Neighbour parking EVERYWHERE!

mr.broderick

loveitall wrote: »

Hi all,

just a quickie, we (me and my nice neighbours) have a horrible man who lives over the road ( we are in a small cul-de-sac with very thin roads, on a 20yo estate) who lives in a slightly larger house with a driveway fit for probably 3 cars but comfortably 3. He has his wifes focus on the drive on its own (WHY?), parks his passat on the road infront of his front garden 9public highway) and his bix TAXI in a visitors parking space!!!!!!! just typing this is making me maaaaad!!!
They are a family of four (wife and him 2 kids who are non drivers obv..)

There are a few things i am interested to know and i was wondering whether any of you could shed some light!?

1) should he be able to park a taxi (commercial vehicle) on a visitors parking space?
2) his passat which is big hampers access to the 3 visitors parking spaces directly opposite (very narrow road so getting into the parking spaces is hard with something parked opp..) 1 of these 3 spaces he's using anyway for the bloody taxi. cheek of it.
and
3)have us nice neighbours got any power to make him change his parking habits?

it should defo be mentioned that there are soooooooo not enough parking spaces for the houses without drivways to park eve ONE car per household, let alone 3. Is it fair he does this? no, but is it legal for him to do it - probab-bloody-dy....!! :mad:

Oh yes and he also moans if anyone parks in 'his' space on the road out the front of his (the passat space) even though its the pulics highway. I and several other neighbours are resorting to parking round the corner at the end of the road basically right outside of the cul-de-sac itself. Really not nice to park so far away fdrom your house

i guess this is what you get on 'modern' estates with very little allocated spaces.

can anyone advise?

sorry to go on, and sorry for being so ranty!!

Jx:j

My wife took the kids to her parents house today to visit.
My 2 year old daughter was in the front garden apparently with her grandad when a 4 year old girl waved to them from the house opposite.
They walked over and my daughter said hello to the little girl.
My wife told me before this girl had just spent 6 weeks in hospital having an operation on a heart condition which she has.
As i turned my laptop on this evening i couldn't get this little girl out of my mind, anyway the 1st post i've read tonight was yours.
I will not say anymore on the subject.

MrsE_2

mr.broderick wrote: »

My wife took the kids to her parents house today to visit.
My 2 year old daughter was in the front garden apparently with her grandad when a 4 year old girl waved to them from the house opposite.
They walked over and my daughter said hello to the little girl.
My wife told me before this girl had just spent 6 weeks in hospital having an operation on a heart condition which she has.
As i turned my laptop on this evening i couldn't get this little girl out of my mind, anyway the 1st post i've read tonight was yours.
I will not say anymore on the subject.

Yes of course there are bigger things to worry about.

But its all relative & the OP wanted to vent about her problem.

A problem doesn't have to be a certain size to be valid surely? If its a problem to the OP, its a problem.

In the great scheme of things, not life or death. But there really is no need to trivialise her post.

mr.broderick

MrsE wrote: »

Yes of course there are bigger things to worry about.

But its all relative & the OP wanted to vent about her problem.

A problem doesn't have to be a certain size to be valid surely? If its a problem to the OP, its a problem.

In the great scheme of things, not life or death. But there really is no need to trivialise her post.

Sorry of course you are right.
I guess you are also one of those curtain twitching busy bodies who has nothing better in their lives than to moan about who's parked where in the street.

MrsE_2

mr.broderick wrote: »

Sorry of course you are right.
I guess you are also one of those curtain twitching busy bodies who has nothing better in their lives than to moan about who's parked where in the street.

No I don't "do" nets & I have a nice big drive, so I don't care who parks where.

mr.broderick

MrsE wrote: »

No I don't "do" nets & I have a nice big drive, so I don't care who parks where.

"Am I bovvered?!"

Riq

MrsE wrote: »

No I don't "do" nets & I have a nice big drive, so I don't care who parks where.

Same here! We have 4 cars on our drive, soon to be 5. Can't imagine the neighbours being too keen on us if we didn't have a drive!! lol

Zebedee69

NitNat wrote: »

On the receiving side of all this......

I get the bus to work (and would love to say it's because I'm eco friendly, but it's really because parking in the city centre costs me £18 a day which I can't afford). It's only a mile to the nearest bus stop, although I usually have to carry 2 very heavy bags with me and I have a degenerative back condition which makes this v difficult.

So... I drive as close to the bus stop as I can and park at the other end of my residential road. There are usually quite a few spaces at 8am, and during the day there are many more. I am home at 4pm. It's a road of terraced houses, none with drives, so I understand things can be tight in some areas, although during the day this stretch isn't ram packed at all. I have never been particularly bothered myself if I have to walk an extra 20/30 paces to get to my front door so am quite surprised at recent events....

I have had my car keyed along every panel over the last 2 weeks (which I've had quotes for and just cannot afford to have repaired), then yesterday a 'warning' note was left on my windscreen, telling me this was my last warning not to park there anymore. I must add that it's anywhere in a stretch of about 100 yards that I park as there are always several spaces at that time of day so I'm not continually outside the same house. There are no drives to block, and I consider myself to be a fairly considerate person, and will never park in the one disabled space that has been painted on the road.

So, what should I do now? I have spoken to the police who were actually enormously helpful in that they and finger-printed the piece of cardboard the note was written on to link to any further events (somehow). Although all they could advise me to do was drive further into the city and park on another residential road, or get cctv fitted inside my car (how on earth would that work??). I wish it was as simple as "just walk to the bus stop" but it's not something I could do 5 days a week, and I don't yet qualify for a blue badge.

Any offers of advice/insight would be welcome, or any tips on how to deal with this?

I was wondering whether to knock on each door along that stretch of houses and ask to speak to them about the note (which I have a photocopy of) until I find the person and try and have a friendly conversation about it (non confrontational from my viewpoint), although it's a very aggressive note, and I suspect being a young female, this would not be helpful?

I know I have the right to park anywhere on a public road, although am not one that will jump up and down screaming it from the rooftops, and generally I'm too easy going to bother getting wound up about these things as it's not that important.... until now that is, where the damage will cost almost £1000 to repair. I can't see what I'm doing is so wrong..... or is it just me? : (

Ask a mate to hang about and watch car at a distance all day. When he sees the person attack your car watch what house they walk back to. A week later a brick through the window with a note saying "insert lovely threat against family/kids/wife" and that should cover it.

For christ sake dont put on note who its from, the note should be printed on a printer thats not yours and the brick/note should be handled with gloves at all times to avoid prints. Make sure your mate checks street for CCTV or nosey neighbours.

Iv never done this or gotten away with it, honest guv;)

WTF?_2

mr.broderick wrote: »

"Am I bovvered?!"

Since you've made a couple of followups, I conclude that you are.

No-one is saying that this is the stuff of life and death but it is a legitimate problem that affects a lot of people and therefore deserving of discussion here. Why this should be winding you up is a mystery - maybe you should take your own advice and just chill out and stop getting involved in a thread which appears to aggravate you?