Its about parking and playing Parking Chess

[lolaflores]

we live on one of those roads that was not designed for loads of cars. So an average British street I imagine.
We live walking distance from a London Tube station which means folk come along, park up then go to work on the tube. This is a hassle of living where we live but the parking has been put under further pressre because of late, three streets near us have been designated resident parking.
Many of the houses have been subdivided and that has also increased car presence on the road.
Next door has a car and a work van, we have a car.
However, NDN seems to spend his time scooting about, moving his car or van till he has both in front of his house.
Thats his thing, its annoying but I am begining to get the impression he is spending ALOT of time watching for when we leave the house.
Last weekend we thought we would test our theory. We left the house, drove the car round the block and caught him half way up the street, in his van ready to move it...we were gone less than a minute.
This morning my DH dropped me round to my Mum's, at 7.00am...the van was there when he got back.
Either they are taking shifts next door, he has set up a camera or he has acute hearing.
It is begining to creep me out a bit. We accept that this is life in London and we are beyond thinking we will be able to park in front of house except in moments of blind luck.
I was thinking about starting a petition for resident parking permits but not sure if that will make any impact on the council.
Is he being a creepy arsehole, a creep or a plain flavoured arsehole?

He needs a life.
I don't care if I'm parked outside my house or not. I get mildly annoyed if I have to park on the next street, but that only happens when I go put and get home late.

Weird! I like to park outside my house because getting two small kids and their crap from car to door is hard work with only two arms. That's why I live somewhere I can do just that. If I was a weird obsessed person that insisted on having my cars outside for no particular reason I would buy a house with a drive!

That's pretty bloody irritating, and pretty sad on his part. I think he needs to get out more... I used to live on a street like that (without the tube issue though because I wasn't in London), and as long as it wasn't chucking it down while I had loads of shopping to carry I could cope with walking a few yards, what a silly boy. I'd be playing games with him I think

Be worth the cash to have a skip placed in 'his' space for week!

Why don't you - and your neighbours - petition your council for residents permit parking only in your street? And some of the neighbouring streets too?

We’ve got a couple who do this next door but one. Spend all their time shuffling cars around. I despise them.

I am tempted to keep wandering out to the car, slamming doors really loudly, turn the engine on, sit for a bit....then saunter back inside, do it a few times back to back.
He is a very, very small minded man. He went mad when we put our fence up, as he insisted we had "grabbed" 5cms of his garden....thats a 5 whole cms. For the sake of peace we wiggled the offending posts about a bit and he was satisfied.
His oddness was once bearable but this is just tiresome. 12 years or relative peace I have to say but since the parking has got so tight, he has become more and more petty.

CeeCeeandAida I did say in my OP about that.
Do the councils usually take any notice of that.

Weaselwords I do despise him now. Before I tolerated him. We would have the chat now and again. I forced him really to acknowlege me, go out of my way to say hi and create some sort of interaction because I knew if he was one of those types that made it a point not to speak, then he would get away with low level shitty behaviour. And I don't like not knowing the people around me but he is happy to create resentment so he can have his cars outside his house.

Start walking places? Catch a taxi or two?

Annoying but not a lot you can do?

lolaflores, sorry and many apologies, I missed that bit . Sadly, I think it's the only way to go though,

We had it round our way - many years ago now - inner London borough near lots of tube and mainline stations. A few streets got resident's only permits; we got even more CF parkers than we had previously; we ended up getting resident's only parking. I think it's borough-wide where we are now.

We use the bus and walk as most stuff is within distance of us but at the weekend we tend to use the car more.
I agree there isn't much I can do as an individual but starting a petition seems the best bet.
People's pettiness is a source of wonder to me. How much difference can it make to walk a few yards?
Worst case has been a couple of times we parked a street away. Which is a pain in the arse but the price of living in London I reckon.

Oh, and in our borough you can only have one permit per vehicle per owner per address, if that makes sense?! One owner, even if they own multiple vehicles, can only get one resident's permit for a specific vehicle.

If there are multiple people in the property, each with their own vehicle, each vehicle has to be registered to one specific owner and they should get a permit. But one owner of many vehicles will only get a permit for one of them.

Permit owner here. Doesn't guarantee you a space anyway!! We couldn't park in ours, used a side St as allowed, came out and a litre tub of pva glue on the windscreen.
Makes folk even more territorial when they own a permit!

CeeCeeAndAida that would make my day. His face would be a picture if he were forced to lose one of his precious motors or find other arrangements.

That alone is worth creating a petition for.

Aprilshowersnoastorm You know I read your post about that incident. Shocking.
But, if it stopped folk who weren't residents parking it might free up some space and take a bit of the pressure off.
I doubt he would do something like that, cos he is a passive aggresive little shit if there was a category for him, but he would have to get rid of one of his vehicles or pay for the extra.

lolaflores, as you say - worth getting up a petition for

April is correct though, our controlled parking zone covers a number of streets. So we can park in any of those streets, without getting nicked. There's no guarantee we can park outside our own house, but it's no big deal parking down the road a bit. Fortunately, we don't seem to have any parking wars round here!!

There was/is a thread quite recently about the OP parking a bit down the road/or round the corner - quite legitimately - and she returned to a very unpleasant note stuck to her car

OP I sympathise and know exactly how you feel. We have resident parking due to a local hospital but every house also has a drive for 3 cars. Ok some peoples drive are at the end of the row of houses. Max 3 terraced houses away so really not far but two neighbours in my row insist on parking all 3 of their cars in the lay-by outside of our row. So no room for any visitors and their drives are free and no one uses them. They also seem to watch as if a car manages to get parked in the lay-by and moves, they are out there like a shot. It's comical.

Council’s LOVE residents parking as it’s a massive money spinner. So ask and you shall probably receive.

serbska. Don't we know it! When we first agreed to it, many years ago, our annual permit (per car) was £15. Now, many years later, it's nearly £200 per car!!!!

My ex bil was like this, only wanted to park in the layby out the front of his house. He had 2 cars but only drove 1. So would pull 1 out of the layby and onto the road, thereby blocking traffic coming down and not risking his space getting nicked whilst he wandered round the corner and got his other car from the space in front of his garage (they're in a block behind he row of terraces), park that in the layby space then drive off in the other car. Upon coming home he would repeat in reverse. It was utterly bonkers, parking on that street is a nightmare anyway and this just shows why.