To think families that have more vehicles than people and no drive are selfish twats!

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Yes I'm looking at you Mr and Mrs Silver cars across the road. There are only two of you, you have no drive and yet you have now got 3 cars (they acquired a new one today) and a van (all of which are silver hence the name).

What the fuck do you need 4 vehicles for you can only physically be driving 2 at a time!

We live on a road which like many others across the country has difficulties regarding parking, only a few houses have drives. So why would you think it is reasonable to have 4 vehicles. You are pretty much ensuring that your neighbours have difficulty parking and yes I think you are selfish twats why don't you move to a house with a drive!

Does anyone else have such entitled car collecting neighbours?

Sorry for the rant but they do my head in. Every night moving their cars to be as close to the house as possible. As soon as anyone leaves the space seems to be filled with one of their cars.

Where I live it is indeed max 1 permit per person & max 2 per household.

I think that's tough, actually. What if 2 of you have jobs where you're essential car users, and an adult child does shift work so needs to travel when there's no public transport?

There have been times when we would never manage with just one car, I'm an essential user and DP has had a couple of jobs that are so rural you couldn't get there public transport. DSS is a tree surgeon, so drives a big 4x4 pick up, if he lived with us we'd have to have 3 vehicles here.

My colleague is in the same position. She has to have a car because she's an essential car user, her husband is a plumber, so has to have a van and her daughter is a midwife, so works shifts.

I'm with you OP. The road outside might not belong to anyone but why should one person get more than their fair share. They should have bought an appropriately sized house and not be so selfish.

We have a family who live down the road, they have a van that never moves ( I think it is to sell) there was another identical one but it now resides down another road.

It annoys me that it is nowhere near the owner's house.

Where I live it is indeed max 1 permit per person & max 2 per household.

They are pushing round here for a scheme of 1 per person with a maximum of 1 per bedroom plus 1 extra, but with your driveway included.

So our house would get 1 on road permit once my twins were adults if they both have cars as we have enough space off road for 4 cars.

The 6 car drive basketball twats wouldn't be entitled to any atm, but 1 once their younger kids were older.

Hee hee I have very nice neighbours, I couldn’t sleep all night worrying though I was glad when they went

@crazyhairymary I meant to reply to you

Ok but can someone actually explain to me the point of having more than one car per person?

In my friend's case, in a 2-driver household, they have:

Land Rover Defender that husband takes shooting

Rav4 for towing the trailer that they take when they take their 11YO DS to motocross

Cinquecento that she uses for work (essential user) as Rav4 is too thirsty and won't fit in the office underground car park (which seems to have been designed for an A35, despite having been built in the 1970s)

Porsche 911 (old, not posh), her husband's hobby car

Husband's works van, which he has to bring home because he's on call, but which he's not allowed to use for private motoring

So, 5 vehicles between 2 of them. She'd like him to sell the Porsche, but he won't, and she won't let him use the Rav 4 for shooting as she doesn't want it filthy, full of mud and bits of dead animal. But the very minimum they could manage with would be 3, unless her DS gave up the motocross.

YANBU. I remember my Dad seething for years then having an epic fallout with our neighbours. They were a couple, no children or anyone else there, and the wife didn't even drive. The husband kept three cars (one a wreck that he was 'doing up' but never touched) and a clapped out camper can on our small narrow street. Neighbour said he'd paid his road tax he could do what he likes. Sadly the law agreed with him even if no one else could park in the street.

I agree with you OP.

My neighbour on one side has 3 vans, 4 cars, a trailer, motorbike and jet ski. When their family visit it ups the car count to 7.

On the other side, they badly park their hobby car on the drive and litter the streets with their other 3.

We really enjoy squeezing our 2 cars onto our 2 car drive through a wall of vans or telling the neighbours to shift from our drop kerb.

😡😡😡

Still doesn't stop me getting annoyed at the man who doesn't even live on our road but leaves two decrepit camper vans on the corner of our road that haven't moved in the five years I've lived here and are up on bricks!

Report them! Unless they've been up on bricks for less than a year, they won't have MOTs, so won't be taxed.

LakieLady

Couldn't your friend use the Land Rover for the Motocross trailer?

We have a taxi company couple on our cul de sac where there's space for maybe 15 cars. They currently have 4 taxis, one personal car, a trailer for the taxi and two motorbikes on the road. They did have an old "fun" car and two other motorbikes too but kindly removed their fence and dumped them in the garden too rust even more

Fine, they need cars for their business. Except they buy such heaps of shite and trash them that only one is ever on the road at a time. They also had a driver who lived in his wee campervan on the street too...

She won't go near it, it's minging!

She showed me the inside once. It stank to high heaven, mainly of wet dog (they have 3 spaniels and her DH does a lot of wildfowling as well as pheasant/partridge shooting and pest control). It was absolutely coated with dried mud, and feathers, and what looked like bloodstains.

The idea that anyone would be envious of someone owning multiple vehicles is hilarious.

It’s embarrassing and I would be ashamed to admit to it, even on an anonymous forum!

I had a next door neighbour like this 4 of them living in the house and 8 vehicles. His work van, his bloody t4 van his car, her car,sons car and work van, daughters car and a bloody motorcycle on a terraced street bloody ridiculous

My company employs lots of people who have work vans, which they are not allowed to use at the weekend/ for personal use, just for the commute. I think this means that they don’t have to pay tax as they are not receiving a benefit in kind. But of course that means they can’t be used at the weekend. Occasionally there is talk of making the employees leave the vans at work but the reality is we don’t have the parking for all the vans to be in one place at once. I’m sure this is the model used by many companies.

I wish the vans could be left at work premises

If people had to pay to store cars at market value, work vans etc on the street it would stop

Especially the work van as no one is going to pay to store someone else’s vehicle they can’t use

Occasionally there is talk of making the employees leave the vans at work but the reality is we don’t have the parking for all the vans to be in one place at once. I’m sure this is the model used by many companies.

I'm sure you are right about that and it's really not acceptable is it? Company liveried vans shouldn't be clogging up residential parking and inconveniencing the residents. I had an ongoing situation with our post woman a few years ago. She used to drive her car from the next village and park outside my house, get in her post van which she'd left outside my house all night, do her round, bring the van back and park outside mine and then drive her car home. Cheeky fucker.

We need better legislation to deal with this problem but car manufacturers would lobby against it because it's in their interests for everyone to have as many cars as they can be persuaded to want

A house a few streets away has 4 cars, a van, a pick up truck and a mashed in caravan on their drive and across the front of their house. No they're not spilling onto the street and it still looks really ugly.

I couldn’t agree with you more, OP. I live on an estate of terraced Victorian houses with no driveways, near the town centre, train station and bus station. The streets are so clogged with parked cars that it’s dangerous (they fill both sides of the street, blocking the view of junctions).

I walk to work and to the supermarket. I used to have to work in another town once a week, and I took the train - it was very quick. So, I find it hard to believe that any household here needs multiple vehicles, unless the occupants are Blue Badge holders. Yet, the streets here are so congested that I can’t just order a sofa and have it delivered! Also, when my friend with arthritis comes to visit he can rarely park anywhere near me.

Have as many vehicles as you want, but either move out to the suburbs or park your excess vehicles in a car park. Yes, you would have to walk at least 200m to the car park, but it’s not as though you walk anywhere else, is it, you lazy fuckers?

I've never lived in a more than one motor vehicle household

Any more than one car isn’t great in my opinion.

In Japan you have to prove that you have a place to park it before you can buy a car.