Will neighbours complain? - too many delivery vans coming into street

Mr_Toad

whodathunkit wrote: »

You obviously live in busier (and bigger) cul de sacs than I have! Where I've lived there are probably half a dozen houses each side and no nutters in sight. Four deliveries a day, every day, would pretty well double the traffic flow outside the hours when people go to and return from work.

People buy houses in cul de sacs because they're quiet and live in residential areas to avoid people running businesses.

Then I think these 'people' are in for a bit of a shock.

More of us are shopping on-line and it is an increasing trend because on-line retailers can offer better prices than shops with higher overheads. That and the fact it's so much easier than going into town only to find the shops either don't have what you want or it's much more expensive than on-line.

All those boarded up shops around the country aren't just a result of the ecconomic downturn, a lot of them have stopped trading because they simply can't match internet prices or the supermarket chains that have diversified into just about everything.

And of course shopping on-line is very MSE :money:

catkins

It certainly wouldn't bother me and I am home all day but I can guarantee that some of my nasty nosy neighbours would be annoyed but wouldn't have the decency to speak to you but instead complain to the council

LandyAndy

esmerelda98 wrote: »

A quiet, residential cul-de-sac, with children playing in the road? I thought gardens were for children to play in, and if you don't have one then the local park. Groups of children playing in the street is at best a nuisance to your neighbours and at worst a hotbed of antisocial activity. A very poor practice IMHO.

Not if they are full of cat sh 1 t.

GracieP

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

So long as the OP is always there to receive the deliveries, this wouldn't bother me. I might get annoyed though if the OP is often out (on business) and I keep getting asked to take in his/her parcels for them.

I was about to post this. I used to live nextdoor to someone running a business from home and I used to end up taking in deliveries about 3 times a week. Often huge big boxes too. And often the neighbours would be away for a week or two at a time, so I'd be left with a mounting pile of boxes in my frontroom. Barely a thank you and never, ever an apology from the woman who ran the business either. I started completely avoiding answering my door during the day but if I forgot myself, was expecting someone or was out front when the delivery guys arrived I used to take pity on them, as they were like yo-yos trying to deliver the same packages over and over again.

krlyr

whodathunkit wrote: »

Most of my neighbours had cats, that's why they chose to live in a quiet, residential cul de sac.

I live down a quiet, residential cul de sac and certainly don't feel that entitles the neighbours' cats to come and go as they please. Fortunately for me, they soon realised our garden was no longer their personal litter tray, due to my quite cat-unfriendly dogs (I'd never willingly let my dogs hurt a cat, but the odd time I let them out without spotting a cat soon had the cats figuring out it wasn't a good idea to sunbath on our lawn!)

They are your cats, and therefore their safety is your responsiblity, and your responsibility only. Yes, choosing a quiet road may minimise the risk of them getting hit by a car, but it is completely out of your control - the "might" in your "might be safe" is very much the key word. Those 4 courier vans a day could easily be a dog sitter popping in 4 times a day to let a puppy out for wee breaks (or even the owner nipping back from work themselves), or 4 lots of relatives visiting a sick neighbour to check on them, or 4 tradesmen doing work on a house, 4 couriers for non-business purposes, and so on. You cannot expect neighbours to go out of their way to minimise vehicles coming to their house to keep your cats safe - if you want to keep them safe, keep them off the road entirely.

Ditto with children, they could just as easily be knocked down by a regular driver popping by to see a friend as they are a courier there to deliver to a business ran from home - if anything, a van should be easier for a child to spot and hopefully avoid than a car.

Person_one

esmerelda98 wrote: »

A quiet, residential cul-de-sac, with children playing in the road? I thought gardens were for children to play in, and if you don't have one then the local park. Groups of children playing in the street is at best a nuisance to your neighbours and at worst a hotbed of antisocial activity. A very poor practice IMHO.

What? You never played jumpers for goalposts or kerby on your street and shouted 'car' as the signal to run to the pavement?

You really missed out! Isn't the ability to play on the street the reason why parents move to cup-de-sacs in the first place?

(They can get out of the way for delivery vans though, its no reason not to order stuff.)

dizziblonde

We live on a street that's not quite the conventional cul-de-sac in that there's no turning area at the end so if there are cars parked on either side (which they usually are as we've got no off-street parking or facilities to add it) you're basically either going in the street backwards or out of the street backwards... sort of street you could really get annoyed with delivery drivers since they block the street completely parked in the centre of it when making a drop off.

It actually isn't really a problem (and we do have the internet shopping queen living opposite!) - the poor guys are on such tight time targets they're only there for a matter of a minute max! I don't even really mind taking stuff in for people since I'm one of the people who's at home more during the day - it would annoy me if it was the same person every day with multiple large parcels, but at the moment since it's only things like a packet of clothes from Next or whatever that I can leave on the stairs for a couple of hours - I don't mind much at all.

The tight reversing and 3 point turns situation being why most kids don't play on-street here (plus we're in a nice playing field/playground sandwich with one at the end of the street in both directions) and the fact the kids of similar ages tend to be in and out of each other's back gardens.

GobbledyGook

If you are having multiple deliveries a day please make sure you note with the company 'do not leave with neighbours' or make a safe dropping place in your garden/porch for them.

One of the reasons I moved house is because the inconsiderate salesman in our street, who averaged about 6 deliveries a day, but was always out, basically viewed any neighbours who were SAHP's or worked from home as his own personal parcel storage service.

QuackQuackOops

berbastrike wrote: »

We live in a cul de sac of 12 houses and run a business from home.

We have on average 4 delivery vans a day (eg Yodel, Hermes, UPS, DPD), dropping off around 1 or 2 boxes.


Do you think the neighbours could complain? Would this annoy you?

Except from this, we are very quiet, no pets or kids, no parties etc.


Thanks!

If there are kids around they might get fed up with a lot of vans coming and going.
It really depends on the neighbours and how they feel about you and whether or not you are running legitimate businesses or working on the side/cutting corners.

Make sure you are paying full business rates on all areas of your house and they won't be able to complain to anyone.

custardy

**Patty** wrote: »

Do people really pay that much attention to their neighbour's comings & goings?:eek:


Took me nearly 3 weeks to notice my neighbour had a new car:o

Depends on the set up I guess.
I once lived in a cul de sac i a house below street level. We were at the point where vans would do their 3 point turn. So light would be blocked by big vans etc turning. So by default you knew what traffic there was.