Neighbour parking issues..again

Try and lobby the council for parking restrictions or residents permits if it is getting dangerous and out of hand.

Is it a lorry with an operators licence or a Luton van?

There is thing down the streets here that between 6pm to 8am daily nothing other than cars can park here - that includes a corsa van which is the same size as a corsa car - but it works nothing other than a car.

operaters licences need somewhere to park overnight - not outside in residential street - a designated yard - as part of their conditions

@Ereerenownow
Take photos and compile a record of it and take it to your local council/councillor. Obstructing pavements and narrowing roads with big vehicles is anti-social, damaging and is absolute CFery.
I now have some stickers that say things like "I park like a t**t" and stick them on the rear of the vehicles normally on the brand badge - I never put them on the lights, windows, paintwork or plates before anyone admonishes me for potential damage. It does indeed make me feel a bit better!

So do we but that doesn’t stop all of the morons who live here parking their vans here there and everywhere. Our management company can’t do anything about it apparently!

How big is the vehicle? I think if it’s over 7.5 tonnes then needs an operators license and a yard where vehicle is to be stored. You can report to traffic commission but I don’t know if it’s enforced but possibly if has no yard due to being kicked out it’s a breach.

Personally I’d consider buying a trailer or two and busing those to break up the pagg rig king spaces you could purchase second hand cheaply. And get a wheel lock.

YANBU but I doubt there’s anything you can do.

Not every post on a thread has to help the OP. It's not how conversation works.

OK, I do see that.
But it doesn't help OP, which was the point of the thread.

Is this not anti social behaviour?

Speak to your council parking team and report every time his industrial vehicles get parked there, especially on footpaths. As PP said industrial vehicles are often not allowed to park on residential streets.

Contact your local councillor, local MP. You can email them with photos and ask for help. Get them to come and look at the problem, Good luck!

Our estate is the same but built in 1998. Worth checking your Deeds. Tell your neighbours to check theirs as not all Deeds on an estate are the same.

Just tax it. Its worth the pennies it would cost

I would buy an old banger taxed and MOT'd and just leave it parked there. I would do it too

@Ereerenownow I'd start by leaving a poor business review stating that you hope he works with more care and attention than he does dumping all his work vehicles on residential streets so the neighbours can't park and that you wouldn't employ someone who was so inconsiderate.

£2,500 fine for that .

There is always

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/anti-social-behaviour-asb-case-review-also-known-as-the-community-trigger

Most down our street se to be skodas or minibus type ones. Then they have a nicer car for their car, wife tends to have the mum wagon 7 seater. No hate there ours is a 7 seater. Sometimes a banger as well I assume for the future learner or maybe just a spare car.

There is one house that has multiple taxis so the skoda 5 seater then the minibus plus the others. Maybe more people want taxis here 😅. Even the ice cream van houses seem to have more than one ice cream van but only use one obviously as like you say can’t drive two at once.

I hate verge parking. It’s actually a offence where we live but try getting the wardens out when someone’s actually doing it. Zero chance.

what would you like him to do??

That does sound hard, probably to vary where he parks a bit.

Talk to the council. If they have little recourse, you could ask them to make your street permitted. It’s a headache for the residents, but absolutely worth it sometimes.

In our borough, goods vehicles over 2000 kg, business vans, lorries, and buses are not eligible for residents parking permits at all. For non-resident street parking, they're only allowed to park in residential areas if it's "not a regular occurrence".

I think that's meant to cover deliveries or having some short-term work done that needs commercial vehicles to come and go, but to prevent what your arse of a neighbour is doing.

It's definitely worth checking with your local councillor.

That'll make your neighbours happy...

Well conversely, of all the taxi drivers I k ie (which is a LOT) none of them have a 'private' car, bar one who has a 2 seater sports car he's had since before he was a taxi driver, which he garages. It's too bloody expensive to run two cars when you can only drive one at a time.

it will vary in different parts of the country as some areas are far more restrictive to the cars that drivers must use than others.

my friends is a Hyundai Tuscon with a little 'taxi' light on the top (no other signage) impractical to take the sign off every night. Not necessary, it's just a car.

yes, we have a window cleaning company around here. With about 8 well sign written vans parked all over. I don't think his staff all live that locally 🙄. But on the other hand, he's a nice bloke & the vans are immaculate. They don't really bother me. Not like one the bloke across the road parks on the grass out front of ours (huge white long wheel base, beaten up old thing!) ESPECIALLY when he has plenty of space on his driveway.

I don't think big companies like DPD should be able to park several vehicles up like that. But if it was just one that was a neighbour's work vehicle I guess that's life.

I'd definitely be contacting your local councillor to see if there is anything they can do. I'd also be looking at the possibility of putting a skip or large trailer in the space he is threatening to use.

Also, as he is self employed I'd be making a call to HMRC suggesting his tax affairs are not entirely accurate. Once HMRC get their teeth into you they are a bugger to shake off.😈

How old are the houses you live in?

Where I live (new-ish estate/under 20 yrs) we have restrictions in our deeds about no commercial vehicles. Just a thought.