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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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WhichJob · 26/07/2017 16:15

Whilst this is an awful cheek, I think Penguin bollards are the answer. Stooping to their level and potentially causing damage to their tyres could put other road users at risk.

Life is too short to have confrontations with the neighbours. So get your bollards installed and watch from the window the next day when they show up hoping to park!

aaaaargghhhhelpme · 26/07/2017 16:15

I'm raging on your behalf. I would be showing my toddler their doorbell and allowing them all the fun they wanted right now.

And buy penguin bollards, a stinger and a clamp for next time. Be prepared

Lweji · 26/07/2017 16:15

Also, add link to their business on FB, etc.

Lazyginger · 26/07/2017 16:16

I think I'd be putting up a gate in the meantime with a juicy padlock.....

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 26/07/2017 16:17

Hell, get the bollards installed while their car is still there and refuse to drop them to let the fucker leave!

hellsbellsmelons · 26/07/2017 16:17

OMG I need an update.
I'm waaaay over invested in this.

Roundandroundtheapartment · 26/07/2017 16:17

Any update OP?

Lweji · 26/07/2017 16:18

On a side note:

On a Moneysavingexpert thread:

"You can even get them shaped like penguins."

”That has outed you as a mumsnet user"

Grin
BeingATwatItsABingThing · 26/07/2017 16:19
MrTrebus · 26/07/2017 16:20

OP have you been arrested or something?

Lweji · 26/07/2017 16:21

Sorry to comment on my own post, but

”That has outed you as a mumsnet user" *

That also outed this pp as a mumsnet user. If you out someone you also out yourself. Hmm But I digress...

knockedover · 26/07/2017 16:23

Titan Fold Down Steel Bollard
£34.80
Street Furniture Di...

eleanor1989 · 26/07/2017 16:23

Don't mean to take pleasure in someone's misery but YAY parking thread! Grin

SlothMama · 26/07/2017 16:23

If the drive has a wall/fence either side buy a chain, 2 hooks and 2 padlocks. Stops cheeky fuckers using it

GinaFordCortina · 26/07/2017 16:24

Any chance your drive needs painting or a bottle accidentally broke on your drive OP?

Lweji · 26/07/2017 16:24

Meanwhile, if you have a padlock and some chain or rope...

It could work across your drive, or to block a wheel.

CauliflowerSqueeze · 26/07/2017 16:24

I need to know what's going on here! Come back please OP.

sparechange · 26/07/2017 16:25

justdontgetit

I'm afraid you are very wrong and collaberate is right

The law was changed a few years ago to stop cowboy clampers but also applies to homeowners

There are umpteen websites and news reports which will back this up if you don't believe it

Lweji · 26/07/2017 16:25

TBH, it would be worth paying for a tow truck and to move it a few streets away just for the fun of having them look for it.

malmi · 26/07/2017 16:26

JustDontGetItAtAll
The law isn't arbitrarily decided by random police officers...

redrobinblue · 26/07/2017 16:26

Debating between putting DC dinner on, and refreshing thread over and over until OP updates.

fairgame84 · 26/07/2017 16:26

I don't know how you managed to stay composed when they refused. I would have blown my top.

Dogsmom · 26/07/2017 16:26

I also run a pet grooming business from home and as part of getting permission from the council I had to prove there was enough parking and that extra people visiting the road wouldn't cause nuisance, my immediate neighbours were written to saying that I'd applied for change of use and they could raise objections if they wanted to.

mikeyssister · 26/07/2017 16:26

Lean on the doorbell

Hullabaloo31 · 26/07/2017 16:27

I hope you're over the road OP. I'd be fuming!