to be annoyed at my neighbour who has four mega skips put on the road today in a controlled parking area?

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FGS! What is wrong with ordering one, then getting another one once the previous one is full?

He had three installed this morning and I have just found yet more cones outside of my house awaiting for yet another skip.

Is it possible to complain to someone in the council? After all, the skips are taking the space used to park 8 cars, and the work is taking place in a 4 bedroomed family house. And... have to say that we all pay to the council to park in our street!

Phone the council. We have just had our permit for a skip refused as we live on a busy road. Actually we live in a very quiet culdesac with tons of space.

Anyway, if the council find out that the skips are there, they will make the skip company take them away if there is no permit, lights or signage.

Sounds like he's taking up half the road!
I know how you feel. One of our neighbours has had a skip for weeks. Parking is incredibly tight round here without skips. And they're using up another parking space with a pile of bricks I hardly dare move the car because I know I'll never get another space.

so is there no good reason why he has these skips? Can't you speak to him?

8:42 Am and the skip has not arrived. The cones are still there, though. DH says that he may have put them there to have space to manouvre with the excavator. Now... if he was going to take so much space on the other side of the street for this, what is the purpose of leaving a 6 ft gap between the skips placed on the other side of the road?

I feel like a bad neighbour for contacting the council, but what the... ? There are no sign or lights in them either.

If he has planning permission, it will contain conditions about noise, nuisance and obstruction, so phone the planning compliance dept also and let them know he is working late (usually noise must finish at 5pm and not unreasonably 'escape' the site before then.