Parking situation on my new road.

[JennaTools]

I have just completed on a new house. When I viewed it I spent time on different days popping by the road at different times of day to checkout the parking situation and all was fine. My house and the one opposite have a drive for 1 car odd road and the others have space for 2. I only have one car.

The house opposite was for sale at the same time and the new occupants have just moved in a couple of weeks after me.
They have 6 cars!!!! (Green)

I have tried my best on the diagram to illustrate where everyone tends to park - each house has a coloured for above and then their cars are the same colour lines.
I only have one car so my driveway is ample however with green house wankers parking their cars all over the place - mainly at the end of the cul de sac - it's really hard to get out of my drive with cars also parked on the road in between my house (red) and my nice NDN (blue)

I've popped round and introduced myself and explained asking them politely not to park the three cars at the the end of the cul de sac (which is a dropped kerb. But they closed the door in my face and I haven't seen them since. Tonight they've got all of their cars all over the road as per the diagram.

What's my best course of action here?

I live in central London, the underground car park for our block is like an urban wasteland...32 spaces. 5 cars live there.

This is what good public transport, easily available taxi's or car club vehicles & punitive taxes (congestion charge soon to be joined by emission charges) do to car ownership.

I just got your user name! Brilliant

Great thread, brilliant diagrams. I'd just place the note on one of their cars parked at the end of the road, after all it applies to them too

Placemarking for updates!

It’s not just an issue with older houses. We live in a modern estate and there are cars everywhere. Some people have far too many, but more often it’s poor planning by the builders. Our neighbours live in a four bed house with a garage too small to be of any use and space for one car on the driveway.

I don’t understand why there aren’t any regulations about this. A modern four bed house should, at minimum, have two off-street parking spaces.

Also blatantly placemarking. 😮 Fabulous stuff Op stay strong, neighbours sound like totally entitled arrogant cockwombles!

Some people's CFery knows no bounds!

Reminds me of a time when we were having issues. We have OSP in front of our house which we use daily, but there is also an additional drive for OSP in front of our garage which is accessed from the road at the side of our property. As we only have one car it was mostly unused, however, very handy when parents wanted to visit as parking is at a premium round here.
One evening my Mum struggled to find a space and had to park in the next street due to somebody being parked on our garage drive. As there was no way of knowing whose car it was (there are 2 small blocks of flats at the end of the road our garage is accessible from) I left a very polite note explaining that, although we don't use the space continuously, we would really appreciate it if they wouldn't park on there as we often have visitors who should be able to use the space (as it is legally ours, although I didn't put that part). Woke up next morning to find our car (parked on our drive at the front of the house, literally right outside my front door) keyed liberally on every single panel bar the roof. Nice people!
Those people must have moved on as a few weeks later a local handyman started using the space in front of the garage as his own personal space, even using a traffic cone to 'reserve' it when he left for the day. The best part was when we had a courtesy car for a couple of days and I seized the opportunity to park on the space in front of the garage. He rang the company the car belonged to effing and blinding that "someone in one of their cars has parked on HIS drive and they better move it quick smart or there'd be BIG TROUBLE!" When they rang me to tell them this I laughed and filled them in. They were really good actually and just said if he rang again they'd tell him to do one! I left the courtesy car there for as long as possible and when I did finally move it I put a big note on the garage door saying "WHOSE drive?!?"
Silly CF still parks there occasionally, a van with his mobile printed on the side of it, that's been fun.....

Re the lack of adequate parking. A planner told me that it's an 'environmental' thing, if estates are built with only one parking space per house the theory is that families will only have one car and use public transport instead

The fact that it enables developers to squeeze more houses onto the land is, of course, entirely co-incidental .....

Place marking 🍿

Some districts are removing parking permits for more than one car per household, to make it difficult to own more than one car.

Using land freely to store cars will be removed by many councils and will not continue as it is now

Do you have any friends with a car they don't need all the time who could come over, park up and "visit" for a few days?

We're going to Cornwall (from Sussex) tomorrow. It would be no hardship for me to drive my car while DP drives the motorhome, and leave it at yours OP!

Best parking thread every! Best diagram ever!

Hi Jenna and NNDN :)

Not sure if someone has posted this but while we are waiting for updates, basically a quick google proves that they are parked there against the law.

www.drivingtesttips.biz/dropped-kerb-parking.html

If they continue being CFs today, call 101.

Good luck!

I don’t understand why there aren’t any regulations about this. A modern four bed house should, at minimum, have two off-street parking spaces.

Our council have been doing the opposite.

Most of the town is pay parking with residents' permits. The number of permits sold exceeds the number of spaces available by quite a bit (25%, last time I heard).

There has been a lot of infill development in recent years, the last few of which have included no or minimal parking for residents. The council have included something in the planning consents prohibiting the sale of residents' permits to people living at those addresses.

At least once a year, the local online forum has a post from someone who's bought one of those properties asking where the nearest free on-street parking is.

One man has been seen parking his car on a road near me that doesn't have parking controls, and getting a folding bike out of the boot so he can cycle back to his house!

Ivykaty Presumably if you have off street parking for your cars, it makes no odds to the Council though? What if you have to go in different directions for work/ school run and there is no public transport. One bus an hour in the wrong direction is no use.

Also wondered if you have pictures of them blocking the kerb with their multiple cars. If not, I'd get some before they take pictures of you and NNDN and try to turn the tables on you. They sound CF'ish enough to do that.

Presumably if you have off street parking for your cars, it makes no odds to the Council though?

Are you thinking that the only impact of someone owning a car is where it’s parked? Cars are a huge cost to society that is not at all covered by fuel and road tax (and certainly not for councils). Driving vehicles increases expenses for councils on road maintenance, the need for parking provision for shopping areas, road safety features, policing roads, public health, pollution, etc.

it makes a huge difference to councils (and everybody else) if we use cars instead of public transport, wherever they are parked. The only thing that driveways eases is the frustration of drivers who want to park near their houses. They’re pretty awful for everyone else.

Holy moly! I’ve been gripped reading this ! Stay strong Op and NNDN! Those awful people are just bullies and 6 bloody cars!!!!!

I’d seriously consider getting a camera for the front of your house and contacting the council about having yellow lines put down at the end - also speak to all your other neighbours as well and see if you can all just keep an eye out for each other’s cars invade the CF’s decide to retaliate and take it out on your cars , xx

Morning all. Yes, we have lots and lots of photos of their cars all over the shop, completely blocking me in / partially blocking me in and out of the drive and all other manor of twatty parking.
I too remember how army dad ended and won't be doing anything beyond talking with them and parking outside of my house to stop them from blocking me.

I'm going to take my car to work today, I hope they get the message and leave that end 'space' free from now on to allow me easy access in and out but I doubt it. That at this point would be a win as I don't see them going from the extreme of thinking they own the street - all the way to apologising and loosing 4 cars!

Ok so I'm never moaning about the parking situation again at mine. Yea its annoying but there are so many of you that have it so bad! I cannot believe the cheek of some people, when was it ok for people to be so selfish and self entitled. Whenever I go anywhere, if I have to park on a road I try my hardest not to park outside anyone's house, I would even park 3/4 streets away and walk rather than take a space outside someone's house. Guess that's because I'm not lazy, and this is why the country is getting fatter, so many lazy people.
I did have someone park that close to my house a few years ago she blocked my front door, literally couldn't step foot outside it. I waited at the window for her because was going to give her the biggest mouthful, nipped for a wee, heard her car door go and start and she drove off, I was gutted missed her because people that thick need to realise.
I know its probably frowned upon but these people are like bullies, if nobody stands upto them they continue to do as they please, upsetting everyone and anyone. Get all your other neighbours involved too if you can and don't give in. Feel for you as you shouldn't have to do all this just for a family of selfish wankers.

Boomboom Unless you live in an urban area with good public transport, you have to have a car. I couldn't get to the Doctor, the hospital or go shopping from my home in the UK if I didn't have a car. One bus an hour (and the funding for the bus is always questionable) doesn't cut it in terms of everyday life. Rural areas need people too, and they need cars.

I couldn't have done the school run and then gone on to work without a car, and even if it had been possible, quite how I would have carted 90 exercise books plus all my other stuff for a 5 hour teaching day is beyond me.

OMG I dreamt about this last night in the end though the CFs were quite nice in my dream!

I will be really shocked if they don't immediately revert to parking back there.

If they do park in that end space I would park in front of them close enough to make it very difficult for them to get out?

See just when I think it's a pain in the ass having no parking where I am (our house isn't on a road but up a steep cliff path on the coast) I read threads like this and think

I too think they will just immediately revert.

Hoping that I will be proved wrong though.