Neighbour parking EVERYWHERE!

Tea3

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Why don't you just tell him or ask him not to park in front of your house if he has his own space to park? Tell him its because you have cctv and your car has been vandalised.

Why is it people want to start a war with a neighbour without even talking to them?

We have asked them very nicely several times and were told that ''we should park down the f**king road if we want to'', along with lots of other swearing, middle fingers, spitting on the ground and laughing at us - we have been very nice and explained the situation about the car being vandalised etc and we were more or less told that we deserve it (NOTE we have done nothing wrong and all cars not in garden etc overnight can get vandalised here so not a target thing). They were also two very large and intimidating guys (one was doing the swearing etc, the other stayed quiet thankfully) who now open curtains wide when in neighbours and stare at us - and I mean stand at window and STARE direct at us every time we do anything in garden or are talking to anyone there - they only stop when we go inside our house again. We have not spoken to the old lady next door as she was very recently widowed and is disabled and we really do not want to worry her at this time about what gits some of her family are - who she probably needs more than ever just now.

TTMCMschine

nelly wrote: »

Doddle of an answer

Note on windscreen

Anymore dodgy parking and I'll let your tyres down

They will only footpump up 4 tyres once and soon be nice after that I can asure you

May i recommend you don't do this from experience. We live on a main road. The whole row is terraced, so everyone is in the same boat. Sometimes, when you park, especially when the road is busy, you opt for the safest way to park, rather than spending time to reverse park in a tighter space. This can mean you don't park in "your space". My mother once got this very note on her widscreen, by a man who didn't like the fact he had parked in "his" space. She called the police, and he didn't do it again, but he was a big man and that threat was frightening for my mum who lived on her own at the time. It's easy to get frustrated about having your personal space invaded, and it certainly feels like it when someone is parked outside your house, as frequently happens with us. In fact the man next door to us has a disabled parking space, so outside our house is only half a space.
I've learnt to accept that i have no more rights to the parking space outside my house than anyone else. It may feel like your personal space but it isn't. I have two small children as well, so while it would be nice to not park further away, i prefer not to feel bitter about it. Any space that is free and legal a person has a right to park in it - no matter how much that annoys you. People might not seem to be considerate, but this man may well have his reasons.

btw running horse - do you not drive because you were banned for tailgating in the fog!!

Tea3

Also for the people who are saying to put this into perspective - anyone, especially a child, being hurt or injured is obviously much more stressful and way worse than any of my problems, however many of our problems could be dealt with if we could park where we see our car i.e. outside our house or in drive as cctv would then at least catch some of this. I am only legally allowed to video my own property so cannot move cameras to cover outside neighbours house even if I parked there when they block us. (repairs and insurance rises etc have cost us over £1500 so far).

Having to park up the road - not a big issue really in the grand scale of thing - however trying to carry shopping, a buggy and small children from a busy road into your nice quiet cul-de-sac where you cant park because someone if being a git is annoying, stressful and difficult. When many people buy or rent houses these days parking is normally something they consider so to move somewhere and have the parking taken away is a big deal. For non-drivers if your bus had to stop a few hundred feet further from the bus-stop due to a car parked there EVERY day whilst you are carrying heavy shopping, children etc you would soon complain about the car driver. This may be a small problem but even a small problem can cause stress - someone £500 in debt can be as stressed as someone who has £30,000 debt - I mean £500 not much is it? But to the person who owes it it could be a horrendous amount. Yes we'd all rather have parking problems than huge debts or an injured family member but its still a stressful situation in many cases.

Please note where parking is limited I fully agree its first come first served but where people have their own spaces they dont use but take up others it may not be illegal but surely it lacks common curtesy and decency.

Apologies for the long saga but parking is a big deal to many people - small in the grand scale of things - but still a real and worrying problem in many cases.

clutton_2

""trying to carry shopping, a buggy and small children from a busy road into your nice quiet cul-de-sac"" - people who dont have cars do this every day ..............

Poppycat

Last year I had my car parked outside my house and some moron drove into it and drove off again, and nobody saw anything on a busy street. So parking outside your house doesn't guarantee your car is safe by other drivers or yobs.

Parking is a problem I agree on most streets, I could rarely find a place outside my old house, I never expect to park directly outside but it would be nice to be close

If I bumped up on the kerb on yellow lines opposite my house I would often get the fingers or abuse shouted at me, just because I off loaded heavy shopping and dropping kids off, one has a disability.

It was one of the reasons why I moved last year I was sick of the agro plus house was too small, but it was a major factor in moving.

I picked a quite street not quite a cul de sac but its a street where you cant go anywhere other than this street. Nice and quite too, however even though we have a driveway (its too steep for car tbh) we usually park on street usually outside house but there are times when we cant and have to park further down. I dont like to park to far as my daughter cant walk far and often falls because her balance is so bad.

Sadly its a thing of the times, more and more people have cars and many more now have 1 car. I remember in the 80's a lot of terraced streets where I live only had a few cars parked so it wasn't a problem, now you go down same streets there rarely a space and its a real pain driving down as there's only enough room for 1 car moving so oncoming traffic has to wait at the bottom of the street

TTMCMschine

Tea3 wrote: »

i.e. outside our house or in drive as cctv would then at least catch some of this. I am only legally allowed to video my own property so cannot move cameras to cover outside neighbours house even if I parked there when they block us. (repairs and insurance rises etc have cost us over £1500 so far).

Having to park up the road - not a big issue really in the grand scale of thing - however trying to carry shopping, a buggy and small children from a busy road into your nice quiet cul-de-sac where you cant park because someone if being a git is annoying, stressful and difficult. .

Please note where parking is limited I fully agree its first come first served but where people have their own spaces they dont use but take up others it may not be illegal but surely it lacks common curtesy and decency.

Apologies for the long saga but parking is a big deal to many people - small in the grand scale of things - but still a real and worrying problem in many cases.

People can park where they want as long as it's legal. I have had to park further away with buggy and shopping and children. It was far more difficult when i had to catch the bus. It's just a fact of life. You are expecting everyone to think of you and put your needs first, you call it being considerate. It is a fact of life that we all put our own needs first, even when we think that we are selfless. We expect people to read our minds, and know that their parking has been inconsiderate to us. We all want to walk less to our houses. Just accept the first come, first served rule and life will feel much easier. You have no more rights to public space than they do, that is the law i'm afraid. If i get the space in front of my house then fine, if i don't it's just tough. Even if there were a number of other parking spaces that other person could have parked in. I can assure you it would still annoy you if parking was tight.

PasturesNew

I would never buy any house that had less than 2 parking spaces on my own land.

I think people who choose to buy properties without their own legally owned parking really start to make a rod for their own back as parking will NEVER get easier. It is one thing that will change and worsen over time.

olibrofiz

I do sympathise with the OP. I tend to go for a bit of deviousness!

Used to live in a terraced house and a guy, who didn't live in the street, used to regularly park his taxi outside my house (even if the street was empty) and leave it there for a couple of days at a time. I was standing in my lounge watching him park it one day and he saw me through the nets and stood there, aggressively, challenging me to come out. I didn;t. When he'd gone I put a little note on his windscreen - 'I was watching you park your taxi and was going to come out but you looked a bit intimidating, thing is I've just had some roofers out cos the slates keep falling off my roof, and I wanted to warn you'. He never parked there again.:D

And my Mum (deviousness runs in the family) had a postman who kept parking his post van outside her house, making it difficult to get out. She went and asked him to move and he told her to ***k off it was a public road. So she said 'ok, but I'm going out in a minute, and I'm not a very good driver'. He started parking further down the road.

With the taxi in the visitors bay I might go round to the neighbour and say, all concerned like, 'my friend parked there the other day and someone keyed their car and broke one of the wing mirrors, isn't it terrible? Have you had any problems?'

TTMCMschine

olibrofiz wrote: »

I do sympathise with the OP. I tend to go for a bit of deviousness!

Used to live in a terraced house and a guy, who didn't live in the street, used to regularly park his taxi outside my house (even if the street was empty) and leave it there for a couple of days at a time. I was standing in my lounge watching him park it one day and he saw me through the nets and stood there, aggressively, challenging me to come out. I didn;t. When he'd gone I put a little note on his windscreen - 'I was watching you park your taxi and was going to come out but you looked a bit intimidating, thing is I've just had some roofers out cos the slates keep falling off my roof, and I wanted to warn you'. He never parked there again.:D

And my Mum (deviousness runs in the family) had a postman who kept parking his post van outside her house, making it difficult to get out. She went and asked him to move and he told her to ***k off it was a public road. So she said 'ok, but I'm going out in a minute, and I'm not a very good driver'. He started parking further down the road.

With the taxi in the visitors bay I might go round to the neighbour and say, all concerned like, 'my friend parked there the other day and someone keyed their car and broke one of the wing mirrors, isn't it terrible? Have you had any problems?'

I like this! Funnily enough a slate did once fall off our roof and did terrible damage to our car. It sounded like a van door slamming. Imagine if it had landed on somebody else's car (when visiting the gym round the corner to our house) Or even a person. It's a nice little trick, but we could have been sued to high heaven - so take heed and do not actually loosen the tiles for aesthetic effect, or bluff someone who turns out to be a surveyor or a roofer!

matimage

As previously mentioned, there are 9 houses in my cul-de-sac, only 3 with parking. One of the reasons I bought this house was there is room for 3 cars on the drive. Some of the people in the houses without parking do seem to be jealous of our parking and do park with no consideration. Yesterday one of them parked sticking about 3 foot out from the curb for no reason blocking entrance to my drive making it awkward.
It does pee me off because they shouldn't have bought the house if parking was such a big deal!
No reasoning with them because the prime offenders are what you would refer to as lowlife anyway. Come home very late drunk singing at top of their voice, throw their fags in their neighbours garden etc...