AIBU to be irritated at new neighbour (parking)

Given they live in a capital city, could they think about using public transport/walking/and cycling, are they going to live in the stone age forever?

In a garage or on private land. Far too many vehicles for one household to keep on public roads.

Yup. My cousin has multiple cars along with a couple of tractors (as he is a contractor who works independently and is hired to do railway work etc so needs his own tractors and equipment). He could have parked them up on his residential street, it was allowed. Instead, he moved house and bought somewhere with a decent bit of land round the back with tall trees and he turned it into parking for his vehicles which are mostly blocked by the trees so residents don’t have to look at them. Best he could do, because he didn’t want to be a dickhead.

That really is a 'them' problem, and shouldn't be the problem of everyone else on the street, why buy a house with no off road parking and very limited street parking when you have eight vehicles? Madness.

My sentiments exactly.

Wow, I was reading the OP all ready to be all "you don't own the road, they can park where they want", but one family effectively taking up ELEVEN bays?? absolutely ridiculous. Keep up the affront until they get tired of being so selfish I say.

If they start harassing neighbours they might find a few visits from the police more annoying than having to park their 5 vehicles somewhere else.

Poor Vera. That is shocking behaviour! NGL, I wouldn’t condone letting the tyres down, but I would secretly think they quite deserved it.

That was meant to say what have they done with the long vehicles. That’s why I get for typing without my glasses!

What have the done with the king vehicles if you guys have managed to block off the double length spaces?

Absolute low life intimidating an elderly lady.
Hope you get your TPOs and they can't park more than 2 vehicles in the street at all.

It’s going to be a problem which doesn’t have an end. You won’t be able to drive them off the street, you won’t be able to keep up the game of musical cars. I know the permits are a cost issue, but it really is the only way to limit their parking.
Hope something works out!

Hope everything has worked out OP. NGL I was hoping for live updates over the weekend, but perhaps you were too busy shuffling cars around!

Is there any update on this OP? Have you and your neighbours been able to carry out your silent protest?

Our neighbours with the 6 cars finally moved Hooray! But they moved further into London. I wonder how they managed in Fulham to find spaces? Possibly double parking and pissing off their new neighbours

It is the new family's fault. They chose to move to a street without sufficient parking. They don't need 8 vehicles, they just want 8 vehicles, and to hell with their neighbours.
They should have moved to outer London where property is a bit cheaper and there's more space on driveways and the street.

In a city, people would tend to use public transport most of the time, but if you come by car, you’d generally find one of the small private car parks (they are dotted around here and there) and pay for parking there, then walk to your friend’s house from there. Depending on circumstances, parking briefly on the street during daytime can sometimes be OK, but if it’s more than a short period you’d need to find an actual car park and walk, or risk getting a ticket. Overnight street parking is always a no-no, as it’s classified as blocking the public highway.

In the countryside, where of course most journeys longer than walking distance tend to involve a car, most people have driveways with some extra space. Here, most houses are new as there is not the tendency to preserve old houses, so rural houses are built to have some parking capacity (I really love the look of English villages with the pretty old stone houses, but the combination of rural living and old cottages with no off street parking can be quite tricky to manage), but also if it’s really rural, there is more leeway for bending the rules and you can probably find some random around spaces where nobody minds you parking a car.

I work as a district nurse - we have permits for residential areas when on visits so carers woukd/should be able to have to same do they can park

This. My parents road became a residents parking area and they are only allowed two permits each plus visitor hours on the app. So I think pushing for residents parking with the council may be the best way forward.

But I completely agree with you. Although legal it’s just bloody selfish to buy a house without parking for all the vehicles!!

How does it work when visiting other people? If everybody who owns a car has to have a parking space where they live that's fine but presumably they don't have a spare space for a visitor?

I agree about sizes and numbers. In my small Victorian seaside town next to nobody has off street parking and the only car parking available otherwise is at the leisure centre and station.
I think work vans should have to be located elsewhere, as a business expense, and some sensible number of permanent vehicles and visitor passes decided.

Also in London, living on a street with a CPZ and I think you should reconsider asking the council for a resident’s parking zone. Eight vehicles for one house is ridiculous, they need to be renting a garage if they have that many vehicles. You mentioned that parking permits cost money, but this is the upshot of ‘free’ on street parking - eventually someone comes along and points out you don’t own the road and they can legally park there, and it’s not free any more. Your elderly neighbour may be eligible for a blue badge which would likely mean her (and her carers) are exempt, but CF neighbours would have limits on how many spaces they could use.

the alternative is faffing about moving your cars until they eventually try to poison an oak tree. Be serious.

It is basically how it works where I live! not crushing the cars, but towing and fining, yes. I think it would be a step too far for the UK, but some sort of middling restrictions on vehicle numbers and sizes ought to be brought in.