Anonymous nasty neighbour...

RabbitMad

minimoocow wrote: »

Hi!

I do know how annoying it is to find a rude note though! I was really annoyed when I had parked outside my house - terraced street, no drives/garages and parking on both sides. Cars on one side of the street have to pull up onto the pavement otherwise the road would be blocked - not really an issue as far as I can see - pavement is clear on one side of the road but not the other. Anyway the note read:

"THIS IS A PAVEMENT NOT A PARKING SPACE. PLEASE PARK SO PEOPLE CAN GET AROUND WITH BUGGIES AND STICKS!"

Er, well I could do that but I suspect the police might tow it away for obstructing the highway. I wouldn't have minded but the pavement the other side was clear and there were other cars parked where I was and they didn't get notes!!!!

I think you'll find that there isn't parking on both sides if you have to use the pavement and why should the person have to get down off the pavement, cross the road just because you wanted to park your car outside your house to save yourself a short walk?

Obstructing the pavement is as big an offence as obstructing the road.

RabbitMad

minimoocow wrote: »

Yes I know this is LEGALLY the case but if the police were called about this they would have to tow away half the cars in about a mile radius :rotfl:

I do think common sense should prevail - I don't have a buggy but do have a wheely trolley for work (full of books, files etc) and choose to cross the road so using the pavement that is available - it's really not that tricky!!!

2 points.

First just because everybody else does something doesn't mean its correct.

Second as an abled body person I agree that crossing the road isn't a big deal even with a laptop case (I assume thats what you mean by trolly) but in a wheel chair or with a pram/pushchair crossing the road without the kerbs being lowered is much harder and going between parked cars is very difficult as they are often too close to fit between. (These things are huge as I have recently found out)

I know several mums that carry their keys in their hand just for such instances.

Please try to be more considerate in future

minimoocow

I can only assume you people don't live in a area like mine otherwise you would understand what I mean (are you honestly saying you would drive around until you found a space to park perhaps a 15min walk from your house?!) but thank you all for pointing out the error of my ways - I will in future park my car a few miles away from my house in the nicer part of town . . . I wonder how long it will take you all to complain to the council that those people in the terraced houses insist on parking on your streets?!!! Sadly they won't be able to do anything about it as we will be parked legally . . .

Oh and just to add - the council are completely aware that cars are parked on the pavement and have put up signs saying don't do it on a Tuesday as the bin lorries won't get down . . . that to me says it's ok at other times. As I said sometimes common sense needs to prevail and getting people to park about 1 mile from their house doesn't make sense - it would have a devastating effect on the area as people wouldn't want to live there, come to the shops (which have just been regenerated) etc. Parking is always going to be a problem unless the houses were all knocked down and the town planners brought in and nobody wants that!!

Anyway sorry to hijack this thread, I think I should go now and leave the OP to their problem

olly300

minimoocow wrote: »

I can only assume you people don't live in a area like mine otherwise you would understand what I mean (are you honestly saying you would drive around until you found a space to park perhaps a 15min walk from your house?!) but thank you all for pointing out the error of my ways - I will in future park my car a few miles away from my house in the nicer part of town . . . I wonder how long it will take you all to complain to the council that those people in the terraced houses insist on parking on your streets?!!! Sadly they won't be able to do anything about it as we will be parked legally . . .

I've lived in two areas where people park/ed on the pavement. (One I'm currently living in.)

In the first area the council made it so that on the lots of roads due to their narrowness, you had to park on a different side each day. If you didn't or went away for a few days you would come back and find your car with a parking ticket or worse towed away. (The only way to get round it was to make sure you had someone else to move your car for you.)

In my present area because the roads have bays in it, the bays are painted on the road, fully on the pavement if the pavement is wide enough, or half on the road half on the pavement if the road is narrow. If you park elsewhere if it's a single yellow line or no line you get a parking ticket, if its a double yellow you get a parking ticket then towed away.

In both cases if you can't park on the road near your house then unfortunately you will find the next available parking space on another road where you may have to pay OR 15 minutes walk away where the roads are wider and parking is free.

Oh and just to add - the council are completely aware that cars are parked on the pavement and have put up signs saying don't do it on a Tuesday as the bin lorries won't get down . . . that to me says it's ok at other times.

That's how the boroughs I've lived in have brought in their parking restrictions. People including council workers start complaining about people parking on pavements, not being able to park to do their jobs etc and before you know it you live in a controlled parking zone.

As I said sometimes common sense needs to prevail and getting people to park about 1 mile from their house doesn't make sense - it would have a devastating effect on the area as people wouldn't want to live there, come to the shops (which have just been regenerated) etc. Parking is always going to be a problem unless the houses were all knocked down and the town planners brought in and nobody wants that!!

Actually councils don't care about able bodied people having to park a mile or so away from their houses as far as they are concerned having a car is a privilege not a right. They are more interested in the rights of businesses to attract customers, the disabled who need cars for mobility, and pedestrians because of the risk of accidents.

Debt_Free_Chick

olly300 wrote: »

Actually councils don't care about able bodied people having to park a mile or so away from their houses as far as they are concerned having a car is a privilege not a right.

I'd go further than that - being able to park outside, or anywhere near your home, is a privilege - not a right.

We are talking about the Public Highway - not a private road. It is there for the benefit of the Public - not local property owners.

Indeed, talking to East Sussex Highways yesterday (on a parking related matter in our Parish, where I am the Clerk) I was informed that no-one has any right to park on any part of the Public Highway at all. But that no-one is going to take any action, ever.

RabbitMad

minimoocow - when I first left home I had to park my car a mile away until I got a residents permit for the carpark 1/2 a mile away.

I understand how frustrating it is not being able to find a parking space and therefore when I moved I rented / purchased properties with off road parking.

Can I ask: If the bin lorry can't get down the road, could a fire engine?

duchy

I'd speak to the letting agent and ASK if there was a previous problem. It may be that a previous tenent really peed off the neighbours.
However just don't leave your bike there now you know it's an issue. It's not worth the hassle it could turn into.

taxi97w

A long shot I know, but maybe the landlord left the note.

knowledgeman

Tbh you come across as a selfish ignorant person

If this area is communal you shouldnt be blocking it, whether you think people are using it or not

It may have been in disrepair etc but this doesnt mean you can fix it then treat it as your own

Tbh all you need to do is stop blocking it and problem solved

If the land needs maintained approach your neighbours about a schedule/cost sharing plan

but your thread is so out of place, you were in the wrong and your neighbour had every right to do this

As for yur other thread, take your valium, tyres do go flat from time to time

Wig

webhamster wrote: »

you see an honest "grab reality" post as obnoxious , "woah".

Proves my points really "blame others culture" and the rights of the ignorant selfish person outway any legal and moral behaviour respsonsibility and you think they shouldnt be challenged or they are called obnoxious.

well i find the poor me i am the victim when im doing wrong obnoxious , those that reinforce that behaviour are worse than them by backing it and continuing this countries moral declination.

Now if realism offends people thats something im never going to be sorry for , nor be ashamed of offending feelings of those that never cared in the first place about others anyway.

Have to say I 100% agree with this poster.