Motorhome parked on the street

Because we all live in society together and we all have to work around each other. Having a vehicle take up 2 spaces and block the light into their houses is antisocial. If everyone bought one and had them lined up along the street with people living in them would that be ok because they were taxed and insured? Really? I can’t build an extension as it will affect my neighbour’s light in their house but I can park an effective lorry outside their front and achieve the same? I am very conscious of my neighbours and we do our best to infringe on each other. It is hard on terraced streets sometime, particularly when the roads are narrow. The days of community are clearly long gone if everyone has the attitude of I’m alright, I don’t care about anyone else but me!

You can sleep in many lay-bys legally - that’s what lorry drivers do all the time

yiu can’t set up camp ( encampment is illegal) -that means it’s illegal to have anything outside the vehicle for example and it’s illegal to have no one capable of driving the vehicle ( so no boozing )

littering is illegal for everyone

i was at a lovely local beauty spot and I noted that the campers and van people took all their rubbish but the day visitors left huge piles by the bins - but the campers got blamed - fascinating insights into human mentality -twats everywhere. I had watched people leaving the rubbish and driving off ( I should get a life really )

edit to add I didn’t see who left the human poo but it was a single dump not the emptying of a camper cassette so I suspect it was a day tripper

not saying that there isn’t crap camper behaviour , just be careful about making assumptions and generalisations because they can be very wrong

Stop moaning fgs! What does it matter. No wonder he doesn’t speak to you. It’s a vehicle, if it is taxed it isn’t any of your business. Alternatively get a gang of neighbours to be just as upset as you and form an army to have a perfectly legal vehicle …what removed? Cause upset? Get on with your life and find something bigger to be upset about.

🙏🏼 Please can you check if it’s taxed and MOTd then as if not, there’s an easy solution.

They are remote country roads, they don’t park in lay-bys.

They park end to end along the roads, and on the land areas. They leave human shit everywhere and barbecues. In hot weather these cause fires. Our local National Park pleads with people not to do barbecues, but they just ignore them.

Vehicles over 40 years are tax exempt
Do not require an MOT
Due to being vintage or classic status

France is massive that’s why they can have these.

England is small and full.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow wild camping is walking into a remote spot with a tent and a trowel. Parking a motorhome in a lay-by and ruining everyone else's view is not wild camping.

Sorry if I misunderstood what you meant. But I bet some of these motor home drivers kid themselves they're wild camping 😂

I don't think you can do anything about it. Even the suggestion of going to the council about restrictions along the road won't necessarily work as whatever they might suggest might not be what the residents favour. We have an issue at the end of our road, yellow lines only go so far and people park on the areas which they don't cover. A lot of cars speed round this corner, not knowing whether someone could be driving down (as the view is blocked) or children playing/crossing the road to get to the play area. Despite a number of people agreeing something needed to be done about it and stopping other people parking there to go into town, when the options came back to either extend the yellow lines or to make it a residents only zone for which a permit would need to be purchased pretty much everyone backed down as it seemed it was a lot of the residents also parking in these spaces (and still do) and they didn't want to lose them or have to pay to park there!

There’s wild camping. That’s what they use them for.

If l go into the National Park near me, they are parked end to end on lots of the roads, or even on the land.

We had this issue for years outside my mums house when I lived at home. We struggled to park on our drive because of it. We phoned the council they come out and did some measuring and said we have just the legal required space to get out the drive they won’t do anything. As long as it’s taxed then nothing can be done. I feel your pain because it’s a massive eye sore and stops the sun on the garden.

Look at the weather forecast
book a cheap site
its easy. I think you are misinformed about the difficulty

there are areas that are short of pitches especially if visiting cities and towns, and the north coast 500 ( whoever had that bright idea ).

Visits to towns and cities should be made easier as that’s where people can spend money more easily so it always seems daft that’s difficult. Well done Nottingham for having markets on the only park and ride they open to motorhomes ( that’s sarcastic ). That lost the city £.

but really many people manage to have lots of breaks in their campers and it’s cheaper and more flexible than booking a cottsge /b&b.

the hatred is like hatred of cyclists and such - tribalism and othering rather than objective ( yes you get twats and the inconsiderate parking sounds twatish to me but you get twats having regular flying holidays too )

but if a fire engine can’t get through because of the parking then you can report it

It is anti social and uncaring about others.

I particularly feel for those houses on the same side as it must block their outlook and light.

Unfortunately, some people just don't care about others.

We had a similar issue with staff cars from a very high end hotel. Four cars with parking for one, in a small private courtyard. Tried the tenants, tried the hotel, provided covenants contained in the copies of the deeds, shared photos of a stuck ambulance that couldn't access a neighbours child.
All to no avail.

It would have been on me to seek and pay for legal advice and court.

Fortunately with enough ‘poking’ of the hotel, everytime we had a delivery, everytime we were blocked in, the hotel withdrew their tenancy agreement and the owner sold.

It would drive me absolutely potty, too. Not only the eyesore aspect of it, but the complete disregard for anyone else on the street when they try to park their cars.

We have a neighbour who brings home his actual full semi trailer truck, including the trailer and parks it on the entrance road to our newish estate. Amazing how people do things like this

Furthermore we also have a fairly normal dual lane artery road onto our estate and whilst people do have assigned parking spaces off this road, there is one block of 8 houses about 100yds in plus a small apartment building who choose to park in front of their property creating just a single track in and out.

Complete nightmare which is just getting worse and with a further 200 houses being built, traffic will just be increasing. It’s an accident waiting to happen - impatient drivers manouvering this single track, including building site trucks on and off the new part of the estate and there’s also kids playing out and a play area across from this parking nightmare

We are all BEGGING the council to line the artery road. There are literally hundreds of people inconvenienced daily for the selfish behaviour of just a few. There is not one other area on the estate that this occurs, it’s only these people who do not use their spaces - which are roughly 20-30 seconds walk from their house

Unfortunately OP, there’s very little that can be done about it

On an even further note, we live where this street parking abuse ends and guess what, we could actually do the same if we were selfish - our house is right on the roadside - but we instead park in our spaces

Im actually hoping one day someone drives down and knocks all their wing mirrors off - I do think this is quite literally the only way to get them to use their assigned spaces

Just let people live their life and you live theirs. It’s been two weeks. I don’t understand the problem.

To be fair they were correct in their summary of what you wrote.

A street near me parks an enormous horsebox on a terraced road and I always think how selfish that is. There’s nothing you can do though.

@Titasaducksarse oh there’s no shortage of camping spots round here (Cornwall). Especially in the summer, when farmers are allowed to open up the odd field for a limited time. Plenty of permanent sites too. But no.. these behomoths (which must cost a pretty penny) prefer to hog the views rather than pay an extra few quid for a campsite.

See, this is interesting as local councils are so short sighted then this ends up happening.
In France for example nearly every village and certainly town has an 'aires de camping car'. An area for motorhomes which could be just a basic car park but with water and often waste drop. You can overnight but no camping activity ie you keep to the foot print of your van.
The whole premis is to get campers staying then using the local facilities even if it's just a baguette in the morning.
It's fantastic and safe.
Over here councils are obsessed with stopping or making life hard for campers. Some councils are sensible eg Powys and in Scotland and do have overnight schemes. Just think even charging £10 for overnight how much more money councils could make.

We had this on our street. It was a camper converted from an old mobile library bus of the councils. We are really short of parking on our row of terraces and it messed with the whole ju ju for months. Eventually the guy who owns it moved it into the official parking for the council flats they are in but he had to get everyone to move their car out of the car park first before he could get it in. It’s been there motionless since, rotting to bits, undriven for years. No idea what he was thinking buying it! My cat slept in it for ages, I’d see his face poking up as I walked past.

I don’t think there’s anything you can do.