Using bins to block a parking space
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HannsG said:
Earn more money or beg borrow and steal to buy a proper house?
Not rocket science is it..
Daft comment.Not rocket science is it..
This is London. You can spend in excess of £10m for a 'proper house' and still not have any parking.
Edit to add - when I lived in London it was considered bad form to 'reserve' your space. You wouldn't do it too many times as your bins would end up anywhere except in front of your house and you'd have to do the walk of shame when you finally located them.
Edited by valiant on Sunday 11th February 20:34
Edited by valiant on Sunday 11th February 20:51
mwstewart said:
This behaviour is becoming more frequent in London. It started with reserving a space for removal lorries, but within the last year two people on my street do it save a space near their house and I've started to notice it more regularly on other streets. I think it's disgusting but CBA with a confrontation about it - it's typical London.
This isn't the first time I've seen it either. I've also noticed a couple of instances with people trying it on with teeny traffic cones. valiant said:
Daft comment.
This is London. You can spend in excess of £10m for a 'proper house' and still not have any parking.
Edit to add - when I lived in London it was considered bad form to 'reserve' your space. You wouldn't do it too many times as your bins would end up anywhere except in front of your house and you'd have to do the walk of shame when you finally located them.
Not daft at all. I grew up in a terraced house on a council estate and parking was a fThis is London. You can spend in excess of £10m for a 'proper house' and still not have any parking.
Edit to add - when I lived in London it was considered bad form to 'reserve' your space. You wouldn't do it too many times as your bins would end up anywhere except in front of your house and you'd have to do the walk of shame when you finally located them.
Edited by valiant on Sunday 11th February 20:34
Edited by valiant on Sunday 11th February 20:51
king nightmare. I swore I would claw myself out of the sink estate and when I actually bought a house it would have a drive. Could not give a toss about a garden. Remember the old man having shouting matches about parking with Dave the tosser four doors up who had a 4x4, caravan and a Fukin Jet Ski. Why he chose to have a Jet Ski I have no idea lol!!!
The houses on said street are worth £50K. This is Northumberland...
Either quit your moaning and accept the fact this is the way of life in London or move your arse elsewhere. The world is bigger than London..
People drive cars in London? Pull the other one guv'nor. When I was working in Banking in Bishops Gate, Appold Street and Bridge etc they all lived in Essex, Brighton or High Wycombe. Only those who could not afford a house, without wife or family rented at ridiculous rates near the tubes.
London is a s
thole, I shudder every time I'm offered a contracting gig there. It's ridiculously expensive for what it is. Edited by HannsG on Sunday 11th February 23:21
cuprabob said:
Maybe he won it on Bullseye 
He had a rich father. Proper minted, unsure why he decided to live where he was. I forgot to mention the Bike under the tarpaulin also. Lots of boys toys.. Dave was around late forties maybe? Just got divorced... And his old man obviously had spoilt him all these years.
Maybe he had the formula right. Rich family, house on a s
t estate which meant he could put his salary to something else. Proper miserable b
d. He also had a Renault Espace thing.. My sister lived in Sutton back in the 90s (not really London I know, but it is a London Borough). 
Mostly terraced "2 up 2 downs", and the guy opposite her had a 3-wheeler that he liked to park outside his house. If he didn't get that space, as soon as someone left it he would be out the door and move his st-heap - it became something of a spectator sport with the neighbours!
Mostly terraced "2 up 2 downs", and the guy opposite her had a 3-wheeler that he liked to park outside his house. If he didn't get that space, as soon as someone left it he would be out the door and move his s
t-heap - it became something of a spectator sport with the neighbours!Mr Tidy said:
My sister lived in Sutton back in the 90s (not really London I know, but it is a London Borough).
Mostly terraced "2 up 2 downs", and the guy opposite her had a 3-wheeler that he liked to park outside his house. If he didn't get that space, as soon as someone left it he would be out the door and move his st-heap - it became something of a spectator sport with the neighbours!
I'm not surprised the poor guy was paranoid and wanted to keep an eye on it, especially after some scumbag stole one of the wheels off it Mostly terraced "2 up 2 downs", and the guy opposite her had a 3-wheeler that he liked to park outside his house. If he didn't get that space, as soon as someone left it he would be out the door and move his s
t-heap - it became something of a spectator sport with the neighbours!Oh i had this infuriating nonsense with my old cnt of a neighbour who despite not even needing the space outside his house, both of his cars could of fit on his drive he still blocked off "his space" with bins.
One morning i was waiting for a delivery of paving slabs and turf, knowing it was a beast of a lorry i moved his bins onto his drive. He came out asking what i was doing touching his bins and despite me calmly explaining he came back out a short while later and moved them back.
Along comes delivery driver, i explain neighbour is being a tt and to hang on whilst i move the bins again and he said dont bother, and just drove straight through the bins as if they werent there and parked up. st went everywhere. I thought wtf but then applauded his no nonsense approach.
A few hours later i see neighbour out picking up the rubbish and placing the bins again in the road. In a strange kinda way i admired him for his persistence after that.
Im glad i moved shortly after though, one day he requested that i stop my cat from stting in his pebble-tastic rear garden. I politely informed him that i dont own a cat, and his response was it was jumping over my fence into his garden so it was my problem??!
Some people are just so pig headed you wonder how they ended up married. His wife was the loveliest person you could ever meet.
One morning i was waiting for a delivery of paving slabs and turf, knowing it was a beast of a lorry i moved his bins onto his drive. He came out asking what i was doing touching his bins and despite me calmly explaining he came back out a short while later and moved them back.
Along comes delivery driver, i explain neighbour is being a t
t and to hang on whilst i move the bins again and he said dont bother, and just drove straight through the bins as if they werent there and parked up. st went everywhere. I thought wtf but then applauded his no nonsense approach.A few hours later i see neighbour out picking up the rubbish and placing the bins again in the road. In a strange kinda way i admired him for his persistence after that.
Im glad i moved shortly after though, one day he requested that i stop my cat from s
tting in his pebble-tastic rear garden. I politely informed him that i dont own a cat, and his response was it was jumping over my fence into his garden so it was my problem??!Some people are just so pig headed you wonder how they ended up married. His wife was the loveliest person you could ever meet.
This is fairly common where I park for work (bit of suburbia). Cones, bins, etc left on road.
However, I do have some sympathy for them, there's a major employer nearby which now has probably 5000 people working there at any one time of the day (or night). They offer some park and ride schemes but many people park on the streets and walk in. Then local residents complain they can't ever park near their houses, get deliveries, etc. So permit parking is introduced, which moves staff parking along to the next street. Rinse and repeat.
I'm part of that problem. I imagine for the locals that it's pretty frustrating to find you suddenly can't park by your own house when you've got kids/shopping/etc. Would I leave my bins on the road, no. Are these situations more nuanced than the simple 'get more money and move house' answers that PH seems to specialise in, yes.
However, I do have some sympathy for them, there's a major employer nearby which now has probably 5000 people working there at any one time of the day (or night). They offer some park and ride schemes but many people park on the streets and walk in. Then local residents complain they can't ever park near their houses, get deliveries, etc. So permit parking is introduced, which moves staff parking along to the next street. Rinse and repeat.
I'm part of that problem. I imagine for the locals that it's pretty frustrating to find you suddenly can't park by your own house when you've got kids/shopping/etc. Would I leave my bins on the road, no. Are these situations more nuanced than the simple 'get more money and move house' answers that PH seems to specialise in, yes.
I think it's horses for courses in streets like that - if you want to have the luxury of parking, buy a house that has the facilities.
If you can't afford to, suck it up or move. No one has the 'right' to parking outside their house.
As an on-topic but slightly different scenario, I live on a close that generally doesn't have any issue with parking at all, as every house has a drive/garage. Some houses seem to have 6 cars to a 3 bed house though, so one or two do park on the street.
What gets my goat is that a neighbour has defied planning and fenced off half his driveway as a sort of 'garden' (which isn't allowed, but no one has reported it) and his visitors choose, despite many more useful and suitable places always available in the street, so partially block my drive. Occasionally half up the pavement too.
I've never mentioned it, and have no beef with my neighbours (quite the opposite), but it does come across to me as quite deliberately anti-social. Not that it's out of character for the area I live in. I'll be chuffed when we finally sell and move out the area.
If you can't afford to, suck it up or move. No one has the 'right' to parking outside their house.
As an on-topic but slightly different scenario, I live on a close that generally doesn't have any issue with parking at all, as every house has a drive/garage. Some houses seem to have 6 cars to a 3 bed house though, so one or two do park on the street.
What gets my goat is that a neighbour has defied planning and fenced off half his driveway as a sort of 'garden' (which isn't allowed, but no one has reported it) and his visitors choose, despite many more useful and suitable places always available in the street, so partially block my drive. Occasionally half up the pavement too.
I've never mentioned it, and have no beef with my neighbours (quite the opposite), but it does come across to me as quite deliberately anti-social. Not that it's out of character for the area I live in. I'll be chuffed when we finally sell and move out the area.
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