Neighbour taking all the parking spaces on the street?

Aylesbury_Duck

This sort of thing requires some collective action (once you've exhausted the polite option of talking to the guy). I guess you're not the only one on the street who thinks this is wrong so work with your neighbours to collectively block the spaces with your own cars on random days.

A street near me did this with commuter cars. The street's houses had driveways but commuters were parking all over the place and whilst some were parked safely and legally, others were on corners, opposite junctions, overhanging driveways, etc. Eventually the residents worked together and on two days a week in no particular pattern, would leave their cars parked on the street in such a fashion as to make commuter parking impossible. Commuters got fed up turning up to find no parking and having to reroute to the station car park (across the tracks and a good 1.5 miles away by road) and the problem reduced massively.

[Deleted User]

Every farmer drives their red diesel tractors and stuff on public road. When I see one come out of a field, drive a mile down the road and enter another field you're telling me he's paying full price diesel to plough those 2 fields? Nah no chance.

But police/HMRC/whatever will not pull them over to check, they only go for dodgy looking transit vans.

unforeseen

That is allowable. Keeping it on a public residential road overnight is not.

You may use red diesel in your vehicle if it is used on public roads only when moving between different areas of land occupied by the same person, for purposes relating to agriculture, horticulture or forestry, as long as this does not involve travelling on public roads for more than 1.5 kilometres.

{https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/excise-notice-75-fuel-for-road-vehicles/excise-notice-75-fuel-for-road-vehicles}

unholyangel

If I remember correctly, the trade off for making agricultural vehicles excepted from VED was that they are required to pull over to let traffic pass. But I believe they're only supposed to be on public roads when travelling between pieces of land owned by the same person (not that people seem to stick to it). However that is assuming that the tractor is actually categorised as an agricultural excepted vehicle and not something else (like how dpvs need to have a certain window area, certain storage area etc, to be classed as a dpv).

Theres 2 parts to OPs issue here though. The neighbour being inconsiderate with their parking & lack of a right to park outside your home. It may be possible to get some of his shifted but that still won't give a right to park outside your home so it may be better looking into alternative solutions if there are any.

Jackmydad

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

When you say a "tractor" I presume you mean an agricultural vehicle and not a HGV tractor unit? And the trailers are farm trailers, not ones to be hitched to a HGV cab?


I'm struggling to see why a farm worker would bring a tractor and trailer home with them (#6 - although I can see reporting them to HMRC might not cultivate good neighbourly relations!).


We have "ordinary" parking problems on our street, but everybody behaves reasonably. Your neighbour doesn't sound reasonable, but perhaps they've always done it and don't appreciate its inconvenience for others.


Have you enquired of the council?


I imagine with a username Skintgal, moving house may not be practical (or even practicable).

I wondered whether it was a tractor unit as well.
If it is, I thought you couldn't just park anywhere and had to have an operator's licence.

Whatever it sounds as if the neighbour is taking the proverbial.

molerat

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tractors-regulations-on-use/tractors-and-regulatory-requirements-a-brief-guide-september-2017

Herzlos

Tom99 wrote: »

'A trailer must be lit at night if it is parked on a road and comply with the other parking rules - the nearside must face the pavement so the rear lights are at the rear for approaching traffic'

I think this is the only avenue here - you're not really allowed to leave any trailers on public roads at night without lighting which would cost him a fortune. I'm not sure how well it'd be enforced but talking to your local community cop (if they exist) might be enough to get it looked at. I doubt anyone would care about 1 small caravan/trailer, but if this is agricultural equipment it's a bit much.


I do wonder how it hasn't managed to get stolen already though.

[Deleted User]

Another way to get rid of commercial vehicles is to complain to your councillors and ask them to introduce a "no commercial vehicles" rule for your area. We had one introduced a few years ago and it's been great, got rid of all the vans.

seatbeltnoob

Why so many trailers? Is he buying and selling them? Operating la trailer rental business from public road maybe?