Parking in someone elses road.

sickofusernames

DON79 wrote: »

Hi sickofusernames, have had a similar issue lately so know how you feel. We have a neighbour with a driveway who refuses to use it and parks instead outside of our house when she has no need to! It is annoying but there is not a lot you can do really unfortunately. It just makes it really awkward to get two babies from the car to the house when its just me there and the car is parked about six houses away, all because this person won't use their driveway. :mad:

Hey, thanks for your support, I feel like we're in the minority though despite the law.

I haven't got a problem with people parking outside our house (where my girlfriend has to park) but I do have issues when people who have bought a home where parking isn't adequate enough that they have to scan roads to park - NOT MY ISSUE , they should have thought of it when they bought their property. It's reciprocal, they would do EXACTLY the same in my shoes.

hewhoisnotintheknow

sickofusernames wrote: »

Hey, thanks for your support, I feel like we're in the minority though despite the law.

I haven't got a problem with people parking outside our house (where my girlfriend has to park) but I do have issues when people who have bought a home where parking isn't adequate enough that they have to scan roads to park - NOT MY ISSUE , they should have thought of it when they bought their property. It's reciprocal, they would do EXACTLY the same in my shoes.

same can apply to you though, did you not think it could be an issue when you bought your house?

sickofusernames

hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: »

same can apply to you though, did you not think it could be an issue when you bought your house?

What, please explain? I don't park my car outside someone elses house all weekend...

savemoney

A lots of streets dont have adequate parking, imagine living in a street, a warehouse gets demolished for example and they build flats but dont allow enough spaces for parking, well that happened my near my old house fortunately it didn't effect me too much as the street didnt have enough spaces anyhow, and only on side of road allowed parking

Parking is a problem in many streets, its gets worse every year. Some people have more than one car and then even have a works van for example

hewhoisnotintheknow

sickofusernames wrote: »

What, please explain? I don't park my car outside someone elses house all weekend...

i mean if its such an issue for you to be able to park outside your house, you should of moved somewhere less busy

aloiseb

Our neighbours like to park outside their own house as they were the ones who got "resident parking only" sorted in our road, a few years ago. It's probably the best way to go if you can find out how to do it from the council. Ours is only £25 a year (so far) ansd we can buy visitor's permits cheaply.

I haven't got small kids any more but remember how awkward it can be One of my friends had a neighbour opposite who used to complain about her parking outside her own house because "she'd moved there first" and she liked to park out side her own house - even though she didn't have any kids! - and there was only room for one car to do it.
In the end my friend decided had her front garden paved over to park on, :eek:she was so sick of the black looks...

so you see how nutty it can get with really beige people.

looby-loo_2

Where I work the car park needs an extra 30 - 40 spaces to accommodate all the workers. The council refuses to increase the size of the car park which would be easy to do as there is a rarely used field. They say the small car park will encourage the staff to use public transport. Total unrealistic for most. They say we must use the nearby streets.

I would be very unhappy if I lived in one of the nearby properties, although legal, I think it is most unfair policy on the local residents.

JoolzS

Oh, get over yourself. It's a public road. I say the same to my DH when he gets annoyed about someone parking in "our" road when they don't live there. I will admit to being mildly annoyed when someone from another road parks in our road in such a way that they have taken two complete car spaces, but other than that I simply don't care. It's a public road!!

Julie

dacouch

savemoney wrote: »

Not sure of your area but residents parking in my area normally only comes in to areas close to town centre or within 15 minutes walk of town centre, even then you can park your car in several streets as its the residents parking is applicable to zones (several streets)

Even then it was only checked in some streets usually further out of town once a day where its shoudl be twice if its for 3 hours with a disc

I wish they were as lax as that around here its all residents parking as it raises big money for the council, I live in a housing estate and they come around every 15 minutes. They are on bonuses and are very devious. The council kindly make some parts of streets pay and display though

JoolzS

sickofusernames wrote: »

, they should have thought of it when they bought their property. It's reciprocal, they would do EXACTLY the same in my shoes.

They probably did think about it when their bought their property and realised that they could easily park in an adjacent street. You'd do exactly the same in their shoes .

Julie