Neighbours parking outside your house
Discussion
I know this has been done to death in the past and I know that your rights to the tarmac end at the edge of your property but does anyone think I'm being unreasonable here and what to do to remedy it.
This isn't any of your usually council agro either, I live on a small close and it is quite busy with cars at the best of times but everyone has at least a 2 car drive way, including me, although mine is a bit tight for two vehicles. If I park two vehicles on my drive it makes it difficult for the others to turn round as they need to come up my drive slightly to do so which I don't mind at all.
The house opposite has just been sold to new people and they have two cars and their driveway will hold 3 cars easily. The previous owners never had an issue with this at all and just used to park their two cars on their driveway. They don't have any kerb frontage of their own though where they can park on the road due to the curve of the cul-de-sac.
Obviously they have to shunt the cars around if they want the first car off the drive so to alleviate this they have just decided to park their other car right outside my house so there is only one on the their own drive. But I also have a car and a van, I don't bring the van home every night but I do some of the time, I've had it all this week for example. So because there is nowhere to park when I come home its me that has to shuffle my cars around to go out in one of them.
Like I said I know legally its just tough s
t but I would have thought that being new neighbours they wouldn't try to ps off an existing neighbour on day one and I would have thought morally I should have 1st dibs on getting the space outside my own house.
I wouldn't mind but at the minute a house a few doors away is having an extension built and there are a few builders vans around anyway, if I've had our van I've put it on my drive inconveniencing me so at least a fellow builder has somewhere to park, I've even told them they can park on my drive if they are struggling for somewhere as I'll probably be at work anyway so I don't think I'm being at all reasonable.
This isn't any of your usually council agro either, I live on a small close and it is quite busy with cars at the best of times but everyone has at least a 2 car drive way, including me, although mine is a bit tight for two vehicles. If I park two vehicles on my drive it makes it difficult for the others to turn round as they need to come up my drive slightly to do so which I don't mind at all.
The house opposite has just been sold to new people and they have two cars and their driveway will hold 3 cars easily. The previous owners never had an issue with this at all and just used to park their two cars on their driveway. They don't have any kerb frontage of their own though where they can park on the road due to the curve of the cul-de-sac.
Obviously they have to shunt the cars around if they want the first car off the drive so to alleviate this they have just decided to park their other car right outside my house so there is only one on the their own drive. But I also have a car and a van, I don't bring the van home every night but I do some of the time, I've had it all this week for example. So because there is nowhere to park when I come home its me that has to shuffle my cars around to go out in one of them.
Like I said I know legally its just tough s
t but I would have thought that being new neighbours they wouldn't try to ps off an existing neighbour on day one and I would have thought morally I should have 1st dibs on getting the space outside my own house.I wouldn't mind but at the minute a house a few doors away is having an extension built and there are a few builders vans around anyway, if I've had our van I've put it on my drive inconveniencing me so at least a fellow builder has somewhere to park, I've even told them they can park on my drive if they are struggling for somewhere as I'll probably be at work anyway so I don't think I'm being at all reasonable.
slopes said:
Nope, public highway, anyone can park there.
Anyway, you seem a bit cheesed off lately, need a hug?
Wouldn't you be if someone had bored the tits of you for 4 solid hours late at night after you have been up since 6AM?Anyway, you seem a bit cheesed off lately, need a hug?
As said I know the legal point of view, legally I don't have to hold a door open for an old lady and I could just let it slam in her face but morally I just wouldn't do that.
Knock on their door, pleasant chat - ask if it's possible for them to move their car. Make sure you say "I know you can park anywhere but...". This usually stops them quoting the Knob's Charter about 'public road, park anywhere blah blah'. Not much else you can do if they ignore you but at least you know what type of neighbours you have.
Sheets Tabuer said:
There is an element of tough st but I do have sympathy, inconveniencing you so they have an easier time parking must be annoying as hell.
Have you spoken to them about this or are you just venting to us?
No not yet, I just about started to say hello the other day when they were unpacking but he just turned around and went inside without saying anything so I already think they are a couple of dicks.t but I do have sympathy, inconveniencing you so they have an easier time parking must be annoying as hell.Have you spoken to them about this or are you just venting to us?
The thing is I very rarely use my actual car nowadays so its only on the odd occasion that I go out in it or to the shops etc, I don't commute to work as we use the van for that. So to rectify it I'll just leave the car on the road permanently and my drive will remain empty so there is space for the van if and when I come home in it.
The daft thing about doing this is they will lose the parking spot permanently, even when they want to briefly park there to shuffle the cars around and will have to park at the other end of the road to do it now.
It's a bit annoying, a guy on the next street is constantly parking one or two cars outside my house as he has no space for any more - already has 2-3 on the drive and a couple outside, occasionally a recovery truck as well (sometimes a 3.5T one, sometimes a full size rollback job).
Whereas I can fit all mine on my own property, including a friend's car he's had to leave with me due to lack of space.
Although completely legal if they're taxed etc, it is rather antisocial to own way more vehicles you have space for, and to then also not even use your own street for the overflow.
Whereas I can fit all mine on my own property, including a friend's car he's had to leave with me due to lack of space.
Although completely legal if they're taxed etc, it is rather antisocial to own way more vehicles you have space for, and to then also not even use your own street for the overflow.
CharlieH89 said:
If there is never a car there, they will make use of the space.
It is just the way it is.
Put your car there, tell them you usually put your van there or relax about the situation.
That's what I think they've done, they've seen an empty piece of tarmac and said right we'll claim that as our own private space.It is just the way it is.
Put your car there, tell them you usually put your van there or relax about the situation.
Oh don't start me OP, in my case it's the neighbour with a 2 car drive who parks his LWB high-top beaten up wreck of a works van right in front of my house, blocking the view from and light to my dining room, instead of putting it on his drive or in front of his own house. Also I'm the first house on the corner of a Close, and he's too near the junction with it. Can't see properly getting off my drive, and he causes blocked sightlines for other people coming in/out of the Close. I'd grass him up, but he'd know it was me. Who else would it be? I expect he knows this, so just chuckles to himself and gets on with it. I'd have a word, but then it'd be "oh the bloke a number 1, do you know how much of a prick he is, moaning about me parking when it's none of his business". All that st.
bks. aholes everywhere.
t.b
ks. aholes everywhere.Reminds me of a scene in The Castle
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/
Darryl Kerrigan: “Oh Steve, could you move the Camira? I need to get the Torana out so I can get to the Commodore.”
Steve Kerrigan: “I’ll have to get the keys to the Cortina if I’m gonna move that Camira.”
Darryl Kerrigan: “Yeah. Watch the boat, mate.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/
Darryl Kerrigan: “Oh Steve, could you move the Camira? I need to get the Torana out so I can get to the Commodore.”
Steve Kerrigan: “I’ll have to get the keys to the Cortina if I’m gonna move that Camira.”
Darryl Kerrigan: “Yeah. Watch the boat, mate.”
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