New neighbours don't get the etiquette

JohnDorian

You could stop being so backward and up yourself and just live somewhere that you can park your car on your own property rather than acting like public roads are your property.

bonnyrigger

The public roads are shockingly public actually - if there are no restrictions, park sensibly and don't cause an obstruction. There are a lot of nimby people about who think they own the stretch of road outside their house despite the fact it's maintained by council funds.

LADYXXMACBETH

I will take the advice. Both the "you're being a wxnxexr and the she's being a wxnxex" this is obviously a very prickly subject that I wasn't aware would create such a long thread. I thank everyone for their advice. I will attempt to not park right outside her house, unless I really have nowhere else to park. If she decides to block all the parking in the road I will park on her drive. As she obviously doesn't use her driveway.
Hopefully, fingers crossed she's bought the house to rent out.
Anyhoo I appreciate all the advice, recognise that my personality isn't for everyone and try and keep the peace.

JohnDorian

You can’t park on her drive as it’s not your property. Your attitude does suggest that the other party isn’t the whole reason for the issue you think you have.

Scrapit

Park on her drive and expect damage to your vehicle. Or it being mobilised by clamp etc. Or both for that extra enjoyment.

Sea_Shell

I'd strongly advise that whatever they do or don't do, do not park on her private property!!!

In these situations it's best not to antagonise things further. Two wrongs...and all that.

Just park legally, wherever that may be.

EdGasketTheSecond

There's nothing legally to stop you parking on someone else's drive and the householder would be commiting a crime if they were to interfere with your car. Sounds stupid and it is but that is the current law in England. The householder would then have to go through the courts to get your car removed which would take months.

Sea_Shell

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

There's nothing legally to stop you parking on someone else's drive and the householder would be commiting a crime if they were to interfere with your car. Sounds stupid and it is but that is the current law in England. The householder would then have to go through the courts to get your car removed which would take months.

OP already appears to live a bohemian lifestyle...I don't think anyone would condone or encourage behaving like "travellers" and parking up on private land...just because you can!!

EdGasketTheSecond

I was just correcting the previous three posts that suggested parking on the driveway would be illegal (it is not), that she should expect damage (that would be illegal), that it would be clamped (that would be illegal), and that she could not park on the driveway as it was not her property (plainly wrong). Lets get the facts straight first.

mirko

No one in our estate has a drive, instead we have large car parking areas. There were zero problems with parking when we moved in.

However in the last 15 years the number of people per household has increased hugely, lots of houses of multiple occupancy plus young 20-somethings not able to move out but have a car for work.

It gets really busy and if you catch the time wrong you can end up having to park some distance from your house (2-3 minutes walk - I know, what a drag!).

It drives some people on our street absolutely insane. But, at the end of the day, it's a "public" parking area so anyone can park there for as long as they like!

A friend of mine works for a local paper and says parking disputes are the thing that people get most agitated about.