Neighbour parking issues..again

So who has he told this to , that he plans to dump his behemoth vehicle in your road for six months.
Would that person say to him " No you bloody well aren't doing that Barry, that is a selfish dick-move"
He probably thinks he can just crack on as no one has said anything ( pay my vehicle excise tax, you don't own the road blah blah)

Club together with the neighbours and buy a couple of old bangers to park on the area he intends to use……..as long as they’re taxed, insured and have an MOT there’s nowt he can do about it.

The problem is parking is getting out of control in many places and is affecting peoples quality of life.

It is another way in which increasing the population of the country affects everyone. The more people, the more vehicles and the more vehicles the less space is available for them leading to arguments, aggravation and even crimes being committed.

It's hard to come up with some rules though regarding parking and what people are and aren't allowed to do with commercial vehicles that aren't going to affect some people unfairly.

You all need to tell him he cannot park at all on your street. And then tell your MP and councillor. Surely having industrial vehicles makes it unsafe for children and the elderly.

He's trying it on. Paying for a yard to keep them in is expensive. He can park in his own street

If he’s parking huge works vehicles there then complain to the council.

Club together and buy an old banger to stick there.

Park your car there in the middle of where they park, and don’t move until another car can take your place

If he is running a business which requires him to need to park up 11 different vehicles and a bloody trailer he needs a proper work space/yard to do so.

Absolutely contact your councillor and get other neighbours to do so and provide as much info on this person as possible. I can’t see how they can say it’s fine. He’s essentially running a business from a domestic property with inadequate outside space to run such business.

Wouldn't it be awful if the area suddenly became less safe. Oh no... someone slashed the tyres and put paintstripper all over them.

Visit to b&q for some nails or something similar sharp, its so frustrating when you buy something like that and the bag bursts on the road maybe he might get a puncture maybe he might not. Honestly we have a similar gripe with parking in our estate and it makes me so bloody angry. Hope you manage to get it sorted.

see if you can borrow a trailer off somebody and park it there. You’re allowed to leave them in the road and then move it when you know he’s found somewhere else to park his large vehicle

Thinking about it.......

Prince Charming has decided to do something that will get the neighbours up in arms.

This means that all the 'enforcement' people, Planning, Police, Traffic Commissioner etc will start to look at his business.

There are it seems quite a lot of rules around 'Light Commercials' that he could come unstuck on to say nothing of Planning.

The mans a genius! ie stereotype small business/farmer

I know this is funny but its classed as tampering with a motor vehicle and you could be prosecuted

Maybe drop a bag of nails 😂

Buy an old banger and put it there to stop him!!

You can apply to the Council for changes to parking, waiting or loading arrangements if they're causing a problem around your own property or neighbourhood.

There's a process for the council to follow and probably public consultation.
Where I live, every so often the council publishes a list of these changes to parking, waiting and loading arrangements at specific named residences and locations.

Get together with affected neighbours to work out some ideas of what you would propose to resolve the problem and then go to the council.

Your friend it would suck for I get that. I haven’t actually met a taxi driver that doesn’t also have a personal car.

I do think though if you run a business and that business has vehicles then parking those should be taken into consideration. In his case it’s his daily car and work car so a bit different and it’s not additional vehicles.

We had 6 dpd vans parking up every night for a week just lining the street like we lived in the depot. Two tow trucks fill the lay-by every day and I do mean in the day so not being used just sitting there.

A tyre left completely flat on a vehicle for many months will often render the tyre significantly damaged and in need of replacement.

Not voting for or against doing it but it will cost the owner a small fortune to replace that many tyres.

If it’s a huge lorry is it allowed to be parked on a residential street?

he is really cheeky in the first place

I'm always surprised by how many people say this, but surely that's not going to bother the owner if they're just going to park them up and leave them in situ.

Infact quite the opposite, an excuse to say they can't move the vehicle due to having a flat tyre and no way to remove wheel/inflate it to hand.

I'd ask your local councillor for advice, more helpful if it's a combined neighbour inquiry.

I think that's a bit harsh.

my friend is a taxi driver. He lives in a 'social housing' house and doesn't have a drive - can't afford to buy & no SH houses were available with driveways.

his wife works, their kids go school locally. They can't just up & move elsewhere.

its just a car - and his only one.

what would you like him to do??

the guy across the road annoys me though. They have a big driveway, plenty of space, but he parks his work huge van (ling wheel base) (self employed) on the (what was) grass outside our houses.

I know someone who face similar, and they ended up buying a very cheap banger between them and a few neighbours and parking it there. They decided they would rather look at a clapped out Fiesta than a lorry all the time.

They can can't they & sometimes literally overnight

If it is a business then name and shame if/when he does block all 11 spaces. The local press love a nice 'angry of Middle Row' picture and tale and 'we reached out to the business, but they did not respond' type response...

If they are Commercial then The Traffic Commissioners might get involved