parking outside your house

[V8forweekends]

ecs0set said:

If anyone has a large and decrepit caravan, I'd love to park it there with "Feck Off Crazy Cat Lady" on the side!

Risky strategy - she'd prolly get 100s more cats to colonise it, but I agree with the sentiment.

[pincher]

'Cat Disco'

[CAPP0]

The guy (I use the term loosely) next door to where I used to live was a complete tool wrt parking outside the houses. He had an ample drive for both his and his wife's cars but insisted on parking outside his house on the street - OK, no drama, it's a free country and nobody owns the road. However, at one point I had to put CCTV, up as he had a teenage son who was a proper wrong 'un who was regularly picked up by the BiB, and with his history I didn't trust him not to damage our cars. Anyway, one day MrsC, who had to park outside our house as we only had one driveway space, went out in her car. 30 seconds later, tosspot appeared on the CCTV, got in his car, and moved it about a yard further along the road so it was overhanging our house. He had a full-on case of Napoleon syndrome and I think this was just his way of putting his piss down.

Another time, my son's girlfriend, who was all of 18 at the time, had the temerity to park outside his house (completely legally and properly) so he moved his car and boxed her in. He & I did have words that time. I asked him how big & clever he felt intimidating a teenage female, when he was a mid-40s adult. Complete tt.

[Bradley1500]

It's horrible having trouble with neighbours especially over something as silly as who parks where in the street, unfortunately our immediate neighbour has on a few occasions taken offence to my parking habits.

We have a shared driveway with a garage each for one car and a parking space each for one car. In our house hold we have four cars so park two outside our house. There is easily enough room directly outside our house for three cars, maybe four at a push but still our neighbour took offence to us parking 'so many cars' outside our house. The neighbour only has two cars so only needs the garage/drive so believes no one else should park in the street.

I explained our parking was perfectly legal and wasn't hindering her in anyway, so I wouldn't be moving the cars. After this whenever she could she'd make a point of revving outside our house to show she's struggling to fit through, there's loads of room so not sure what point she was trying to make. This went on for a couple of weeks until one day it backfired on her. Again she was revving her car but her foot slipped off the clutch meaning she catapulted herself into my Mum's new Audi TT scrapping the nearside rear corner. The £500 body shop bill has meant she's a lot more careful of her driving now.

[Dog Star]

I read of this so often on PH - there are some utter idiots around (the territorial types). I'd never buy a property without offroad parking (similarly a property near a bus shelter, phone box, bench or corner shop (ie. where kids/teens might congregate)).

I've got about 50 yards of road frontage, however it's got a bloody great hedge and I couldn't care less if people park in front of my house.

[HereBeMonsters]

Dog Star said:

I read of this so often on PH - there are some utter idiots around (the territorial types). I'd never buy a property without offroad parking (similarly a property near a bus shelter, phone box, bench or corner shop (ie. where kids/teens might congregate)).

I've got about 50 yards of road frontage, however it's got a bloody great hedge and I couldn't care less if people park in front of my house.

We said that, and now we have one of two houses in a 100+ house street with their own drive/parking.

Apparently, this means that anyone else feels free to block my drive at all times, whether the car is in it or not.

When the wife was 9 months pregnant I had to park one of our cars around the corner so we knew we could definitely use it to get to hospital.

Quite regularly I'll leave notes on cars that block us in, or park right up to their bumper if they've blocked us out, and it's regularly the same ones. I honestly think they're jealous of our off-road parking and try to make it as difficult as possible for us.

[irocfan]

PaulG40 said:

I get this all the time. I live in a cul de sac at the bottom, mine is the only house to have a driveway and gates. Even if there are no other cars around, people come to visit next door and just chuck their car right front of our gates meaning every time we have to knock on next door to get their visitor to move. Sometimes it's just there bonnet overlapping since they like to park to they line up their door with her pedestrian gate out of sheer laziness but as our drive gate open outwards, we can't fully open ours to get the cars out. Bleedin infuriating, but low on our overall list of problems so once they've moved it's soon forgotten about.

Edited by PaulG40 on Sunday 14th September 09:12

seems to me like you need to have a few 'middle of the night emergencies'

[211lover]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2756340/Ma...

[boroandy87]

HereBeMonsters said:

We said that, and now we have one of two houses in a 100+ house street with their own drive/parking.

Apparently, this means that anyone else feels free to block my drive at all times, whether the car is in it or not.

When the wife was 9 months pregnant I had to park one of our cars around the corner so we knew we could definitely use it to get to hospital.

Quite regularly I'll leave notes on cars that block us in, or park right up to their bumper if they've blocked us out, and it's regularly the same ones. I honestly think they're jealous of our off-road parking and try to make it as difficult as possible for us.

Was just going to make a point about this reference some comments prior.

I can see why those who have off road parking, but have two cars, park one on the drive and the other in front even if they have room. As it's likely some moron will park in front of it regardless of an signage as I imagine it would be difficult to have it legally enforced.

[irocfan]

boroandy87 said:

Was just going to make a point about this reference some comments prior.

I can see why those who have off road parking, but have two cars, park one on the drive and the other in front even if they have room. As it's likely some moron will park in front of it regardless of an signage as I imagine it would be difficult to have it legally enforced.

one of these could well dissuade the morons...

[Colonial]

Hasbeen said:

Thank god the smallest properties in my road are 5 acres, with a hundred yards frontage to park on, if ever they fill their paddock with cars.

When my son & his wife move into my granny flat next month, for a few months, we'll have 7 cars to park, & they will be no problem.

Edited by Hasbeen on Monday 15th September 14:46

I grew up in an area like that.

Fine until you get to 15 and want to do more than... well... nothing.

I'm now in a terrace. I have a garage. Sometimes I need to do a 8 point turn to get into it. But I can walk to things that actually improve my quality of life. I can use my car for fun rather than relying on it to pick up some milk.

[Dog Star]

HereBeMonsters said:

We said that, and now we have one of two houses in a 100+ house street with their own drive/parking.

Apparently, this means that anyone else feels free to block my drive at all times, whether the car is in it or not.

There are some cottages next to our place and a couple of times about 7 years ago people turned up to parties at one of them and actually parked right across the gates. (It's not a "mistake" - it's not a dropped kerb it's a proper tarmacced way in off the road with bloody great gates). This is because it's too far to walk the extra 15 feet that parking on the actual road would take. Delivery drivers have this habit too.

[Conscript]

Parking is fairly good on our street as all the houses have driveways. However, due to the way ours is designed, I can't actually use mine for my car as it bottoms out - the drive slopes down from the boundary line to the garage quite steeply, but the footpath also slopes down from the boundary to the drop kerb, meaning we have to keep our old X-Trail workhorse on the drive and park my car in the space in front of the house.

This means I get quite territorial about the space. Usually it's unoccupied, but occasionally I come home and find a visitor parked there and I have to admit it narks me. Sad I know, but when that happens, I spend the rest of the evening curtain twitching with a furrowed brow, desperate to know who has the cheek to have parked in "my" space

[Ej74]

We have a similar problems where I live as there is parking on one side of the road only, unless you park on the grass verge and then you will be subject to the person who will smear your car with dog excrement !

What gets my goat is most households have more than 1 car that I have no issue with but here lies my problem. All houses have garages but have extended and built in such a way it is no use.

I want to use my garage but because of the dividing fence the neighbours have erected (before I moved in) it makes my garage pretty much unusable (gap of around 2cm each side or thereabouts).

So to make a point one day the neighbour had parked outside my house and theirs also leaving a gap to access the driveway I parked across the driveways (it took my ages to get in there).

The neighbour came storming round and asked me to move - that's right I have no issues but lets now have a conversation - 1. take the fence down and we have no issue or 2. just don't park in front of my house

Since then happy days !

Another incident
My neighbour parks in such a way it use to mean I had to move the car parked out front to get my car off the drive. problem solved after I parked in the middle of the space and left the car for 2 weeks !

He has enough room to park at least 3/4 cars on his drive !

Same neighbour and his "Friend" were knocking on my door every hour (I was a sleep). It turned out my car was touching the front bumper of their CLK 320 (its a really a bag of bolts, sounds like a tractor on start up its petrol by the way). When I say touching barely a width of paper. Anyway when I awoke and found the note I tore it up and dumped it over his car. Next knock and I greet him he launches into such a tirade with his 3 yr daughter by his side. I advised him to call his insurance company and the police and see what they will do about it.

And next time you don't have permission to come on property so don't ever knock on my door or wake mu with your petty SXXX

Sometimes you have to revert to measures to make people understand the impact their inconsideration has on others

[211lover]

Ej74 said:

And next time you don't have permission to come on property so don't ever knock on my door or wake mu with your petty SXXX

That was funny - thanks.

[s55shh]

years ago my mate Baz was living with a terraced house bird and there was an obvious parking shortage. Problem was that he used to see one of his neighbours most evenings on the M6 at the beginning of a 40mile commute. As soon as they clocked each other it became a mad dash road race to try and get the last parking space.

[Hasbeen]

Colonial said:

Hasbeen said:

Thank god the smallest properties in my road are 5 acres, with a hundred yards frontage to park on, if ever they fill their paddock with cars.

When my son & his wife move into my granny flat next month, for a few months, we'll have 7 cars to park, & they will be no problem.

Edited by Hasbeen on Monday 15th September 14:46

I grew up in an area like that.

Fine until you get to 15 and want to do more than... well... nothing.

I'm now in a terrace. I have a garage. Sometimes I need to do a 8 point turn to get into it. But I can walk to things that actually improve my quality of life. I can use my car for fun rather than relying on it to pick up some milk.

Isn't it great that we can both find & afford what we want.

Having spent a decade involved with resort islands, where I was more or less expected to eat in the dining room, or the restaurant with the guests, & spend some time socialising in the bar an entertainment areas also, I can't get far enough away from entertainment.

Living in a couple of terraces joined together in Balmain when I was racing worked quite well, as the last thing I needed then was a yard to maintain, just a workshop & parking for the trailer, but I can not think of a single thing I could find anywhere near a terrace that I would want to do today, & where the hell would I put the horses?

Edited by Hasbeen on Thursday 18th September 10:25

[lesstatt]

TIGA84 said:

Funnily enough I witnessed an act of complete and utter tttery this weekend. Went to a local beer festival - parking is always tight - its a small village. Few moody looking ex-council houses on the outskirts, go to park as someone is leaving the space outside their house, hoody wearing 40 odd year old senior chav avec roll-up is loading an ancient scenic with his huge tracksuit wearing wife/girlfriend/benefits cheat and taking ages as I've now stopped and am indicating to reverse back into the space - traffic now blocked both ways. Mrs Tiga jumps out and asks if he's leaving. "Yeah I am, but you're not fking parking here, its mine" was the response, he then moves just out of the space, gets out, and removes half a sofa from his front garden, which he then places on the road to stop us. Unusual.

The sofa went back in the garden as soon as he went round the corner.

All very well but those sort of people are the sort of wkers who scratch your car when your away, ok if you drive a bag of st but I wouldn't leave my car outside after that sort of exchange.

[Clivey]

lesstatt said:

All very well but those sort of people are the sort of wkers who scratch your car when your away, ok if you drive a bag of st but I wouldn't leave my car outside after that sort of exchange.

You could come back to a very ruined car...it's a crap situation. Society needs to make it clear to this type of pondlife that their behaviour will not be tolerated.

[stewjohnst]

Some annoying bint with a fiat 500 has taken to parking on the grass verge outside my house and it's there every day I come home from work...






...why the missus can't just get out and open the gate like I do, I don't know