Parking in someone elses road.

Gordon861

The best solution is to get a dropped kerb installed at your own property so you can park off the road yourself(Your local Council will do it for a fixed fee). The other advantage is it also gives you a visitor spot right outside your house as they can block yor drive without causing you any problems.

I've had a couple of issues with people giving me hassle about parking outside their houses before, one left a note on my bike due to a car similar to mine being outside their house even though I had my own drive. The other one decided to block me in and stop me from leaving for 15mins, until I phoned the cops and they urned up and gave her a right telling off.

everlastingspirit

elisebutt65 wrote: »

Hahahaha - You don't live round the corner from me do you cos my BF can never find a space outside my house. There are just 2 streets round our way that aren't covered by residents permits and mine is one of them and the street round the corner is the other one - so we get a humongous amount of people trying to park for free in these 2 streets - esp first thing in the morning - they park up and then walk into town for work or whatever. So when BF comes round he ususally has to park around the corner - it's a free country mate and if you've got car tax, then you can park on a free road - suck it up and live with it. If you're not happy then call council and petition the road planning deopartment to have residential parking assigned.

If I ended up with rubbish outside my house - I'd phone council and they'd just go through bags to find any proof of address and then give you a huge fine - we can't put bins out round here until the night before or we get fined £50!

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Hi elisebutt65

Dont suppose you live in Rugby do you. Sound like same trouble my partner has.

Anyway i have problem with one of our neighbours. We live in a cul de sac which has limited parking. Technically we below to the road behind but our front door faces the cul de sac. Unforutnately our garage is like 30 metres away on the road behind so we never use it as a car has had its window smashed there before (shame as its actually a nice area) so we park in the cul de sac up front. Ayway we always park considerately and never black anyones drive but their is one neighbour who has a garage, with a drive facing parallel to the road but never use it and use the space on the road parallel to it. Fair Ebough... well withintheir rights. First of all they are funny enough anyway but if the road is full and they have been forced to park on their drive, i nip out for 5 minutes to the shop, etc, you can guarantee when i come back they have move there car to where i (or someone else) has parked and i now have to go right to the top of the cul de sac to park..... a bit petty really. But i just ignore them, after all they are within their rights.

Its a sham really as most neighbours are just as considerate as you can ask. Its usually only the grumpy !!!!!!s in the 4x4's that cause the problems anyway :rotfl:

Ben

MrsFraggle

I too live in a terraced house and it is annoying, however it was a comprimise we made when buying our house which we knew full well would be the case.

In our case, only one side of the road has the houses, so its not as busy as a road which is double lined would be - however, living 100yrds from the beach in a popular seaside resort has its downsides on a sunny day especially as parking elsewhere is charged.

My main annoyance this weekend was that I wanted to wash my car and couldn't :rotfl:

SuperMum2008

Our neighbours often have 5 cars parked - two for the adults, then each of the kids has one when they visit. Often they are parked on the road with the driveway empty, often up to the edges of our driveway and often opposite, making it hard to pull into our driveway. It drives me bonkers. My solution is whenever they arent parked outside their own house, I put my car there. This give temporary relief and revenge but it doesnt last - LOL!! We asked them not to park so close to the gates when we first moved in, giving the reason that I found it hard to turn into the driveway, but that was long ago and now we just put up with it. Look on the bright side - it gives us something to moan about and twitch our net curtains over!!!

Hectors_House

sickofusernames wrote: »

Don't quite know where to put this but we have a few people who live in a road 'off' ours who like to park their cars up our road due to the fact that they live in small terraced houses with crap parking obviously.

<SNIP>.

Do you have to apply for permit parking in your area?

We've just bought a Victorian mews house (where they sit in a block side-on to the road). The council knocked down a factory next to them years ago and built parking bays (1 per house) but then made the mews residents apply for the same permit as the rest of the area (a zone) and we find folk from the streets around have taken to parking their cars in the bays.

After years of trouble the council is finally clarifying the situation and will be assigning the bays to residents of the mews houses only and I assume our yearly parking permit will state that the owner lives in the mews.

We've been told any cars parked in the bays who carry the general zone permit will be fined.

In our case one side of a nearby road was changed to double yellows but those homes had a parking bay built at the back of the house. And it is these folks who are choosing not to use their hard standing and parking in the mews bays.

Is that the kind of thing that might be causing problems in your streets?

You could try leaving a polite note on the offending car(s)?

Aspiring

Teacher2301 wrote: »

Why do so many people heckle the OP about his problem and what seems to be a national problem?

I can understand why some people get frustrated with people parking outside their house, then walk off to the own houses in another street - wouldn't that annoy you? But equally, if there is no parking, then where does one park their car?

There are so many front gardens converted into carparks at the moment and drivers assume that their driveway must be kept clear and leave nasty notes on those who dare to park in front of their driveway.

This is a national problem - we have far too many people living on this island, not enough space and more cars per household than is really necessary. What's the solution? No idea yet that would suit everyone...

before anyone asks, I don't lilve in a big mansion

It's not an assumption made by drivers, there are laws relating to blocking a driveway.

In the OP's case, he didn't mention his driveway being blocked, hence Gordon861 suggesting having a drop-curb installed.

lexilex

We have this problem. One family in particular, maybe about 20 houses down the road, are intent on parking outside my house, even when there's plenty of space outside there own. A couple of weeks ago, they squeezed into the tiniest space between my car and my mum's eventhough the road outside there house was completely empty!

Winds us all up but what can you do!?

Gordon861

The law regarding driveways is that if there is a vehicle parked on there you must not block them in(without consent) or you will be guilty of obstruction. If the driveway is empty it becomes more difficult to enforce as you aren't stopping someone from leaving their home and accessing the public highway.

Some councils paint white lines to indicate that a driveway shouldn't be obstructed and these would probably make it easier to ensure a conviction even if no one is blocked in. My local council went through the whole of my estate one week marking up the driveways with white lines, when asked they said they would only ticket vehicles if a complaint is made by the householder though.

lleck

We have residents permits at 28.50 per car per annum but this still only entitiles you to park in the street, it doesnt give you the right to park outside your own house.

It is annoying - other people parking outside your propery but at the same time perfectly legal as long as they are not blocking you on your driveway.

We live in a terrace house and have two cars one being our 19 year old daughters - we have lived there for 23 years and have had residents parking for 6 years which has stopped the office workers parking outside all day. We still have the same overcrowding problem in the evening and weekends - it's first come first served.

Hectors_House

lleck wrote: »

We have residents permits at 28.50 per car per annum but this still only entitiles you to park in the street, it doesnt give you the right to park outside your own house.

It is annoying - other people parking outside your propery but at the same time perfectly legal as long as they are not blocking you on your driveway.

We live in a terrace house and have two cars one being our 19 year old daughters - we have lived there for 23 years and have had residents parking for 6 years which has stopped the office workers parking outside all day. We still have the same overcrowding problem in the evening and weekends - it's first come first served.

It was after the council told us they were going charge locals £150 per year for their parking permits that we demanded they sorted out our long-standing issues.

As they're mews houses there isn't anywhere else to park if others use the bays.

Unfortunately, the streets of terraced houses of old weren't built with the need for parking taken into consideration. It's a pity that folk deliberately deprive others of parking outside their own homes though. This is where I think there should be some rules built into the permit systems.

One of the people using the mews parking bays had a habit of leaving very nasty notes on any cars that used 'her' bay. These were collected together and presented to our local council reps.

Good luck to the OP getting it sorted out.

Like I wrote before, maybe a polite note telling them why you need to park outside your own door might help? I'm sure most folk are decent enough to stop doing it if you tell them a little white lie about someone in the household being disabled for instance (hope I don't get flamed for suggesting that!).