its not them doing it to my cars why have they no scratches on theres,i can understand if it people walking past doing in on accident,but there cars are parked there 95 percent of the time,and theres are perfect,also she knocks on the door telling me to move my car but its not her space its next to my garage another neighbour told me not to park on the other side of the road,i think id better buy a plane and park it on my roof,os  but a tin of paint stripped would sort it our only if i could be so mean,i realy feel for you but a warden has no rights to put a ticket on especialy if there are no yellow line you have tax and not obstructing a right of way,or parking on a foot path,or no white lines in the road

If you go to your local car center they have sensors that connect to the alarm my friend had this fitted as she had the same problem as you it beeps when someone is next to it and if they dont move away within 30 sec the alarm goes off.
Good luck
Mary

I haven't read ticket, other half has it he is waiting till office opens at 5 to ring. We rang police first and they said there officers wouldn't have put a ticket so it must be these do gooder wardens. I have a feeling she has told them it's abandoned or someting as we only use that car when we go out with dog and she moans that it never moves. No it doesn't block her drive as it's on the other side of the road and we park half on the pavement, yes i know your not supposed to but if we parked it on the side of the road there would be hell on. It is perfectly ok when her friend park there though!!! We live on the biggest housing estate in Europe and because of this they build houses so quickly and cheaply and as an effect you loose out on gardens and parking space. Everyone who lives here is well aware of the parking problems and we all try to tollerate it as best we can.

She has two spaces on her drive, i think she just gets annoyed because when she has vistors sometimes there is no where to park but it's the same for everyone. This is really beginning to stress me out now, i don't go out to cause anyone any trouble, we are a quiet couple who keep our selves to ourselves. What has upset me is the fact that we have parked on the pavement so it would not get in anyones way i know you are not supposed to and so does she as she said this to us, our reply was well we could park it completely on the roadside where it should be, then she said but i wouldn't be able to get my car off the drive. We can't win. I wish she had come round and talked to us in the first place but after the way she has done things i don't want to speak to her.

We have spoken to ticket office the ticket is for obstructing the pavement which is what i thought, they also said living in cul de sac someone must have rang them. So now we will have to park the car on the roadside so lady has shot herself in the foot. We also mentioned that ours was not the only car parked like that but as they came during the day they did not see the other cars. I don't want to get everyone else into trouble but why should we be the only ones to get a ticket. She uses the space to park when her family come and so do a lot of the other neighbours. I am so angry i feel like going round and giving her a piece of my mind but what would that solve.

If you were parked on the pavement I think it is a fair cop :) you will be making life difficult for pushchair and wheelchair uses and anyone with sight impairment that uses a stick rather than a dog.  If there is free parking on the road you are entitled to use it even if it is outside a neighbours house as long as you are not blocking their access and they are going to just have to live with that.

ooh do u live near braintree?

No katyb i don't live near braintree just out of interest where abouts is that?

I was just going to say do you live in Essex? Braintree is in Essex

sorry i just thought i knew the biggest housing developement in europe but i must be wrong

Canford Heath?, does the correct guesser get a prize? :)

Correct guesser gets a big smiley face! No really we live in Ingleby Barwick as far as i knew we were the biggest private estate in Europe, maybe somewhere else has overtaken, i don't know.

Where is Ingleby Barwick, please?

Hi,

So long as there are no parking restrictions in your area,and your cars are taxed and insured
and do not block any vechicular access you can park your cars where you like including outside ANY of the neighbours houses - its a public highway and nobody has any claim to such spaces outside their house.
If your finding scratches on your car always report to the police and log and keep incidence numbers.
It is an offence to block a driveway preventing vechicar  access and anyone caught doing this can have on the spot fine from the police if they were called out,although the police would probably warn the offending person first.
If your back home first and there is a space you park in it even if outside the neighbours house, and if they get back first they park nearest convinient place (give and take) but obviously there are some neighbours who believe outside their house on a public highway is theirs and no one else should park there im afraid they just have to be given a few facts.

Briony :-)

ha ha, welcome to ingleby barwick snobbery - bet your neighbour is one of those people who tells all of her friends she lives in yarm (while putting on the poshest accent she possibly can...

I thought the biggest housing estate in Europe was London??????!!!!!!

ha ha ha dont think thats quite the same.....

Andy s80, i take it you live in the teesside area then? It is driving me bananas here, the police have been quite suportive and have said they will come round and advice us on parking, but this lady is unbelievable we have had another do gooder warden come round today. There is nothing worse than interfering snobs, the funny thing is she lives in a 2 bed terraced house and thinks she is mrs bucket, i could understand if we lived at wynyard but this is ridiculous. At least you will know where i am coming from i hope.

Yeah, im over in acklam.

It sounds like a case of one of those people who have nothing better to do with there time. Just unfortunate they live next door to you..

Ansy

I used to work in Acklam small world hey, i wish every night she didn't live in my street, thing that annoyed me was she threatened me sister when she came to stay at christmas that if she left her car there it would get bumped, and she only did this as she knew it was a brand new car as ours are older she must have guessed we wouldn't be bothered. We just want a quiet life. Not all people from ingleby barwick are snobs and some people give us a bad name.

Nice to speak to a local.

Louise

We have parked on pavement as not to get in anyones way but this has not been good enough and lady in question has wanted to get rid of vehicles completely but unfortunatley thats not possible as we need them for work etc and we know by fluke that she was one complaining she could not walk round pavement, when prior to this she was saying it was making street look like council estate. So today as yet another warden was putting a ticket on my partners work vehicle he asked where we are supposed to park. I know it is not legal to park on the curb but we did so for easy axcess of cars as we live in a cul de sac noone walks round in circles apart from lady in question apparentley. He did let us off and we said if we are getting tickets then so should everyone else that parks there when they come to visit. I feel it is unfair on the rest of the street but why should we be the only ones penalised. We will now have to park on the roadside and no doubt she will complain but it is totally legal and this was her first complaint that it made it difficult for her to get out but we are all in the same boat. Sorry to rant on but i am so annoyed i am so undertanding with my neighbours as i understand the parking issues in this area. This post is mainly to andy as he knows what i am talking about.