Street Parking

Irony

Maybe a drive/dropped kerb.
Your boyfriends a teacher,maybe some ugly kids hanging around :eek:

bryanb

ShAnE wrote: »

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

Er? No, a disabled bay is for people with a disabled badge, if it's on public road. Try checking if you think different. I can't be bothered to do it for you.

sulphate

Seriously?

We live in a terraced house with no driveway on a public road, I generally only get a space right outside our house if I get home before 4.30pm, considering I normally work until 4.30pm the amount of times that happens is rare. And yes I frequently have to park at the other end of the road or in a different road altogether. My husband and I also have a car each so sometimes both of us have to park outside someone else's house :eek: and no, we don't sit in front of our lounge window waiting for a space outside our house to become available and then move our cars up, we have better things to do. Everyone in this street is in the same boat.

Annoying especially as we have a baby on the way but that's the compromise we made when we bought this house. If you don't want the hassle of someone parking outside your house!!! then move into a house with a driveway.

JustinR1979

Knew a bloke that used to put cones out, but he was in the sas.....
Can't your fella park taking 2 spaces in front of their house and car share for a while?

this_charming_girl

Thank you for all your replies.
ok to start, of course i am willing to speak to them face to face, i just thought a note through the door maybe a little less confrontational?
perhaps i am wrong?

And its not really as simple to say, just move considering i do not own the house, my grandma does.
I moved in because of parental/domestic issues , this year my grandad died and my boyfriend moved in to help with the costs.
This house is the house my gran has lived in for nearly 10 years, my grandad passed away in the house and i don't want to tell my gran we have to move out of her house because of parking issues.

I understand some people may not even have parking spaces outside their houses full stop, but that's not the issue here.

I just think that its unreasonable for this couple to push us out of parking infront of our house and taking up two spaces to spite us.
I'm sure a lot of other people would find this irritating too.

I also understand and know that i do not own the road (otherwise i would not be posting) but i thought it would be common curtsey to acknowledge that other people that live on the street have a car and would like to use the space in front of their own house where possible?
We have had a lot of trouble, including a note on the car just after my grandad died telling us we were not to use the disabled parking space because we were all able bodied.
we spoke to the council about this issue as i said before and they told us we were ok to keep using it until they came to take it away.

I am an honest person which is why i informed the council of every update after my grandad died.

Ive never had to deal with a situation like this before, hence the post. I myself am also not a driver so I'm at a loss as to how i should proceed.
thanks:)

sulphate

How do you know they are doing it to spite you? You said that they park outside your house when there isn't enough room outside theirs. If there is no space outside their house they have to park somewhere - either outside your house or someone else's. You don't even know that this couple made the complaint about the disabled space, that's just an assumption. It has nothing to do with "courtesy", on a public road the parking spaces are first come first serve - you don't have priority over the space outside your house so if the space is empty anyone can park there if they wish.

If you are not in a position to move, you have to accept the situation like everyone else does who doesn't have a driveway. What exactly are you hoping to achieve by speaking to them or putting a letter in their door?

A neighbour's car is parked outside our house right now. I guarantee if I asked them to park elsewhere in future they would laugh in my face!

this_charming_girl

Because they park in-between two spaces and when there is room they do not move their car or even park outside their own house if space is available.
just yesterday there was two spaces outside their own house yet the lady chose to park in-front of ours.
They also do this when there is space opposite their house. i don't think this is fair for people like us who only have one car only.

They don't park outside anyone else's house except ours.
Its really funny when my boyfriend has to park outside their house because they have parked outside of ours over two spaces.
If they backed up towards the car next door there would be two spaces, but they don't!

sulphate

What exactly do you mean by parking in between two spaces? Are the bays marked? Whilst this might be annoying maybe you could ask them to park better to allow more cars to park if you feel so inclined.

Maybe they park outside your house because they see the space first. Our house is at the top of the road, so a lot of people park this end even if they live further down, because they can't see if there are spaces further down.

How do you know they don't park outside anyone else's house, do you monitor their every move? Why should they move their car up when a space becomes available outside their house? We don't, I have other things to do with my time other than worry about where my car is parked. Is your boyfriend able bodied? I can't see what the issue is with parking further down and walking. My husband is a tutor and musician and frequently has to cart things like heavy drum kits around, it's a pain if he can't park right outside but that's just life.

topdaddy_2

bryanb wrote: »

Er? No, a disabled bay is for people with a disabled badge, if it's on public road. Try checking if you think different. I can't be bothered to do it for you.

Sounds like they have checked;)

System

If there is no associated TRO then a disabled parking bay on street is advisory only and no action can be taken against a non blue badge vehicle parking there either by the council or police.