Nuisance Car

mattyprice4004

What is it with this country and people thinking they have the right to dictate what other people keep on their driveway?
I keep a collection of older cars on mine, and have had nippy comments in the past from neighbours etc too.

I paid a lot of money for my house, if I want to keep a rustbucket on the drive I will do.
Thankfully, the law errs on the side of common sense and thus there's nothing you can do.
Also, how dare he legally park his other van on the street, as he is entitled to do! :eek:

Edit: Have just seen you only moved there a year ago, yet he's been there for at least 15. There's nothing worse than some NIMBY moving in up the road and dictating what they think other people around them should do.
It's not a nuisance (also it's not a car...), deal with it. Frankly you could have much worse to live with, half the people on here would give their first born for their biggest issue to be a neighbour with a scabby Transit on his own land.

UkSaver

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

What is it with this country and people thinking they have the right to dictate what other people keep on their driveway?
I keep a collection of older cars on mine, and have had nippy comments in the past from neighbours etc too.
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To be fair, I completely agree with you (not that i know what a nimby is)

It's just a case of if it annoys people daily and it makes no odds to the guy having it, then I'm all in favour of getting rid.

Once again, if he actually used it (even as spare storage space) it wouldn't even register, just seems like sheer disregard from him.

I could blare my music louder than I do, but don't for the sake of my neighbours. Simple common courtesy in my opinion. Just because there are bigger issues, doesn't mean smaller ones don't need sorting.

twhitehousescat

UkSaver wrote: »

To be fair, I completely agree with you (not that i know what a nimby is)

It's just a case of if it annoys people daily and it makes no odds to the guy having it, then I'm all in favour of getting rid.

Once again, if he actually used it (even as spare storage space) it wouldn't even register, just seems like shear laziness/disregard from him.

I could blare my music louder than I do, but don't for the sake of my neighbours. Simple common courtesy in my opinion. Just because there are bigger issues, doesn't mean smaller ones don't need sorting.

not that i know what a nimby is

not in my back yard

jimbo6977

check your deeds or lease for any ban on the keeping of commercial vehicles on the premises. if it applies to you it might well appear in the neighbour's deeds/lease also.

Scrapit

Not your drive not your problem.

Aylesbury_Duck

Move house to a posher neighbourhood. It clearly bothers you that your neighbour doesn't have your standards so the solution is for you to move.

Norman_Castle

If it lowers the tone of the neighbourhood you probably bought your house cheaper because of it. You should be thanking him.:money:

UkSaver

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

Move house to a posher neighbourhood. It clearly bothers you that your neighbour doesn't have your standards so the solution is for you to move.

I'd rather just buy the van off him :rotfl:

Personally believe it's just broke down and it's not been important enough to throw money at to fix and then ultimately move it.

His prerogative to keep it obviously just would be nice to see it gone

UkSaver

Norman_Castle wrote: »

If it lowers the tone of the neighbourhood you probably bought your house cheaper because of it. You should be thanking him.:money:

Haha very true! I'll thank him with a couple of hundred and a trip to the scrap man

Aylesbury_Duck

UkSaver wrote: »

I'd rather just buy the van off him :rotfl:

Personally believe it's just broke down and it's not been important enough to throw money at to fix and then ultimately move it.

His prerogative to keep it obviously just would be nice to see it gone

I'm sure it would but something else would come along that will irritate you, a neighbour cladding/painting their house in a colour you don't like, another not keeping shrubs cut, another not painting or replacing their peeling and fading front door, the list is endless. It's best to accept these little annoyances and move on unless you can afford to live in a house in the middle of nowhere or a house in grounds so big you can't see your neighbours' places anyway.