[Closed] Residents who think they own the road they live on,parking issues

Next door neighbour is bonkers. Moves his 5 series off his drive once a week to go to Waitrose. But actively discourages his partner parking across the drive so she parks across the street. Recently his daughter visited and had the bare faced cheek to park across the drive. He asked her to move it "just in case I need to go out" which he wouldn't as he'd already done the Waitrose run. So she moves it, and promptly reverses into the curb opposite wrecking the wheel and tyre. Cost a pretty penny to sort. Dad admitted he had a slight feeling of guilt! Just can't fathom him out.

When I'm president of the disunited kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, I will ban parking on the street or extend car ownership only to those people who have driveways. It's getting ridiculous the amount of public space that is devoted to storing people's cars.

[b]I wouldn't have option because someone else would be parked there.[/b]

[b]So my method works and has the added advantage of slowing traffic [/b]which isn't actually much the occasional delivery driver or stressed parent on a school run perhaps but definitely slowed.

There is ample free parking within 100 metres and not outside anyone's house.

Presumably it would still work if someone else was parked there then?

And if you have visitors would it really kill them to put one foot in front of the other?

Seriously, people who fill up the road rather than their own drive get my goat.

Not sure why I read all of this, I've lived on several streets where you might have to park 20-30 meters from your house as there aren't that many spaces. You have legs, you can do it.

My ex-neighbour was (is?) obsessed with parking. I'd been in the house less than a day before he came around demanding I moved the car, citing a load of rubbish about how he needed to unload his children right outside the front door. Then he moved to passive-aggressive notes, and he positioned his wheely bins against the bumpers.

The best thing he ever did though was to buy a knackered old Golf, tax and insure it and dump it outside his own house to ensure no one ever parked outside. I used to laugh every time I walked past.

Now live somewhere where parking is genuinely tight, we all share the space and my new neighbour even has my spare car key so she can move mine out of the way if she needs to get in her garage.

possibly in pram

I may have, accidentally, bumped a wing mirror or 2 trying to get past them when pushing the pram..

I find you don't need a pram to bash mirrors, my elbows are just the correct height.....

Parking can be awkward round mine, I've a couple of shops nearby and customers just dump their cars anywhere, even across my dropped kerb. Bit Victor Meldrew, but I've a car and a van so I've always got one parked across the dropped kerb when I'm out in the other, ensures I can get in my access and saves space on the street.

My mate lives on a street with terraced houses at one end, semi at the other and he has the only drive on the street on which he parks his van. He once parked his van outside his own house as he had another vehicle on his drive only for a day or two as the tax had run out and he was selling it.

Someone on his street got his mobile number of the side of his van, rang him on withheld number and roasted him for parking on the street 😯

Mental.

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When I'm president of the disunited kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, I will ban parking on the street or extend car ownership only to those people who have driveways. It's getting ridiculous the amount of public space that is devoted to storing people's cars.
Best solution to this is make a parking tax that has an exemption if yo have off street parking and make this tax at the average land value for the area. Why you have the right to occupy publicly owned land for free amazes me. this is one of the hidden subsidies to drivers. I often cannot get my bike out of my house onto the road without travelling along the pavement due to all cars parked outside my house.

Don't park outside my house, park outside your own house!
Was how I explained my objection to the neighbour when they parked their horse transporter/truck outside my place.

My front door is ~1M from the property boundary, with no footpath, but a curb ~0.5M further.

So their truck was ~1.3M from my door, blocking light entering the sitting room window.

Plain inconsiderate.

I blame the local authority permitting developers to cram properties onto a development to the point where it causes problems. Garage is too small to put a medium sized car in, households with multiple cars. Its going to cause issues.

Misguided planning authorities thinking if they permit developers to build a brick shed and call it a garage. That somehow this will reduce/deter car ownership.

When I park, I don't get hassled, but then, I park considerately.

I love living in the middle of nowhere. With lots of space.

Only time I've had parking issues (unloading firewood on our single lane road) the two neighbours who couldn't get past got out of their cars and helped me unload. And stack it all.

Dont you need off street parking to own a car in some cities in Japan?

I park considerately and if the place outside my house becomes free , the last thing I'm doing is moving it - but the behaviours of others sometimes boils my urine.
The horrible swine who lives next door to my mother,(he happens to be a Vicar! ffs)gets his wife to take up two spaces when he leaves to got to Church!Everyday.
Then there's the lady over the road from me that puts cones out to reserve her place as she drives to the Heath to walk her dog. For half an hour.
I'm thinking of stealing the cones one day...ha.
Oh - and the cockwombles who park two cars in three spaces. grrr.

Seriously, people who fill up the road rather than their own drive get my goat.

Better your goat is got than mine.

We've got a few neighbours that get the hump about it, otherwise normal people too. Then on Saturdays we get the influx of nonagenarian farmers parking across the middle of the road and knocking every buggers wing mirrors off. They are swines for parking in the middle of a space big enough for two but then again if they tried to get in a one car space it'd take most of the day and they'd collect most of the paint the cars eith er side in the process, so maybe it's better to just shrug and pop another diazepam.

I came home late lastnight and had to park 25-50m away from my front door!

That would be close for me!

Hah. I had a neighbour threaten to strangle me when I parked outside his house the night I moved into a shared house once. I told him to F off. It just made me park thete more often after that.It was the start of a lovely relationship, which culminated in him trying to knock a friend of his bike. He regretted that one. Other than that I've had no issues anywhere, and I'm planning to extend our drive to get both cars off the street.

An anomaly in road markings if you will has created somewhat of an off road parking space two doors up from my Mum's - The lady (nutter) who has commandeered it sees said space as so irrefutably hers that she even listed her property as having offroad parking with the Estate Agent!

Used to live in a semi on the road to quite a popular country park. Both ourselves and our baby boomer neighbours had enough driveway space, so rarely had to park on the road. This meant that sometimes people visiting the country park would park outside our houses. In 4 years, my drive was partially blocked once. The neighbours took it upon themselves to paint a big white line in the road covering the width of their driveway and about two feet in front of our house. Every time someone parked just a little bit over their line, they would rush out and make them move up, saying that they were blocking their drive, which they weren't, as the line was way wider than their drive. This meant that people would often end up partially blocking our drive so as not to block their drive.
I don't really drive, so it never really bothered me, but their life just seemed to revolve around parking. Very strange.

Never understood note writing,

Why you have the right to occupy publicly owned land for free amazes me. this is one of the hidden subsidies to drivers. I often cannot get my bike out of my house onto the road without travelling along the pavement due to all cars parked outside my house

FWIW I can also occupy public space by simply standing there and not moving. I dont even have to pay a penny for the footpath unlike the road which i maintain via road tax 😉

I usually get parked in my street if not there are loads of options that involves a less than one minute walk . the main problem i have is trying to remember where i parked in the morning 😉

I've two neighbours who are constantly in and out using their cars to run errands, even to the corner shop 50m from our houses! They are both fond of blocking people in if 'their' spaces are gone when they get back
One of them did this to my dad when he came round to mine last time and then wouldn't answer his door to move it when my dad needed to go.

Speaking of which, my dad is a blue badge holder and has a clearly marked diasbled spot outside his house. You can pretty much guarantee some selfish cockwomble will park in it on Halifax Town match days (but never on a RL match day)

there's the lady over the road from me that puts cones out to reserve her place

I knew somebody who did this so I complained to the council, effectively they're obstructing the highway. The cones went, but they now 'park' a heavily locked old bicycle on the road so that nobody can use 'their' space!!

What's that an On Street Parking Thread? I'm in!

I live and work in the same village which means that I don't drive.

There are about 600 people at my workplace and we don't have enough parking so some employees have to park on the street. The amount of abuse our gatehouse get from old biddys complaining someone has parked outside their house completely legally and considerately is entirely predictable. We have also had cars keyed and in one case a brick through someones windscreen. Lovely.

We also get people using the village as an impromptu park and ride to get to the County Hall site since they started charging for parking.

People park outside my house all the time as I live opposite a little garage, doesn't bother me in the slightest as a) I have space on my drive for 4 big vehicles b) I'm not a petty small minded a-hole and c) they take in my parcels!

I'm not sure why you would buy a house with no drive or not enough space for your cars, seems like a recipe for arsepain.

I park outside my own house to stop others parking there, it also slows down would be speeders and keep space on the drive free for visitors

Really? WTAF!

Oh yeah, don't get me started on people blocking the footpath with their cars forcing the aged, mums/dads with prams onto the road.

I used to just push the pushchair through the gap, whether there was space or not. Serves them right for being thick/inconsiderate.

JUnkyard - walking - everyone has that right / ability. Parking - its a minority. Bikes - take up minimal space and are not there 24/7

I live very close to a tube station. Road was free parking. It was a permanent car park, which is fair enough as it's free so why would you park in the station car park

What would annoy me is the number of people who would block our drive, or leave their car sticking out into the drive. You're welcome to park on the road, but don't block the drive you ejit

Now have parking restrictions on the road and life has got much easier (even though I have to pay for a residents permit)

I'm not sure why you would buy a house with no drive or not enough space for your cars, seems like a recipe for arsepain.

I might as well say I dont understand why folk dont own detached houses, detached garages and massive gardens with summer houses.

@ the TJ - glad you are still here fella- they both take up physical space and i am not sure what you want car drivers to do with their cars at the end of the day. Essentially we will end up with a scenario where only rich folk have them for they can afford a drive

this is exactly why I would never buy a house without my own parking space/drive

This doesn't necessarily help...

I'm more than happy for anyone to park outside my house, as we have privately owned parking spaces at the rear. What I'm not happy with is people using the spaces at the rear just because it's closer to where they live!

DO you think its because houses without drives are cheaper than houses without drives?

Point is people don't prioritise off road car parking.

Woke up one morning to find someones nearly new BMW parked half way across our drive and the neighbours stopping either of us from getting our cars out. Knocking on every door in the street, everyone denied knowledge of it. Called the police, which was a pointless exercise. Tried the council who where pretty useless too. In the end our neighbour got a work mate to pick him in his truck. They chained the car to the truck and dragged it up the street, alarm going off and onto the main road, in the process wrecking the front bumper and wheels as it hit a few curbs. The police turned up later at my neighbours who denied all knowledge of it backed up by a neighbour opposite who said he'd seen it being driven up the road.
Turned out the car belonged to a friend (with benefits) of someone near the top of the street and because he couldn't park out side her house he just dumped his car at ours so he could hurry up and get his leg over. She had seen the car being dragged up the road but didn't realize it was his until later when he thought his car has been stolen. Contacted the police but when they got nowhere he didn't pursue it due to him being married. Our neighbour became a bit of a legend on the street and whilst others still have parking problems we have none.

Point is people don't prioritise off road car parking.

I see some daftness in my street.

Cul-de-sac with two blocks of flats. Each flat has either a garage or their own private parking bay up the back on private land.

The public bit of the road has double yellow lines to make everyone park in their own space rather than on the road.

A woman who I call "The Fat Slug" doesn't park in her own space, she parks on the yellow lines, and gets parking tickets from the council. Her space is, at even the most leisurely of paces, a 10 second walk from her front door, but it's not right outside her front door which is clearly where she wants to be. So park outside your front door and pay £40 for the privilege each time the council ticket her, or park 10 seconds away for free on a plot of land she actually owns.

Bonkers.

PEople get very possessive over their space!
In a previous property the guy next door was a selfish c**t.
Terraced street with some front gardens converted into single spaces. This mean with dropped kerbs they effectively now have parking for 2 cars guaranteed. Except he has 3 cars at his house, 2 his, one his daughters.
So for over a year he parked his volvo infront of our house. He used it twice a month to go to the tip in. He would wait until we had gone out, swap it with one of his other cars and swap it back again after. What a guy.
Now he's got a caravan parked in front of his house, which now means that two other houses in the street cant park there because he's got his fleet parked up.
I moved in the end because it was getting ridiculous and I came close to thumping him.
The day we moved out he was moving the yellow cones that we'd got from the police for the removal van to park and got his mate to park their car in front of the house for several days, just to make it harder for us to leave.
Utterly vile man. I will have my revenge. 👿

Now he's got a caravan parked in front of his house

it's illegal to leave a caravan (or trailer) parked on the road isn't it?

Junkyard - why does it have to be a question of money?

As alluded to in Japanese cities you aren't allowed a car permit unless you have allocated parking. Now if you were to allocate these on a first come basis followed by a waiting list (bottom of the queue if you already have a permit) then that would be fair yes? Those with driveways would be free to do as they please whilst those who require street parking would get their fair turn.

Of course this isn't really a solution as in a city you shouldn't really need private car ownership if you have a decent public transport system and hire available for when you do require a car/van. But it would be a start.

Junkyard
I would be perfectly happy if car drivers were not subsidised by the rest of us. Why should my tax mmean cars are cheap to run.
The subsidy is over a thousand pounds ayear per car

I can see both sides, on one hand I have no time whatsoever for people who whinge about "their" space outside their home, but I live next door to a three car family who never, ever use their own driveway and force me to park around the corner. It's a PITA, which usually resolves itself when they go out and I leave my car outside their house for days on end.

why does it have to be a question of money?

TJ I am not sure exactly what point you are making about subsidised car usage - can you elaborate with enough detail for me to [s]explain why you are wrong [/s] reply?

Genuine Q [google drew a blank] the bit above is just mickey taking

I thought the same about some of the people saying 'why would you buy a house without a drive' has the whiff of 'how dreadfully common, you wouldn't catch me in one of those dreadful terraced houses ugghh'
some people can't afford a house with a drive. I used to live on a terraced street for years but luckily enough my wife & I moved to one with a drive but terraced houses make a lot of sense for single peeps.

dmorts - Member

This doesn't necessarily help...

Do pray tell how anything within this thread is 'helping'.

:rolleyes:

We're having some building work done at the moment, which means that the space on our drive is filled with a skip and builders van most of the time, and the garage is full of materials. So both cars are parked, unobtrusively, in the close (a private road which we co-own). Still one of the nieghbours couldn't help but come round "for a quick word"... and left shortly thereafter with a flea in his ear. Some people just can't help themselves!

And at our last place we'd get tickets from a warden for parking across our own drive. Same bloke, who did it repeatedly, every one got overturned and I made sure he knew this. I think that speaks volumes about the sort of folk who get involved in parking & related disputes.

I thought the same about some of the people saying 'why would you buy a house without a drive' has the whiff of 'how dreadfully common, you wouldn't catch me in one of those dreadful terraced houses ugghh'

to me it read as 'why would a typical STW poster with their shiny expensive lease car with a stanta-cruz on the roof buy a terrace house without a drive' 😆

I used to live on a terraced street for years but luckily enough my wife & I moved to one with a drive but terraced houses make a lot of sense for single peeps.

I find there's barely enough room in a two-up, two-down terrace to accommodate both myself and my prejudices. I have no idea how couples manage with only two bedrooms...

Still one of the nieghbours couldn't help but come round "for a quick word"... and left shortly thereafter with a flea in his ear.

I was that neighbour not so long ago. That said this was 18 months into what should have been a 6 month build and I had quite simply had enough.

We're still not on great terms.

I'm not surprised. It's none of your business, so butt out.