would you say anything?

coolcait

What are the odds? This week's email has a bit about finding cheap parking near airports.

Interestingly, the email quite clearly states that it's about paying for another person's private car parking space (the same way that the link posted earlier in the thread took care to refer to private car parking spaces).

So, a person's driveway, allocated/rented parking space, garage
can be rented out to holidaymakers. Not parking spaces on the street.

Of course, we don't know that the neighbours are being paid for this. Equally, we don't know that they aren't.

Not do we know that the cars do in fact belong to the neighbours' friends. If they have 'friends' leaving their car every week, maybe it is is a business?

If they have space in their own driveway, where their 'friends' could leave their cars, without it affecting anyone else, then they are (IMO/relevant disclaimers/etc) being extremely selfish and inconsiderate by parking the car anywhere else.

bestpud

FatVonD wrote: »

Why would anybody assume they are charging people? We live about an hour from the airport, my inlaws about 15 minutes. If we are going on holiday we leave our car at my inlaws and FIL drives us the last 15 minutes and he certainly never charges us. Why would we pay (around £40 I seem to remember?) for long term parking when a family member is happy to help us save the money?

I too don't think you should say anything (and I live on a road near a station), you have no right to park outside your own house.

I can't speak for others but it's the frequency and the fact they drop people at the airport that made me wonder if they are being paid.

Also, they actually wait for the OP to move her car so they can park the cars closer to their house. That suggests they are looking after the cars to some extent.

Even if it wasn't in an official capacity, I would pay a friend/family member for looking after my car and saving me airport parking fees, although it might be in the form of a gift rather than cash - most people would IMO.

Debt_Free_Chick

bestpud wrote: »

The neighbour drives the car owners to the airport and keeps their car keys!

We know this because the OP has said they move the cars closer to their house as soon as a better space becomes available!

Of course they are responsible for them!! They've invited them there and are quite possibly charging them to inconvenience others!

Unfortunately all irrelevant if the cars are being parked on a public highway. My point about the neighbour not having the power to give permission is based on the fact that he does not own the public highway. If he is charging friends - and we don't know that he is - that, too, is irrelevant. He may simply be recovering his own fuel costs and not charging for "a parking space" at all. Even if he were, it's still irrelevant - sorry.

seven-day-weekend

I live in a street of mixed housing but one end has terraced housing to about halfway down the street (I live in one of these houses). There is also a very popular Real Ale Pub with no parking at this end of the street.

Sometimes, expecially on nice summmer weekends, the street is just like a linear car park, with parking down both sides and we have to park further down the street where the people have drives. The people from the pub take up all 'our' spaces.

In the football season we often get football traffic too.

It's annoying, but there is nothing we can do about it. If we lived a little nearer the footballl ground we would get residents' parking. As it is, we just have to put up with it.

To the OP, it is irrelevant whether the neighbour charges anything or not, that is a private arrangemnt and nothing to do with parking on a public highway which anyone can do. You'll just have to put up with it, like we do with the pub traffic.

FatVonD

bestpud wrote: »

I can't speak for others but it's the frequency and the fact they drop people at the airport that made me wonder if they are being paid.

The OP has said the following, it's not that excessive.

snowyz81 wrote: »

It's not all the time but every couple of months there is a car for a week the current one for two weeks. Obviously they park in 'someones' space then they park in 'someone' else's space etc.

snowyz81

How many times can i say i know i dont own the road !

My issue was if you knew a neighbour let a friend park outside for weeks at a time, and it made an already bad parking suitation worse, would you mention it.If i had a friend who was going away, i would either pick them up from there house and drop them at the airport or if i had sufficent parking let them park outside, i certainly wouldnt make things difficult for other people.

But i guess thats me, some people dont think of others.

Thankfully the recent car left last night, so only matter of time until the next one appear.

jellyhead

snowyz81 wrote: »

How many times can i say i know i dont own the road !

My issue was if you knew a neighbour let a friend park outside for weeks at a time, and it made an already bad parking suitation worse, would you mention it.If i had a friend who was going away, i would either pick them up from there house and drop them at the airport or if i had sufficent parking let them park outside, i certainly wouldnt make things difficult for other people.

But i guess thats me, some people dont think of others.

Thankfully the recent car left last night, so only matter of time until the next one appear.

If I were you I'd ask the neighbour to leave the visitor's car on their driveway and block it in themselves with their own car. That way they can move either car when needed, and it doesn't clog up any of the available parking space in the street.

delain

We have neighbours like that too.

They left and rented out their house, tenant was lovely.

They asked her to leave after less than a year and came back (boo)

Now they have three cars all over the road stopping other people from parking by their own houses.

They complain about noise, in spite of their son having drunken parties in the back garden where everyone's floor shakes (even mine, and I'm 3 houses away!) swearing over the music, not great when you have children trying to sleep :mad: and there are young children all around.

they always put weird 'lawn feed' down which kills all the grass in their front garden... and because it's all open plan they'd always go way over their side and kill of half their next door neighbour's grass :eek: she ended up putting a little plastic fence (on her side of the boundary, she can't put it right on the boundary line as they have rose bushes down the middle of it) and when they cut their grass on Monday they lifted and broke the fence and just chucked it into her garden, didn't tell her they'd done it or apologise or anything, just left it for her to find :eek::eek:

pollypenny

I have great sympathy with OP.

As I said before, neighbours in a cul de sac need to cooperate and allowing someone to park long-term is unbelievably inconsiderate.

Still, what goes round comes round and they'll be the victims some day.

seven-day-weekend

I can hardly ever park near my son's flat, nor turn the car round, despite there being a car park for about fifteen cars and nearly all the flats having garages. It's a cul-de-sac and people park in the turning area, so that it is virtually impossible to manouevre.

My son doesn't even have a car, so he does not block the place up! (However, in true MSE-fashion:money: he rents his garage out to his friend. I'm glad to say that as well as my son's cycle, it also contains a Harley. :rotfl:).

I don't quite know why the parking is so bad; all I can think of is that people don't put their cars in their garages. And too many cars.