Parking vans at home

Debt_Free_Chick

Do we know that the OP's neighbour is "running a business"?

Could it be that there are four working people, each with a company vehicle?

emo2506

My Husband has been round this evening to give them a letter which had been mistakenly posted through our letter box by mistake, He had a chat with his wife and she has told him that the unit they usually work from was damaged by fire and smoke after next unit had a fire. and it will be next year before it has been fully repaired, he told her that we were not happy with the arrangement over the parking, with a face like thunder she ask for my husband to leave and mind his own business and that they do not interfere with any neighbours lives or parking. she then shouted at him to stop parking our car in front of the window as this was making access hard to their drive and that if it continues she will wait until we have gone to work and then have a skip with road permit placed opposite our house so that i can not park. or have the Highways inspector look into having yellow lines up to the junction. I will not repeat all the sewer words but my husband was very shocked. hopefully this may get the parking sorted with out involving the council and all blow over after Christmas.

vansboy

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

Do we know that the OP's neighbour is "running a business"?

Could it be that there are four working people, each with a company vehicle?

There asre plenty of BIG companies, that have sold of their depots & given their engineers/surveyors/fitters the firms van, to take home.

If this was the same as OP problem, then the company MIGHT like to know, the distress they are allowing to take place.

VB

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that the unit they usually work from was damaged by fire and smoke after next unit had a fire.

So........they usually park their vans IN the unit ? I think not.

It's a shame things couln't have been talked through without a lot of effing and blinding from the lady of the house. Sounds like she was really angry. Which usually happens when people find themselves in the wrong and they also like to get their retaliation in first by issuing threats.

emo2506

I have spoken to my joined neighbor who has confirmed their unit and storage yard was damaged during a fire 4 weeks ago, i must point out that the vans have been only parking here for about 3 weeks, maybe i have jumped in to soon without getting the full facts. This may take some groveling to diffuse any further tensions.

brightlight

Perhaps you should pop over to nfh.org.uk and see what real problems people have with neighbours.
No this isnt a personal attack but perhaps it will put things into perspective. Yours seems to be a temporary problem and after all dosent affect your overall quailty of life. Take a deep breath and dont look out the window .....

Pssst

Oh dear...the thing is,and i can understand the OPs position,when you move onto a new development or indeed to anywhere new,you have certain expectations. Unfortunately in Sardine Britain even detached homes are not all that detached. That is unless you have spent a really big wadge of cash.

So then,you've spent money,moved into your new home and before you know it,your dream has been blighted by the acts of others.

In addition,there may be an element of buy to let blight going on.

It can oversensitise you and people just do not like criticism whether they are right or wrong.

This you have already found out.

Now you feel bad about it but may have sparked the beginnings of a NFH style dispute.

Unfortunately in Sardine Britain,most of us commoners have to put up with our neighbours and their activities. In time we only hope that bad things stop happening or that our neighbour dies.

I pray every day that my neighbour dies and someone nice moves in. It hasnt happened yet so i have to live with it.

Maybe you need to consider a goodwill/rescue plan?

bordercars

i run a taxi business from home, we have planning permission. we live in a cul de sac and our neighbours park blocking my drive with 2 vehicles, a chelsea tractor and a transit. the van starts up at 05.30 every morning and is left running unattended for a minimum of 20 mins to allow it to defrost and warm up for the poor little darling, wonder if his boss knows it's idling this amount of time. now im not embaressed about coming forward and with this in mind i challenge anyone i see in our dead end street anytime day or night, i consider that i act as a late night security for the eldery residents. when i turn up our street i go onto sidelights , close my door quietly./ but is it good enough for my van driving friend. NO. ive asked but he will do nothing, just because his is a daytime job and mine nights i see no difference, other than i consider myself too think of my neighbours. complain about him NO never, but offer him help when he needs it. i'll let you answer that. common courtesy and common sense. thats what's lacking, so before you go spouting off about anything have a look at your own actions, give a take a little and we will all be less stresssed.

brownbake

As I read through the OPs post I begin to think more and more that it is a wind up. It has been going on for 3 weeks!! Jeez - I really think you need to get out more and stop looking at the vans. How wide is the road?

Our problems are a lot worse but have never felt the need to cry about it on here but here goes and get some perspective.

We don't have a parking space but on road parking which is always tight. Last year an old Corsa was parked right outside our house in "our" space. It didn't move for at least a month which was very annoying. We looked at the car and noticed that the tax disc was 3 YEARS out of date 2005!! So we assumed it had been stolen and dumped. We phoned up the council to report the car. A couple of weeks later after noticing the car was still there a council notice had been placed on the windscreen.
When we looked the next day the car was still there and the owner had left a note in the windscreen saying - please phone me on this number!! Unbelievable as the council should have taken away the car as it was ILLEGALLY parked.

Eventually the car moved some weeks later only for it to reappear on the other side of the road still Untaxed!!

Added to that 2 doors down we have a Removal man and van who parks a large removal van outside. No problem in that - and that is ugly. However he has put in a driveway - probably illegally and parks his car on that. There is space for 2 cars but he only has a dropkerb for one. My partner parked outside his drive but not in front of the dropkerb once and the next morning had a very rude note saying not to park in front of their drive - which he hadn't - still acces to the drive via the dropped kerb.

My neighbours solution to anyone parking outside his "drive" again was to buy a clapped out Cavalier and park it on the part of the drive so no one parks there. Again not taxed and he ain't doing it up!! My partner keeps telling me to park in front of it lol.

You have had to look at people parking their vans on their drive for all of 3 weeks!! Seriously - get out more, get some venetion blinds, get a life!! :rotfl:

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matbe wrote: »

You silly t!t

In future myob

Your comment is crude, rude and against the forum rules. Care to delete it before you're reported to abuse ?