to think that it should be permissable to park transit vans and similar sized commercial vehicles anywhere that cars can be parked?

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Given that transit vans are not much smaller than some of the 4x4 monsters that people are perfectly happy to drive down to Asda and not much else?

Yes or no answers much appreciated.

I wish they would park off road or be parked at a business premises. One sometimes parks opposite and makes getting out of drive difficult. It is a Luton van size so bigger than a transit.

No. I couldn't care about how they look but there are visibility issues if they park in some places.

What if they live in an area where the housing stock does not have driveways?

My DP is an electrician. He works for someone else. He has a van which is parked outside our house so he can get to work. It's not his van. But even if it was, tough. It's just snobbery if people object.

No definitely not. They make visibility very poor and are a danger to those crossing. Why would anyone want a van plonked outside their house obscuring light unless of course it's theirs.
There's one on our road and the cheeky fuckers never park outside their own house but outside the elderly neighbour who never goes out. It gives me the RAGE.

There's a covenant on the new builds near me that says no vans or business vehicles.

I'd say no, not on residential roads.

We lived on a road once that had resident parking on both sides of the road, several houses parked vans outside and it made crossing the road quite dangerous as it reduced visibility. I would frequently have to make a mad dash or leap back because I couldn't see a car coming when I started crossing.

They should park directly outside their own house, not someone else's. If that's not possible they should rent a garage.

I haven't seen another thread, but yes, vans should be allowed to park anywhere if they're only transit sized.
That said, no-one can park vans where we live, it's a condition of living there that you don't, but I find that odd tbh. People that need vans still have to live!

Then they need to source an alternative parking space for it overnight if parking it near home causes congestion to the road they live on.

One of the biggest problems is some companies expect vans to be kept by its staff with no consideration to where they can store it. For example DPD give staff LWB vans to its drivers, who have to go to the depot to collect the parcels the next morning so no reason to collect it - not urgent business which can get call outs at anytime, so drivers could make their own way to the depot using their own method of transport like a lot of other people have to do!

If they are parked legally and considerately, I don't give a crap what kind of vehicle it is.

I think as long as parking is considerate, then fine, same as with some of the large SUVs that can be badly parked in our road

Well i drive a massive van, it's a wheelchair accessible vehicle
I prk it where i like, i assume itsthe same for any van

Yes as long as they don't block someone's light. Other size of six foot fence is fine though

As long as its parked outside their own house.

I think if you own one or bring home a work one you do need to bear in mind that they can be an eyesore and cause visibility problems. Be considerate, rather than taking the attitude if it's legal you don't give a shit. I live in a place with parking problems and it is so much worse when people are inconsiderate and lazy, don't bother to park on their drive because they can't be arsed etc. Our post woman (rural) used to keep her official van outside my house and drive her car to and from the next village; now there is a woman who lives down the road in a flat on double yellows but has a 4x4 and a horse box which she leaves outside ours for weeks at a time. It's very rude and inconsiderate, legal or not.

Yanbu. If it's parked legally, it's parked legally, no matter what sort of vehicle it is. Some posters are so narrow-minded, assuming everyone has driveways! In my road (residents' parking permits only), there are no driveways although a handful of people have paved over their front gardens, and you can only park on one side of the road anyway. Fortunately no-one is precious about their parking.

One business owner parks 4 vans in my street. He doesn't live here! I rarely park anywhere near my house.

But on some streets it is not always possible to park directly outside your own house. There is unrestricted parking and anyone can park there. I am bemused by this tbh: anyone who drives a van should pay for garage space "elsewhere" or only live somewhere with a drive? Is that what we really think?

I must be too easy-going for my own good

It's all about consideration Bibbity, rather than where people actually park

Live in a cul de sac, with limited parking. A business owner parks 4 vans and a huge car in the road. He's a nice guy but it's a nightmare.

No - unless they can be parked outside their owners house. Hate them with a passion - but nothing can be done about them sadly.

It's on the lower end of the anti-social behaviour scale, but they can be an eyesore and reduce visibility for pedestrians and drivers. I would feel bad for routinely parking one up on a residential street and would try to come up with somewhere else to put it, especially if I knew the neighbours were getting fed up of the sight of it.

Some of you have very odd ideas.

You do realise that people need vans to get to work don't you?

My dh is n engineer, his work premises are 40 miles from our house, he works all over the country. He doesn't go to his work base for 2 weeks sometimes as he might be working 100 miles in the opposite direction on jobs.

Where would you have him park? We don't have garages to rent anywhere near our home and certainly not big enough for his van. He does enough travelling as it is.