Row with neighbour about parking
Discussion
Yes the law. It seems that those who dont agree find my law abiding opinion contrary to theirs. Whilst i find frozen sausages amusing in a neighbours lawn, i would never actually do such a thing and that includes parking to cause an inconvenience to another human being.
It appears that annoying ones neighbour is fair game to some pistonhead users. Who needs to get a life?
It appears that annoying ones neighbour is fair game to some pistonhead users. Who needs to get a life?
egAs103 said:
Let me guess...you rent a flat/house and see fit to park where you like without a care to your neighbours who have to live there before AND long after you. Oh dont bother i already know just like you??
Rent? Good god, no. That's for poor people that can't afford a property with adequate land to accommodate the car collection. Peasant. Edited by egAs103 on Sunday 23 October 19:58
Surveyor said
'Lol.. It's always good to laugh, good for your blood pressure! Go ahead and park where you legally can but the point of my comment was to indicate that in areas such as the OP's area where parking spaces are at a premium, if you inconvenience other people with your parking, don't be surprised that they get a little miffed. '
What about the 'other peoples parking' inconveniencing the OP?. Is he not allowed to get miffed?There are always two sides to everything. And length of living in a place does not give you any extra privileges, If there is a space and it is legal to park, its fair game to everyone..
'Lol.. It's always good to laugh, good for your blood pressure! Go ahead and park where you legally can but the point of my comment was to indicate that in areas such as the OP's area where parking spaces are at a premium, if you inconvenience other people with your parking, don't be surprised that they get a little miffed. '
What about the 'other peoples parking' inconveniencing the OP?. Is he not allowed to get miffed?There are always two sides to everything. And length of living in a place does not give you any extra privileges, If there is a space and it is legal to park, its fair game to everyone..
silverfoxcc said:
If there is a space and it is legal to park, its fair game to everyone..
I despair. Does nobody have any consideration for others anymore?There are many things which are perfectly legal, but which annoy others - I try to go through my day causing minimal annoyance to people around me. Because karma is a real b
h when it bites back.egAs103 said:
What i dont understand with the majority of posts on this thread is why people who rent or buy a property dont ensure it meets their needs in terms of parking. Why do they then see fit to inconvenience those who paid to meet their needs just so they feel they are one up on them. A drop kerb or space outside ones house should be respected; grow up and dont park outside someones house where inconvenience is caused for a resident who a) might have children that struggle to cycle out from or cross the road b) might struggle to get in/out of their drive due to your lack of respect c) not want a white van man parking outside working early hours/shift work coming and going at stupid o clock or for example d) have a terminal illness, be generally old and just cant be bothered with the Idiots parking vans, skips or cars etc outside their house with no respect or either to get back at them.
Really you lot get a life and live to your means. A camera pointing on your precious car whilst parked "just" where you can see it from the comfort of your girlfriends front window? Registering a cheap motor in your neighbours name to cause them DVLA inconvenience....just get a life and follow the simple rules of life...dont deliberatly go out if your way to annoy somebody.... that if you get to know might just surprise you!
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Spot on. A number of people that have no issue with parking in front of someone's house have commented to my posts, advising me if it's that big a problem, buy a house with more parking. I'm sorry but go and tell that to the people you are defending, as it's clearly them that needs to take that advice on board, so they wouldn't need to park in front of other people homes. Really you lot get a life and live to your means. A camera pointing on your precious car whilst parked "just" where you can see it from the comfort of your girlfriends front window? Registering a cheap motor in your neighbours name to cause them DVLA inconvenience....just get a life and follow the simple rules of life...dont deliberatly go out if your way to annoy somebody.... that if you get to know might just surprise you!
Awaiting the normal responses.
Ps There is space outside my house for 4-5 cars. We purposely took this into account when buying, as we have 3-4 cars. Everyone on my street, in fact the whole estate generally park in front of their homes, just basic common sense. There will rarely be someone else's car in front of my house, and on the odd occasion there is, it doesn't bother me. I'd be annoyed if someone did it regularly, as would other people on the street if I did it to them.
twoblacklines said:
So wait...your solution for someone with a flat parking outside someone elses house is...to report the guy parking on his own drive in his company van for bad behaviour for parking on his own drive?
Are you serious?
What's next are you going to tell the OP to start parking on his neighbours drive as well?
Pathetic.
Well if you read what the OP wrote, the drive was not big enough to park all his vehicles on and the works van was too large to fit. Hence he was claiming the right to park outside his home not on his drive.Are you serious?
What's next are you going to tell the OP to start parking on his neighbours drive as well?
Pathetic.
He went on to threaten the OP by saying cars had been torched and tyres slashed for parking there. If it was parked on his drive there would be no issue.
As for reporting him, I suggested if the vehicle is part of a fleet, it will be subject to an operators licence which will stipulate where it can be parked and that is never on a residential road, it was an alternative to some of the burn his van advice given by others.
No one owns the road outside their home and unless there are resident parking restrictions anyone can park there. This person feels he has this right to demand with menaces that no one parks there. If using the law to beat thugs is pathetic then so be it.
CasuallyDressed said:
Today the owner of the house which I like to park in front of ... came rumbling out with his son to kick off about it.
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Free to park wherever there isn't a dropped curb. I told him as much and his response was that a couple of years ago a bunch of cars were burned out or had their tyres slashed for parking over there :-/
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I always find this behaviour odd. You only park there, he has to live there....
Free to park wherever there isn't a dropped curb. I told him as much and his response was that a couple of years ago a bunch of cars were burned out or had their tyres slashed for parking over there :-/
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He is taking a chance you are not a raving nutter, and if you found your car damaged would return a can of unleaded to pour through his letter box.
Trabi601 said:
silverfoxcc said:
If there is a space and it is legal to park, its fair game to everyone..
I despair. Does nobody have any consideration for others anymore?There are many things which are perfectly legal, but which annoy others - I try to go through my day causing minimal annoyance to people around me. Because karma is a real b
h when it bites back.Hate to break it to you, but in life there are other things to take into account other then legality.
ASONI said:
I'd hate to be neighbours with these guys that have no consideration or sense of exactly what you've said. As far as they are concerned, if it's legal then it's ok. There are plenty you wouldn't do as it might be inconsiderate, likely to annoy someone, cause someone an inconvenience etc etc. But hey ho, if it's not illegal then it must be fine to do.
Hate to break it to you, but in life there are other things to take into account other then legality.
What you and your "professionally-annoyed" brethren seem to be missing here is you have zero right to get angry. ZERO.Hate to break it to you, but in life there are other things to take into account other then legality.
You don't think other people should be allowed to use "your" space? Where do you draw the line? Slightly overhanging your property? Two car spaces away? Anywhere in your street?
Most people, if they can help it, would prefer to park as close to their own property as possible but, if it's not, then any legally-allowed public area is fair game and you have ZERO right to start getting annoyed about it.
Once more, just for clarification, NOBODY owns the public road outside their house so if someone else wants to park there then tough-titties.
Would I park outside a neighbour's house if I could help it? No. Would I feel any sense of guilt if that was the only place left? Not at all and if I got even the slightest hint they had an attitude like you I'd buy a s
tty old banger as suggested and dump it there permanently. Probably with a porn mag centrefold taped to the inside of the window facing your house.Edited by Centurion07 on Sunday 23 October 22:26
Edited by Centurion07 on Sunday 23 October 22:30
spaximus said:
twoblacklines said:
So wait...your solution for someone with a flat parking outside someone elses house is...to report the guy parking on his own drive in his company van for bad behaviour for parking on his own drive?
Are you serious?
What's next are you going to tell the OP to start parking on his neighbours drive as well?
Pathetic.
Well if you read what the OP wrote, the drive was not big enough to park all his vehicles on and the works van was too large to fit. Hence he was claiming the right to park outside his home not on his drive.Are you serious?
What's next are you going to tell the OP to start parking on his neighbours drive as well?
Pathetic.
He went on to threaten the OP by saying cars had been torched and tyres slashed for parking there. If it was parked on his drive there would be no issue.
As for reporting him, I suggested if the vehicle is part of a fleet, it will be subject to an operators licence which will stipulate where it can be parked and that is never on a residential road, it was an alternative to some of the burn his van advice given by others.
No one owns the road outside their home and unless there are resident parking restrictions anyone can park there. This person feels he has this right to demand with menaces that no one parks there. If using the law to beat thugs is pathetic then so be it.
ASONI said:
Why are there plenty of streets with residents only parking? If there was nothing wrong with parking in front of people homes, thereby denying them the space, councils wouldn't need to make it resident only parking would they?
That's when there is an issue due to the proximity of a train station or shopping centre, not to stop other people who also live in the same vicinity.Centurion07 said:
ASONI said:
I'd hate to be neighbours with these guys that have no consideration or sense of exactly what you've said. As far as they are concerned, if it's legal then it's ok. There are plenty you wouldn't do as it might be inconsiderate, likely to annoy someone, cause someone an inconvenience etc etc. But hey ho, if it's not illegal then it must be fine to do.
Hate to break it to you, but in life there are other things to take into account other then legality.
What you and your "professionally-annoyed" brethren seem to be missing here is you have zero right to get angry. ZERO.Hate to break it to you, but in life there are other things to take into account other then legality.
You don't think other people should be allowed to use "your" space? Where do you draw the line? Slightly overhanging your property? Two car spaces away? Anywhere in your street?
Most people, if they can help it, would prefer to park as close to their own property as possible but, if it's not, then any legally-allowed public area is fair game and you have ZERO right to start getting annoyed about it.
Once more, just for clarification, NOBODY owns the public road outside their house so if someone else wants to park there then tough-titties.
Would I park outside a neighbour's house if I could help it? No. Would I feel any sense of guilt if that was the only place left? Not at all and if I got even the slightest hint they had an attitude like you I'd buy a hitty old banger as suggested and dump it there permanently. Probably with a porn mag centrefold taped to the inside of the window facing your house.
Edited by Centurion07 on Sunday 23 October 22:26
As you said, you would not park your car in front of someone else's home if you could help it. This is the point. The op did not HAVE to park in that space, they all have a space so not as if there was nowhere else to park, he chose to do so because it was more convenient for him, ignoring the fact it was even more convenient for the guy that actually lives there.
Centurion07 said:
ASONI said:
Why are there plenty of streets with residents only parking? If there was nothing wrong with parking in front of people homes, thereby denying them the space, councils wouldn't need to make it resident only parking would they?
That's when there is an issue due to the proximity of a train station or shopping centre, not to stop other people who also live in the same vicinity.If a neighbour parked in front of my house because he didn't have anywhere else to park, I'd have zero problem with that. If he parked there simply because he preferred that spot (like the op seems to be doing), that would be completely different and would annoy me.
ASONI said:
Missing the point completely and again brining legalities into it. For the umpteenth time, we all know it's not illegal and we don't own that land.
As you said, you would not park your car in front of someone else's home if you could help it. This is the point. The op did not HAVE to park in that space, they all have a space so not as if there was nowhere else to park, he chose to do so because it was more convenient for him, ignoring the fact it was even more convenient for the guy that actually lives there.
The OP has one space allocated to his flat which his missus uses. He then has to find somewhere to park HIS car. Nobhead homeowner has filled his "allocated parking" (his driveway) with 3 cars and has to find somewhere to park his son's van. They both have equal right to park on the road. End of.As you said, you would not park your car in front of someone else's home if you could help it. This is the point. The op did not HAVE to park in that space, they all have a space so not as if there was nowhere else to park, he chose to do so because it was more convenient for him, ignoring the fact it was even more convenient for the guy that actually lives there.
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