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Parking Over Driveway
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The pictures only tell one side of the story ... we need some of your driveway.0
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The Toyota appears parked appropriately, looks to be in the middle of two dropped kerbs. I'm assuming this is the neighbour's car and their house is to the right? The angle of your drive to the road looks to be the problem. Do you have a satellite view?
Correct. Don't think I can change the angle of my drive...
Street view proves impossible as hasn't been updated since 2009...house isn't even there :rotfl:Gordon_Hose wrote: »Can't see anything wrong the way he is parked tbh.
Post up the street view.
As aboveThe black car appears to be parked perfectly fine, the grey one however is a big problem as it is preventing pedestrians from using the pavement.
As it is a new estate have the roads/pavements been adopted?
No pedestrian throughfare past the grey car. Only one house...ours!
Roads are still owned by the property developers. Even though they are ready for this 'phase' to be signed over, they haven't for 12-24 months.fairydiamond wrote: »I can see he has parked right at the edge of your dropped kerb but miles from the edge of his. My neighbours do this to us too to make entering and leaving our drive more difficult. He's just being awkward but he is parked legally so there is nothing you can do.
It's a right pain in the backside...but, as I thought and you say, not much I can do about it!
Have you spoke to your neighbour about it? How did they react?Depending on how precious you are about your car, a few "scrapes" whne you reverse out of that tight spot might enourage him to shift up a bit?
The Polo (mine) has a fair few scratches on and a few more would blend in. The Toyota (his) doesn't...and would be buffed out if anything heavier than a drop of water landed on it. Oh, he has CCTV trained on the car too...:pAnnieO1234 wrote: »Agree with PPs, yes he could park a little further down if his is the Toyota, however there seems from the pics to be more than enough room to maneuver around.
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Lampost to the left of our drive does restrict the swing...but it's the overhanging which is the annoyance.
As said, this is tame. It can be another 2 foot back! Concluded it's not illegal...but why not park closer to your own ruddy drive?0 -
jbainbridge wrote: »The pictures only tell one side of the story ... we need some of your driveway.
Not much more can be given at the mo'. Probably about 2m wide to garage, 5m to front of Polo, grass to left but a lamppost at corner of grass verge and drive.0 -
Correct. Don't think I can change the angle of my drive...
Street view proves impossible as hasn't been updated since 2009...house isn't even there :rotfl:
As above
No pedestrian throughfare past the grey car. Only one house...ours!
Roads are still owned by the property developers. Even though they are ready for this 'phase' to be signed over, they haven't for 12-24 months.
It's a right pain in the backside...but, as I thought and you say, not much I can do about it! Have you spoke to your neighbour about it? How did they react?
The Polo (mine) has a fair few scratches on and a few more would blend in. The Toyota (his) doesn't...and would be buffed out if anything heavier than a drop of water landed on it. Oh, he has CCTV trained on the car too...:p
Lampost to the left of our drive does restrict the swing...but it's the overhanging which is the annoyance.
As said, this is tame. It can be another 2 foot back! Concluded it's not illegal...but why not park closer to your own ruddy drive?
I'm confused, the VW is the only one that looks dodgy to me!0 -
Looks like someone bought a hose with a rubbish drive.0
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Does your drive come out at a funny angle to the road? Doesn't look like your car emerges at anything like 90 degrees to the pavement/road.
That aside, as others have said, he's not parking over your dropped kerb so nothing you can do legally.
Do you have two cars on your drive, one behind the other? Also wondering why the VW is parked across the pavement.
Most people in our street drive fowards onto their drives and reverse off, even though that's not what you're meant to do. Don't really see the problem as I'm assuming your estate road isn't busy, so you can reverse off safely....
Modern estates are all horrible for parking - I don't know of any in my town where the parking isn't a nightmare. Too many houses without enough parking spaces.
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The VW is parked partly on the pavement, partly on the road, and about three inches into the driveway. Presumably because wife's car occupies the rest of the driveway. Not legal parking.
Why can't you park wholly on the road, parallel to your front garden?
Why can't you park wholly on the road parallel to somebody else's front garden?0 -
Of course next time you come home, if he's not there, you're perfectly entitled to park in that space yourself. It's not owned by anyone. Would go down like a lead balloon though.0
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camptownraces wrote: »The VW is parked partly on the pavement, partly on the road, and about three inches into the driveway. Presumably because wife's car occupies the rest of the driveway. Not legal parking.
The Vauxhall over the other side isn't much better.0 -
pinkteapot wrote: »Of course next time you come home, if he's not there, you're perfectly entitled to park in that space yourself. It's not owned by anyone. Would go down like a lead balloon though.
exactly.
OP can park anywhere on any street as long as it is legal.0
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