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My NDN and Parking

288 replies

MrsDylanBlue · 28/05/2018 21:58

My NDN moved in a few months ago, I have seen them in the street and almost forced them to say hello - fine whatever I respect the fact they may want to keep themselves to themselves.

We have no ORP and it is an issue in our road and we get people from neighbouring streets also parking here.

NDN have a very tiny driveway which they sometimes park one of their three cars on (I have a small car and DH has a car but is only here on weekends).

When the NDN drive is empty (it’s a drop curb with no gate) we have always parked over it as sometimes there is just nowhere else to park.

Outside our houses (they are semi detached) there is enough space for two cars on the road, quite often they have taken to not leaving me enough room to fit my car on (and not block my elderly neighbours in the other side) and then moved forward when someone else has arrived home so monopolising all the off road parking directly outside the houses.

Last weekend DH parked slightly over their drive and they left a shitty note on his car. He went round and spoke to the lady and said just knock don’t leave a note and please could you just leave my wife enough space to park in the week, after all we have one car you have three.

This weekend they have taken up all the parking directly outside the houses meaning I have had to trek up and down the road with my weeks shopping and when we went Kayacking it was not greatly convinuent carrying them down the road to put on the roof of the car.

Do I go round again and appeal to their better nature or do I start parking my car in the middle of the two spaces to make a point - starting a potential war which I will probably lose as I have less cars than them Grin

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starzig · 29/05/2018 20:59

If you are genuinely disabled and cannot walk from further away, you can apply to the council for a disabled space

MetalMidget · 29/05/2018 21:01

You want a space near your house for convenience reasons, so it makes sense that other people do too - its not surprising that they nab whatever spaces are on the road for two of their cars (as its a free for all), leaving their driveway free for the third. They're just as entitled to on the road parking as you and the rest of your neighbours.

I seriously can't believe that somebody needs to be told that parking across someone's drive is unreasonable. :/

I think that the moral of the story is that if you want to guarantee parking by your house, make sure you get a house with allocated off road parking or a drive.

MrsDylanBlue · 29/05/2018 21:07

Someone who has a bad back isn’t disabled.

That’s insulting to people who are disabled.

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somewhereovertherain · 29/05/2018 21:19
  1. buy a trolley.
  1. It’s tough shit you don’t own the road. So you’ll have to suck it up or Move.
ICantCopeAnymore · 29/05/2018 21:20

*Someone who has a bad back isn’t disabled.

That’s insulting to people who are disabled*

Eh?!

It completely depends on the back condition! As a disabled person, YABU.

MrsDylanBlue · 29/05/2018 21:21

If I was disabled I would have said “I am disabled”.

I am not.

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scrumples · 29/05/2018 21:28

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starzig · 29/05/2018 22:02

You said you had a bad back and insinuated you couldn't walk far !!!

MrsDylanBlue · 29/05/2018 22:08

I have a back issue which as I get older gets worse

Is what I said.

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ObiJuanKenobi · 29/05/2018 22:58

This is getting pretty goady from OP now. Poor neighbours.
Please never move house, I'd hate to end up with someone like you on our street.

BasiliskStare · 29/05/2018 23:19

I have lived all my life in a city with no off street parking. It wouldn't suit many & yes sometimes have to park a little distant and carry bags. I wouldn't live anywhere else. You pays your money and takes your choice. A very great friend of mine says he wouldn't even contemplate living without a garage and own drive. Brilliant - we are not all the same. OP have you not seen enough posts which just imply - look at the rules and adhere to them. Or sue your vendors . Or get your own dropped kerb - or just park on the road.

I love a pp's comment it's not a drive , it's a patio with pretentions that made me properly giggle. Grin

Patienceofatoddler · 29/05/2018 23:42

Oh my word this is comical...

So because you've parked like that for 13 years.... you own your home whereas you suspect they rent and your house is bigger thus you should be able to park in front of your own home.... or preferably your neighbours dropped kerb..Hmm

I would maybe check how big your other neighbours mortgages are you may find a nearby neighbour with less equity than you who parks nearby regularly... thus you should really be entitled to that nearby parking space to - you know as you own more of your house then they do theirs Wink

Moral of the story never buy a house without a private drive or allocated parking of this is important to you... simples...

MrsDylanBlue · 29/05/2018 23:53

I was not the person who brought up whether they owned or rented.

It makes no difference to me at all and I haven’t alluded to that AT ALL.

I know they rent because I know the landlord and I knew and was friendly with the previous tenant who moved out when he raised the rent.

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SimonBridges · 29/05/2018 23:55

It’s not about being more important it’s to do with being neighbourly.

Parking across someone’s drive is not very neighbourly.

MrsDylanBlue · 29/05/2018 23:56

Ffs - he didn’t park across their drive he parked slightly over the drop kerb!

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MrsDylanBlue · 29/05/2018 23:57

They could still get their car into the drive.

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Snowysky20009 · 30/05/2018 01:05

You sound so entitled OP, you are in the wrong, but will you admit it?

Bahhhhhumbug · 30/05/2018 01:16

.God what is it lately with CFers thinking they have equal rights over their ndns driveway/dropped kerb?

TrippingTheVelvet · 30/05/2018 01:24

You know if they leave the space outside your house free someone else could park in it before you get there? And also, on what planet would someone see one space left on the street and think 'hey, Karen might be home soon -or in 4 hours-, I'll park 2 streets over so I don't inconvenience her'?

EdPsy · 30/05/2018 01:31

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MountainPeakGeek · 30/05/2018 03:32

I think it's clear that the OP hasn't parked in front of their dropped kerb since the note incident. She's stated this several times now.

I'm really not getting all the hostility (unless it's from people who have not rtft?) Ok, the neighbours are not being unreasonable for parking wherever they want on the street (i.e. first come, first served) or for not wanting their drive obstructed by someone else, but they are being totally unreasonable for not parking in front of their own dropped kerb if they're not going to bother using their drive, and even more so for taking up extra space when they park, to then move their cars and park normally, to reserve space for their third car, when it finally arrives later. That is definitely shitty and unneighbourly.

YouDancin · 30/05/2018 17:50

@MoutainPeakGeek I don't get the outright hostility too.

The neighbours are being arseholes taking up loads of the street, refusing to park on their drive WHICH IS NOT BLOCKED EVER and saving spaces for their cars - which COULD be parked on their drive but they choose not to. HOW is the OP the bad part in this? FFS.

YouDancin · 30/05/2018 17:52

@EdPsy rarely have I read so many people wilfully misreading what the OP has said!

EdPsy · 30/05/2018 18:02

I haven’t misread a thing; the OP wants the road outside her house to be kept clear so she can park there, but public roads don’t work like that I’m afraid Smile

MrsDylanBlue · 30/05/2018 21:23

Thanks Smile

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