Neighbour called police on me about parking

[Senmum1981]

My neighbour has a commercial van and parks next to my driveway on a normal public road . He parks very close to my driveway so it hard for me to see when reversing out . We are having work done to our driveway widen it and paving it . So I took my car out the driveway and put it where he normally puts his van when he was out . He went wild mad at me saying it’s his space I need to move and called the police on me who said I’m not doing anything illegal. Should I just move it to not cause any issues with them or be mean and leave it till building work done ?

Either he did and lost because "I want to park there" isn't a reason for you not to get planning consent or he didn't bother because he knows full well he's an arse with zero entitlement to park there.

See if the council will allow a white line to be painted across your driveway so he can't play silly arses and still park across your new drive entrance. Particularly as it's for disability access

Good grief, who calls the police about parking? And why on earth did he stop speaking to you months ago? Why people don’t want to be friends with their neighbours, I’ll never comprehend. Wherever I’ve lived, including abroad, my neighbours have become like family. So sad.

I hope you can be on good terms again. Perhaps you could speak to him when he’s calmed down, or his partner or son instead, to find a way to resolve it. He must surely understand you need to safely pull out of your drive.

Not true.

With domestic CCTV, capturing video or audio recordings on and outside the boundaries of a person's property is not a breach of data protection law as long as you: Tell people that they are using recording equipment (i.e. have a "CCTV in use" or similar sign up - it doesn't need to be a big sign....). Provide some of the recording, if asked, by a person whose images or audio have been captured.

More info here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-cctv-using-cctv-systems-on-your-property/domestic-cctv-using-cctv-systems-on-your-property

Although, having said that, my CCTV cameras don't/can't record audio as there have been issues here locally with a nosy neighbour using his to eavesdrop on his neighbours and relay private conversations (that he wasn't involved in) back to them! Police had to get involved.

He probably can't read...

It's not an actual rule though.
Anyone can park on any road as long as they don't break any laws.

Even if you widen your drive. He can park across your dri e where there us no dropped kerb.

@pinkstripeycat Incorrect! Car tax goes to motorways. Nobody pays road tax

@ByQuaintAzureWasp RTFT OP has stated twice that the dropped curb is being widened

It’s also not very neighbourly to hog a parking spot in the street and not let anyone eise use it tbh.

That would then make it even less ok for him to constantly use that spot and go bonkers of someone else is using ‘his’ spot,

Leave it 100%!!

He sounds like an absolute entitled arse. Wasting police time too. Knob.

His 'van space' is on the public highway, so his problem not yours. He'll have to find somewhere else.
He's lucky he can park on the road anyway. Where I live, commercial vehicles, including vans, are not allowed to park on the road.

No it doesn't, road maintenance is paid for out of general taxation.

@Senmum1981 for your replies to make sense you should either quote or tag whoever you're replying to

My daughter had to do this. The neighbour a few doors down has adult children living at home and they have 4 cars and a works van and no driveway. They constantly parked over the end of my daughter’s drive making it difficult to get on and off her driveway. She called parking enforcement and they came out and ticketed the offending car. The neighbour went ballistic but she ignored him. They then parked illegally again and got another ticket. They haven’t done it since.

He’s a knob

That is totally what I would do 😂
Added bonus it stops people parking over or on top of your driveway.

Blocking a driveway is illegal in the UK.

At no point did she say the driveway was blocked. It’s not ideal but on many new estates you wouldn’t get all the cars on without some over hang etc.

Under GDPR providing you are recording only for personal/domestic use you can have a doorbell which records public spaces and do not have to have a cctv notice displayed.

At least you have an official record of his issue with the police- if he decides to damage your vehicle or anything they'll know it's him!

If you would be 'miffed' in the same way as the immature and petty minded neighbour, you, like him, have little or no understanding of the 'rules of the road' or the Highway Code!! 🙄
It wouldn't matter if you had parked in the same spot on a road a thousand times, you still wouldn't have any rights to keep on doing so or to complain if someone else parked there!! A private individual cannot 'own' or 'reserve' any part of a public highway.😏
As for being 'neighbourly', well making the OP's life difficult by parking so close to her drive that it restricted her view when turning out onto the road certainly wasn't was it? 🤔😠