inconsiderate neighbours should i spend 300 quid

langfangcharlie

Need a rant.

I have just moved onto a new development and 4 months ago a young couple like myself and partner moved onto the devlopment. The houses have small drives. This couple have two cars so one gets parked on the kerb, but recently a large trailor has appeared but now this has been covered in advertising for a burger van as it sits they reverse the burger van in and kleave it attatched to the car meaning that the front wheels of the car are on the road, second car parked on pavement and now it appears that a third car (think its parents) is parked on the kerb.

i have no problem with the odd car parked on the road but this is getting barmy. i look out of my front room window and see a sodding burger van and cars parked everywhere.

My options as i see it

1) confront and ask if its going to be permanent- GF is reluctant as she hates any confrontation

2) see site developers

3) contact council- not sure as roads not yet adopted

4)contact police- is their any point as they prefere to catch speeding motorists doing 74 on the mway

5) invest 300 quid in a clapped out van and park infront of their house

what do\ people think?

ps any one want a burger!!!

Ms_Piggy_2

This is a hard one beacuse as long as they are parking legally and not breaking the highway code, they can park where they want. there is no legal right to a parking space outside your own house. IIRC you can insist that you have access to your own drive way, but what vehocles they park outside their house is up to them I'm afraid.

Unless you have signed any agreement when buying on the development that states 'no commercial vehicles' or similar you may be stuck....

Sorry.

<of course, I may be very wrong and there's lot's you can do, but this is my understanding>

prutter

I'd get chatting to them (politley) about the van, and see how the land lies. Figure out if this is their business, and how long they're likely to have it.
If it's just a couple of weeks, it's not worth falling out with you neighbours. If it's permanent then something needs to be done.

Perhaps your girlfriend could have a mate visiting who walks with a pram/pushchair, and their car sticking out over the pathway is making it tricky for her

You need to make it clear that you're unhappy about it, without directly 'having a go'. Has worked for me on similar problems in the past.

WaveyDave_2

When we bought on a new development, it was written into the contract that it was not permitted to park any vehicle on the site that couldn't fit into a garage.

This didn't stop the guy around the corner from parking a limo there, but I don't think anyone actually persued it legally anyway.

hth

danm

most new developments have restrictive covenants - check your deeds and if they are breaching restrictions an anon phone call to the developer may help

mrsS_2

i think obstructing the footpath can get you a parking ticket?
speak to the council to confirm

PoorDave

They shouldn't be legally allowed to park on the payment, if that's what you're saying they're doing.

Interesting that you want your rights enforced (i.e. rules followed), but somehow it's wrong for the police to stop people breaking laws you don't like.

Norma_Desmond

Parking on pavements IS illegal. Full stop.
Ignorant drivers used to do it outside my house until I played merry hell with our council's Highways Dept. - I've now got bollards (if you'll pardon the expression!)

sandieb

Do you have any sort of contact with the neighbours? It might be worth attempting to establish a friendly relationship with them and then broach the subject of the van suggesting they may not have realised the impact it has on you.

I'd use the softly, softly, friendly route FIRST as if your initial contact with them is a confrontation then that will put their back up and then things may get out of hand.

I'd even go so far as popping round with a little gift to say you haven't had chance to chat as neighbours and then approach the van problem in a week or so.

Worth a try.

Mrs_pbradley936

You are not the only one in this position. Thankfully my drive can hold more cars than we have but neighbours are constantly parking in roads which makes getting in and out very difficult. I have reported them to the local council but nothing has been done. Having a word does no good and gets you abuse. The problem is too many vehicles for the amount of space those people have which is their own rather than shared/communal.

stolt

It's this problem that put me off a house the other week, house was beautiful, but the whole estate seem to be crammed full of cars, and I could see the problem was only going to get worse, (as kids grow up etc).

I had a simialr problem that i lived ina terrace house and my road was near a train station, a police station and college (how yer luck), none of which had enough parking spaces and also charged, so commuters/ college kids and even the police all tried to park down my road, even if there was about 3ft of kerb at the side of a dropped drive they would park next to it without caring that the rest of the car was over hanging driveways. Couldn't wait to move out, the amount of arguments i had when i lived there from people parking where they liked.