Council putting double yellow lines outside my house

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Strider590 wrote: »

But when you buy a house in a street with on road parking, it's stated in the property description (just as garage or off-street parking would be). The council is wrong to take this away from residents of the street.

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But, nobody is guaranteed on road parking, ( other than those with parking permit schemes ) if they want guaranteed parking then they should buy a suitable property.

blue_monkey_2

Yes, but if you get a house that means you can park outside your house, and it is that option that sways you to buy, and then 10 years they tell you that you can no longer have it, you'd be miffed too. Fair enough if that option was there when they bought the house, but it wasn't. And now who is going to buy a house that has no parking in the vicinity?

OP, have you spoken to the shops, I am sure they'd get on board too if it meant losing their custom.

My IL live near a station and they have bought in 'residents permits' so only people displaying a permit can park outside in the street. Permits are only £2500 a year. They have been there 20 years. All because people who use the station want to park there all day for free instead of paying the station car park and the council think '££££ kerching'. We cannot go round there as they won't buy a permit and it's a 20 minute walk each way from the nearest parking places.

I am sure some of these people thinking of these ideas were born with little brains - what about people who have meals on wheels delivered or what if the cancer nurse is visiting - just where does she park if she has to visit a patient? What if someone is ill and the family want to be there but cannot park there? Not much through has been given to things like this at all. If we cannot park in the IL drive then we cannot visit them.

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blue_monkey wrote: »

Yes, but if you get a house that means you can park outside your house, and it is that option that sways you to buy, and then 10 years they tell you that you can no longer have it, you'd be miffed too. Fair enough if that option was there when they bought the house, but it wasn't. And now who is going to buy a house that has no parking in the vicinity?
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I wouldn't buy a property without a private driveway.

The OP does have the facility to park off road, it is the cost that is the stumbling block.

Strider590

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I wouldn't buy a property without a private driveway.

The OP does have the facility to park off road, it is the cost that is the stumbling block.

And maybe the deeds to the property?

I'd love to have a car port area in my back garden next to my garage, I could work on the car in safety and get rid of the awful lumpy good fer nothing lawn.

BUT, im not allowed to..... Even if I did have the freehold.

patman99

£2500 for a residents permit????, that's a bit steep.


Liked the 'bollards' post. Must admit, as concrete takes ages to set, I'd have been tempted to 'lean' on the offending bollard to see if it still had any 'give' in it, then if it had, waggle it around a bit until it came lose and 'fell over'.

As for the car-cover approach, one of my MiL's near neighbours parked in a residents permit bay for 3 years without applying for a permit. They covered their car as soon as they parked-up. Never got a ticket in all that time.

When I park my van on the road outside my mates house on a single yellow line, I always cover my plates and tax disc. The local CEO's always walk round it twice before shrugging their shoulders and walking-off.

Wardy

Hi all, thank you so much for your responses so far, they've been really useful. And apologies if I've offended anyone by not liking their status, I just had a quick look with my partner this morning so was in a bit of a rush. I am very grateful for all your comments (and I did chuckle too about the residents being trapped on their gardens, altho I know I wouldn't have found it funny if it was me:D)

Just to respond to a few things - I could park round the back of the garden, but as there's not much room for manouvering (sp) I'd lose about a third of my garden for 2 parking spaces, which has a big impact when you have three kids who enjoy the outdoors (trampolines, swings etc etc) as well as having to cut down well established trees and moving a shed that would probably fall apart as soon as it we tried to do it! It's not always as simple as people think and would cost about a grand to do with refencing, having to gravel the area, get the trees cut and buy a new shed to replace the one that fell apart! Then you have the one neighbour who is probably happy there'll be no on the road parking and leaves his car out the back all the time and is not the easiest to get hold of to move it, which causes problems when we need to get out........

Really it is all about the cost, I could have a drive put in if I had the money, I could have a garage or just park round the back if I had the money to make it a parking area, but it's also the fact that I don't want to be forced into having to change my back garden or my front. One of the reasons we bought the property was because of the back garden, it's a good size, not to big, not to small, and I want it left that way - I don't want to look out and see cars parked there!

I also know that having no parking in the area does put people off buying a house - I know people who have looked at houses with no parking area and have dismissed it straight away because of it, so it might not actually devalue the property but it would make it harder to sell, which it turn would mean I'd probably have to drop the price.

With regards to the shops, the one most affected will be the one stop - people are always parking on the road to run in and grab a paper etc, and the lorries park on the road for deliveries, so I know they'll oppose it. I saw a poster in there for a meeting planned at the local school so will attend that and see what support there is. All the shops have off the road parking, so most will not be affected, but the chip shop and one stop will suffer the most from passing trade.

It is annoying, and I know there's a lot worse going on out there, so I'm not distraught - I just wanted advice on how to approach this with the council to try and prevent it.

Thanks again all:beer:

Hintza

Thanks for the good detailed reply OP.

If it was me I would be finding out why they have decided to put in the lines and what they are trying to achieve once you know that you can then try to figure out how to tackle them on it.

It is parking restrictions that are killing small towns and neighbourhoods these days so good luck.

goosander

patman99 wrote: »

...When I park my van on the road outside my mates house on a single yellow line, I always cover my plates and tax disc. The local CEO's always walk round it twice before shrugging their shoulders and walking-off...

Failing to display a tax disc is an offence (and probably number plates too), so I'm surprised you haven't been done for that. If I were a vindicative traffic warden or other council busy body thwarted in issuing a parking ticket, I would get my 'revenge' by arranging to have you done for that.

Wardy

Strider590 wrote: »

As I said, this is either the council trying to force people onto pay and display carparks OR it's the miserable old git down the street who's complained.... OP probably had the chance to protest this decision but missed it by not reading the public notice section of the local rag.

I've just re-read this - I didn't know there was that section to be honest. Will definitely read the free paper when it comes through the door now!!!

There were signs, as I put in my OP, but none on our street. I've just spoken to someone at the council and mentioned this - he said he would check and ensure something was put up there, but said it definitely should have been.

Good job I have a dog to walk

Wardy

Hintza wrote: »

Thanks for the good detailed reply OP.

If it was me I would be finding out why they have decided to put in the lines and what they are trying to achieve once you know that you can then try to figure out how to tackle them on it.

It is parking restrictions that are killing small towns and neighbourhoods these days so good luck.

Have just spoken to the man at the council - very pleasant and very informative. Said that it was because there were people parking both sides of the road which made it difficult for the bus and lorries to pass through.

HE also said, which I didn't know (perhaps I should've read my highway code better) that if a delivery is being made, double yellow lines are irrelevant, so where I thought I might get support from the one stop because of their deliveries and making it awkward for them if there were double yellow lines, it now seems this wouldn't affect them. That was the big arguement I thought they'd have which might have helped sway the decision:mad: