Car parking upsetting neighbour

waggys

Presumably your car is recognised as a 'familiar' car in the road and not an unrecognisable one! If it is taxed and parked legally, I can't see what the issue is after 2 weeks.

Why people think they have a god given right to park outside their own house and that no one else does, I don't know. I would be tempted to draw their attention to the small, circular disk in your windscreen which gives you the right to park on a 'PUBLIC' highway.

Would you get a note left on your windscreen if you had parked your car up and gone on holiday for 2 weeks? Probably not...

If you had abandoned your car, you would probably have cashed in the tax disk and parked it well away from where you live!

If someone approached me personally, rather than left a note, I would be far more receptive.

mrcow

Don't send the note.

It will create bad feeling.

Just mentioned next time you see them that you will be getting the car fixed ASAP. You don't need to move it as you have every right to park there, but if it is upsetting them that much that they've resorted to leaving notes on windscreens, maybe it's worth talking to them about it before they get any more upset.

Sometimes it's the little things that can upset people.

Engadine

At the end of the day it is a public road with no parking restrictions so you are fully entitled to park there for as long as you like, nothing the neighbour can do.

Our street is a busy street, we have 2 cars one gets parked in the drive but there is only space for 1 car in the drive so the other gets parked on the road. Our street isn't very wide so all the cars get parked on one side of the street if we can't get our other car parked outside the house it's hardly the end of the world, we just park in the first space available as do all of our neighbours and no one seems to have a problem

gilbert_and_sullivan

Try and think how you would feel if a car arrived outside your house and didn't move again.
You wouldn't have a clue whether it was a deliberate annoyance or a totally innocent breakdown.
Be neighbourly, shift it so its outside your own house.

DebtSniper

Thanks for all the replies. Unfortunately, I cannot move the car nearer my flat at the moment because there are still no free spaces. Maybe there will be later, but I am not going to sit around all day waiting for a space to become available.

I have sent a firm, but polite note to the neighbour and I will follow up with a call later today or tomorrow.

I don't want to inconvenience or annoy anyone, but at the same time this situation is very inconvenient for me also. I have already been let down by two mechanics who did not show up, so it is not always easy to resolve such matters as quickly as everyone would like.

Conor_3

TBH, I'd have done the same. Its not a situation of your own creation and you're not deliberately trying to upset anyone. Sadly too many people seem to think they own the road in front of their houses and having to walk an extra 15ft is like asking them to jump off a cliff.

savvy

Tell your neighbours to come and see what I have to put up with! For the last 17 years I have had 1 of 2 old relics parked right opposite my drive, which cause no end of problems for me to swing out of my drive if someone parks on my side too close to my post, and larger vehicles e.g dustcarts to get by, the parking bay's even had to be painted around it and all the rubbish that's collected underneath it over the years, by the owner who made a right hash of it, and the thing has even attracted drunken locals as it's a great place to sit and have very loud incoherent chats til the early hours of the morning :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Naff all anyone can do about all this (although he CAN fit 2 of these vehicles down the side of his house but prefers to annoy everyone), as the vehicle is over 25 years old, has a parking permit and is completely legal for the road...........................oh and in case you're wondering what the !!!!!!!g vehicle is...................it's an antique fire engine! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Do not worry, you sound the sort to get your vehicle sorted, I'd get on and do it and then that's the end of it, just don't leave it for 17 years to decide what to do with it :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

DebtSniper

savvy wrote: »

Tell your neighbours to come and see what I have to put up with! For the last 17 years I have had 1 of 2 old relics parked right opposite my drive, which cause no end of problems for me to swing out of my drive if someone parks on my side too close to my post, and larger vehicles e.g dustcarts to get by, the parking bay's even had to be painted around it and all the rubbish that's collected underneath it over the years, by the owner who made a right hash of it, and the thing has even attracted drunken locals as it's a great place to sit and have very loud incoherent chats til the early hours of the morning :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Naff all anyone can do about all this (although he CAN fit 2 of these vehicles down the side of his house but prefers to annoy everyone), as the vehicle is over 25 years old, has a parking permit and is completely legal for the road...........................oh and in case you're wondering what the !!!!!!!g vehicle is...................it's an antique fire engine! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Do not worry, you sound the sort to get your vehicle sorted, I'd get on and do it and then that's the end of it, just don't leave it for 17 years to decide what to do with it :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

OMG, 17 years! How can that be legal?

Someone has finally shown up to take a look at my vehicle and it is not worth fixing. :eek: I've spoken to a scrap recycling company who will collect it this week.

I'm sure my neighbour will be delighted to hear that, but I'm not exactly in the mood for doing cartwheels. I now have to start the hunt for a new (well, used actually) vehicle.

Ho hum.

cyclonebri1

nullogik wrote: »

I would just quietly move it, release the handbrake and roll it to a new space - if it can't move under its own power.

You don't want to get on the wrong side of your neighbour (even if its not intentional) otherwise you might wake up to four flat tires, a broken window or brake fluid on your bonnet.

You haven't done anything wrong, but its best just to quietly and diplomatically move it elsewhere. Remember you have to live with these people, so its best not to make life difficult and start some kind of war.

I totally agree with this sentiment. If the car does get damaged and you suspected the letter writer you would never prove it.

Also if the young scallies in the area get wind that a car is fairly "static" they know theyv'e got all the time in the world to plunder it.