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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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in not wanting my neighbour not to store a scrap car outside his house?

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goingwiththeflow · 26/04/2011 21:01

want a Mumsnet view ..as not sure if I am getting hot under the collar about something that I should just chiiiiillll about ( I am as my name suggests normally a fairly easy going kind of person)

Live on an fairly 'nice' estate with lots of trees and green areas in a semi rural location , the part that I live on is a collection of houses looking over a green area with a cul de sac access road running behind with allocated parking spaces for each house.

The house that backs onto this road has a 'scrap' car parked on the verge next to my parking space propped up on bricks and tyres, with spilt oil underneath with no engine and basically stripped down , it has now been there for 5 months (and so has its own crop of weeds and wildlife now )
Originally he said that it would just be a couple of weeks whilst he stripped it of parts to keep as spares for his other car.

but its STILL there , have politely asked about it 'hows it going with the car etc' but just get 'its going alright?.. not your problem' but its REALLY starting to bug me , I see it from my garden and everytime I park up and I know it sounds very Hyacinth Bucket but it really drags the whole place down ..AIBU ?? ... do I need to let it go , is it just me? ...

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hairylights · 26/04/2011 21:02

Is it on private land? If so yabu. If not phone the council.

FabbyChic · 26/04/2011 21:03

Why not phone your local council about it, im sure he is not supposed to be using the parking space for business purposes, nudge nudge.

zikes · 26/04/2011 21:06

If it's not on his actual property, you might have a case with the council, I imagine? But I doubt you've any official grounds for complaint if it's on his property.

Your best bet is probably to not let it stress you, as nagging about it will likely end in ill feeling, and then it can get really uncomfortable.

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goingwiththeflow · 26/04/2011 21:08

the estate isn't 'adopted' by the council so I suppose it is classed as private land ( eventhough it is parked on communal land)we pay a residents fee that pays for repairs lighting grass cuting etc ... it is on the covenant(?) that no storage of caravans etc on parking spaces ( there is a general parking area on a different part of the estate for people to use for 'extra' vehicles etc ) using area for business purposes etc ..the committee have no power apparently to enforce this without taking expensive legal action ..and as it is only me it is 'affecting' then ....maybe I just cannot see the beauty in it ?

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EggsOnLegs · 26/04/2011 21:11

its his car. whats it got to do with you? yabu

DontGoCurly · 26/04/2011 21:17

That would drive me mad tbh, and how rude of him saying it's not your problem.

I would moan to the committee, he could be just being stubborn with you but might change his tune if the committee send him a letter.

A solicitors letter isn't that expensive. £80 maybe, they are definitely fobbing you off if they say they won't help. You are paying for the upkeep of the Estate. Annoy them some more until they sort it out.

DontGoCurly · 26/04/2011 21:18

It's parked on communal land?

Then it's plenty to do with her. She doesn't have to endure this eyesore.

Zooo · 26/04/2011 21:20

What do the other neighbours think? Have you spoken to them about it?

GrimmaTheNome · 26/04/2011 21:21

YANBU to dislike this - the house opposite ours used to perpetually have an old car on the drive in various states of disrepair (son's hobby, I think) - and while it didn't bother me too much it was an eyesore, DH used to grumble about it a bit. One of the other neighbours complained (I think on the grounds that he was putting his house on the market and it detracted) , and eventually it went. Not sure what persuasion was used!

So, although YANBU personally I'd advise you to chill and hope that it starts to annoy someone else

PaperView · 26/04/2011 21:23

Ask him if he would you like you to arrange for it to be collected by scrap metal dealers

HalfPastWine · 26/04/2011 21:24

You say it's parked on the 'verge'. Do you mean on the public road or public space. If so then the vehicle needs to have a tax disc displayed.

If it's on his own space then that's a bit tricky. You could do what Fabbychic suggest re it being used for business purposes.

If feel sorry for you, I know what it's like to have a neighbour bringing down the area.

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goingwiththeflow · 26/04/2011 21:28

the thing is originally it didn't bother me at all (for the first few weeks) as he was obviously working on it and I thought fair enough .. but the the last 6 weeks at least its just been sat there ..I realise everyone has different views on what is good to look at and that this isn't mine ..he can't see it from his garden but I can

the fact is the way his parking space is placed if he'd actually put it on his parking space as opposed to the verge then only the back would be seen ..instead of it displayed to all its glory ( see I'm getting wound up again ..am I getting middle aged and turning into my mother! )

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KaraStarbuckThrace · 26/04/2011 21:28

If it is not taxed, report it to the DVLA. They will get it removed. I did this a few years ago, car left parked on the road where I live outside my flat, up on bricks, bloody eyesore. Soon as I saw the tax disc had ran out, I gave it a week and reported it. It was gone in a few days.

YANBU.

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goingwiththeflow · 26/04/2011 21:33

thanks for the advice .. have spoken to my nearest neighbour and he agreed and said he thought the guy was a tenant and so maybe the landlord should be approached ..

Paperview apparently some gypsies did offer to take it away for him and he was quite insulted , so it did have a wax crayoned sign in the windscreen for a while saying 'Do Not Touch! .. will check the tax disc thing too HalfPastWine (like the name by the way)

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HalfPastWine · 26/04/2011 21:43

Thanks OP

Good luck with it, let you know how you get on! :)

HalfPastWine · 26/04/2011 21:43

let 'us' know I meant to say!!

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goingwiththeflow · 26/04/2011 21:52

will do .. thanks everyone !

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Herthatwas · 26/04/2011 21:56

yuk no you are not BU. I was born and lived till I culd make my own way on a council estate where scrap cars and matresses in the garden were almost de rigeur. It looks vile and there is no excuse.

SugarPasteFrog · 26/04/2011 22:02

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