would you say anything?

Debt_Free_Chick

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.

No, but then I wouldn't let it affect me in the way that it has you.

I think life is about you how you deal with the !!!!!! that is surely going to come your way, every day of your life.

Pick the things you're going to do battle with. Parking, IMHO, wouldn't be one of them.

seven-day-weekend

Agree. I knew someone once who leapt to his feet, flung open the curtains, grew red in the face , shouted words to the effect of 'Look at that Banker'., raised his blood pressure, upset his family and eventually bought a house he couldn't afford with a drive, when someone parked in 'his' place. Made himself ill.

Chose your battles.

londonsurrey

Technically, everyone with the requisite paperwork have the right to park in unallocated spaces. But people do push the boundaries.

Taken to an extreme, I do seem to recall that something was done about a car dealership that was taking up a large part of parking spaces on surrounding roads with their display cars on a long term basis.

So while it may seem a trifling matter, there does come a point when doing perfectly legal albeit annoying things does begin to push boundaries.

For instance, if the neighbours expanded their pool of "friends", and introduced their services to a football fan club, the road could be flooded with say 10-20 visiting cars.

And if this took off, they could do this service for other holidaymakers, thus legally using the road again. They may be well provided with beer, free football tickets, etc from their wide pool of friends, but at what point would the OP be not have to just sit there and take it?

Mrs_Arcanum

I have a great deal of sympathy for the OP as with our single car we are rarely able to park near our house due to neighbours with multiple cars taking all the spaces. Wouldn't minds so much but one deliberately parks outside our house all the time & we end up parking closer to their place.

If the long term parked cars were kept on the neighbours drive with the neighbour parking in front of their own dropped kerb it would not be an issue. However, the fact they DELIBERATELY move these cars closer and use up the limited space without a care for the other residents is galling.

The only thing I could suggest is contacting the local councillor to get some form of residents permit parking created.

One does have to wonder how the "visitors" insurance companies would feel about cars being left for a couple of weeks in a strange place.

jellyhead

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

One does have to wonder how the "visitors" insurance companies would feel about cars being left for a couple of weeks in a strange place.

I don't know anything about insurance, but would it be much different to actually staying in a relative's house for 2 weeks?

FatVonD

snowyz81 wrote: »

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

You say that yet in an earlier post you said the following so presumably you have reported cars that were parked there perfectly legally!

snowyz81 wrote: »

I've reported left cars before but unless it's not taxed they don't care.

WestonDave

We've got someone living just over the road who defends "his" space by parking millimetres off the bumper of any car that parks in such a way as to prevent him parking exactly where he wants! (He can normally still park partially within the boundaries of his property but if he can't park on his exact spot then "operation block" comes into play.

He's done it to my parents (who just ignored it!), and to contractors doing our solar panels (couple of hairy scaffolders pointing out that they needed to unload their lorry and his car was blocking the rear of their lorry soon had him moving - he claimed if he'd known they were working for us he wouldn't have done it but I'm not sure).

Anyway I arrived home on Monday night to see he'd done it again. However much to my amusement I recognised his victims car. Let's put it this way, even knowing the bloke in question is a mild mannered nice guy, I wouldn't personally pick an argument with a former international rugby second row forward. The prospect of a 6ft+ man mountain arriving on my doorstep wanting to know what I was playing at would be sufficient deterrent. I can only assume matey didn't realise this guy lived in the street or who he was - either that or he's plain daft! Of course the irony was that the "victim" never had reason to go back to his car before matey had to drive off for work so the whole thing was completely pointless!

Mrs_Arcanum

jellyhead wrote: »

I don't know anything about insurance, but would it be much different to actually staying in a relative's house for 2 weeks?

In that situation they would still be in the vicinity of the car.

maman

I live near an airport and have friends/family coming tomorrow to park here. What we always do is put the friends' car in our driveway and leave our own out in the road. I feel I should make an effort to look after their car for them. Fortunately, we live in a wide and spacious road so it's not really bothering anyone.

Then we take the friends to and from the airport. Up to now I've been doing all this for free, but maybe I'll start charging!

It does irritate me when strangers park directy opposite my driveway (making reversing a bit tight) when they could park anywhere but I never say anything, life's too short, but I do think dark thoughts!

Near my hairdresser's there's someone who enjoys putting rude notes on the windscreen if you park (perfectly legally) outside their house. I just scribble 'not aware of any restrictions' on it and stuff it in his front gate.

pinkladyof66

Estage agent just come to see the vendors of a house right up our cul de sac and all areas of road free chooses to park right outside my car on the edge of my driveway so when i move my car in a minute it will be tight squeeze he done this on monday night too as i seen it was the same car. Dont know why on earth he hasnt parked up outside the house for sale or their next door neighbours why park outside ours when there is loads of space free. It is beyond me !