Esate Living, is it normal for cars to park...

pinkteapot

Dimey wrote: »

Modern day living I'm afraid.

I know a couple who live in a lovely quiet cul de sac. New neighbours have moved in and they own a car parts delivery franchise so they have 3 (sometimes 4) trucks ( bigger than transits) that use up all the parking in the cul de sac.

One of the trucks is parked on the owners driveway but as its so big it extends close to their neighbour's window and blocks the light out. The neighbour is an old lady so doesn't complain.

When I visit it now feels like an industrial estate. Shame for the people who've experienced a nicer setting in the past.

For a business with that many trucks, they should have sought permission from the local council to run it from the house...

From Wiltshire Council for example:

The likelihood of a material change of use taking place may be indicated where the business or non residential use generates visitors, traffic, noise or fumes over and above what might be expected if the property were in use as a single dwelling without any ancillary use.

Dimey

pinkteapot wrote: »

For a business with that many trucks, they should have sought permission from the local council to run it from the house...

Yes, I questioned my friends about that but they are not running the business from their home. The use the trucks like company cars. Parking every night and weekends. Sometimes one or two are left there during the weekdays.

No one likes to complain for fear of upsetting the new neighbours. They don't want any bigger trouble. One of the vans does park on the pavement and I watched an old girl with a walker manoeuvre round it the other day by walking into the road. Luckily its not a busy cul de sac.

What do you do. There's only so much you can take on in life.

Lord_Baltimore

Dimey wrote: »

One of the vans does park on the pavement and I watched an old girl with a walker manoeuvre round it the other day by walking into the road.

Well I wouldn't put up with that; it's unfriendly and illegal. I wouldn't be too concerned about upsetting the new people; they don't seem too concerned about upsetting others.

Dan-Dan

Agreed with LB , someone should be having words

TeamLowe

we used to live in a terrace where we could never park outside our own house but I actually saw that as a luxury in comparison to when I was at uni - in Aberystwyth there's barely any parking whatsoever so on a good day you'd end up 3,4 streets away from your house

we happened to have bought a terrace with offroad parking to the rear and parking restrictions at the front, so we always have somewhere to park and no one parks outside our house, except if they're visiting us when the restrictions are lifted

regprentice

On my side of our street we have flat gardens suitable for converting to driveways but on the opposite side of the street the houses are on a slope and the houses are around 15 feet higher than ours. This steep slope means they cannot have driveways so road space is at a premium.

One of my neighbours sells second hand cars for additional income. Typically he has two on his drive and another three parked on the opposite side of the road. Recently ive seen him move his car from the road and then nip back to his house to move another car from his driveway to fill the space on the public road he has just left so he doesnt lose it.

Another neighbour has lost the plot with him and on the rare occasion that the car seller leaves a space empty (say nips quickly to the shops to buy a paper) my other neighbour borrows a friends car from the next street and fills the space the car seller left empty. He has a set of keys to that car for exactly this purpose!.

it could be worse... in edinburgh where i used to live 16 flat tenements have 2 spaces outside on the road. If you are lucky as the communual bins also take up parking space. The council has also 'admitted' to selling more parking permits than there are spaces as they assume some cars will be in use at any given time and not require a space. Double parking is a major problem and often prevents access to ambulances/fire brigade.

starsandmoon

Were I live now has on street parking. It is residents permit parking due to having 2 major football grounds nearby so this stops total gridlock. We all try to leave space outside each others houses if possible. A lot of neighbours dont have cars so 9 times out of 10 I will be parked outside my house. I did have a neighbour whos son had a large white van which would block the light (close together terraces). He had to park it at the end of the street as everyone complained to him about the light issue, it was huge.

Ive rented a flat which had an alloocated space but visitors and other residents would use it caused lots of hassle.

Even in my mums cul de sac were everyone has a drive theres parking wars.

19lottie82

Most of the areas where I live (West End of Glasgow), consist of 2-3 bed flats. On street parking is metered, between the hours of 8am-10pm mon -sun, 20p per 10 mins, with a maximum stay of 3 hours. Residents parking permits are allocated 1 per flat, and that's it. Parking permits will only be granted upon proof of your driving license and ownership of the car that you will be parking.

My friends OH moved in to a flat share and was told when he tried to get a parking permit that he couldn't get one, as there was already one allocated to the property, his flatmates. So in the end he had to park a mile away from the flat if he was going to be leaving his car there for any period of time inside the metered hours.:mad:

But back to the OP, I really think you have no right at all to complain bout someone parking on the street outside your house. As someone else said "you bought the house, not the road".

paddedjohn

ruggedtoast wrote: »

It's illegal to park in front of a dropped kerb.

Not if you are the resident or have had permission off the resident.

PierremontQuaker03

I live in a 1930's Terrace which were not designed for the quantity of cars that people own these days, having said that if every household on the street just owned one car then it would be fine, there would be ample parking for visitors aswell. At first it used to annoy me as I had a family next door who's kids were approaching 18 and so over the next few years there were 4 cars at one stage for that one household - now they have flown the nest the lady has only one - but what makes me laugh is that she is quite possessive over her space outside her house and at times I feel like saying hang on did you think about me when your house had 4 cars!
Anyway I am moving house as I want a driveway and garden - the street I am going to is much quieter ...I hope!
PS I did get my neighbour back one summer when I was working down London, I deliberately left my car parked outside of her house for 3 months gathering dust!