Parking in front of a dropped kerb
Discussion
I've read through so many posts on this with so many different opinions and now its happening to me and starting to bug me.
Unfortunately it's not completely blocking my drive so I don't feel I can just walk over and ask for it to be moved.
A quick pic to explain:
I'm stood on my shared drive.
My neighbour owns the grey car and is parked in front of his house. No issue with him at all.
The van is owned by the shed dragger opposite who also owns the signum, a Mondeo and occasionally another car turns up at his house.
He has space for a car in front of the caravan and 2 down the side of it (where the van is quite often parked.
The far left kerb of my more than wide enough drive is angled to match the raised kerb and it's getting on my wick squeezing past, dumping my car up and down the kerb.
Is there anything I can do other than MTFU and go have a word?
For reference, I moved in in June and it is quite often parked there. Sometimes a different car is using the same spot.
Don't particularly want to rock the boat unless he's definitely not allowed to park there, which I doubt.
Unfortunately it's not completely blocking my drive so I don't feel I can just walk over and ask for it to be moved.
A quick pic to explain:
I'm stood on my shared drive.
My neighbour owns the grey car and is parked in front of his house. No issue with him at all.
The van is owned by the shed dragger opposite who also owns the signum, a Mondeo and occasionally another car turns up at his house.
He has space for a car in front of the caravan and 2 down the side of it (where the van is quite often parked.
The far left kerb of my more than wide enough drive is angled to match the raised kerb and it's getting on my wick squeezing past, dumping my car up and down the kerb.
Is there anything I can do other than MTFU and go have a word?
For reference, I moved in in June and it is quite often parked there. Sometimes a different car is using the same spot.
Don't particularly want to rock the boat unless he's definitely not allowed to park there, which I doubt.
samdale said:
I've read through so many posts on this with so many different opinions and now its happening to me and starting to bug me.
Unfortunately it's not completely blocking my drive so I don't feel I can just walk over and ask for it to be moved.
A quick pic to explain:
I'm stood on my shared drive.
My neighbour owns the grey car and is parked in front of his house. No issue with him at all.
The van is owned by the shed dragger opposite who also owns the signum, a Mondeo and occasionally another car turns up at his house.
He has space for a car in front of the caravan and 2 down the side of it (where the van is quite often parked.
The far left kerb of my more than wide enough drive is angled to match the raised kerb and it's getting on my wick squeezing past, dumping my car up and down the kerb.
Is there anything I can do other than MTFU and go have a word?
For reference, I moved in in June and it is quite often parked there. Sometimes a different car is using the same spot.
Don't particularly want to rock the boat unless he's definitely not allowed to park there, which I doubt.
No real markings so it's a tough one. Had a simliar thing with a neighbour here, took 2 or 3 conversations before he stopped it.Unfortunately it's not completely blocking my drive so I don't feel I can just walk over and ask for it to be moved.
A quick pic to explain:
I'm stood on my shared drive.
My neighbour owns the grey car and is parked in front of his house. No issue with him at all.
The van is owned by the shed dragger opposite who also owns the signum, a Mondeo and occasionally another car turns up at his house.
He has space for a car in front of the caravan and 2 down the side of it (where the van is quite often parked.
The far left kerb of my more than wide enough drive is angled to match the raised kerb and it's getting on my wick squeezing past, dumping my car up and down the kerb.
Is there anything I can do other than MTFU and go have a word?
For reference, I moved in in June and it is quite often parked there. Sometimes a different car is using the same spot.
Don't particularly want to rock the boat unless he's definitely not allowed to park there, which I doubt.
A subject which I recently took up with my local council..
My situation arises from neighbours with dropped kerbs, who rather than use their own off-street parking area, park on-street, thereby reducing parking for visitors and home owners without off-street parking.
I recently got into a heated argument with a resident, who although has a dropped kerb outside his dilapidated garage, is unable to use that garage for parking his car, but demands that he should be able to park on-street in front of the dropped kerb.
My understanding is that unless the parked vehicle is causing an obstruction to a vehicle entering the highway, then there is no obstruction being caused. There is also no obstruction if a parked vehicle is parked across a dropped kerb, both in my example above, and for a home owner wanting to park in their off-street parking area.
My situation arises from neighbours with dropped kerbs, who rather than use their own off-street parking area, park on-street, thereby reducing parking for visitors and home owners without off-street parking.
I recently got into a heated argument with a resident, who although has a dropped kerb outside his dilapidated garage, is unable to use that garage for parking his car, but demands that he should be able to park on-street in front of the dropped kerb.
My understanding is that unless the parked vehicle is causing an obstruction to a vehicle entering the highway, then there is no obstruction being caused. There is also no obstruction if a parked vehicle is parked across a dropped kerb, both in my example above, and for a home owner wanting to park in their off-street parking area.
Alucidnation said:
Call his employer to explain the situation.
why can't he park that on his drive, I assume its not his house its outside of?It does get my goat when folk with massive vans want to dump them somewhere other than their property.
Having work for companies with sign written vans normally a neighbour will moan if they keep the van outside the neighbours house. Anglian local might tell him to shift it.
jbsportstech said:
Alucidnation said:
Call his employer to explain the situation.
why can't he park that on his drive, I assume its not his house its outside of?It does get my goat when folk with massive vans want to dump them somewhere other than their property.
Having work for companies with sign written vans normally a neighbour will moan if they keep the van outside the neighbours house. Anglian local might tell him to shift it.
I have someone who parks there Transit tipper literally opposite my drive/drop kerb. I wouldnt mind but as my house is on the inside of a bend its quite tight to get the angle to get off. And I hate reversing off as there is a path between my drive and the road hidden by a wall to the left.
This particular neighbour is an idiot who seems to think it fit to load his tools at 5am not quietly into the back of this tipper. And the same neighbour who decided to swing onto my drop kerb the other day to turn round nearly wiping me out as I was driving off my driveway.
Not worth an argument.
Although I do quite often debate going chucking some unidentifiable rubbish in the back of it...
This particular neighbour is an idiot who seems to think it fit to load his tools at 5am not quietly into the back of this tipper. And the same neighbour who decided to swing onto my drop kerb the other day to turn round nearly wiping me out as I was driving off my driveway.
Not worth an argument.
Although I do quite often debate going chucking some unidentifiable rubbish in the back of it...
Try having a word first, if possible its best not to fall out with neighbours. I had something similar , a neighbour kept bringing his recovery truck home with exotic supercars on the back but he didnt want to park it outside his house (where there was room). So he would leave it at the top of the fairly narrow entrance to the road meaning rubbish trucks, delivery drivers etc couldnt get down the road.
I tried to have a quiet word but he just swore at me. I called his employer who was shall we say less than impressed that this guy was leaving customers very expensive supercars parked on the road overnight and often for the whole weekend. I did feel a teensy bit sorry for the guy as I understand he lost his job over it.
I tried to have a quiet word but he just swore at me. I called his employer who was shall we say less than impressed that this guy was leaving customers very expensive supercars parked on the road overnight and often for the whole weekend. I did feel a teensy bit sorry for the guy as I understand he lost his job over it.
un1corn said:
There's never an offence there in a billion years.
If it could be argued that it's a junction then it shouldn't be parked there.It does look like there's enough space to get a car through without going on the kerb - and it's not even close to the hedge.
Good job the hedge is there to shield other neighbours from the van - most people would be pretty dismayed to have that stuck outside their house all the time.
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