Yeah it's easy to accuse someone of being a whining NIMBY until you're actually faced with the situation they are in. It's taking the piss for someone to park it there rather than put up with the inconvenience/obstruction themselves. Does it justify vandalism? No but if a polite note doesn't work I know I'd be letting the tyres down. Not sure I'd go any further than that but I might change my mind if it was still there a few months later after a few tyre deflation sessions.
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What to do - camper van parked long term opposite house...
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Print out this thread and slip it under his wiper.
If he reads it he'll realise that he's woken up a lot of latent vitriol and will probably get a nice warm glow. And leave his van there.
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Some NIMBY in a street near where I stay in Edinburgh got fed up with people (including me) parking on "his road" so he started putting notes on cars which said something along the lines of:
"I watched you park here. I know where you live and if you do it again I shall call the police."
Mental!
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Right your not going to believe this. Just got home from work. There is a second, slightly larger motor home parked next to the original one I started moaning about.
WTF??????? Is some one renting out the front of my house as a caravan park or something.
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Turns out he's an STW member and is now finding it funny to cheese you off with perfectly legal parking. Suck it up
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They'll be selling you lucky heather and offering to lay new tarmac on your driveway before long
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Well it would seem the latest one in not on the motor insurance database so means it is most likely uninsured. That gives me reason to contact the council.
My god I need to earn more so I can get a better house.
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That has got to be worth a picture!
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No joke - I just tried to take a photo. They are so big I can't get both of them in the same picture....
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A montage perhaps?
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I know our housing estate has restrictions on commercial vehicles, camper vans been parked on the estate even on your driveway, the coucil may have a bylaw against unreasonable parking, for instance hindering disabled people by not giving good visability. Check with your council.
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where's Ken, they can park the fleet outside his!!
if you let the air out of the tyres so that they are half flat no damage has occurred. I would also suggest wall paper pasting large "please move your vehicle" signs on to the windows, again no damage
alternatively borrow an old wreck an practice dodgem parking. An old dear did this on my street for years and got away with it.
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Are these campervan's built on van chassis or 7.5t truck chassis? If it's the latter have a look in the windscreen for an operators licence, if there is one contact VOSA as they will have a record of the who the operator is. Make a complaint to them and they should contact the owner to tell them that they are not operating the vehicles out of the designated operating base. If this turn's out to be the case the owner will be told to move them to the operating base or face a licence revoke. No licence no legal right to leave said van's/trucks on the public highway and if there is an 'O' licence then they should be returned to the operating base on a regular basis.
I have no idea weather converted truck chassis require an 'O' licence but this rule applies to the operator's of commercial vehicles. It's at least worth a look.
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Has its all taxed etc best thing to do is get a trolly jack
and put it under the engine Not Sump and jack it up and pull the veihcle
onto the road.
Therefore the Police will have to do something about it as its blocking the road.
Best if you did this at night.
Would not ignite it just incase it has a full tank of juice.Posted 2 years ago # -
Harry_the_Spider - Member
A montage perhaps?
That's not a camper. Isn't that a family sized car made by Ford.
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Has this Nimby issue been resolved?
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Yes thank you. I believe a group of like minded NIMBYs from my road found out where the owner of the two vechiles was living (other side of town) and went round there with pitchforks and burning torches.
I was away at the time but was pretty happy to come back to find both of them had been moved.
I believe he was somewhat of a dodgy character.
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I love a happy ending.
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We almost bought a house on a quiet lane, loved it. 2nd and 3rd viewing the next door neighbour had a large-one of these things parked with half your left view of the world blocked out of the front living room window.
That was the deciding factor- even the estate agent admitted the owner had asked him to move it somewhere else (he refused- and they only asked him to move it whilst viewings were going on!) so you can imagine how obstinate this **** must have been.
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too right parking his vehicle legally outside his own house ...away most weekends in the van. away most summers ... YEAH who would want neighbours like that?
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Hey I agree. However if it blocks 50% of your view (the sun came over his side as well). In that lane/close it blocked alot of the light to the living room.
Thing is, not everyone lives on farms or large plots of land so when you get one of these large recreational vehicles almost as tall as some folks houses parked next to them it kinda blots everything out.
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too right parking his vehicle legally outside his own house ...
awayhome most weekendsin the van. homeawaymost summersCould equally be the case. Neighbours a few doors down have a caravan, moves a couple of times a year, rest of the time just sits there.
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I know surfer but it is not on my list of things my neighbours do that annoy me. They can buy and park any vehicle they like anywhere they want legally. WTF has it got to do with me?
Blocking your daylight - you are at work and it is dark for half the year anyway why so bothered do you sunbatehe in your front garden in your trunks Hora?
Good neighbours,like good citizens, tolerate each other.
Different issue if someone is parking there who lives further awayPosted 2 years ago # -
Not on my list either. You just jumped to the conclusion that cos he has a camper he is away most weekends and most summers (unless I missed something earlier in the thread?)
I was making the point that lots of people have caravans and campers that just sit there. In a residential area I expect that can become a bit of a pain and inconvenience to many people.
Tolerance is a wonderful thing, cuts both ways though, like consideration.Posted 2 years ago #
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