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

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

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 don't mind the transits but hate the big van that parks opposite sometimes as it makes it so hard to back out of the drive.

My df lives in cul de sac and large vans are not supposed to be parked on road but one resident insists even though he has a drive and is known to get his wife to stick her car in the space if he goes out. It is huge and he is not nice so no one wants to get on the wrong side of him.

StubblyLegs
The NIMBYs are out in force here aren't they?

Are you talking about those that don't like other peoples vans parking outside their house, or those that own the vans and refuse to park them outside their own houses?

Your PA post goes both ways.

Chardonnay. I'm not sure that you understand what ironic means.

Learn to park and drive

I'm genuinely baffled that anyone can be against whatever parking on a public road, just as long as it's not illegally parked or endangers road and street users.
In some places van owners would have to walk for miles to find anywhere to park if they couldn't park in front of houses.
FGS

My problem is that its the lack of thinking about where they park. One I drive past daily parks on the opposite side of the road to a T junction - making it a blind corner and causing the public bus to have issues turning. It's legal but not a sensible place to park - a car would not cause as much issue as it would not make it a blind corner.

The one that parked opposite my driveway irritated as it parked half on the pavement causing people to have to walk on my neighbours garden (or in the road) if they had buggies and also made getting on and off my driveway a hassle. What used to be an easy to access driveway ended up needing a 3 point turn to get into - not an issue I can do it but irritating none the less.

They weren't a local tradesman but worked for a national company.

Well you're obviously not the 'certain type of middle class wanker' I was talking about, limitedperiod only, but you crack on talking about yourself regardless .

Got stuff from my solicitors the other day to do with house purchase, was pleased to read there's a restriction on parking vans, and caravans on the estate

We bought a new build a couple of years ago and our deeds state that no work vans and caravans can be parked on our estate but it's totally ignored.

We live in a corner house and opposite our drive is a neighbour who has three cars and frequently brings home the huge Mercedes 9 people minibus from his work (he's a hotelier). He parks this right up to the edge of our drive (partially on the path too) and blocks the view of the corner when we're getting out of our drive, which is tight anyway as there'll always be another car or two from his house parked on the road right opposite. Utter dickhead. Ridiculous that he bought a house with a single drive, knowing his family own so many vehicles, when there are houses on our street which were the same style and price yet have driveways big enough for four.

They need to park somewhere and so long as they are properly parked then I'm fine with it. In our street there are several vans, an ice cream van and a horse box in the residential parking area.

Personally, I think all tradespeople should also wear a cap and on sight of a well-to-do person should immediately doff said cap with an appropriate sir/ma'am greeting.

I live next door to someone who works for a road maintenance company and we have all kinds of trucks/transit-size vans parked outside at various times. It drives me crazy and makes parking and visibility at total nightmare.
My grandma lived on a new (in the 1970s!) estate where vans and caravans were banned - bloody marvellous idea!
My plumber owns a big van and makes sure to park it on his own drive/garden instead of blighting the road.

Personally, I think all tradespeople should also wear a cap and on sight of a well-to-do person should immediately doff said cap with an appropriate sir/ma'am greeting.

You'd get beat up pretty quickly in our street. :)

I have no problem with people parking whatever they want as long as they bloody do it with consideration.

There's a house further down our road on a crossroads. They have a van and a car, both of which they used to park on their drive. Except now they've had an ornamental drive put in as "we didn't like looking at the cars out of the window" and "we want the drive to look nice". So now they're parking both vehicles half on the pavement and right at a junction. Visibility for the rest of us nil.

That's just being a cunt

You'd get beat up pretty quickly in our street.
Hopefully I don't live on your street as my husband is a van-owning tradesman

Having a drive was a priority for our house buying - not really to save it being an eye-sore for our neighbours, but because of the business implications if it was stolen/damaged. Having said that I am not a fan of the no transits on residential estates overnight and our cul-de-sac does have 2 transits (not ours) parked in the road plus other cars (not ours either) and we all cope.

So - if you have a van and move onto one of these wonderful new 'no van rule' estates, you cant park outside your own property even if you wanted to. You're going to end up parking it as near as poss. to the estate, more than likely outside someone else's house most nights then. Fabulous.

DH has a van. It's his own, not a company van. He is a builder - building the kind of estate mentioned above ironically

If someone has more than 1 van, I agree they ABU. But I really don't care about 1 van parked on the road. Where I live most houses have space to park 1 small car on their driveway. But you can't get a van on the driveway or a people carrier. So these are always parked on the road. I don't care.

And we have permit parking with clearly marked out bays. So for some people, there is no parking space outside of their house. A neighbour quite a few doors down always parks outside our house. The only time I cared is when the car alarm went of in the middle of the night, and they couldn't hear it. The rest of the time - so what.

Probably yes in theory.

However where I live a couple of blokes have been doing up the house opposite for bloody months. They have a van each. They rock up every day, take loads of space to park outside my house, don't park considerately and use a space that could quite easily fit another car but they'll dump it down in the middle, they leave around tea time. There is often a space across the road at the end of the pathway to the house, but no, they prefer to walk further and across the road and leave it outside mine. I often have to park further away because of this, and all the other inconsiderate ass people who can't park sensibly in a massive space easily big enough for more cars. Very pissed off with it so on that basis, all vans should Fuck the Fuck off unless they are at a local house, doing a job for a couple of days or something (like a plumber etc). No, being sensible and rational doesn't come into it because I'm pissed off about it and my local council has a dumbass rule that states a dropped kerb cannot be put within 6 meters of another and my neighbour has one so I can't even make a driveway out of my massive front garden.

I don't mind except when someone parks their van outside someone else's house ( house with no front garden so only a couple of feet away from the window) because they don't want it right outside their window.