Parking outside the house

PasturesNew

Robisere wrote: »

Tell the shopkeeper that his (?) direction regarding parking is illegal and is obstructing care services for your mum and you are considering distributing this information via local media and neighbours. This will obviously impact upon his custom: would he like to think again?

We've not yet established if there's any chance the shopkeeper could be right .... in which case it'd be better to come from the other angle of "we are sorry, we didn't know. We now know.... this is important to us, can we reach a workable agreement?"

If somebody came at me with an aggressive attitude, I'd go out of my way to dig something up on them and by heck I'd never let it go..... threats and blackmail are no way forward.... and I can play the long, cold, hard game

Jacqui_B

Thanks guys, you have confirmed what I thought to be true but it's always useful to check. They also removed part of our fence in the garden, so that they could cut across onto their land without opening their gates without our permission. It seems a shame for neighbour disputes to suddenly start but when they suddenly start threatening there is nothing to do but face it.

PasturesNew

Looking at the image, the shop does have a dropped kerb in front of it.
This could be tricky to work out ..... a dropped kerb usually means you can't park in front of it as the dropped-kerb-owner owns the rights to access at that point from the highway.

So, from his point of view, if you park there then you're preventing him from having a customer park there.

This needs somebody a lot more knowledgeable about commercial premises and dropped kerbs than me.

But I can see he might have rights or think he has .... because if he has got a dropped kerb there then that might be to access his shop forecourt and, even without signs/lines it is possible he is correct in limiting who he "allows" to "block" that access, no matter how wide/open it looks to us at any given moment.

Jacqui_B

I tried apologising first, they wouldn't let it go. Saying I had parked in there parking. At which point I asked where she meant as I have never parked on their forecourt. Then she became aggressive

PasturesNew

If you parked outside the house joined to the shop, he'd not have rights there - but there is a possibility to explore that he might have some rights to who parks in the road in front of his shop.

Somebody here will know how that works in a bit ....

The next step is to work out how to manage the relationship with the shopkeeper in order to get them to agree that what you're doing isn't unreasonable, which will depend on when you do it and how long for.

How long do you normally park there for?

If you're there 3 hours at peak trading hours he'd be more miffed than if it were 10 minutes when it's quiet.

If he's in the wrong a little man from the Council can inform him he's a tw4t.

Jacqui_B

I normally park outside the house as far back as I can manage. We now have these traffic calming blocks that stick into the road. I reverse back until my tyres hit that. It can be for a couple of hours. Unfortunately they have a tendancy to park in front of the house leaving a gap either side so I then park as close as possible. I have to get grandma in and out so it can't be far as she's wheelchair bound.

Jacqui_B

It also may be worth noting the dropped kerb continues well past their shop past a block of flats and down to a butchers and post office. It is marked out for parking all the way down.

Jacqui_B

Just phoned the council, they are going to phone me back tomorrow to resolve the issue properly but they confirmed it's not an actual drop kerb. It's just a low pavement, the same as the rest of the main road.

Chrishazle

Under the circumstances, would the council consider a disabled bay outside your Mum's house, you get her a blue badge if she does not already have one - then you've got the shopkeeper by the short and curlies if he/she obstructs the marked bay!

scd3scd4

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

And wake up to a keyed car and spiked tyres.

A person once implied that to me. I pointed to a car I thought was their one and asked........"That your car?"............and smiled. Ohh and I would have.