Any legal eagles here? (planning permission?)

[TW]Fox · 6 Mar 2006 at 22:00

You guys would obviously be not at all bothered if your next door neighbour decided to put that on his garden instead of the usual gnomes?

PeterNem · 6 Mar 2006 at 22:10

I'm with fox on this, having something like that parked on my neighbours drive would really annoy me, it looks unsightly.

My dad's Merc Sprinter van is bad enough, thankfully he keeps it spotlessly clean and parks it round the back out of sight when he can.

SB118 · 6 Mar 2006 at 22:17

[TW]Fox said:
You guys would obviously be not at all bothered if your next door neighbour decided to put that on his garden instead of the usual gnomes?

I'd be ecstatic, i need some new tyres

Berserker · 6 Mar 2006 at 22:24

Having gone through the problems with people parking big vehicles on my road (at one point someone had three of them), I'm also with the 'no' camp, although I would be willing to cut some slack as at least it's on a driveway, not the highway.

masterk · 6 Mar 2006 at 22:42

Thanks for the input guys.

It does defy logic though, i mean they constantly talk about how hard it is to get local rural kids to school, and in the next instance punish people who dont buy a yard to keep two buses in. Theres little choice where they can be put.

The weirdest thing is, the neighbours that are complaining about it, cannot actually see our driveway. We sit down the end of a culdesac, with only one house (with no complaint) between us and miles of fields and the house shields the coach 60-70%.

SB118 · 6 Mar 2006 at 23:04

Grow a few trees and block their view of the buses altogether, gives them nothing to moan about then.

NickXX · 6 Mar 2006 at 23:06

SB118 said:
Grow a few trees and block their view of the buses altogether, gives them nothing to moan about then.

If you do that, they'll moan about the trees

Sputnik II · 6 Mar 2006 at 23:23

Although something like this doesn't bother me, I know some people would be hopping mad if the neighbours had a coach parked on their drive.
I'm sure that your Operators license could be revoked if there is any dispute over you having a proper place to store the vehicles when not in use.
Were people in your street informed that you were going to be operating coaches from your home prior to it happening? Where I live the council usually put an ad in the local paper saying people are applying for an 'O' license to operate X amount of vehicles from this address, they do this to see if anyone objects to it.

masterk · 7 Mar 2006 at 21:18

Sputnik II said:
Although something like this doesn't bother me, I know some people would be hopping mad if the neighbours had a coach parked on their drive.
I'm sure that your Operators license could be revoked if there is any dispute over you having a proper place to store the vehicles when not in use.
Were people in your street informed that you were going to be operating coaches from your home prior to it happening? Where I live the council usually put an ad in the local paper saying people are applying for an 'O' license to operate X amount of vehicles from this address, they do this to see if anyone objects to it.

Yes you need to have the vehicle off the road to get an Operators license, we even had a VOSA inspector around to check this, i believe they also posted an ad and no-one complained which was weird.

Vertigo · 7 Mar 2006 at 23:54

PinkPig said:
I'm afraid I side with your neighbours, having large vehicles being parked next door would very clearly count as a "nuisance" from my point of view, I don't think they're being childish at all. Just my opinion.

Tend to agree with this opinion and similar ones posted by others I'm afraid.

Regardless of the legalities of it, parking large buses and/or coaches on your drive is very inconsiderate toward the neighbours and I don't think they're being at all unreasonable in their distaste for them.

Yes you may be able to legally park a £60k motorhome on your drive but this would annoy me just as much. Why do you think some residential areas have covenants forbidding caravans? Because they look unsightly and annoy other people.

jegz · 8 Mar 2006 at 01:05

I could understand complaints if it was a ***** camp with 5 caravans on your drive but WTF. Your parents/you are trying to assist the community by driving children to school.

Like you said if it was a huge 60k motor home it would be fine, it's not as if you have a delapidated old WWII sherman sat on your drive if its a clean respectable coach then whats the problem.

A lot of new build housing estates stipulate that NO commercial vehicles can be parked in the street etc (which i think is silly tbh) and you have to sign a contract when you purchase the property saying that you wont have white vans etc on your drive.....

Busy Bodies TBH which winds me up to the point of no return!

hope you win mate.

PeterNem · 8 Mar 2006 at 02:05

jegz said:
Like you said if it was a huge 60k motor home it would be fine

No it wouldn't, it'd still make it look like a bit of a ***** housing estate, admittedly one where they'd had some luck on the lottery!

masterk · 10 Mar 2006 at 20:30

jegz said:
Busy Bodies TBH which winds me up to the point of no return! hope you win mate.

Thanks i think they will be ok, it was also on the front of the local newspaper this week so the council are pretty worried apparently, and most of the Fens now think these neighbours are lame.