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Senmum1981 · 2024-11-27T21:10:09+00:00

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 ?

rwalker · 29/11/2024 05:36

I’m a twat so I would have moved my car to let him park his van . Then he would be all pleased with himself thinking he had won

then when your new drive is unveiled snatch his victory back of him and point out that he can never park there again ever . And passive aggressively apologise

MumonabikeE5 · 29/11/2024 05:36

Senmum1981 · 27/11/2024 22:12

They going to knock the wall and extend the curb which hopefully means he has to put his van over his own driveway and not leave the space for his son

My understanding is you can’t park over your own dropped curb either. So he’ll have to park in his drive, or on an open parking space.

Futurethinking2026 · 29/11/2024 07:18

Cariadm · 29/11/2024 04:40

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? 🤔😠

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I fully understand the highway code and whilst I would never challenge someone over it. It’s a public highway, I can still be miffed about it.

If we 100% followed the Highway Code. We wouldn’t have hardly any car parking on our street at all, but we as nice people have all made it work.

Also the OP shouldn’t be reversing out if we’re fully sticking to the Highway Code. I wonder if it would be less ‘blocked’ if she was driving out.

StandingSideBySide · 29/11/2024 12:36

MumonabikeE5 · 29/11/2024 05:36

My understanding is you can’t park over your own dropped curb either. So he’ll have to park in his drive, or on an open parking space.

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You can park over your own dropped kerb.

MumonabikeE5 · 29/11/2024 12:55

How do they know it’s yours? It isn’t permissible in two London boroughs I know for example.

StandingSideBySide · 29/11/2024 13:03

MumonabikeE5 · 29/11/2024 12:55

How do they know it’s yours? It isn’t permissible in two London boroughs I know for example.

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I have no idea how they know.
However it’s in the Highway Code, ie you can park on a drop kerb if you have permission from the person whose property it serves.

verycloakanddaggers · 29/11/2024 21:33

TravelInsuranceQ · 28/11/2024 08:43

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.

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Most people don't use signage.

It is intrusive and out of order to record the street. Recording what happens on other people's properties is another level of shitty behaviour.

TravelInsuranceQ · 01/12/2024 13:11

verycloakanddaggers · 29/11/2024 21:33

Most people don't use signage.

It is intrusive and out of order to record the street. Recording what happens on other people's properties is another level of shitty behaviour.

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I have signage, thanks for your concern.
It's not intrusive to record, it depends what people do with it.
I don't share my footage with anyone other than the police (we have a lot of crime in our area unfortunately) and my neighbours are fully aware and supportive.

I'm sure you'd be more than happy to let the police use someone's CCTV footage help them find whoever committed a crime that impacted you.

EmotionalSupportPotato · 01/12/2024 13:14

He called the police? What a knob

Boysgrownbutstillathome · 01/12/2024 23:35

Maplelady · 27/11/2024 21:25

I’m going to say it… male entitlement. You pay road tax and he pays road tax. You’re both entitled to park on a public road. Some of my neighbours with drives park on the road. It’s a bit annoying but I wouldn’t dream of telling them to move their cars because that would make me a twat

Nobody pays road tax - it's vehicle excise duty that you pay and doesn't entitle you to park anywhere.

lovemetomybones · 01/12/2024 23:45

Parking is a civil matter and the police will only intervene if he is blocking you in (however if he blocks your driveway and you are not on it, that's perfectly okay according to the police)

The most he can do is call the council. If it's a public road with no restrictions you are perfectly in the right and they will do nothing.

So it's him you need to be concerned about. Is it all hot air, or do you think he will take it further? If so dial 101.

My neighbour currently hurt the neighbour opposite physically and filmed her whenever she left the house over a parking issue. Now she has caused police involvement there she's now trying to rile us, by parking in 'my' space (which is road parking so technically not mine, but I have a young disabled son so it massively helps not that she remotely cares) today, she has placed her bin in such a position that it blocks my husband from getting off the drive. The minute she heard his engine she ran out of her house held her bin possessively and told him not to touch her bin! She is one unreasonable woman! But also violent with a violent husband, so it's another call to the council about bins in a hope to avoid a nasty confrontation.

StandingSideBySide · 02/12/2024 01:08

lovemetomybones · 01/12/2024 23:45

Parking is a civil matter and the police will only intervene if he is blocking you in (however if he blocks your driveway and you are not on it, that's perfectly okay according to the police)

The most he can do is call the council. If it's a public road with no restrictions you are perfectly in the right and they will do nothing.

So it's him you need to be concerned about. Is it all hot air, or do you think he will take it further? If so dial 101.

My neighbour currently hurt the neighbour opposite physically and filmed her whenever she left the house over a parking issue. Now she has caused police involvement there she's now trying to rile us, by parking in 'my' space (which is road parking so technically not mine, but I have a young disabled son so it massively helps not that she remotely cares) today, she has placed her bin in such a position that it blocks my husband from getting off the drive. The minute she heard his engine she ran out of her house held her bin possessively and told him not to touch her bin! She is one unreasonable woman! But also violent with a violent husband, so it's another call to the council about bins in a hope to avoid a nasty confrontation.

Just as an aside but why don’t you park your car on the drive if you have a disabled son.

Emmz1510 · 02/12/2024 08:47

Futurethinking2026 · 27/11/2024 21:25

Legally you’re doing nothing wrong but I’d be pretty miffed(obviously wouldn’t call the police!) if I’d always parked somewhere and then all of a sudden you just parked your car there. It’s not very neighbourly.

As unneighbourly as parking your van so close to someone’s drive they can’t see properly when trying to get out?

lovemetomybones · 02/12/2024 12:18

Hubbys car is electric he needs the charge point. Mine isn't.

FigTreeInEurope · 02/12/2024 13:05

StandingSideBySide · 27/11/2024 22:14

What happens if a non resident parks in your neighbourhood

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There is no such thing as an unspoken rule. There's the law, and there's people's random expectations.

StandingSideBySide · 02/12/2024 13:22

FigTreeInEurope · 02/12/2024 13:05

There is no such thing as an unspoken rule. There's the law, and there's people's random expectations.

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I was just wondering what glassheart and her neighbours would do given their ‘unspoken rule’ that the space outside their house is theirs.
I’m aware their unspoken rule isn’t the law.
Just wondering what happens when visitors and other non residents park in their road as I certainly wouldn’t be taking any notice of random so called rules

1989whome · 04/12/2024 09:03

Can not stand this sort of entitlement! Stay there for.as long as you can and as often as you can. No one owns the street. My friend has a bloke like this in her street, he puts cones out to keep his space. It infuriates me! Imagine we all done that! What more can the neighbours do? They've phoned the police on you, who told them it's not illegal. So stay put. If he damages your car, that is illegal and he will be in shit. I'd so get cameras just incase

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