parking on street - neighbours say we shouldn't

Bluecube said:
It may be in your title deeds that you’re not allowed commercial vehicles in your driveway even if they’re your own. If someone files a complaint with the council then generally the council will tell you to park on the road even if you’ve space in your driveway!
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ironically when we first bought our house i worked for a w/s company and had a astra van all liveried up, neighbours were funny sods and complained to the council as it was on my drive.

(30 years plus ago) the council sent me a letter telling me i was not allowed a sign written van on the drive, i countered with it was at the top of the drive ,parked behind the house...

they insisted that if i didnt park it on the road i would get a enforcement order. so i parked it on the road. after another round of complaints from the police ,, aimed at the council they advised it was ok to park on the drive again.

i live on the main a444 and luckily in a area with street lights :) mind you from 3am till maybe 8am when i went to work the lorries hitting there brakes did cause a lot of noise and the use of there horns.
think the neighbours must have got fed up :) (thankfully they moved shortly afterwards) :)

it was when the breweries were trunking lorry loads in and out of Burton so maybe 10 to 12 lorries (32 tonners ) just from them alone, i did work for them and the lads always ribbed me for parking there maybe thats why they hit there horns....
 
Quartz said:
All you had to say was that it was going to be temporary. "Ah, sorry about that. It's only going to be for a few days while my friend is over. However, to be perfectly honest you're being a bit of a **** about. I'll let it go since its the first time, but if it happens again I won't be so nice."
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Parking disputes like this are one of the most annoying things going. Annoys me no end that people think they have any 'right' over public spaces, it is particularly bad with the spaces directly outside people's houses where they think they are more entitled to park than others.
Malt_Vinegar said:
One day I had a large delivery of soil coming, so I moved my car and put it on the road not outside a house (opposite a green-space). It was there for about 5 hours. When I came back, it had been keyed....
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Happens in my town (luckily not my street) where business workers park in residential streets near the business park or school and have their cars damaged. Despicable, whether people live in the area has no bearing on their right to park on a given street.
 
Few streets over from where I use to live ended up like this and you'd still get random people come and park along the left blocking them in - by the end of the evening it would be a double line of cars you wouldn't have got a fire engine past let alone around the corner near the end into the next road.

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Several times I walked past to witness blazing parking rows.

So thankful where I live now we don't have to deal with parking problems.
 
We've been in our house for just over a year and our neighbours immediately tried to drag us onto their side in a parking war which they're having with other neighbours. We weren't having any of it and the neighbour had the cheek to say something along the lines of "we don't want to speak out for some reason". The reason is that the double driveway which our house has was a prerequisite because we have 2 cars! The 2 neighbours in dispute don't have driveways on their property. We're not getting embroiled in a parking dispute. The other neighbours make claims on communal spaces, one neighbour has resorted to painting their house number on a space!

It's pretty pathetic.
 
Surely the best counter to this is you just tell them if you keep this crap up you will simply reinstate the garden and park 3 or 4 cars on the road and tell them to jog on.
 
Rroff said:
Few streets over from where I use to live ended up like this and you'd still get random people come and park along the left blocking them in - by the end of the evening it would be a double line of cars you wouldn't have got a fire engine past let alone around the corner near the end into the next road.

Several times I walked past to witness blazing parking rows.

So thankful where I live now we don't have to deal with parking problems.
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That looks like a 3 lane motorway compared to where I used to live :D

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It was a dead end road, so particularly annoying when some **** would park in the turning circle at the end of the road, forcing you to reverse back out...
 
We have one neighbour that's constantly moaning about us parking on the road outside our house. We have 2 cars and only space for one on the drive. The road is wide enough for people to park either side and still get a fire engine through. Their arguement is that we shouldn't have more cars than spaces on the drive because it looks untidy.

They're that typical old couple that thinks because they've lived on the street the longest, they have authority to rule. Every household within 4 houses either side has had issues with them so I just tell them to mind their own.
 
Difficult one, which will only get worse once we're all driving EVs and needing to charge.

When we moved house, we ensured we moved somewhere which had a decent driveway. Unfortunately, many of our neighbours didn't. We are part of the local facebook group and see all sorts of arguments about off street parking.

I kid you not when I say one neighbour even had the cheek to park his car on his neighbours driveway lol

Thing is, everyone buys new builds with parking for one car, when they own three (sometimes four!). Then they have visitors and it all gets very messy. What happends is everyone parks on the road which gets clogged up. You can't walk down the path, nor a large vehicle can get down the road. Don't get me started on the chap round the corner who has a bloody massive works removals van and leaves it on the corner of the path. Lots of kids on bikes play on that corner and drivers can't see them because of that stupid van. His excuse "well where else am I supposed to park it" Not my problem mate!

Many have contacted the council who reply saying there's nothing they can do due to funding.

Sounds like the OP has tried to do his bit by converting his front lawn into parking whereas his neighbours haven't. There is what the law says you can do, and what you do when you are a decent human being.
 
Parking can cause massive greif, I converted the front of our old house to have two cars on the drive, then had the odd occasional idiot park across our drive! So when we were looking to move, unless it had a garage a driveway for more than 2 cars I wasn't interested. This caused massive arguments with my wife. In the end we found a house with a massive driveway, enough for 6 cars, double garage and a space for a 24ft X 12ft. Much easier
 
Diagro said:
What's road tax?
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It is a term people use to describe Vehicle Excise Duty.

It is a legal requirement for using a vehicle on a public road and even the official government website describes it as 'tax' (https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables). As a result, people who say Road Tax instead of Vehicle Excise Duty are about 18 times less annoying than people who post WHAT IS ROAD TAX on the internet thinking it makes them look smart.
 
There is nothing worse than neighbours with multiple cars coupled with their friends and family parking outside your property so you can't get parked. Especially like my street when there is loads of parking at the end of the street where there are no properties and driveways to block. It being legal doesn't come into it, it's about having some courtesy and respect for your neighbours.
 
LeeUK said:
There is nothing worse than neighbours with multiple cars coupled with their friends and family parking outside your property so you can't get parked. Especially like my street when there is loads of parking at the end of the street where there are no properties and driveways to block. It being legal doesn't come into it, it's about having some courtesy and respect for your neighbours.
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sadly I think that’s gone out the window in this country.
 
[TW]Fox said:
It is a term people use to describe Vehicle Excise Duty.

It is a legal requirement for using a vehicle on a public road and even the official government website describes it as 'tax' (https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables). As a result, people who say Road Tax instead of Vehicle Excise Duty are about 18 times less annoying than people who post WHAT IS ROAD TAX on the internet thinking it makes them look smart.
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:cry: This has made my day.
 
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