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 agree about the most amazing mumsnet diagrams I have ever seen

aCatsNoHelp If you have space on drive and choose not to use it, have you informed your insurance company that your car is parked overnight on a street? If some idiot drives into it and you have stated that it's usually on the drive, you might not be covered.

Regarding OP situation, there are lots of houses near us with roads like this, but the end bit tends to be marked as "no parking in turning area" or with short double yellow lines - might be worth approaching council with your photos of the stupid parking to point out the situation? Surely must be difficult for emergency services/bin lorries etc?

Shameless place mark having caught up!

@Housemum thanks for the heads up but we've since had our driveway repaved and got them to widen the entrance at the same time. I'd declared on street parking anyway as I used to work in a motor claims dept and have seen what can happen when someone fibs

Parking threads are really fun for people to read but on the Miss Jolly/Pink Cock thread, it ended with the OP’s husband getting punched and the police being caledl.

I just googled "missjolly/pinkcock" and was directed to a number of websites which, while eye-opening, were not exactly what I was looking for...... Hope I don't get sacked when they're flagged up by IT

Fabulous diagram OP. I'm counting my lucky stars I live in a nice street with no parking issues!! Hope you can use your drive when you get

Contact Peterborough city council parking enforcement team and they will point you in the right direction

Just read all this. I can offer no advice but omg OP you have my sincere sympathy. What utter selfish arsehole neighbours you have (not NNDN obvs!). They are literally my worst nightmare. In situations like this the council should have powers to remove their house cars, it is not right that any one household can inflict this sort of inconvenience on their neighbours.

Hope you get parked when you return from work today!!
Do Keep us updated

Fucking hell, that note!!!!!

housemum our insurance went down when we told them we had to park on the street. So it was higher if we used the driveway. Totally illogical! I use the driveway and told them that as it wasn't a lot different in price but it was just totally bonkers!

What happened to Army Dad. Is he ok?

OP...Re what you mused about new builds, bigger cars etc.

About 15 years ago a big estate was built near us. The planners decided they wanted to encourage walking/cycling etc so the estate has wide footpaths/cycling lanes..all well and good. But for some reason the also demanded that not parking out the front of houses, all cars had to be hidden away on car parks round the back, and in their wisdom the developers allowed 1.5 parking spaces per hosuehold.

It is now a nightmare up there with cars all over the shop, very few houses have drives as their is mostly terraced housing. The councils crazy idea has totally backfired...I dont think it's how people want to live.

Cue new housing estate built in the last few years... lots of houses with drives, garages not attached to the side of houses but towards the back of the garden so there are drives with room for several cars. It all looks so much better

So, all isnt lost

Who Is 'Army Dad' please. I'm having a mental blank

I always thought that Miss Jolly and Army Dad were a work of fiction to jazz up a parking thread that was losing momentum.

I can’t remember exactly now and both threads ended up being deleted, I think. Maybe there was an update to Army Dad.

Army dad was where the OP’s neighbor (a young man) was cutting across her front garden as a short cut. OP was pregnant, maybe. Her dad was Army Dad and a force to be reckoned with. I think it all ended when the lad in question got violent with the OP’s partner and they had to call the police.

Pink Cock was using the OP’s designated parking space. It turned out Pink Cock’s landlord had included the parking space in their rental agreement. The OP had only just bought a car so hadn’t used it before. Mrs Jolly was the OP’s very supportive neighbor. I think the thread got deleted when Pink Cock’s landlord punched the OP’s husband and the police got involved.

It was all a long time ago so I may be misremembering.

Oh, wait. Here’s the original Army Dad thread but I’m sure there was an update that things got violent.

Anyway, it wasn’t a parking thread. It was just a situation where things ended up getting out of control.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2930602-Neighbour-constantly-walking-through-my-front-garden?pg=1&order=

@TwoBlueShoes yeashhh, Im on that post and didn't remember. Shakes my head in Shame shame SHAMEEEE.

In my defence Im on cold and flu Tablets. yeahhh

scaryteacher and LakieLady I wasn’t making a case for councils trying to encourage everyone to get rid of their cars by simply removing parking. I think you need to improve services first and even then there will always be some people who really do need to drive. I was just pointing out that cars ownership externalises a lot of costs and it does in fact make a big difference to councils and everyone else when there is more car ownership, even if they are parked on drives.

You are being unreasonable if you have a driveway but don't use it fully because you can't be bothered with moving for each other.

When I first moved to this house, I always put my car on the drive. Then someone further down the street started to parking outside my house. He had a very noisy diesel van that took ages to start and he left for work at 4.00 am.

After 2 weeks of being woken at stupid o'clock, I started parking on the road instead, just to stop him from waking me up. I know I was BU, but it was that or kill the bastard.

Blue, orange and black have 3 cars each, green has 6 and orange has 2! Why so many cars?!

I think you need to improve services first and even then there will always be some people who really do need to drive.

I agree, but I can't honestly see it happening under any government.

With land prices and business rates being what they are, there's a huge incentive for companies to move to sites away from town centres. That's fine if they're on big business parks, which have good links, but they often aren't, especially with former agricultural buildings being converted/redeveloped for offices and light industry.

And using public transport requires good transport connections at both ends of the journey. It doesn't matter if you work next door to a station or bus stop if it takes you 2 buses to get to a station from your house.

To have a truly comprehensive public transport system in most counties would require a massive capital investment and massive subsidies to run. Even then the buses would empty most of the day, which is why there are so few routes that aren't subsidised by the councils in many areas.

Place marking

Lakie Yes, you need strong government commitment and quite dense communities to make public transport work well, though cycling can be very effective in less dense communities if it’s flat enough (and there is a cultural change, decent infrastructure, etc.).

We massively subsidize car ownership now though, but it often doesn’t show up in the budget, especially the environmental impacts. So while I understand people being frustrated by the hinderence to their own driving caused by increased car use across the population, I do think we need to acknowledge the huge costs that everyone is swallowing (much more than is coming out of our pockets) and the need for pressure to try and turn it around. After all, the only reason the government isn’t more behind better public transport is because the public don’t vote for it.

OP, I sympathise. I moved from a large city 30 years ago when even then parking was a premium in our street. It was so narrow that we could only park on one side. As a child we all played in a mostly empty street (60's) because most people didn't own a car and just walked or used the very good bus service.

I returned for a visit recently and took my regular bus service (still really good and frequent) back to where I used to live. I was shocked to see that (a) there was a convulated one way system incorporated and (b) cars were now allowed to park half on pavement on each side of road: there were actual white paint lines halfway down each pavement!

Where is it going to end? My DH has a theory that in future we will have car pools and when we want to drive somewhere we will use an app to call a car to come to us and take us where we want to go, so we won't actually 'own' a car as such. I guess it makes sense because I drive 15 minutes to work, car sits in car park all day, I drive 15 mins home again. It takes me 1 hour and 50 minutes to walk to work (times myself one weekend) and public transport is so poor (2 long walks and 2 buses) that it's not worth doing.

I hope you can sort this out, preferably with an independent third party to adjudicate, and come to a sensible agreement. Best of luck.