Moany neighbour - Parking query

Windle

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Just had my neighbour have a right moan and threaten me with the police. All to do with where my missus parks her car, it's a new build estate and as usual with crap parking provisions. More specifically it's a cul de sac, as these houses weren't constructed with drives each house has one numbered parking bay and there is a turning area and 2 visitors bay.

Like many places everyone has 2 cars and there are 4 houses and 8 cars for 6 spaces which poses a problem. The road is unadopted and unclassified (confirmed by council) and will remain so.

My missus parks bumped up in the kerb, this is directly opposite the neighbours bay but there is sufficient room to get in and out however they are older and his wife rarely drives. His main moan is that he can get in and out but his wife struggles. Whilst I sympathise there generally is little other option. My understandng is that a lot of the regs/laws don't apply to unclassified/ unadopted roads and therefore he can threaten legal action all he wants but wouldn't actually be able to do it.

Anyone able to confirm this or point me in the direction of somewhere I can find out?

Cheers
 
Sounds like a driver with poor skills directing his anguish in the wrong direction.

He should either brush up on driving or make the council make the spaces bigger.

Simple really
 
This is a difficult one. If someone parks opposite my drive then I can just about get my car out if I use the end of the neighbours drive. If the neighbour parks near the end of their drive then to get my car out is a shuffle backwards and forwards half a dozen times ending with driving over the front of my lawn.

Luckily this is rare (the latter only happening once in 7 years) but if it happened on a regular occurrence I would probably have words with the person doing it even though I have no legal right to do so.

If you can park elsewhere then I'd just do so, if not then... well you don't have any option so just carry on with what you are doing and make it clear to them that you are not doing anything wrong and that you are sorry that it causes his wife inconvenience but you don't have an acceptable (parking on the next street wouldn't be acceptable to me) alternative. Just be ready for them to start parking their car where your wife does leaving their space empty.
 
Buy his wife a driving lesson as a Christmas gift and get the instructor to spend an hour with her teaching her how to get in and out the space correctly
 
If what your saying is true then you have no other choice but to continue to park your cars as you are.

Maybe try and bump the car abit further into the pavement or if your car is smaller then park yours there and leave your girlfriends in the space.

If he approaches again just ask what else you can do to alleviate the problem that doesn't involve parking your car miles away.
 
The visitors bays are not normally free when she gets home (nurse so works long shifts). Only other option is parking about 500m away and round a corner where there are some other normally empty unmarked bays. However this area is unlit and nobody else parks there either for that reason!
 
It's quite poor that there is only 1 bay per house, we live on a new build and the spaces are long enough to fit two cars in (albeit with a lot of shuffling about early in the morning on different work schedules).

Is it possible you can raise the concern with the housing agency and perhaps get a few of your neighbours to assist in making formal complaints about the lack of parking? That way, the old man knows that you're at least trying to make things better and if there's a few of you the company are more likely to do something about it. Is it a fully completed new-build estate or are they still putting up houses? I know there's still loads of space left on ours and there would be the space to put in a general car park if they needed to (I would hope anyway).
 
Nah I was suggesting you get your neighbour to have his dropped, it's him/his partner having difficulties parking not you or yer missus.

nowt legally wrong that I can see, were you directly blocking his driveway then yes thats a different matter but if its a case of on street parking being a bit tight I'm not aware of any legal issues.

hardly see making a complaint going anywhere, people would've bought the houses after seeing the street unless it was one of them pay then they get built arrangements.
 
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Why did you move somewhere with insufficient parking space?

Did you just think "oh screw anyone else, I'll park where I please", without any consideration that your property isn't designed for multiple cars. :confused:
 
Windle said:
His main moan is that he can get in and out but his wife struggles. Whilst I sympathise there generally is little other option. My understandng is that a lot of the regs/laws don't apply to unclassified/ unadopted roads and therefore he can threaten legal action all he wants but wouldn't actually be able to do it.
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So you're not bothered that you're inconveniencing someone else just so you can park selfishly?

You've said he's old and his wife struggles and you're being so pathetic as to suggest S long as it's not illegal, that's fine then.

Dear lord.
 
pioneer2000 said:
Why did you move somewhere with insufficient parking space?

Did you just think "oh screw anyone else, I'll park where I please", without any consideration that your property isn't designed for multiple cars. :confused:
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Yes I'm sure the exact reason the op bought this particular house was to upset the neighbours, no other reason whatsoever.
 
Grimezy said:
It's quite poor that there is only 1 bay per house, we live on a new build and the spaces are long enough to fit two cars in (albeit with a lot of shuffling about early in the morning on different work schedules).

Is it possible you can raise the concern with the housing agency and perhaps get a few of your neighbours to assist in making formal complaints about the lack of parking? That way, the old man knows that you're at least trying to make things better and if there's a few of you the company are more likely to do something about it. Is it a fully completed new-build estate or are they still putting up houses? I know there's still loads of space left on ours and there would be the space to put in a general car park if they needed to (I would hope anyway).
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Planning consents are frequently structured these days to restrict the amount of parking developers are permitted to provide.

(Some green daftness about attempting to "reduce dependence on private cars")

There was an estate built recently in Alton where the developers provided too much and actually had to bollard some of them off! :eek::mad:

(Ill take some photos next time I am down that way)
 
pioneer2000 said:
So you're not bothered that you're inconveniencing someone else just so you can park selfishly?

You've said he's old and his wife struggles and you're being so pathetic as to suggest S long as it's not illegal, that's fine then.

Dear lord.
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It is hardly pathetic if the neighbours wife cant drive/park for toffee is it .

Dear Lord !
 
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