Council putting double yellow lines outside my house

unforeseen

Maybe you ought to look at the original planning permission for the estate. You may well find it was a condition that parking would only be allowed in specific places. To enforce it the council would yellow line the roads.

z1a

Exemplar wrote: »

You're a tool.

Try and be helpful.

And you're not???

Where's your help then?

Aylesbury_Duck

OP, I know it's a pain but as another poster has pointed out, it may have been in the legal documents when you bought the house and only now the development is nearing completion are they getting round to completing it.

I'd look at it another way. Wouldn't you be glad that in the event of a fire, heart attack, accident or any number of things that can and will go wrong at some point, that emergency vehicles would be able to access your street promptly, without needing to thread their way through parked cars? Free for all parking never works because some people will always be 'that person' who decides their desire to park close to their house or the house of the person their visiting outweighs the safety and convenience of everyone else.

Car_54

Didn't you or your solicitor ask about parking before you bought?

Manxman_in_exile

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

OP, I know it's a pain but as another poster has pointed out, it may have been in the legal documents when you bought the house and only now the development is nearing completion are they getting round to completing it.

I'd look at it another way. Wouldn't you be glad that in the event of a fire, heart attack, accident or any number of things that can and will go wrong at some point, that emergency vehicles would be able to access your street promptly, without needing to thread their way through parked cars? Free for all parking never works because some people will always be 'that person' who decides their desire to park close to their house or the house of the person their visiting outweighs the safety and convenience of everyone else.

Looking at the photo you probably should have asked your solicitor (or they should have raised with you?) questions about parking availability. These modern developments often do not provide friendly parking arrangements.

Manxman_in_exile

z1a wrote: »

Just wondering what a semi detached terrace is?

I would expect most people to understand that it was one of the two end houses in a terrace. Most sellers describe them as semi-detached. Presumably more attractive to purchasers than a terraced house.

elsien

Individual objections focussing on specific planning criteria carry more weight than general petitions. I'd also suggest discussing further with your local councillor.

MaebyJade

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

OP, I know it's a pain but as another poster has pointed out, it may have been in the legal documents when you bought the house and only now the development is nearing completion are they getting round to completing it.

I'd look at it another way. Wouldn't you be glad that in the event of a fire, heart attack, accident or any number of things that can and will go wrong at some point, that emergency vehicles would be able to access your street promptly, without needing to thread their way through parked cars? Free for all parking never works because some people will always be 'that person' who decides their desire to park close to their house or the house of the person their visiting outweighs the safety and convenience of everyone else.

I suppose when you put it like that it's not all doom and gloom!

Car_54 wrote: »

Didn't you or your solicitor ask about parking before you bought?

I didn't ask specifically about parking as I assumed this came with the property. Stupid I know but the plans/map we signed when reserving the property didn't have any road markings (other roads did). I did have a read of my solicitors report and the lease agreement and on there is says this:

"The right of way on foot and vehicular access over the estate roads and accessways. The Landlord may from time to time close stop up divert or extinguish the route of any such accessways but that in the event of the Tenant's access to the property being materially and adversely affected the Landlord shall provide an alternative route which is not significantly less commodious than the existing route."

TonyMMM

A lot of new developments are not parking friendly for two reasons:

1) By making the roads narrower they can squeeze more properties into a given area and;

2) Planning systems actively discourage car ownership in a lot of places so parking provision is deliberately left poor or difficult.

The question then is whether or not the local authority choose to enforce that when they adopt the roads. Many don't do anything until complaints start to roll in about roads being blocked for emergency vehicles etc. but yours may be more proactive.

As suggested - you need to look at the original planning documents for the development and see what was said about the parking provision for the site (it will be covered - probably in some detail). If the planning consent included parking restrictions on the roads which are now just being put in place, your protests are not going to get far, but the fact they are having a "consultation" is good news - that suggests this is a something being introduced post planning which you may be able to influence.

Alter_ego

PasturesNew wrote: »

S0d the residents as they struggle to carry their shopping in the p155ing rain at 3am from their car back to their house, trying to get a move on as there's a dodgy geezer lurking.

It is legal you know to stop on double yellows to unload the shopping.