Nuisance neighbour causing parking mayhem

NeilCr

teddysmum wrote: »

The council will not like a business being run from a private house.


My husband used to run a wedding car business, not from home,but occasionally would take a car (only two cars) home to valet the inside using our vacuum cleaner. This was done on our drive and didn't cause any access problems to anyone as the everyday car would have been left in the wedding car's garage.


A neighbour , took exception and told the council that a business was being run from the house and he received a stroppy letter,saying that he was running a business without permission and should permission be sought ,it would not be forthcoming,adding that,if the business didn't cease, they would take further action. (In this case proof of garaging and business address was provided and no further action was taken)

Is that true for a business operating on a private, unadapted road?

anselld

NeilCr wrote: »

Is that true for a business operating on a private, unadapted road?

Yes it is true, because use class is a planning issue nothing to do with the status of the highway.

However, being self employed is not the same as running a Business. The self-employed do need to live somewhere! In this case the line is crossed when his clients start turning up at all hours, though goodness knows why a roofer needs clients to turn up at his house.

Riggyman

But they won’t give a fig...

kerri_gt

SephirothX wrote: »

I really don't know why they thought adding two patches of grass would be better than having two extra parking spaces. My neighbour #4 sometimes parks on the grass outside their house and have said they'd like to convert it to a drive but I suspect they themselves have no right to do so since that's under the control of the estate management rather than the home owner.

I notice right now there's a car parked on the grass beside #1 so perhaps they have been more considerate today and asked them to park there. The estate management should really convert this to a bay at the least.

I do see the point you guys are making about the actual visitor bay though, if I had an extra car and there was a visitor bay outside my house I'd use it too. My main issue is that they believe it to be theirs. I've not tested them yet as I rarely get visitors in cars and when I do I usually ask them to park around the corner so as to not block the shared access road.

As for the visitors parking closer to the grass/#1's drive - that does allow me to get out IF neighbour #4 doesn't have their car parked on the shared access road as well. If they do then the gap is too narrow to get through so I guess you could say this neighbour is also part of the problem.

I think the best suggestion for now is to take the approach that the lack of parking is the problem and highlight this to the estate management and see where that goes. I suspect there won't be enough money in the pot to convert grass to tarmac and they'd ask us to pay for it - which no one will want to do. Markings would be cheaper however.

It may well be possible (and I don't believe planning is needed) for the management company to lift the turf of the green areas, lay those rubber tiles which can be parked on but still have ground permeability and re-seed the area - so it's still green but can be parked upon. It's a bit of a compromise but would provide some cheap(ish) additional parking whilst still keeping the green

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zagubov

cjdavies wrote: »

It's very tempting to knock the neighbours every time I'm blocked in, pretend I'm going somewhere, and start tutting/annoyed as they walk/move their car as if you are in a hurry.

Maybe use a note like this one on the cars.

unforeseen

SephirothX wrote: »

I really don't know why they thought adding two patches of grass would be better than having two extra parking spaces..

They didn't, it was the planners. Planning have laid down strict rules on the number of parking spaces that can be installed on developments for quite a while. If you go on your council website it will tell you. Things like 1.25 spaces per 2 bedroom house, 0.8 spaces for a one bed flat etc. as examples

SuboJvR

Those are minimum recommendations for parking spaces though, not maximum, although new build developers will try to suggest the former due to the space issues they have with squishing homes together.

On our development there are also parking issues but halfway through building the builder decided to up the space allocation so one half is much, much better. Where some three bed homes only have one space further down, our driveway has enough room for three cars although is classed as two spaces.

SuboJvR

Sorry - they will try to suggest it’s a maximum allowance. Can’t edit on mobile.

adonis

unforeseen wrote: »

They didn't, it was the planners. Planning have laid down strict rules on the number of parking spaces that can be installed on developments for quite a while. If you go on your council website it will tell you. Things like 1.25 spaces per 2 bedroom house, 0.8 spaces for a one bed flat etc. as examples

This is stupid, people have visitors and have to go to work, sometimes at unsocial hours where public transport is not available.
The planners need to wake up and realise that we want our cars, even if we use public transport or walk/cycle to work the car still needs to be parked somewhere.

unforeseen

SuboJvR wrote: »

Sorry - they will try to suggest it’s a maximum allowance. Can’t edit on mobile.

Quite a few councils have maximums. Don't forget that if you have a garage as well as a drive long enough for a vehicle then they are both counted as parking spaces.