Inconsiderate neighbours…

Can anyone else feel my pain?

We’ve recently moved into our first home in February, lovely area. Plenty of space for me, my partner, our two cats and a little one once we’re finally blessed with our rainbow baby. Straight away we had issues with our neighbours.

One of the things that made the house appealing to us is that you’re not allowed to park outside the front of the houses/on the road unless you have a visitor or resident permit that is like £60 a year. There’s no pathways so I think that’s why this permit has been put in place so if anyone parks out the front of your house they literally can park right up against your window/front door. We currently only have one car so we don’t need to get a permit just yet as we have plenty of room on our drive for guests. I’ve always lived in areas where parking is awful, with people parking everywhere so was happy thinking it would happen less around here.

Well the day we moved in one of the neighbours was parked on our drive so I have to knock around on doors to ask who’s it was. It was one of our neighbours that isn’t connected to us (we’re an end terraced house). No apology but she moved it. Didn’t think much about it. I mean the house was empty for 4 months as we had issues with land registry so took ages to complete. Then the guy from the same house popped over while we were moving boxes indoors to say they he had been using our bin while no one was here. He’d been putting recycling in our garden waste bin🤦🏼‍♀️ we were busy obviously as we were trying to move our stuff in. I asked how full it was and he said it wasn’t too bad so first off I was like ‘ah don’t worry but if it’s full could you empty it’. As I say we were busy so I wasn’t really listening too much as to what he was saying as needed to empty the van as soon as possible. He left it, communication must’ve just got lost between us. My partner looked at it and it was full to the brim so I said just knock the next day as we were busy and ask if he doesn’t mind emptying it. They didn’t answer their door to us for days and when they finally did he gave my partner attitude and said he did say it was full. He did eventually empty it and I took it as we were probably both abit in the wrong, me for not listening properly and him for using it. Fast forward to now and they’re having work done to their garden. They’ve used their drive to put all their dirt, bricks etc on and are parking their cars out the front of their house. All perfectly fine! They’re entitled to do what they want. However the builders they’re using keep blocking mine and our neighbour that’s attached to us driveways, more so our neighbours as they have the middle driveway out of the 3 of our driveways that are there. So basically my driveway is the one that’s next to our house, the middle is the neighbour that’s attached to us, the other one if the neighbour who’s having work done that isn’t attached to us. Luckily I’ve been working at home a few days so haven’t needed to move my vehicle too much but it’s still annoying. I dropped my partner off at work the other morning and came back to the van driver blocking our drive, he was driving infront of me (good timing) so he eventually noticed I was waiting to get on my drive and reversed back abit so that he was only blocking the neighbour that’s attached to us. They had a delivery of bricks the other morning at 7:30 and the truck blocked all of our drives to the point our attached neighbour was late to work and they wouldn’t move until they were done. If that was me I would’ve given my neighbours the heads up so that if they needed to move their cars before hand they could. Space isn’t great around here! Especially for massive trucks. The builders have been driving their JCB’s and putting all their crap on our drives while we aren’t here so now all of our drives are covered in dirt and crap. Okay maybe not a massive deal, the rain will eventually wash it away but still annoying. I like my house and everything to be kept clean.

That’s not the end of this massive rant😂 our neighbours that are connected to us are even more inconsiderate. They party every weekend. Have their mates park out the front of our house blocking our drive, parking on our little garden bit out the front and walking all over it. As I said if they have a permit we can’t really moan too much about it but I doubt all of them do. And also isn’t it just considerate to not block someone’s front door and park on their garden? As it happens every weekend last night my partner had enough. 5 cars kept trying to park infront of our house all related to next door so he told each and everyone of them to politely not park there. None of them apologised, all of them where very rude towards him. In total they had 6 cars full of people turn up at theirs for a party. I don’t know where they expected all of these cars to park. Well they continued to party until 2am so I’ve had hardly any sleep🙃 their friends started turning up around 6pm so we had to listen to hours of loud music and drunk people screaming and shouting. My partner sleeps through everything so he was okay but he has work which due to him not driving I have to also get up early to drop him off. I am grumpy today as you can imagine. I had a friend round who I haven’t seen for a while to have a takeaway in the garden and we just couldn’t even hear each other. It made the time rubbish tbh. Yes they’re entitled to have friends round and enjoy themselves in their own home but there’s still Covid rules in the uk and they shouldn’t of had the amount of people that they had over in their house/garden. They’re just such inconsiderate people and it makes living here hell sometimes which we didn’t want especially as this is our first home. They used to be friendly with the previous owners of our house which is why I think they think they can do whatever they like and we won’t moan but we’re not them. We’re also not the partying type either as we are trying to settle down and have our own little family. I’ve even come out one morning to the guy who lives in the attached house parking his car on our drive over night so we had to ask him to move it so that I could leave for work. His excuse ‘it’s a pain having to move our cars around in the morning when one person leaves before the other’. Isn’t our problem that they’re not organised. I now park

My car right at the end of my drive so that no one can get on behind me. They have one of their mums come round every other day and she cleans up for them. She’s even moaned to me before about how untidy they’re and how they’re not house proud at all. I’ve seen her put bags of rubbish into her car before when she’s come round to ‘clean up’.

Now after that very long story/rant. How do you deal with inconsiderate neighbours?🤣 We have said we will probably have a chat with them about partying until 2am and not turning the music down. Feel sorry for the neighbours that have kids!