Neighbour parking EVERYWHERE!

LuciferTDark

We've got a family not too far away from us here who have 5 cars between them & insist on parking wherever they please including double parking in the bay outside our house, we were out in our car at the time, came back to find 2 cars in the bay. Drives us up the wall at times but there's nothing we can do until the council decide if we can have a disabled bay painted in.

going2die_rich

pinkpong wrote: »

We had the same problem. We have a double yellow line infront of our house! They will still park on it.

Buy yourself a wheel clamp, a ticket inspector jacket. Each time clamp it, stick a fake ticket on the car and make yourself £60 to release it.

jwruk

RabbitMad wrote: »

Buy an old banger (the grubbier the better) for less than £100, make sure its taxed, MOT'd and your insurance covers you for driving any vehicle and then park it in his place and leave it there for a few months.

Or watch it being removed when it gets reported as an uninsured vehicle. The vehicle would need to be insured in its own right.

Badger_Lady

Mmm... it's funny how selfish we ALL get about parking!

I bet your neighbour doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. In fact, he isn't - parking is tight in your area, and perhaps he could squeeze things up and struggle to juggle his cars, but why should he? It's his home too, and there are public, usable spaces nearby. And those spaces are obviously not being used by anyone else at the time he comes home to park.

I live in a much older cul-de-sac where there are no driveways, just road parking on both sides. I was amazed when I moved in to find that 85% of the time there was a nice car-sized gap in front of my house, because there is an average 1 car per household and the houses are 1 car wide!

However, something happened after the New Year and now "my space" is always full. It's easy to say "oi, someone's bought a 2nd car and lumped it in my space, how dare they?", but the fact is no-one's breached any rules and they certainly haven't made the change maliciously.

If you don't have a private car-parking space of your own, you put up with parking in different places at various distances from your home. It's a consideration when you buy - you can't dictate how your neighbours share the road with you.

Lotus-eater

jwruk wrote: »

Or watch it being removed when it gets reported as an uninsured vehicle. The vehicle would need to be insured in its own right.

And if it is proved to be yours, you get done for no insurance, I know this to my cost...... and that cost is alot!

Careful_with_that_Axe

DGJsaver wrote: »

Hey dont knock it , i`ve seen my teenage son on the chatrooms...:rotfl:

Last thing I would do is knock it! You know the card with the old woman, 90 odd in the shade and with all things headed South chatting up a young bloke on the internet .....

I am that woman ....

going2die_rich

bathgatebuyer wrote: »

Could you fence off that bit of your garden?

Why not dig up your lawn, get a drive put in and sell your car while you are at it?!

You shouldn't have to spend your own money to prevent someone parking on your property. Just grow a back bone, tell them to move their car or you will "help" them move it!

helloecho

There's an unsavoury household a few doors down from where I live, and they operate an entire taxi company from their home. No fewer than 20 vehicles, cars, vans, minibuses, you name it, all parked along the road, plus their own personal American-style monster pickup truck thing which is simply enormous. Most of the time, the pavement between their garage and the road is used as a makeshift repair yard/carwash too. Emergency vehicle access is a real issue - you couldn't get a fire engine down the road a lot of the time when the fleet and this awful truck thing are all parked up the road.


The last person that tried to complain found a brick through their window. They've had so many run-ins with the Police that they clearly don't worry them. There's not really much that can be done.

Badger_Lady

God, even more aggressive comments!

To be on the other side for a moment - one early weekend morning recently, I was following a friend home from her village when she ran out of petrol. She knew people nearby who would have a can, so I gave her a lift to a mate's house which was on a tiny, winding country road.

I instantly panicked about where to park for the next 5-10 minutes - the road was completely unsuitable for parking on and miles from any spaces. I tried tucking myself in as far as possible, but the only way to avoid obstructing the road was to block a driveway (at this point, I didn't know which house we were going to or therefore which driveway it was). I wasn't going inside, so thought this would do until my friend came back for a lift to her car.

Within seconds, an aggressive woman opened her bedroom window (still wearing a nightgown) and started screaming at me: "What the HELL do you think you're doing? Get off my driveway NOW!!! Why do you people always block MY driveway!!!".

I tried to apologise and explain what I was doing, and that I was more than happy to move if she was leaving, but was only met with more abuse. I started the engine and reversed into the front of the friend's driveway instead (having now realised which house was theirs).

So, barging in there is not always called for!

slipp_digby

Careful_with_that_Axe wrote: »

And to get back to the original problem the OP brought up ...........

Some places have Covenants in the deeds that place restrictions on a commercial vehicle being parked on the premises or parking areas where it is part of a business owned/run by an occupier of one of the houses.

Worth checking the deeds for such Covenants

i dont think just anyone can enforce covenants

aren't they just enforcable by the original developer and to stop people making the area look like a slum before the developer has sold all the lovely new houses they have built?