New home owner (Parking dispute)

Joshuaa25

regprentice wrote: »

if i understand your description your house is on a corner, or immediately next to a corner. You may find that the council deem your property to be so close to the corner that it would be dangerous for you to attempt to pull your car out directly onto a junction. As such they haven't, or wouldn't, grant permission for a dropped kerb.

I've known people in similar position refused permission for a dropped kerb as they were the first house next to a T-junction.

If its a works van it might be worth complaining to the employer, especially if the driver isn't resident in your street and the van is being 'dumped'.

There is very little else you can do i'm afraid, its not worth the grief of getting into a battle with them. My neighbour has a number of transit vans he does up, they fill his front garden and another few spaces on the street. as such he also has to park his own car on the street. They have a ritual where he drives to work in the morning and his wife will drive a van into 'his' spot on the road to keep it until he comes home from work. My other neighbour has fallen out with him several times and , if he ever sees the first neighbours spot free nips round the corner and borrows his mates car and parks it in the first neighbours spot. it really is pathetic and someone is going to come to blows over it eventually.

Thanks for your reply, it's a white van no logos or anything on he's moved now my partner said he ran jumped in and drove off but didn't see what direction he came from I've seen him drive around a few times when I'm there to see if he can get parked. I've put a link in with spaces to look at the picture sorry about the quality it was when we were getting the fence replace the dropped kerb is there already has been for 10+ years every house has one and the same red tar mac where they park .

Kim_kim

Joshuaa25 wrote: »

http:// tinypic.com /r/11kwn7a/9


If you take the spaces out should work?


I've just bought the deeds online and it doesn't show it in our red lines so not sure if it's the council so I'll need to ring them and see about buying it. If we had a drive put in where would we stand because we wouldn't own it but it's blocked for that purpose?


Cheers

People aren't susposed to block drives.

I had someone slightly block mine once. Called the police to move them (so ex husband could get out to work) it was about 4.30am - funny they didn't do it since.

PasturesNew

Joshuaa25 wrote: »

http:// tinypic.com /r/11kwn7a/9

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=11kwn7a&s=9

Joshuaa25

Does that picture make it easier to understand?

Kim_kim

Joshuaa25 wrote: »

http:// tinypic.com /r/11kwn7a/9


If you take the spaces out should work?


I've just bought the deeds online and it doesn't show it in our red lines so not sure if it's the council so I'll need to ring them and see about buying it. If we had a drive put in where would we stand because we wouldn't own it but it's blocked for that purpose?


Cheers

That doesn't look wide enough for a car is it?

Joshuaa25

It's wide enough for just a small over hang which takes the car off the road which is the main part I think because the path couldn't be any smaller so it takes the brunt of it.

Cakeguts

It looks to me like public parking for a road that is too narrow to have parking next to the kerb.

Kim_kim

Cakeguts wrote: »

It looks to me like public parking for a road that is too narrow to have parking next to the kerb.

I think I'd agree OP.

I'd be very wary of making an issue of parkers - people might start making it their first choice to prove a point & you don't want that.

Do you plan to put a drive in?

System

I need some punctuation to understand what the hell is going on here.

Mr.Generous

if you have a drive and get parked in (ie can't get off your drive) by someone it is an offense and the police will deal with it, however if your drive is empty they can actually park across it and block your drive! Not many would, and it probably would never happen. You have zero chance of the council selling you part of the highway.