Neighbour parking question

[BigBadBarrie]

We moved into our new home coming up for a year ago and didn't take long to notice parking was always terrible but the cars never moved.

Found out that a man who lives a few.door down used to own car dealers, doesn't now for whatever reason and does it from home now.

So on top of his wife's, his kids and his own car there are at least another 2 directly outside his house, one outside their neighbours and at least another 2 the other side.of the road. I suspect there are more to be honest.

There's.no business registered to the address I can see and i am aware theres laws preventing dealers parking cars on the public road but is he technically a dealer?

Just seems really selfish and uncaring when he is flooding the street with cars, leaving them.there for months at a time, one of.them is all smashed up and damaged and im pretty sure he just uses it to hold a space?

Check if they're taxed or SORNed online. If not you can report to council and they threaten to remove them.

I checked one and it was taxed, ill check the others if I can but I suspect they all will be because theyve fell out with multiple neighbours before, no doubt over all the parking

Report him to the council for running a business from home/causing a nuisance.
Are other neighbours annoyed too? The more complaints there are, the more likely it is for the council to intervene.

This is all "I suspect this I suspect that " with no proof other than you getting upset someone's using a highway to park cars

Its not against the law to run a business from home if it has no impact on the neighbours. I ran an online business and I doubt any of my neighbours ever knew because I dont report my personal business to them.

I found an excellent solution to cars parked on my dropped kerb. Sneak out at dead of night (or pay someone with dark clothes and a hoody to do it) and spray something sticky on the windscreen and driver side. Cooking oil is excellent. Carefully throw a few handfulls of wild bird seed. It will stick. At first light the birds will do their work gobbling up the seeds and crapping at the same time. The car will be a mess with hardened bird crap all over the windscreen which will need to be cleaned off. Well who can you blame? Birds crap. Best if you live in an area with lots of trees and bushes which I do. People now avoid my driveway as they will assume the birds live in the bushes.

My friends neighbour did this, car’s changing constantly, not taxed though. She got him shut down.

It is possible to sell used cars from home as a business but there are restrictions. just notify the Council who will investigate. In addition, Trading Standards may be interested.
www.acorninsure.co.uk/blog/how-to-start-selling-cars-from-home/

If your house is a new build there may be some covenants that prevent people running a business from their home. May be worth checking.

A friend of mine who was a self employed programmer had problems with this. He didn’t work from his house, he worked on client sites, but he caused himself problems by using his home address (in a new build with a prohibition on business) as his registered business address.

Taxed or not, if the smashed up one has any sharp edges, (particularly on the side at child height) then it wouldn't pass an MOT so shouldn't be on the road, so you can report that.
Also report to council as operating a business from a residential property and HMRC to see if they are paying tax.

No, this is someone at the fact finding stage, asking for what is allowed and what can be done to check if it is all above board, in which case then OP will just have to let it go.

We bought our car from a man who did just that - he specialised in posh, very expensive used cars, but he'd taken in the old Golf that we bought off him as a part-exchange and it stuck out like a sore thumb, so I think he was glad to see it go!

But he had a massive piece of land behind high gates, so didn't need to park his cars for sale on the public road (and plenty of his own customer parking too). Didn't affect the neighbours in any way.

Contacting the council is your best course of action. No it’s not illegal to run a business from home however if that business is causing a nuisance there will be restrictions and planning consent is needed in some circumstances. Planning is your 1st port of call. I would also find out who your local councillor is and also lodge a complaint that way. No one should be running a car dealership from a domestic property and parking a shed load of cars on the street that is ridiculous.

HMRC might be interested

A friend of mine’s husband poured melted fat over the windscreen of someone’s car which was continually parked outside their house which hardened overnight. They never parked there again 😣

Report to the planning department because he needs permission for that and based on the parking situation will not have it granted.

Contact your local councillors about it as well and ask them to complain too. Sadly it often take a political push before council departments pull their finger out.

Thank you all for your suggestions, ill give the council a call next week and see what they say

@Friendlygingercatyou are my hero