Neighbours with hardons about treating public road spaces as their own

Asking a neighbour's permission before parking in the street? Wtf?

Do you ask their permission before daring to drive down the road outside their house too?

It's this kind of nonsense that reinforces the idea to these carrot-crunchers that they actually DO have a personal right to the public highway.
 
I had neighbours like this at my mums house. An old couple whos family think they are well established in the area. My mums house was a new build in an already established road. The neighbours from the start tried to claim the road outside as their own (so their guests could park there) and would get their son to routinely park his truck there (even though he didnt live at the house) just so we couldnt park there. In the end we just beat them to it so he couldnt park there.
Then one day the old man banged on our door and told us we cant park there because it was obscuring our drive, which it wasnt. My dad happened to be there at the time and ended up reducing the old man to tears. I have no idea how because he wasnt even that harsh but it was pretty funny. He apologised and left promptly. I felt quite bad as he died a few months later but his widow is still a miserable old female dog.
 
MikeHiow said:
Example++

Your attitude shines through again - phoning the police before simply just asking them to move?

Your neighbours must love you.
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I didn't say that's what I would do, i'm big and ugly enough to go and knock on the door to speak to people. The poster clearer isn't, as it happens lots and he hasn't done anything about it.

My neighbours all get on well, we have NO problems with anyone parking on the road in non designated parking spaces. We have no parking problems at all. Every house has more than 1 car and we all only have 1 official designated space.
 
It's common courtesy to allow space infront of their own house for their own car.

Where I used to live, I had to park on the road and some guy with a huge VW van would park outside my house. The road was also quite busy. It became a pain when I had to bring in the kids from the car and the shopping having to cross this fairly busy road.

It would be 1000x easier if I could park outside my own house.
 
ScoobyDoo69 said:
The problem I have with these sorts of things is neighbours using space outside someone elses property when they have space outside their own. It is not against the law, but I think it is rude and inconsiderate.

We have a case down my road where 3, sometimes more, neighbours who live on the previous road park down here. All of them have garages/drives/space on the road, yet park down the next road which has apartments and where we struggle for space. One leaves his van down here 5 out of 7 days a week, the other can fit both his cars on his drive with comfort, which he occasionally does, yet chooses to park one in front of our block and walk to his house, and the other just does not use their drive or garage, but parks down here and walks to his house?

Now to me, again it's not illegal, but it's flipping rude to take the space outside someone else's home when you have more than adequate space outside/on your own.
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That's just odd!
 
ah i love where i live, can fit 3 cars on the drive if you wanted to, 2 outside the house as well, and there is space at the top of the culdesac for a few more if need be. Add to that the house accross the road can take about 15-20 cars on their driveway (rather large 6 bed detached with tarmac drive all the way around it), and they've given me permission to use their drive if i ever have too many guests, it's all good :)

Although saying that I did get rather annoyed at a neighbours guest parking their car at the top of the culdesac yesterday, thoroughly distracted me as i was turning around. Damn Lamborghini owners, so inconsiderate leaving car porn lying around.
 
You dont drive a crappy dark blue honda civic do you?

Every noe and again one visits and insteads in parking in front my house and neighbours and blocks the space that is normally used for me and my neighbour as he parks in the middle.


Where parking is restricated and people need road space then if gentlemen agreements can be made that everyone has a much nicer life.
 
Parking isn't bad on my street, what I can't stand is; one side of the road is all houses and cul-de-sac's, the other side has like a church, pub, old people's home, and down at the bottom it has bungalow's. Everyone parks on the side of the road with the houses on, except when people come and visit the people in the bungalows, they insist on parking on that side of the road, and sometimes it's too close to the cars on "my" side of the road, so even if you could slalom past them you can't because they havent left a big enough gap, really annoys me when they could just park on the side of the road everyone parks on and just walk to the other side.
 
Christ almighty. If I ever end up with neighbours like some of you guys I'm going to move house.
 
I actually agree with Mike (shock horror). Sometime neighbours can be a bit territorial, even though legally they don't have a leg to stand on. However, starting a war with your neighbours just because you are legally in the right is just going to add stress to your life. Being reasonable and discussing things in a sensible manner means everyone can be happy.
 
I used to have the same argument with some old neighbours. The trick is to turn around to them and say you have a special badge that entitles you to park on the public road whereever you like (as long as your not obstructing anyones drive access) and point to your tax disc.
 
We have a very simple parking premise where I am:

Park as close to your house as possible

Guests of households follow the same rule. It works great as everybody follows it. Sure, sometimes it means you park half-way down the road, but life's tough. I'm sure the hearts of the starving kids in Africa bleed deeply at the thought of our daily trials and tribulations.
 
Where I live no-one parks on the road! It's perfectly legal, no yellow lines or anything, but everyone simply parks on their own driveway. We can fit three cars on the driveway normally plus one in the garage and then another two if it's last-in-first-out (blocking the other three in). If anyone in the road has guests they simply park on the road outside their hosts house, making sure not to block anyone elses driveway.

Never have any problems.
 
If someone needed to park in front of your house, on the street and not blocking your drive, would you expect them to knock on your door and ask?
 
this winds me up. if people don't want someone to park outside their house then they should get a driveway put in, that way, nobody can park outside the house as it's obstructing the driveway etc.
 
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