Parking - is this allowed?
- Thread starter OllyM
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You think you have problems. The idiots next door pull stunts like this:
I don't think it's possible to break any more rules than that!
It stayed there for more than a day and the police were completely uninterested. And no, that isn't his house he's parked in front of.
I don't think it's possible to break any more rules than that!
It stayed there for more than a day and the police were completely uninterested. And no, that isn't his house he's parked in front of.
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Is that a marked parking bay in front of your drive? Why do councils do this?
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Just go talk to them very politely, it might be a complete non issue.
Thats not my drive, thats next doors drive. The house next door is split into two flats and the BMW and audi belong to upstairs and downstairs seem to use the drive and thats it and they don't have the common sense to work something out between them.
You can park in the bay as long as the drive is empty, but the idiots in my area park there regardless of a car being in the drive or not. Cue loads of arguements with people who deem it acceptable to park a car there and don't like getting an earful from me (it's not my problem if they park there but I do like to have a good vent every so often).
I have double yellows in front of my drive. I nearly had a street brawl with someone who parked on double yellows in front of my house and blocked two cars and told me that it's none of my business. Another idiot asked me if it was ok to park in front of my drive on double yellows blocking both cars in on my drive, I said what do you think and she asked me again! I just told her that if it was parked there I couldn't guarantee it wil still be there when she gets back!
The parking situation here makes my blood boil!
This programme is incorrect. I had planning permission for the widening of an access granted earlier this year and had the drop widened for this very reason. It is illegal to park on my dropped kerb and obstruct my legal access.
Fair doos mate im just passing on the information the show told me
it was a program on iPlayer called 'Dom's on the Case' and I think it was the 'The Great British Jam' one. The program was **** so it wouldnt suprise me if it was bull...
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looks fine to me, and hardly a biggy to get in and out your drive, you have plenty of room to swing round ?, or like someone else said, reverse in.
I wouldn't have a word about it to him.... if some dude had a go about my 4*4 in that position i'd tell him to foxtrot oscar tbh
I wouldn't have a word about it to him.... if some dude had a go about my 4*4 in that position i'd tell him to foxtrot oscar tbh
You can block you're own drive if you want as the only person who could complain would be yourself.
So even if you have a dropped curb and a drive, you can park on the road and in effect block your own drive.
This is what we do when people visit us - I park on my drive and my friends/family park in front of our drive.
As reference to legality of blocking a drive, as somebody else mentioned. You cannot block a car onto a drive as you are blocking access to "the queens highway" which is an offence.
However parking in front of an empty drive is not illegal, inconvenient and annoying yes, but nothing legally you can do.
Unless of course you can convince the council to paint some double-yellows in front of your drive.
So even if you have a dropped curb and a drive, you can park on the road and in effect block your own drive.
This is what we do when people visit us - I park on my drive and my friends/family park in front of our drive.
As reference to legality of blocking a drive, as somebody else mentioned. You cannot block a car onto a drive as you are blocking access to "the queens highway" which is an offence.
However parking in front of an empty drive is not illegal, inconvenient and annoying yes, but nothing legally you can do.
Unless of course you can convince the council to paint some double-yellows in front of your drive.
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Get a tow bar fitted 
I dunno about that, the fire might get a bit out of hand and end up pulling in 3rd parties, you could be in for a world of legal wrangling then. I suggest you just cut his eyes out with a rusty jigsaw blade and force-feed them to his children or something. That'd do the trick.
On a more serious note:
I know how annoying it can be when people park right across the road from your drive like that, sure it's quite possible to get in and out but it does mean you have to do a load of extra manoeuvring you wouldn't otherwise have to, which is indeed inconvenient. If I have 2 particular dislikes (actually I have thousands, but I'll stick to two in the interests of staying on topic), it is inconsiderate people and being inconvenienced by them. If there was no other obvious choice with regards to parking, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but when they clearly do have a choice, I agree, it's very annoying and it makes you wonder what the hell they’re thinking.
Ok that's it now, I have read just one too many "stop moaning" posts today, the man has a perfectly legitimate grievance, yes, maybe they are entitled to park there, but if they do not have to and they are making life more difficult for him by doing so, then do you not think, in the interests of good neighbourly relations and human decency, that they should park to the side a little? ...is that so much to ask?
I mean what is it with people like you? ..."stop moaning, don't whine, don't whinge" yadda, yadda, yadda. Some smart alec always finds the time to add that to a thread like this. We're British for god's sake, moaning and griping is part of our culture. It gets some of us through the day in at least a semi-sane state and stops us exsanguinating people who annoy us, such as you. if you don't want to read it, don't!
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