parking outside your house
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Can we not organise Regional Parking Snotter Car to teach householders who claim to own the highway outside their home a lesson?
All chip in £5 each to buy a behemoth that will lower the value of any estate and have it liveried with:
"This car is roadworthy, taxed, MOTed and insured. It has been parked outside your house because you claim ownership of the public highway. Please desist or this car will return. Thank you."
All chip in £5 each to buy a behemoth that will lower the value of any estate and have it liveried with:
"This car is roadworthy, taxed, MOTed and insured. It has been parked outside your house because you claim ownership of the public highway. Please desist or this car will return. Thank you."
J4CKO said:
kambites said:
KFC said:
I think if someone drove into those rocks he could potentially find himself in all sorts of trouble.
Surely that rather depends on who owns the verge? Have been tempted to mount a midnight raid and nick them
vikingaero said:
Can we not organise Regional Parking Snotter Car to teach householders who claim to own the highway outside their home a lesson?
All chip in £5 each to buy a behemoth that will lower the value of any estate and have it liveried with:
"This car is roadworthy, taxed, MOTed and insured. It has been parked outside your house because you claim ownership of the public highway. Please desist or this car will return. Thank you."
All chip in £5 each to buy a behemoth that will lower the value of any estate and have it liveried with:
"This car is roadworthy, taxed, MOTed and insured. It has been parked outside your house because you claim ownership of the public highway. Please desist or this car will return. Thank you."
In the unlikely event I become rich enough to leave a substantial estate I plan to establish a foundation to park scabby old luton vans covered in graffiti outside the houses of these assholes.
chrisxr2 said:
First house my parents bought, upto the middle of the road was actually on our deeds (old prison quarters)
Even that doesn't necessarily mean the owner has the right to decide who can park on it. iva cosworth said:
I HATE the "I own the space in the road outside my house " crap !
My house has parking for 2 cars on the drive way and one out back. I do not park on the road unless I am checking my oil level (my drive way isnt flat) and then I move it back onto the drive after.
My intention when I move is to buy a house with enough parking for my cars (which will number 2 or 3, depending on my job situation) and a space for a visitor. I don't care if people park outside my house these days. I used to live in a street of terraced housing - was a free for all. The only time it has ever annoyed me was when I was parked outside my house, I moved my car onto the shared driveway so couldnt leave it there. A car from another street came and parked outside my house, which given it was a cul-de-sac and on street parking was limited, meant I had no where to park my car. I went to the street that this car was from and saw plenty of spaces, so why he had to park where he did was beyond me.
My intention when I move is to buy a house with enough parking for my cars (which will number 2 or 3, depending on my job situation) and a space for a visitor. I don't care if people park outside my house these days. I used to live in a street of terraced housing - was a free for all. The only time it has ever annoyed me was when I was parked outside my house, I moved my car onto the shared driveway so couldnt leave it there. A car from another street came and parked outside my house, which given it was a cul-de-sac and on street parking was limited, meant I had no where to park my car. I went to the street that this car was from and saw plenty of spaces, so why he had to park where he did was beyond me.
This would all be resolved if we introduced the model (which I believe is followed in Hong Kong? Might be wrong on that mind) that you have to prove that you have (i.e. own or rent) somewhere to keep a vehicle, in order to be allowed to have said vehicle.
Imagine residential streets without a single car parked on them.
It'd possibly be enough to make driving fun again.
Imagine residential streets without a single car parked on them.
It'd possibly be enough to make driving fun again.
vikingaero said:
Can we not organise Regional Parking Snotter Car to teach householders who claim to own the highway outside their home a lesson?
All chip in £5 each to buy a behemoth that will lower the value of any estate and have it liveried with:
"This car is roadworthy, taxed, MOTed and insured. It has been parked outside your house because you claim ownership of the public highway. Please desist or this car will return. Thank you."
Love this. My commute takes me through some rather unsavoury areas of Leeds. A number of silly residents I see on my way have written "no parking" outside their houses including one guy who has concreted bollards into the pavement outside his place (it's a council house as well).All chip in £5 each to buy a behemoth that will lower the value of any estate and have it liveried with:
"This car is roadworthy, taxed, MOTed and insured. It has been parked outside your house because you claim ownership of the public highway. Please desist or this car will return. Thank you."
I would f
king love to park some utter monstrosity outside these places for months at a time.Count me in.
The problem is the sheer number of cars to some households, but primarily with people who have no consideration for others. Don't get me wrong, there are still households without cars, but those with families of teenagers and older now have quite a few cars, and they cause the problem. There should also be a law that states "those who have a driveway should park their vehicles on said driveway".
My street is a bit of a nightmare, given there are only four out of about 40 homes have driveways..One of my neighbours has two cars, and only one of them can drive. Four families have two cars, but actually require them and use them, but my favourite is a household opposite. No cars, no drivers, but sometimes, their children and grandchildren will all turn up together, with four cars, and just abandon them all over. They even left one directly outside my house whilst they went on holiday for 3 weeks......buggers....... but at the end of the day, what can you do, they have as much right to park as anybody else with a car, or bike or vehicle.
It would nice for them to appreciate the "locals"especially when they know my car anyway, but they don't... Ho-hum.
Off to look for a closer parking space now
My street is a bit of a nightmare, given there are only four out of about 40 homes have driveways..One of my neighbours has two cars, and only one of them can drive. Four families have two cars, but actually require them and use them, but my favourite is a household opposite. No cars, no drivers, but sometimes, their children and grandchildren will all turn up together, with four cars, and just abandon them all over. They even left one directly outside my house whilst they went on holiday for 3 weeks......buggers....... but at the end of the day, what can you do, they have as much right to park as anybody else with a car, or bike or vehicle.
It would nice for them to appreciate the "locals"especially when they know my car anyway, but they don't... Ho-hum.
Off to look for a closer parking space now
I recall discussing on road parking on another forum a few years ago.
One of the many suggestions to overcome the problem was that no one be allowed to park on the street unless for waiting and or unloading. The answer as to where to park would be the creation of mini multi story car parks, houses with front lawns being made into parking spaces and so on.
Many disagreed with this however not so much on the idea but the fact it would be political suicide for any government or local authority to implement it.
Many streets in my town are barley passable due to the number of parked cars.
Maybe we should all be using public transport or ride a bicycle.
One of the many suggestions to overcome the problem was that no one be allowed to park on the street unless for waiting and or unloading. The answer as to where to park would be the creation of mini multi story car parks, houses with front lawns being made into parking spaces and so on.
Many disagreed with this however not so much on the idea but the fact it would be political suicide for any government or local authority to implement it.
Many streets in my town are barley passable due to the number of parked cars.
Maybe we should all be using public transport or ride a bicycle.
The girl who used to live nextdoor but one to me got a car and parked it outside my house everyday right up to the edge of my driveway and right up on the footpath. The people across the road would also park opposite my driveway so moving my car off my drive would require much shunting backwards and forwards. It's a cul-de-sac and a single track road with cars parked either side so anyone coming down the road as I was manoeuvering would be required to back up or wait for me to reverse the 200 point turn to get back onto the driveway and let them by, which tended to result in sulky tantrums from them.
I didn't want falling out so I said nothing until one day I heard a crash and much swearing from this girl. She'd managed to reverse into the bin I'd put out on the footpath and positioned to one side of her car so it theoretically wasn't in her way. When I was going out to work she came to me saying I had no business putting my bin on the footpath outside my house for the binmen to empty as that was where she parked her car. She said I would have to pay for the repairs to her car. At that point I explained how much of a pain in the arse she was and I wasn't prepared to tolerate it like I had so far. The next week when I put my bin out her father decided to play silly beggars hiding my bin up the road.
Whilst you don't own the road it's also a social responsibility to show courtesy to others. When your neighbour wants to park outside his house and not bother anyone else and you park outside his house all the time what is he supposed to do. Park outside another neighbour's house and annoy him so the whole thing goes on and on? What about people who want to park outside their houses because they can't walk very far? You need to ensure when buying your house that you have enough parking out of other people's way to accommodate all your vehicles. It's no good saying you can park where you like and fk everyone else and if they grumble about it because they don't want to park in other people's way they're the ones being selfish.
I didn't want falling out so I said nothing until one day I heard a crash and much swearing from this girl. She'd managed to reverse into the bin I'd put out on the footpath and positioned to one side of her car so it theoretically wasn't in her way. When I was going out to work she came to me saying I had no business putting my bin on the footpath outside my house for the binmen to empty as that was where she parked her car. She said I would have to pay for the repairs to her car. At that point I explained how much of a pain in the arse she was and I wasn't prepared to tolerate it like I had so far. The next week when I put my bin out her father decided to play silly beggars hiding my bin up the road.
Whilst you don't own the road it's also a social responsibility to show courtesy to others. When your neighbour wants to park outside his house and not bother anyone else and you park outside his house all the time what is he supposed to do. Park outside another neighbour's house and annoy him so the whole thing goes on and on? What about people who want to park outside their houses because they can't walk very far? You need to ensure when buying your house that you have enough parking out of other people's way to accommodate all your vehicles. It's no good saying you can park where you like and f
k everyone else and if they grumble about it because they don't want to park in other people's way they're the ones being selfish.panholio said:
vikingaero said:
Can we not organise Regional Parking Snotter Car to teach householders who claim to own the highway outside their home a lesson?
All chip in £5 each to buy a behemoth that will lower the value of any estate and have it liveried with:
"This car is roadworthy, taxed, MOTed and insured. It has been parked outside your house because you claim ownership of the public highway. Please desist or this car will return. Thank you."
Love this. My commute takes me through some rather unsavoury areas of Leeds. A number of silly residents I see on my way have written "no parking" outside their houses including one guy who has concreted bollards into the pavement outside his place (it's a council house as well).All chip in £5 each to buy a behemoth that will lower the value of any estate and have it liveried with:
"This car is roadworthy, taxed, MOTed and insured. It has been parked outside your house because you claim ownership of the public highway. Please desist or this car will return. Thank you."
I would f
king love to park some utter monstrosity outside these places for months at a time.Count me in.
One of my previous houses was right outside the entrance to a primary school, i used to suffer the same issue as a previous poster had, in that people would use my drive as a car park.
That in itself, although annoying was not an inconvenience - there was space enough to park a couple of buses on it so space was not an issue. What was an issue, was them abandoning their cars at the bottom of the drive and then fking off into the school for 20 minutes, not especially useful if i needed to go out.
Eventually i had enough of it, and the next time a couple of them parked there (always the same cars), i parked my car across the bottom of the drive and went off to work. Later on that day, after i got home, i had the husbands come and ask for them back....No confrontation, just an apology and a promise they wouldn't park there again - result.
That in itself, although annoying was not an inconvenience - there was space enough to park a couple of buses on it so space was not an issue. What was an issue, was them abandoning their cars at the bottom of the drive and then f
king off into the school for 20 minutes, not especially useful if i needed to go out.Eventually i had enough of it, and the next time a couple of them parked there (always the same cars), i parked my car across the bottom of the drive and went off to work. Later on that day, after i got home, i had the husbands come and ask for them back....No confrontation, just an apology and a promise they wouldn't park there again - result.
What was extremely annoying was some woman who somehow got the code to my off-street parking in London. I was away in France for four months, and when I came back, she had taken to using my space - the mews is right by a school, where her precious spawn was enrolled.
Actually trespassing! Once I had moved my car back, she continued to use our car park, despite numerous notes from me and other residents to stop doing so - especially as on occasion she'd leave the car there for the whole day: clearly using our property as a commuter car park (we are right by a train station to Central London). I never met her, but neighbours did, and stated that she was abusive and unpleasant, and basically told anyone who told her to move to sod off. Police were not interested, telling us to have her legally towed. Which is more hassle than you would think...
We eventually changed the code, which took a long time harassing the management company. And locked her car in for nearly a month. At the end of the month, I towed it out with my Landy, and left it on a double red line. It would have been towed in minutes once the next day dawned and the cameras picked it up.
I really hope she spent every day trying, increasingly desperately, to get into our secure compound. As I don't live there, I never had to deal with her. As it is not by any of our front doors, no vengeance by her was possible.
That was extremely satisfying.
Actually trespassing! Once I had moved my car back, she continued to use our car park, despite numerous notes from me and other residents to stop doing so - especially as on occasion she'd leave the car there for the whole day: clearly using our property as a commuter car park (we are right by a train station to Central London). I never met her, but neighbours did, and stated that she was abusive and unpleasant, and basically told anyone who told her to move to sod off. Police were not interested, telling us to have her legally towed. Which is more hassle than you would think...
We eventually changed the code, which took a long time harassing the management company. And locked her car in for nearly a month. At the end of the month, I towed it out with my Landy, and left it on a double red line. It would have been towed in minutes once the next day dawned and the cameras picked it up.
I really hope she spent every day trying, increasingly desperately, to get into our secure compound. As I don't live there, I never had to deal with her. As it is not by any of our front doors, no vengeance by her was possible.
That was extremely satisfying.
Edited by Harry Flashman on Sunday 14th September 21:23
My street has parking on one side only.The houses on the other side are on a sloping hill and have no chance of putting in a driveway.
Two neighbours are in a regular scuffle. One has a drive and 4 cars. Parks his works transit on the road. When he drives off in the transit his wife pops out and drives a car off the drive and into the 'transit space' to keep it open for him. Other neighbour borrows a mates corsa from next street and darts of to get it and fill the space if it sits vacant for more than a few mins. Over 4 years this has gone on in fits and starts.
Now both families have two kids each doing driving lessons and that will be 4 more cars on the street (2 this month already). Parking is already at a premium but this is getting stupid.
Another problem comes from the fact that the council have painted 'disabled' boxes on the road in front of the homes of blue badge holders. These are on their kerb... no matter what side the parking naturally falls on ...even if they already have a drive. Unfortunately this forces cars to park in clumps on both sides of the road instead of keeping all cars to the side that can't have driveways.
4 houses for sale in my street and none selling. Apparently estate agents telling sellers its the appearance of the parking situation putting people off.
Two neighbours are in a regular scuffle. One has a drive and 4 cars. Parks his works transit on the road. When he drives off in the transit his wife pops out and drives a car off the drive and into the 'transit space' to keep it open for him. Other neighbour borrows a mates corsa from next street and darts of to get it and fill the space if it sits vacant for more than a few mins. Over 4 years this has gone on in fits and starts.
Now both families have two kids each doing driving lessons and that will be 4 more cars on the street (2 this month already). Parking is already at a premium but this is getting stupid.
Another problem comes from the fact that the council have painted 'disabled' boxes on the road in front of the homes of blue badge holders. These are on their kerb... no matter what side the parking naturally falls on ...even if they already have a drive. Unfortunately this forces cars to park in clumps on both sides of the road instead of keeping all cars to the side that can't have driveways.
4 houses for sale in my street and none selling. Apparently estate agents telling sellers its the appearance of the parking situation putting people off.
Trailhead said:
Jaldi said:
dave123456 said:
recently moved..chap over the road is clearly riled by my parking outside his house, sandwiches my car in, moves his car the moment I vacate the spot...
why do people think they own the road outside their house? or do they?!
I sandwiched someone in when they parked in front of my drive. A bit petty perhaps but it made me laugh ...why do people think they own the road outside their house? or do they?!
Someone parked across my drive once just as a policeman was walking past. They got a ticket for it.
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