Parking problem

welfayre

Strider590 wrote: »

My neighbour is having similar issues at the moment, we each have a parking space behind our garages, with the spaces next to that space being on road parking with no legal right to park there, other house have parking out the front. All spaces are at 90 degrees to the road, so proper parking.

Everyone in the street respected everyone elses spaces, except for one family down the street who bought a property down the end of a path, with no parking, they have 3 vehicles and one is a works van which they have been terrorising my neighbour with, when she spoke to the driver, the family bought a scrapper of a Peugeot and parked it in her remaining space (for the last 3 months) the parking situation is now getting silly, one family has got the whole street p1ssed off at eachother and to make matters worse this family is now running what I suspect is a cash in hand childcare business, so come 5-7pm there is nowhere to park at all.

Whilst there may be no right to parking, it does cause serious issues and tensions in the street between neighbours.

The chap who drives this van, he's also taken to messing with peoples cars (lifting wipers etc) to get neighbours even more mad at each other, but i've got the clown on CCTV doing it and i'm gradually spreading the word.
I'm just waiting for him to get chance to cross my neighbours on the other side (they rarely leave their spaces empty), as they have no concept of reasonable escalation and will torch his cars if he tries it on.

Strider590 wrote: »

Oh that one hasn't been ignored..... Ive been collecting details of their comings and goings, cars, reg numbers, etc.
Neither has giving his employer a bad review on Google and telling people all about how they're letting him terrorise his Asian neighbours using his works van.
Neither has calling the Police and showing them CCTV video evidence of him bending windscreen wipers.

But as I mentioned "reasonable escalation", so i'll sit back for now, give em enough rope and if they carry on i'll **** them over so badly they won't know which way is up.

The only thing worse than a sneaky, slimy, vindictive snake is a cowardly, sneaky, slimy, vindictive snake.

Seriously if you've got an issue with your neighbour grow a set and sort it out like an adult, don't hide behind your curtains, spreading rumours and hoping someone else will do your dirty work for you.

Marvel1

Reverse in, drive out, sorted.

Geoff1963

backing up to her garage is very tight and I doubt she'd do it without crashing!

If the worry is reversing too far, put a block on the ground behind where one of the rear wheels should go. If it's narrow, put some foam-covered sticks to act as a guide.

Another way would be house-mounted wireless CCTV pointing down, with a receiver and display in the car, so she gets a plan view of the back end as it goes in.

DoaM

Is there an overhang from which an old tennis ball on a string could be suspended? When the tennis ball touches the rear window, she'd be far enough back.

NicNicP

The issue with reversing is that it's a very narrow space to drive up to her garage. Personally I think she's going a bit ott about it all. I just wanted to be clear on what the law is. She'll be cursing this morning as a white van had parked up behind the other van now and is actually blocking her drive!

DoaM

That 2nd van will be breaking the law if it is parked across a dropped kerb and preventing her accessing the highway.