Street Parking

ShAnE

Bryanb - Actually anyone can park in the disabled bay not just people with a disabled badge.

Most disabled people will still display their badge to try and discourage neighbours from using the spot/not being aware of the rules, but there is actually no legal requirement to do so.

To the OP. Next time they park in front of your house we don't you knock on there door and ask if they can move their car down a bit so you can squeeze both cars into the space outside your house?

If they refuse then park your BF's car outside their house during the school holidays making sure to take up two spaces himself lol.

Limey

The joys of street parking. I'd love to hire a forklift to rearrange the cars on my street as the folks round me can't park to save their lives, there's space for 5 out front but more often than not there are 3 badly parked cars taking up the space. :T
Given up stressing about it these days, not worth it.

[Deleted User]

Legal or not, it's not very nice thing to be constantly parking outside someone elses house, stopping the people who live there from parking.

As already said, I'd be tempted to buy a £100 scrapper and leave it parked there until they get the message or park outside theirs in the school holidays.

Also I find these personal disabled bays outside houses a little childish as anyone with a blue badge can technically park in it, e.g. a visiting neighbour etc.

Foxy-Stoat_3

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-wheel-skates-4-/171574062007?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27f29c6bb7

Invest in a set and you will be able to move most cars without damage if they have parked badly, as long as your not on a hill !

arcon5

Deleted_User wrote: »

Legal or not, it's not very nice thing to be constantly parking outside someone elses house, stopping the people who live there from parking.

As already said, I'd be tempted to buy a £100 scrapper and leave it parked there until they get the message or park outside theirs in the school holidays.

Also I find these personal disabled bays outside houses a little childish as anyone with a blue badge can technically park in it, e.g. a visiting neighbour etc.

So you'd spend hundreds of pounds just to make a point despite their doing nothing wrong? Insurance, road tax etc etc.

[Deleted User]

arcon5 wrote: »

So you'd spend hundreds of pounds just to make a point despite their doing nothing wrong? Insurance, road tax etc etc.

Yes. It's all what some people understand.

Johnnytwostep

this_charming_girl wrote: »

Evening everyone.
I hope some one could shed some light on a situation that i am involved in please?

I live with my Grandparents and back in March my grandad unfortunately passed away.
He had a motability car and a designated disabled parking bay outside our house.
The car was given back a week after he died and we also notified the council that we did not need the bay anymore, as my grandma does not drive.

We were then quite shocked to receive a letter from the council telling us a neighbor had phoned and complained about us having the bay just two weeks after my grandad died!
We obviously phoned the council immediately and repeated the previous phone call, where we told them to take the bay off.
It was only a month ago that the council came a took the paint off the bay.

My Grandmother and myself could not afford the house bills on our own therefore my boyfriend has moved in, and he owns a car.
Since then there has been a silent war for the parking space outside of the house.
There is one couple in particular.

the couple live two doors down, the own two cars between them and park both cars outside their front door. If they can't fit the two cars in they will park one car outside our house whenever they can. My Boyfriend is a secondary school teacher and is out 7:30-5:30 every day. This also means if a parking space becomes free near their own house they will not move until the next day.

This means we have to park at the other end of a long street- not really the end of the world but is annoying.
The most annoying thing is that they deliberately park over two spaces in front of our house. you could quite easily fit two cars in but they park just over the spaces.

Now im not normally one to accuse people however i have a feeling that this couple made the insensitive complaint about the parking bay.
My gran received this letter and was devastated that someone would make a complaint without even speaking to us face to face first. If they had, we would have told them we had already informed the council.
I know that they are not doing anything wrong legally, but i have been thinking about posting a letter through their door about this issue.... is that the correct way to go about solving this problem?

any help would be much appreciated!!

tell me how you bought the road in front of your house, the ones near to me are all owned by the council. Would love to buy a bit just for me as well.

arcon5

Deleted_User wrote: »

Yes. It's all what some people understand.

What point are you trying to make? Don't park on a public road outside my house? :rotfl: Just brilliant.

Dan-Dan

Deleted_User wrote: »

Yes. It's all what some people understand.

You must have more money than sense

topdaddy_2

Deleted_User wrote: »

Yes. It's all what some people understand.

I dont understand why you would do it. You gain no space and make a loss on buying, insuring and taxing a banger. Some people eh?