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Parking wars - on my own drive !

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AlphaBites · 26/07/2017 14:34

I know the rules, diagram is attached. 😉

I'm on half days this week and have just got home to find a car in my driveway. As we are a corner house we have two driveways, big enough for one car each. Parking is really tight around here and permit only too. Opposite us is 8 terraced houses with no allocated parking, so quite often they either park in their garages or in the handful or visitor bays opposite my place but in front of theirs. My front drive is VERY clearly my driveway.

Cheeky Fucker Neighbour (CFN) runs a business from home which involves a lot of clients coming and going from her house throughout the day (pet groomer) and he employs two people to help.

I came home today to find a car in my drive which was not DHs. So I park down the side (pink section) of the house on the road where neighbours park their cars. I go and knock on several doors to find out who it belongs too, turns out it's one of the employees who is staying for a little while longer (P/T). "But I'll only be another hour, so I'll move it then." I reply "No, move it now please as I have to unload my car." Person refuses and I end up leaving telling them to move it within 30 minutes.

That was an hour ago and when I knock on the door there is no answer.

My next door neighbour has just told me that this car is on either my front drive or rear drive each morning ! When he questioned them about it, apparently CFN has said it's OK for them to park there and they have cleared it with us. No they bloody haven't!

Thing is this went on last year but after words it sooner stopped but obviously they are doing it again.

I'm sat here glaring out my front window waiting for the fucker to move his car then we will have words. I would block it in, but the road is only wide enough for one car so would block the road.

Parking wars - on my own drive !
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AlphaBites · 27/07/2017 09:46

The tyre thieves have struck again.

We have had them stolen before off a trailer we own (really!) and they came back last night ! 🤔

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MummaThree · 27/07/2017 09:46

This thread is amazing 😂
OP I get your frustration, I feel for you, I'd be fuming!!! What did you do? Did you do the bricks? Damn I wish you'd have taken a picture for our amusement (not that the situation is amusing but the fact that the Twat couldn't move his car)

Marmalady75 · 27/07/2017 09:47

Come on OP. We all need to know why the car can't be moved!!!!

PsychoPumpkin · 27/07/2017 09:47

You took the tyres?! Grin

Lanaa · 27/07/2017 09:48

GrinGrinGrin

Tyre thieves! Oh dear. I hope their insurance pays out, most don't like it when people leave their cars in random places overnight!!!

hellsbellsmelons · 27/07/2017 09:48

Oh no....!
That's going to be very inconvenient for CFNE!
Poor dear soul!
Grin

PhilippeFlop · 27/07/2017 09:50

This is amazing! Well done OP (and tyre thieves)

ASDismynormality · 27/07/2017 09:50

Shock.

Seeline · 27/07/2017 09:51

Do they have planning permission to be running a business from home? From the level of coming-and-going of clients and the fact that they employ 2 people as well would almost certainly mean pp would be required.
I would speak to the planning department. If they haven't got pp they can send an enforcement officer round to investigate, and require an application to be made or stop them working. If they have got pp, check the permission because there will be conditions restricting hours of operation etc. If they are breaching those, again the Council can take action.
Personally, I would have thought it unlikely for pp to be granted for a business that involves a lot of people visiting the site where there is no on site parking and limited off-site parking.

Those tyre thieves are really annoying - I know a couple of friends who have had their spare wheels stolen too......

Lweji · 27/07/2017 09:52

Really tough neighbourhood you live in, OP.

Gingerandgivingzerofucks · 27/07/2017 09:52

Thing is, you want the car gone, so taking the tyres defeats your object of being able to get on your own drive.

flapjackfairy · 27/07/2017 09:54

Yes ginger but so worth it !

AuntMabel · 27/07/2017 09:55

Well played OP.

List the parking space on JustPark for £3000 an hour and send them the bill Grin

WineAndTiramisu · 27/07/2017 09:55

I want to know as well!

Fairenuff - do you have a link to that thread, sounds amazing!

LooksBetterWithAFilter · 27/07/2017 09:55

What do you do???
I asked dh last night because I'd said he would be all calm about it but nope apparently he'd tow the fucker car off into the middle of the road. Grin I'm usually the ragey one so that made me feel better.

SnickersWasAHorse · 27/07/2017 09:56

Tyre theives? The bastards.

Babieseverywhere · 27/07/2017 09:56

Ginger The tyre thieves are causing expense and inconvenience to the car owner, who will never park on the OP's drive again, in case the thieves return for a third time !

Playing the long game and winning, well done those people :)

diddl · 27/07/2017 09:57

"Really tough neighbourhood you live in, OP."

Certainly not one where thieves would ever be returning tyres, I wouldn't have thought.

DartmoorDoughnut · 27/07/2017 09:58

Darn those tyre thieves!

Writerwannabe83 · 27/07/2017 09:58

How many tyres did they steal? Grin

All four or just the one??

ClearEyesFullHearts · 27/07/2017 09:59

The tyre thieves have struck again.

Shit just got real.

Lweji · 27/07/2017 09:59

Such bad luck for them.
Flat battery.
Stolen tyres.

Doesn't it usually come in 3s?
What else could possibly happen?

anchor9 · 27/07/2017 10:00

oh shi......!

GrinGrinGrin

DadDadDad · 27/07/2017 10:01

I'm a bit confused: OP, when you posted this morning that the car is still there, had you not noticed that the tyres had gone? Why are you teasing us with such vital info?

Gileswithachainsaw · 27/07/2017 10:01

I love you