Nuisance neighbour causing parking mayhem

EachPenny

kerri_gt wrote: »

It may well be possible (and I don't believe planning is needed)....

Planning consent would almost certainly be required as the LPA are likely to have conditioned the original consent to maintain areas of soft landscaping within the public realm. Creating additional parking spaces, even using 'green' methods, would still be a material change.

SuboJvR wrote: »

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.

It varies from council to council. From around 1995 to relatively recently, LPA's were prohibited from setting minimum parking standards. Planning guidance is now slightly less proscriptive, but many councils haven't caught up with it, or still believe that maximum parking standards are a good thing.

One of the more controversial bits of guidance said that LPA's shouldn't require developers to provide more parking than they wanted to (on the basis the developer was the best judge of what the market wanted :wall:) yet guidance continued to demand minimum development density levels and percentages of 'affordable' housing.

adonis wrote: »

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.

It isn't the planners that need to wake up. It was the successive governments who wrote planning guidance which assumed not providing parking would stop people using cars.

unforeseen wrote: »

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.

Absolutely. One development I was looking at recently had 'one in front of the other' parking bays separated either side by green areas with trees planted in them. Clearly nobody had noticed that shorter side-by-side parking bays would have used exactly the same surface area, would make the bays more convenient to use, and would arrange the 'green' space into a continuous strip which would be much easier to maintain.:doh:

david_a

Surprised that customers are coming to the home of a roofing business. I would have thought it would be the other way round.

capital0ne

Just torch his car(s) - problem solved :-)

unforeseen

david_a wrote: »

Surprised that customers are coming to the home of a roofing business. I would have thought it would be the other way round.

I don't think the visitors are anything to do with business.

There are 3 cars and a van connected to that house. So it's a fair bet that there are 3 or more adults living there. One of whom is probably late teens early twenties. It is probably friends of either on or all of them.

There is no evidence that the OP has put forward that they are there for business. A roofing business does not lend itself to any sort of footfall to a premises. OP is possibly hoping that by claiming this it gives some official leverage in their quest to curtail the evening parking.

Who knows? It may be drug dealing and they are coming to buy the stuff. It may be a brothel and the parkers are punters? OP has no evidence of of any of these scenarios.

This is a case of 2+2=5. The guy at #1 is a roofer, they have visitors in the evening, therefore the visitors must be customers.

SephirothX

I'm sorry, I can't reply to every new post. But yes I will go with the suggestion of contacting the management company about the parking problem and see where that gets me. I'm going to wait until the new year though to be nice about it. My drive was blocked in again on Christmas eve despite what happened the previous night, though I didn't need to get out that night.

The poster above is right that I have no evidence the visitors are related to the roofing business. I have been told on two occasions it was a client that was blocking the drive so I assumed all of the cars are there for the same reason because the cars are always different and they always arrive roughly around the same times - between 6-8pm after the guy is back from his day at work and stay around an hour. Two people live there, it could just as likely be the girlfriend doing some kind of business from home.

Planning permission probably is the reason for the grass being there. I'm sure when the estate was built they had to think about how to get people on public transport and the current line of thinking in the area (probably most areas too) is that if you make life difficult for car owners they will use a bus. Public transport is so bad around here I would still opt to drive to work even if the bus was free.

As for the green space, well it's a chopped up dead patch of grass now thanks to the abandoned vehicle the neighbour parked there for over a year which we will all be paying to fix out of the estate fund. But maybe grass will recover itself.

mutley74

short term solution, make a small sign at the bottom of your drive attached to a post "Drive in Use Do NOT block".
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Various-No-Parking-Signs-Garage-Gates-CCTV-Drive-Sign-Or-Sticker-Choice-Of-Sizes/122535436148?hash=item1c87ae5f74:m:mqL5rT-1a3WzQps86m0r-xQ

HouseBuyer77

Maybe get a traffic cone with a decently heavy base or even a big heavy plant pot? You could leave it in the way of someone who might want to park in front of your drive with a sign on politely asking people not to park there.

From your diagram a big heavy plant pot wouldn't be getting in anyone's way (you'd need to place it just far enough out that you can get out of your drive but make parking a pain, if that's possible). Plus it can be moved/disposed of if if comes to that (fitting a locked bollard you can remove in a similar location would do the job nicely but as it's not your road could cause you problems).

Fill it with earth and plant a nice bush or something in it and neighbours might even like it

Cakeguts

mutley74 wrote: »

short term solution, make a small sign at the bottom of your drive attached to a post "Drive in Use Do NOT block".
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Various-No-Parking-Signs-Garage-Gates-CCTV-Drive-Sign-Or-Sticker-Choice-Of-Sizes/122535436148?hash=item1c87ae5f74:m:mqL5rT-1a3WzQps86m0r-xQ

It also needs another one to say about the private access at the bottom of the road to tell visitors that they can't park in there unless they use a visitor's bay.

SephirothX

So I finally remembered to look on Companies House. Turns out the company advertised on his van is registered to that address and was incorporated July 2016. Interestingly though the office address changed from one house in the area to my neighbour's house in August this year - around the same time problems started appearing with visitors to their house.

unforeseen

Doesn't means thing. The registered address for a company is the address for the serving of official papers not the trading address.

As an example, Rolls Royce registered address is a set of offices in London. The main manufacturing and trading is done from Filton &. Derby.