Residential Parking Problems

AndyBSG

Like most people, parking round my way is a complete nightmare but we have one neighbour in particular who is quite frankly selfish and upsetting myself and most of my other neighbours.

Neighbour in question has his own drive for one car but his household has a total of 5 cars(His car, his work van, wife's car and 2 daughter's with their cars).

So, what is happening is he is playing 'car shuffling' each morning. Basically he will move his work car from one of the on street parking spaces then pull whichever car is on the driveway into the on street parking space to make sure he has it 'reserved' for when he comes home of an evening.

In essence his drive is left empty unless all 5 cars at home and as soon as one goes whichever car is on the drive will be moved off the drive into the space vacated by whichever car goes out.

So, obvious question is what options are there?

Only thing I can really think of is applying to the council for a parking permit scheme.

Obvious drawbacks are that it will take forever, I need to get all the other residents to agree and also the road in question is actually a service road to the rear gardens of the houses involved rather than an actual road.

He has no shame about doing what he does, he's even done it several times right in front of the other neighbours and on one occasion when I did by some miracle manage to get a space he literally came running out of his house in his dressing gown first thing in the morning when I went to work to move his car back into the space and off his driveway!

I realise there is probably little that can be done but wondering if others have had similar issues and how they've resolved them?

At the moment my only real idea is to childishly throw a load of bird seed on his car when he's out just to see it covered in bird mess

Double_V

That is a nightmare.
I have similar problem though not with the residents but visitors to the tuition academy. (dropping and picking their kids and block residents bay or parked in)

Would like to see what others say on this.
Hopefully it gets resolved.

Nobbie1967

Maybe you should have bought a house with a drive? Nothing wrong with what your neighbour is doing and nothing you can do about it apart from moving. Not sure how a parking permit scheme would help, as presumably they'd just get permits for all the cars?

Silver-Surfer_2

Legally he is doing nothing wrong.

khcomp

If your neighbour's cars are road legal, he can have as many as he likes & park on street wherever & whenever he likes if parking is unrestricted - you have no more rights to park anywhere than he does.
I used to live in a town, and can remember this well - people think that they 'own' or have a right to the space outside their properties. Older contributors may remember the TV series 'Butterflies' with regards to multi car households!
He shouldn't be 'ashamed', he's excercising his rights to park wherever available.

EdGasket

I do exactly what the OP is complaining about. Although I have a driveway, I pay full road tax (or whatever you want to call it) and am entitled to park on the road. If at all possible I will park outside my house or elsewhere in the road and leave the driveway empty for my second car when it returns home. If I don't park there then someone who doesn't even live in the road will!

bigadaj

The only thing you can really do is speak to the council about bringing in parking restrictions and make it residential permit only.

This would cost you and everyone else on the road money in terms of getting permits, but would cost him and his family five times as much, and would probably result in them using their drive more to save money.

nath81

Can't see anything wrong with what he is doing, I would also have "no shame" in doing it, and wouldn't care who was watching. Life is short, I wouldn't get stressed about such trivial things.

pogofish

The very last thing you want to do is apply for a permit scheme - then you and any visitors become fair-game for "revenue-raising" by the local council and after a year or two, the initially reasonably priced permit fees have a habit of going sky high.

DTDfanBoy

AndyBSG wrote: »

So, obvious question is what options are there?

Perhaps you could find yourself a hobby

Rain_Shadow

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

Perhaps you could find yourself a hobby

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