AIBU to park my van on the road?

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I also thought this and heard the noise in my head

Just ignore them . Your Dh pays road tax and these people don't own the road . Keep a record of any demands to move it .

Presumably OP has chosen to live in this village because she likes the look and feel if it. That hasn't been maintained by accident, it's because small communities self regulate and maintain standards. I wouldn't want to live like that either, but I wouldn't choose to live in a pretty village or a small community.

I don't think YABU. No one has a drive way on my street and quite a few people own vans that just have to be parked on the road. It's just life.

Sorry everytime someone’s says villager I just picture this.

I blame the children.

I’d report them for harassment too

so why is it selfish? what are the people saying the problem is? sureky not just that it’s unsightly, what else?

I’d make whatever changes you need to make in order to make your drive more accessible to park the van there. slabs in front of the window or whatever.

honestly, to have a van and two cars when you don’t have enough space is annoying for neighbours, and anyone saying otherwise clearly has no experience of this issue.

i have the same problem outside here, bloody vans everywhere ( 26 houses in the street and at one point there were six vans on the road with some driveways unused as theirs cars were also parked outside).

in my mums street it’s a a van up the drive and two cars in the street meaning the houses opposite cannot park outside their own houses as there wouldn’t be room to get more than a bike by with cars parked opposite each other. selfish. they should widen their drive and get two vehicles up.

commercial vehicles should be elsewhere. some housing estates ban them in the deeds.

Op is also a villager, she lives there too! If most people are complaining about a small work van in the village no one is likely to bring home a HGV themselves are they

Yes and lowering the tone 🤣

It's old fashioned I realise, but it was once absolutely the norm that works vehicles were kept on works premises. My Grandad had a small building company and kept a yard for exactly that reason. OP is within her rights, but it will annoy some of her neighbours.

I'm in Team van although we have been lucky enough to be able to park ours off road. DH has a transit type van, it can't always be left at his business unit as the work is mobile and often involves driving in the other direction at 5am. It's currently jammed on our driveway in front of our lounge window. People who aren't trying to run a small business don't understand.

Village dwellers can be so precious about the village "character" , these are often incomers who have paid a fortune for the Proper Country Life Experience rather than people who are more pragmatic about the need to earn a living. I hope you can brave it out . Maybe do a few favours for neighbours who need furniture moving as part of a charm offensive?

One of the reasons I couldn’t wait to leave a village and get back with normal people. Just tell them to do one - it’s legally parked. Whether they like the look of it is their problem, not yours. 🙄

The op is a bloody villager!!!!

Tell the backwards villagers that any more verbal abuse and you will be reporting them to the police. Then do it. Ask ur local policeman to come and look at the van to double check your not doing anything improper (even tho u know we’ll fine). Spread the word via the nosey neighbours or post office or whoever that u have gotten police involved and then report the persons every single time. Keep a not of every single time for a harrassment charge. Absolute idiots.

Of course it's fine to be there while it's working. Parked there permanently is completely different.

I can see where they’re coming from but unless there is a restricted covenant preventing company vans being parked on the road overnight then they just have to suck it up.

Yes, I realise that, but these things do multiply. Once it becomes known as the place you can park a commercial vehicle, others will magically appear. The villagers dont want their nice village turning into a commercial vehicle storage yard. They may or may not be reasonable in that, but it will change the feel of the village.

There always used to be a law that vans had to be kept in a lockup and weren't allowed to park in residential areas. I can't remember when it changed - in the 90s I think.
There are so many vans on the road now that they are a menace. We have several in our street that won't park on their own drive but dump them in front of someone else's house. I am not really surprised your neighbours aren't happy.

I expect 2 cars parked on the road would be less obtrusive from a neighbour perspective, because people (rightly or wrongly) don't like the sight of commercial vehicles being left on the road in for days at a time, even if legally parked. And they are generally taller and longer, with less glass and tend to be more noticeable, especially in a mainly residential setting.

I don't drive a van, but if I did and I didn't have enough space on my property I'd be inclined to vary where I parked it, and I'd park it on my drive if I wasn't going to use if for a few days, just because that would seem the more neighbourly thing to do. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, and a commercial vehicle parked for several days in a mainly residential setting out of sight of the owner but in sight of others does seem a little selfish. But that's just me, and it doesn't sound as if you are actually doing anything illegal. Just a bit inconsiderate.

Lots of people really do have far too little to occupy their time. They genuinely object to a motor vehicle in the road?! Are they equally shocked and surprised to find shampoo in Boots?!

If they hate seeing vehicles on the road so much, they need to either grow a high hedge or just not look out of their windows.

So many people complain about seeing a tradie's van parked anywhere near their house and want it outright banned... until they need the tradie to do work for them, in which case it's miraculously just fine for the van to be there!

You’re blowing that out of proportion, op is talking about one van the same weight classification as a car. Worry about the HGVs if that happens

OP, would it be worth getting cards printed with the number of the local parking officer at the council office on?

Then when they swear at you or ask about the van you can hand them a card and tell them, politely, if they have a problem, then here is where they can report it.

Hopefully 150 people all being told separately that the van is perfectly entitled to park there and they don't have a leg to stand on regarding complaints might shut them up?

So this is a big van? Where does it end? Is it OK if a HGV driver who lives in the village routinely parks up there overnight? What about a dozen of them?

Is there a reason your husband needs a car and a van? There are quite a few self employed tradespeople with vans that live in my estate but in every case I can see there is one van and one car for the house. I realise this might not help if you can’t get both the van and the car on the driveway though.

One of my neighbours had started parking an oversized works vehicle in one the guest parking spots near me. It does look ugly, overhangs the parking space causing an obstruction and, depending how he parks it, can block the pavement too. If it were outside my window I could see how it would grate. I wouldn’t swear at anyone about it though, that’s horrible.