parking on street - neighbours say we shouldn't

Haggisman said:
One of the many reasons I would never buy a new build house on a new build estate. With both parents working and "kids" staying with their parents longer into adulthood, it's not unusual to have 3 or even 4 cars in a household, so why on earth are developers allowed to build 3-4 bedroom houses with a drive barely big enough for 2 cars on an estate with no parking areas and narrow roads which limit on-road parking?
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This has also amazed me.

People buy a house, normally in a city centre or with links it it, it doesn’t have parking for their number of cars, and they think because they own the house they have a right to the road outside their house, or, at least think it’s common decency for people to let them use it as if they did have a right to it.

The decency part comes into it when you make the house purchase and you buy something that doesn’t actually fit your needs and you expect something for free. Yes a neighbour can do you a favour if they wish, and leave the space for you, but they certainly don’t have to, and it’s certainly not their fault if they don’t.

Bristol and London are chronic for it I’ve found, I’m sure other expensive cities are too. One good solution is resident parking schemes. They aren’t popular with many but they work.
 
Not a popular opinion but I don't think you should be allowed more cars than parking spaces. Near my mum and dad's house (not a cheap estate), they have some houses with 1 space so all the retards park on a road opposite a junction which sure your not supposed to do.
 
I will be honest it annoys me. My neighbour used to park two cars on the drive but now leaves his car at the end of the road which is a t junction. He can fit both cars easy so not sure why he does it. It does become a little annoying coming home and having to sweep wide when turning into my street. Especially as he is the only person on the street that does it. Everyone else uses their drive. I do park my car on the road now and again but that is mainly if I am doing work on my car that has come out of the garage or washing cars to give more room.
 
They will not believe that they are wrong and you are right. Loads of people believe that the area of public road outside of their house is their personal parking space.

If it were me I'd consider printing off the rules from a .gov, highlight them, and post them (without poop) through their letterbox. Perhaps print out the details for them dropping their own curb too.

If people start blocking your driveway record evidence and notify the councils parking enforcement
 
I do understand both sides of this really.
Four cars is excessive unless the circumstances are exceptional.

Legally of course you are in the right.
I do think though that if I had a neighbour parking four cars when the street probably used to be quieter and dare I say it, aesthetically better, it would annoy me a little.

still, neither party is ‘right’ - in my book
 
fastwunz said:
I do understand both sides of this really.
Four cars is excessive unless the circumstances are exceptional.

Legally of course you are in the right.
I do think though that if I had a neighbour parking four cars when the street probably used to be quieter and dare I say it, aesthetically better, it would annoy me a little.

still, neither party is ‘right’ - in my book
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But they don't normally park 4 on the road, they park one on the road (which is probably the same as or less than everyone else). In this instance they are parking 2 on the road (like most people who don't have a drive), however it is exceptional circumstances because they have a friend over. What are people supposed to do, buy a house with a driveway big enough for 10 cars just in case they decide to have the whole family over for Christmas one year? :rolleyes:

The problem here isn't the OP parking 1-2 cars on the road, the problem is the neighbour's perception that because the OP has a driveway, he shouldn't be parking his cars on the road.

I propose a simple solution; OP converts his drive back to a garden. That way the neighbour can no longer complain he should be parking on the drive. It won't make parking any easier for said neighbour, in fact it will make it worse because the OP will now have to park all 3 vehicles on the road, but, most importantly, it will solve the neighbour's complaint that he isn't parking on the drive.
 
Let's get realistic here, when you're buying your first house you don't think about a lot of things.
When I came to buy my second house my only thought about 'parking' was that I'd be able to work on my car on a flat drive, I never thought that years later we'd need room for 4 cars however we can get 4 cars in our drive so lucky move.
How many people ever consider the Sun and their garden? - we didn't but at 10am this morning the sun hits my garden from the left and will stay with us until 6pm - we got lucky.
 
[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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Hush you.

Only muppets say road tax.
 
Diagro said:
Hush you.

Only muppets say road tax.
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It's OK to say Road Tax if it's substituted for Vehicle Tax or VED, it's when it used consistently against cyclists that they have no rights on the roads because they don't pay a mythical Road Tax.
I've had it for 12 years from different sources including OCUK, Facebook, friends, family & work colleagues, all of them think they are paying for the upkeep of the roads with a mythical tax.
So by all means call it Road Tax as long as you know it doesn't pay for the roads and it's a tax so you are allowed to drive on the roads and it is calculated by how much crap that comes out of your exhaust.

One of the funniest conversations in the office were the women arguing about Road Tax and me not paying it for my cycle (even though I had two cars) and one woman saying she didn't pay it because she had an electric car.
There were minds blown all over the ceiling that day.
 
adam cool dude said:
Technically it is a road tax as you need the tax to drive on a public road. You do not need the tax to drive on private land ;)
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You obviously didn't read my 3rd sentence - that's OK.

SexyGreyFox said:
So by all means call it Road Tax as long as you know it doesn't pay for the roads and it's a tax so you are allowed to drive on the roads and it is calculated by how much crap that comes out of your exhaust.
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