‘My snobby neighbours hate looking at my ‘ugly’ car – but I refuse to move it’

A furious driver has taken to Reddit to rant about their ‘snobby neighbours’ who have threatened to take action if they continue parking their ‘unsightly’ car outside their house

Neighbours are known to clash sometimes and parking on the road is one very common dispute that causes a lot of arguments. A furious driver is ranting about their ‘snobby neighbours’ who have decided that they no longer want to see ‘unsightly’ cars parked outside their house after 15 years.

Taking to Reddit, the motorist asked strangers for legal advice on the parking row, which has now been declared a neighbourhood “war”. It comes after the woman next-door woke them up in the middle of the night by screaming that they should park their car next to their own “s**thole” house.

The driver’s post read: “My snobby neighbours are trying to stop me and my other neighbour from parking in council owned parking spaces.

“My neighbours of around 15 years have inconvenienced me for the last two years with their constant renovation work.

“They have made it very difficult for me to get my car past all their constant builder vehicles, I’ve had flat tires due to screws, I’ve had to ask their workers to move and I’ve even had to move their tools myself.

“Now though they have finally had their work done which includes building a 6ft fence in between our shared front lawn and they now want to banish me from the parking spaces in front of their house so they can put some f***ing rhododendrons there.

“I’ve been parking my car there, they’ve been parking their cars there and all their frickin visitors park their cars there for years but now they suddenly have decided mine and my other neighbours’ cars are unsightly and they’re threatening us with the law to stop parking there.

“The parking spaces are council owned and our house is a council house. A member of the council has told us we can park there but they have a different story apparently.

“I hate this, I am not sacrificing one of my freedoms and making my life harder just because they’ve suddenly decided after years they don’t want to look at my car.

“They’re basically posh snobs who’ve done up their house and have suddenly decided they want to pretend they don’t live next to council house lower class.”

The driver later added: “Wow just wow, I was woken up last night by the mother screaming at our house gone midnight ‘don’t park your car next to OUR house, park it next to your sh**hole.'”

Redditors gave their advice in the comments section and the majority supported the motorist’s parking.

“If it is council-owned and registered land (you can check with the land registry) there is nothing they can do and you must continue to use the space without interference,” one user said.

“If it’s a public road you can park where you like as long as the vehicle is taxed and insured and you park your vehicle within the Highway Code rules,” a second agreed.

While a third put: “Just stick to your guns. I’ve had a similar issue with a shared drive over the years. Just don’t let them grind you down.”

Others were confused about the neighbour’s plans to plant rhododendrons in the space.

“Sorry.. they want to plant bushes in the public road? Am I reading that right?” someone said.

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