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[Parking Thread!] to think I should be able to park in one of these places?

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soupforbrains · 15/11/2019 17:59

I live in a terraced house (mid terrace) it is a small terrace of 4 houses. In front of our terrace is space for 3 cars to park (non marked or assigned spaces) we also each have a garage. The garages are separate from the terrace but next to it and arranged in 2 pairs at right angles to each other.

One of the houses in our terrace does not own any cars. Another owns 2 and parks one in front of the terrace and the other in front of their garage.

I own 1 car. Am I being unreasonable to think that I should be able to park my car either in front of the terrace or in front of my garage?

The reason this is an issue is because my garage and my NDN’s garage are at right angles to one another and if I park in front of my garage they either can’t get in or can’t get out of theirs. Up until recently they had two vehicles and usually parked one in front of their garage and the other in front of terrace. So I would park in front of the terrace. But recently they’ve acquired another vehicle and now park in front of their garage AND park 2 vehicles in front of the terrace taking up all the spaces.

I know I have no legal right in the matter but I also think that they are being very unreasonable. It’s been really getting on my nerves lately and I want to check if I’m being insane before I pop round to ask them about it.

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soupforbrains · 15/11/2019 18:00

I’ve just re-read that and I’m not sure it will make any sense to anyone. Would a diagram help?

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HouseOfGoldandBones · 15/11/2019 18:02

I guess they're allowed to park in all of these spaces? In which case, I don't think there's much you can do, other than to wait until the car usually parked in front of their garage moves, and then park your car in front of your garage. If they then block you in, ask them to move. I assume they would get fed up doing this & find somewhere else.

daisypond · 15/11/2019 18:06

Why is nobody parking inside their garage?

DisplayPurposesOnly · 15/11/2019 18:08

Diagrams are COMPULSORY

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soupforbrains · 15/11/2019 18:09

@HouseOfGoldandBones it would be me blocking them in/their access to the space

@daisypond I can’t speak for anyone else in the situation but for me it is because I rent my house and my landlord uses the garage for storage. I had access to it but only a small space at the front to store bikes.

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soupforbrains · 15/11/2019 18:15

@DisplayPurposesOnly here you go!

Uppercase letters are houses lowercase letters are garages. I live in house C my NDN in house B is the one with 3 vehicles.

Houses e,f,g&h have long drives in front of their garages and keep their cars there. Houses L&K keep their cars on their driveways. Houses J&K have two cars each and park one in front of their garages and one each in ‘spaces’ 4&5.

I haven’t got the scale very good as the rest of our road is quite narrow (can’t park on the roadside without blocking the road)

[Parking Thread!] to think I should be able to park in one of these places?

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soupforbrains · 15/11/2019 18:16

Oh, the picture didn’t show... can anyone else see it?

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MuthaFunka61 · 15/11/2019 18:22

Yes, the pics shown up.

Not sure I can advise other than to have a chat about it and take it from there.
G'luck

Ohyesiam · 15/11/2019 18:23

Not really. If you use the thick pen for lettering like you have with a b c d it will be legible.
I might be over invested.

DDiva · 15/11/2019 18:24

The simplest thing would be to park in your garages. I dont think either you or your neighbour should be parking in front of your garages blocking access for the other. Your neighbour having 3 cars with such limited parking is inconsiderate tho...

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soupforbrains · 15/11/2019 18:27

@DDiva I agree but I don't have access to my garage. I rent my home and the landlord uses it for storage so although I have access there isn't room inside for my car.

I think the number of vehicles now is what I find irritating. There are only 2 adults next door but they have 3 vehicles so it's very frustrating that I only have 1 vehicle and yet can't park it anywhere near my house.

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RandomMess · 15/11/2019 18:31

I think if you had a copy of the deeds that no one is supposed to park in front of the garages...

lanthanum · 15/11/2019 18:33

Is there room for a vehicle in front of their garage and a vehicle in front of yours, if they accept the need to move one to get to the other on occasion?

If so, why don't you suggest that they do that, leaving the space at the front for you. It's not something they could do without you saying so, as it would restrict the access to your garage, but it sounds like you don't need that. (I guess you might have to clear it with your landlord, if he accesses the garage occasionally.)

Unfortunately there are no rights to on-road spaces - and things could get even worse if another household gains a car.

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soupforbrains · 15/11/2019 18:38

@lanthanum yes there is space for both, it's just the blocking in that's a problem so that's a great suggestion! Why didn't I think of that!

I do know I have no 'right' to the road parking but equally neither do they and I just feel incredibly frustrated that they're not 'playing fair' (and yes I do know how pathetic that sounds) I'll pop round and have a chat with them tomorrow as planned but now I at least have a suggestion for a solution rather than them having to park one of their vehicles a way away.

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LittleLongDog · 15/11/2019 18:39

Do you ever manage to park there?

If it were me I would park it one day and then purposely leave it for absolutely ages to highlight the point.

The grown up answer is to probably talk to them.

WeeM · 15/11/2019 18:39

Your neighbours are being very unneighbourly aka dicks. That sort of thing rips my knitting.

But I’m in a particularly bad mood tonight...can you tell

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soupforbrains · 15/11/2019 18:40

@LittleLongDog I do very very rarely manage to park either on the road or in front of my garage before they've got a vehicle in front of theirs. But annoyingly we live rurally and I have to drive for work and to take DS to any clubs/activities etc. So I never manage to leave it there for long.

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soupforbrains · 15/11/2019 18:44

@WeeM I am trying very very VERY hard to be reasonable about this but it has been really pissing me off for weeks. I'm glad you're being irrational too

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WeeM · 18/11/2019 21:41

Did you make any progress?

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soupforbrains · 22/11/2019 11:36

@WeeM yes, I had a chat with them last weekend and they apologised and said they hadn't realised they had been causing me to have to park in other streets.

Basically they have said that I can always park in front of my garage and they will make sure that if there is a vehicle in front of their garage they will make sure it is one they won't be needing. They said that they are applying to get the curb in front of their house dropped and paving their front garden as a driveway so that they will have better space for their vehicles without obstructing others

(I have my own concerns about this as if they drop their curb we will as a street effectively lose 2 car spaces of street parking and because one of their vehicles is a transit van and the size of our front gardens I don't think they will fit 2 vehicles in their drive so it won't actually resolve anything but we shall see)

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