Entitled neighbor demands to put scaffolding on resident's driveway as they make house repairs for two weeks, resident refuses to cooperate: ‘You can't use my property'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
May 2, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Everyone knows that when a new resident moves into the neighborhood, you should expect a few weeks of noise and a lot of disturbance. Not because those new neighbors are necessarily noisy people, but because new neighbors love to make repairs on their new house. 

They want to repaint the roof, break down some doors, rebuild the back yard, and perform a variety of other construction jobs that usually bring noise along with them. And as you watch them to move in and bring all their belonging with them, while construction workers get settled in their new site for the next few weeks, you start to consider booking a hotel room until they are done.

If you think this is starting off on a bad note, if those neighbors are already acting entitled and are being mean to you, the situation can only get worse from there. They can get much more annoying if they wish to, so you should be careful with how you interact with them, or you might seriously regret it.

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  • The neighborly feud that happens in the story below revolved around a driveway, and of course, house repairs done by the new couple in the neighborhood. The entitled couple has already gotten off on the wrong foot with their neighbors, and it seems like the situation is nowhere near resolved.

    Keep scrolling to read the full tale.

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  • "AITA for not letting new neighbours put scaffolding on my drive for 2 weeks"

    Hi, a couple have recently bought the house next door to us and are having improvements done to it. The house had an extension built onto their drive,
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  • meaning they now don't have a drive and have no access to their back garden. However, there is a gate that goes into my drive but I have blocked off as they
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  • assume that they have access and have seen multiple people on my drive without asking me first. Last week, I saw a builder knocking at my door on the
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  • doorbell camera but I was at work. He came round at 7:40 the next morning and said that they'd need to put scaffolding on my drive to have improvements done to
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  • the roof next door. I said no and he asked why. Firstly, it's my drive, secondly, the new neighbours should've come round and asked rather than telling the
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  • builder to do it. He said that the man moving in had been up multiple times and tried knocking. This was a lie as I work from home 90% of time and can see
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  • through the doorbell camera. The couple came round the following evening and asked about it, this was the first interaction I'd had with
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  • them. However, a week prior, my partner's mum had parked outside their house to pick her and our 8 month old daughter up. I found that a note had been
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  • put onto her windscreen saying please don't block my drive. She wasn't blocking the drive, was there about 5 minutes, and was on a raised curb which
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  • is totally legal to park on. He didn't come and say anything whilst I was there, but as soon as I went back in the house, he said something to my partner and her mum.
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  • My main issues are that they've assumed they can use my property, didn't ask themselves and got a builder to do it, lied about coming up and knocking on
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  • the door saying we weren't in, and now wants my drive for 2 weeks when we can't park outside their house for 5 minutes, not blocking driveway which had been extended.
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  • I know that through the ANLA act that for urgent and essential repairs they can use someone's drive. However, does this apply when they've bought a
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  • house that has voluntarily blocked their drive off? Furthermore, the house was up for £270k and they offered £266k. I'm pretty sure that if the roof needed
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  • to be replaced urgently, it would have been a lot cheaper than this. Thanks
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  • outsidelookingin641 NTA - with a smile explain you have a little one and when LO pick up parked on the street some jak put a ride note on mil window. You don't know
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  • who it was. So you don't annoy that person again you need your drive, so sorry can't be of help. All with a smile of course.
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  • fionakitty21 That scaffolding will NOT be there just for 2 weeks ②
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  • Christine 1200 NTA This has the makings of a one sided neighbour relationship. If they are sticking notes on cars that are parked legally, there's no chance they would let you put scaffolding
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  • in their garden. Nope, I wouldn't even entertain them except for laying out the reasoning behind your decision.
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  • Royal-Pineapple4037 I would be concerned about liability issues. What if one of the workers falls off the scaffolding on YOUR property?
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  • Emotional_Fan_7011 NTA. The builder can make the repairs another way. It just costs more money. Ss to be your neighbor, but they aren't being very neighborly.
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  • JustAnotherSlug NTA. They aren't being good neighbours either. Also, what are they offering for the use of your driveway? Sounds like they don't understand how to build goodwill....
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  • Barrel-Of-Tigers ΝΤΑ Odd play from people who seem to really need a favour, but not asking permission to take over your driveway for an afternoon let alone a fortnight is wildly r de.
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