It's been my daughter's 21st birthday and as such she has had a lot of friends round here helping prepare for a party etc. During this week, two of my neighbours have complained about their cars being parked outside their houses, one opposite and one a few doors along.

Now all the houses in our road have driveways that accommodate between two and four cars per house and there's plenty of parking on the road (it's a cul de sac). Two neighbours this week have said they don't want cars parked outside of their houses, even though they don't park there themselves, they have their own driveways.

One of the complainers doesn't even own a car he just doesn't want anyone outside his house and yesterday my daughter's friend parked there and got a note saying "I do not want this car there and I do not provide overflow parking for neighbours' visitors".

Our visitors always park near our house and would park outside or on our driveway if the spaces weren't being used by ourselves, which they usually are.

The problem is, both the neighbours I have a good rapport with so don't want to start up a war, but I am pretty miffed (putting it mildly) that they seem to think they own a space they don't even use. They told the visitors to park elsewhere but wherever they park in the street they are outside someone's house.

(One of them threatened the police but I ignored that because they have no grounds)

Sorry, rant over, but just don't know how to say anything without it possibly meaning falling out.