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Council putting double yellow lines outside my house
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not that this helps but I just got back from work and there's double yellow lines all around my house, parking is a nightmare round here as it is and most of the houses are flats, with no ownership of any land that could be converted in to a driveway. There was no warning before a bunch of bollards appeared last night. I am livid. From what everyone has said, I can't do anything about it and I do think it will de-value my property.0
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not that this helps but I just got back from work and there's double yellow lines all around my house, parking is a nightmare round here as it is and most of the houses are flats, with no ownership of any land that could be converted in to a driveway. There was no warning before a bunch of bollards appeared last night. I am livid. From what everyone has said, I can't do anything about it and I do think it will de-value my property.
The same thing happened in the town I used to live in. There was actually a warning some weeks earlier in the 'Public Notices' section of the local newspaper but nobody that was directly affected by the double yellows had seen it.0 -
not that this helps but I just got back from work and there's double yellow lines all around my house, parking is a nightmare round here as it is and most of the houses are flats, with no ownership of any land that could be converted in to a driveway. There was no warning before a bunch of bollards appeared last night. I am livid. From what everyone has said, I can't do anything about it and I do think it will de-value my property.
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There is no reason why such should devalue the value of your property as nobody has the right to park on the public highway outside their own property I'm afraid to say.
I think having yellow lines outside your house would devalue it, or at the very least make it less attractive to any future buyer.
My first house had yellow lines outside, i thought 'cos i went out to work all day i'd be gone before the traffic wardens started .......... i thought wrong, came out one morning and had a ticket.
I started looking for a new house and top of the list as to 'must haves' was parking.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
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Gloomendoom wrote: »The same thing happened in the town I used to live in. There was actually a warning some weeks earlier in the 'Public Notices' section of the local newspaper but nobody that was directly affected by the double yellows had seen it.
Whiney old folk love this, they make complaints about stuff, they exaggerate heavily and put serious reasons forward like safety/etc (when really they just don't like something), there's no investigation, the council puts a notice in the paper, nobody reads it and the whiney old folk get exactly what they want despite the inconvenience to everyone else.... I've seen/heard about it many times.
When I get to that age i'll do exactly the same, just to !!!! everybody off!!!!
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Strider590 wrote: »Whiney old folk love this, they make complaints about stuff, they exaggerate heavily and put serious reasons forward like safety/etc (when really they just don't like something), there's no investigation, the council puts a notice in the paper, nobody reads it and the whiney old folk get exactly what they want despite the inconvenience to everyone else.... I've seen/heard about it many times.
When I get to that age i'll do exactly the same, just to !!!! everybody off!!!!
Of course you have evidence that everybody that complained were " whiney old folk "?
Nope, I thought not.;)
Still it makes a change for you to be not blaming another stereotypical group for a change.0 -
Must have made a mess when they painted them on you back garden.not that this helps but I just got back from work and there's double yellow lines all around my houseIT Consultant in the utilities industry specialising in the retail electricity market.
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Go the planning office and look at the proposal of why they are doing it.
In your objection include what you have told us.
Having my rear drive was easy, all I did was knock the wall down and made a gate I already had the dropped kerb.0 -
blue_monkey wrote: »Yes, but if you get a house that means you can park outside your house, and it is that option that sways you to buy, and then 10 years they tell you that you can no longer have it, you'd be miffed too. Fair enough if that option was there when they bought the house, but it wasn't. And now who is going to buy a house that has no parking in the vicinity?
OP, have you spoken to the shops, I am sure they'd get on board too if it meant losing their custom.
My IL live near a station and they have bought in 'residents permits' so only people displaying a permit can park outside in the street. Permits are only £2500 a year. They have been there 20 years. All because people who use the station want to park there all day for free instead of paying the station car park and the council think '££££ kerching'. We cannot go round there as they won't buy a permit and it's a 20 minute walk each way from the nearest parking places.
I am sure some of these people thinking of these ideas were born with little brains - what about people who have meals on wheels delivered or what if the cancer nurse is visiting - just where does she park if she has to visit a patient? What if someone is ill and the family want to be there but cannot park there? Not much through has been given to things like this at all. If we cannot park in the IL drive then we cannot visit them.
Only? You make it sound cheap, monthly that 's £208 which is just below the amount I have left after all my bills.0 -
In some places it appears that traiffc wardens are working late into the evening (10pm) and starting early (7am), they must be on commission.My first house had yellow lines outside, i thought 'cos i went out to work all day i'd be gone before the traffic wardens started .......... i thought wrong, came out one morning and had a ticket.IT Consultant in the utilities industry specialising in the retail electricity market.
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