Neighbour parking EVERYWHERE!

Badger_Lady

RabbitMad wrote: »

In that case insure it too 3rd party as cheap as possible (just being a money saver I thought if you were insured to drive any car the car didn't need insurance in its own right.)

Spend money and worsen the parking situation on the OP's cul-de-sac. Yes, that's logical :eek: .

Jhayda

Here's a neat little way for those of you with grass parking to protect it and make people think twice...
borrow a dog and get it to do it's 'business' on the grass a few times...they'll get so sick of having to tip-toe around it and worrying about treading in it in the dark they'll soon stop parking there...
Works a treat!


Only works though if the land is yours and not public or you'll get fined remember!

ffacoffipawb

helloecho wrote: »

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.

Her Majesty's Customs and Excise?

fc123

I sympathise with the OP.

Many yrs ago, after months searching, I found our perfect house to buy.
Excited, I went home (pre mobile 'phone days this!) and sent hubby up there to take a look as vendors were in.
He returned saying "it's fantastic!Thats the house for us!".
I then asked him about doing up the kitchen etc and he replied that he didn't actually view inside.

It had a big driveway! That was enough of a selling point.! We still own it!

fc123

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

Her Majesty's Customs and Excise?

or VAT office ;.has more teeth

ffacoffipawb

fc123 wrote: »

or VAT office ;.has more teeth

They ARE the VAT Office!!!

fc123

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

They ARE the VAT Office!!!

ooops! got mixed up with IRS....;)

PasturesNew

When I bought my last house one of my MAIN points was I wanted parking for 2 cars properly/easily. I wanted any friend of mine to be able to instantly park without problems.

The house I bought was lovely - oversized garage (almost room for 2 cars) and in front of that room to park 2-4 more cars depending on size/parking ability.

Great. My land. My garden. No worries.

Except:
1] next door thought it OK to park on their equal sized space sideways!! So they would drive across my driveway as if it were an access area. I stopped this by parking my car against the boundary and left it there 2 weeks. So they had to start parking properly.
2] Their assorted visitors/friends of their kids would use my driveway to park and/or mend motorbikes.

Finally, I snapped. Looked out of the window one day and a HUGE van was parked in my driveway. Taking up 5' of my 17' width and just 2' of theirs. The van was there 5 hours - a friend who was parking to go into town. I drove to the nearest builders' yard and picked up some big concrete blocks (30Kg each) and put them down the first half length of the boundary. A few inches in on my side. Not near the end, so they could still cut the corner off my driveway if they needed turning space. But it did stop anybody actually parking on MY garden/driveway. They were also quite low so you could park alongside them and still open a car door without any hinderance.

What did the neighbour do? Something really peculiar.... he got some string and a 6' high metal stake, stuck the stick in the middle of the rear-lane-access and tied the string to his fence. As if he were marking out his boundary in some way - except it was clearly 4' beyond any boundary and right in the middle of the access lane.

I had the last laugh again. Small car, good driver, I could drive past it without hardly noticing. He, on the other hand, could no longer park his big 4x4 because the stake was stopping him (not my blocks on my driveway). Stake was gone within a week.

Worran 4rse.

matimage

Genius of a neighbour has just parked his van right opposite my drive which makes it a real pig to get out. He has been on holiday for a while so it was lovely having minus one van and one car. Oh well, couldn't last.

*Louise*

What is it with parking spaces that bring out the stubbornness in people??

We asked our neighbour's lodger (really nicely) if he would mind leaving the space in front of our house for us to park in, just to make things a bit easier and save having to cross the road with our 3 kids.

He then started parking there deliberately just out of spite. Some people, doesn't matter how nice you are will never care about anyone but themselves.

We sold up and moved, and have no problems parking now.:D