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If you have a driveway use it !!!

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Wineisrequired · 08/11/2020 20:41

So where we live parking is awful as most houses have a cars. The one thing that winds me up is the people who have a driveway yet park on the road. Not just little driveways either . So they then take up parking and other people have to battle to find a space . I know there are bigger things going on and parking outside your own house isn’t a given right but I just find this very selfish and annoying . Rant over will now go and refill my wind glass

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tashac89 · 08/11/2020 21:43

I'm guilty of this at the moment, though I'm parked blocking my own driveway because I have a skip on the drive. Loads cheaper to park on the road than to get council approval for a skip on the road. I imagine it's pissing my neighbour opposite right off.

CakeRequired · 08/11/2020 21:47

Surely it would invalidate their insurance if something happened to the car and they weren't on the driveway? I imagine they've said they own a driveway and park the car there at night, as it would be cheaper due to being less likely to be damaged. So why then take the risk of getting it damaged? Makes no sense.

MrsMoastyToasty · 08/11/2020 21:50

My gripe is when a household has only space for one vehicle but own 4 or 5 cars. Our NDN was like this. They had his works van, her car, his car, his motorbike, NDN D1 car, NDN D2 car and two visiting boyfriend cars...and only one space!
We had 2 cars, a caravan, a boat and trailer and managed to keep them all off the road.

Runningoutofnamestochange · 08/11/2020 21:52

I have an opposite neighbour who has a drive big enough for 3 cars. They park one on the drive and one right opposite the end of my driveway. It’s such a narrow road it makes it really difficult to get in and out.
The one time I had a friend stop over lockdown and park opposite their drive whilst dropping something off they shot me daggers. He was there all of 2 mins, they’ve been making parking difficult for 6 bloody years!

lyralalala · 08/11/2020 22:02

We have a house full of inconsiderate twats in our street. The previous owners of their house could fit 6 cars on their drive. They have 4 cars. Our street is not designed for people who have drives to park on street. There are 3 houses with no drives, 12 with drives and 6 on-street spaces (1 is a marked disabled space)

Selfish twats installed basketball hoops on their drive, despite having a massive garden, and park all 4 cars on street. If they can't get an actual space they'll use the disabled space (which means the elderly man who had it put in can't park near his home) and if that's in use they just block someone's drive (never their's as they don't want to risk the car getting hit by balls...)

They are legally entitled to do what they do, but it doesn't make them less selfish.

Tararararara · 08/11/2020 22:12

We live in a similar area with awful parking. We have a drive but we park on the road because people tend to park across our drive. I work shifts and I'm often in and out at weird times. I know which neighbour it is but no amount of "unsociable" door knocks has deterred them from doing it. I've been late for work more times than I can count because of them. So now, I take up a place on the road instead. It's their fault, not mine.

Tararararara · 08/11/2020 22:14

CakeRequired my insurance is cheaper with on road parking than driveway.

Elvesinquarantine · 08/11/2020 22:17

Our neighbour parks on the St. We all have to buy our parking permits. She rants at anyone who parks outside her house as it blocks her light. She gives zero fucks she blocks the light of her ndn with her car.
SHE OWNS A WHOLE CAR PARK AT THE SIDE OF HER HOUSE!!
It stays locked and empty..
Bonkers..

DdraigGoch · 09/11/2020 00:42

@Elvesinquarantine

Our neighbour parks on the St. We all have to buy our parking permits. She rants at anyone who parks outside her house as it blocks her light. She gives zero fucks she blocks the light of her ndn with her car. SHE OWNS A WHOLE CAR PARK AT THE SIDE OF HER HOUSE!! It stays locked and empty.. Bonkers..

I hope that you make an effort to park outside her house wherever possible. I would.

GarethSouthgatesWaistcoat · 09/11/2020 01:17

I assumed parking on the driveway would make insurance slightly cheaper as it's more secure. You're more likely to be crashed into on the road/ theft etc. It seems not!

For the poster who mentioned the highway code, surely it's common sense and basic courtesy
Nevermind parking on t-junctions and pavements

It works pretty well here - a mix of houses with/without driveways but cars are constantly coming and going so everyone gets a fair shot at the spaces on the road outside and they're never hogged by any one household. It helps that none of the houses without driveways have more than two cars!

GarethSouthgatesWaistcoat · 09/11/2020 01:21

Am I right in thinking you can be ticketed for parking across your own driveway (dropped kerb)?

Titsywoo · 09/11/2020 01:31

We have this issue on our road as some houses have 3 or more cars. However we have a double drive and 2 cars but can only park one car on it as the road is narrow and although one side we are opposite another drive so it is easy to drive out, on the other people will park on the opposite side of the road so we can't get the car in or out. Very annoying.

Bahhhhhumbug · 09/11/2020 01:44

We have a drive and garage, . Always park both cars in spaces at front of our house on either side of our H bar. We can't get of our drive at school run time otherwise (school down the road) nobody will let you out, have sat there ten minutes and that's not an exaggeration.Easier to pull out fron side of the road so we park the cars on the road.
Even then getting in your car is difficult and have often resorted to climbing over from passenger side /kerbside.as the feckers sat in crawling traffic won't hold back an inch to let you open your car door even.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/11/2020 02:01

Also, if people can afford upwards of £80k for a brand new massive motorhome, they can afford somewhere to store if when theyre not using it and not block the sodding road with it for months on end

I don't know why they wouldn't put it on their drive if they have one, BUT they may be people who love going on frequent holidays and see their MH as their second home. If they live in a particularly expensive area and their choice is spend £80K extra on a house with a drive or £80K less on a house with no drive and use the £80K they 'save' to buy a moving second home, I can well see why they might do that.

I'm surprised to hear that it's cheaper to insure a MH (any vehicle) that's parked on the road than on your drive. All that springs to mind is that, if it's normally on your drive but is gone, that tells burglars that the house is empty; whereas if it's somewhere on a long road, it's much less obvious to a burglar which house it belongs to - but surely that would only matter to your home insurer and the MH insurer wouldn't care??

Monty27 · 09/11/2020 02:06

We need a parking topic all of its own

AwaAnBileYerHeid · 09/11/2020 02:13

@torquewench jesus I'd be reporting that, could end up killing someone!

AwaAnBileYerHeid · 09/11/2020 02:17

@lyralalala I'm not sure they are legally entitled to do what they want, if they're using a disabled space then can't they get ticketed for that?

Idunnoyou · 09/11/2020 02:35

People on my road take up two spaces and have no drives, and people who do not live on this road have an obsession with parking on it.
I feel your pain

iwwntchocolate · 09/11/2020 03:24

On my street people park their cars right in front of my house 😡😡😡😡😡😡 like they live here why not park it outside of your own house!!!!! Their driveway is full as it is with there cars and they don't want to overcrowd outside there house so they park the other cars in front of our gate instead of there own gate

sneakysnoopysniper · 09/11/2020 03:45

I have selfish neighbours who park partly on the pavement so when the bin men leave my big recycling bins up the road there is barely enough room for me to get past. It must be even more difficult for mums with push chairs. I make sure I bang every bloody car with the bin as I pull it back! Unfortunately plastic does not dent metal.

DryRoastPeanut · 09/11/2020 04:26

Parking is somewhat short where I live too, but you’ll often see both my and my husbands car parked outside of our house, on the street.

It’s because I let a room on Airbnb, I advertise it with “parking available”.

If I have someone due at 8pm, I move the car off of the drive as soon as I’m dressed and there’s a space. (Usually when next door but two takes her Little’s ones to school.)
I’m sure it pisses her off no end but it’s not done to be anti social, it’s done because I need to free up my driveway.

Same when we go away, both cars parked on the street so as the cat sitter can pull onto my driveway, it’s easier for her.

lyralalala · 09/11/2020 06:39

[quote AwaAnBileYerHeid]@lyralalala I'm not sure they are legally entitled to do what they want, if they're using a disabled space then can't they get ticketed for that?[/quote]
Sadly it’s not an enforceable bay so there’s nothing that can be done.

We live quite rural so even if it was one that can be ticketed the chances of them ever getting tickets are tiny.

They wouldn’t care anyway. The rest of the street offered to always leave one of the other spaces for them if they left his space alone and they told us all to fuck off

torquewench · 09/11/2020 07:57

@webuiltthisbuffet this motorhome arrived in March and has been used/away from their home for a total of three days. I dont know when they bought the house or what they paid but theyve certainly lived there 20+ years and are in a position where I'd consider downsizing (4 bed house, adult children all left home) (the owner is an entitled type who also complains frequently about my cat "picking on" her cat which "must stop" but thats a whole other thread). Their 3 other vehicles (a car each and a small van) are currently lined up either side of the motorhome, in an effort to prevent theft. So, completely blocking one side of the road, approaching a junction.

@awayandboilyerheid I have, several times, to the police and the council. Nothings changed.

HunterHearstHelmsley · 09/11/2020 07:58

Sure! So long as you can guarantee no one will park opposite my drive. The angle makes it impossible to get off if someone does.

Foxyloxy1plus1 · 09/11/2020 09:02

Our estate is accessed from a main road. As you turn into it, the road is severely restricted by a whole line of parked cars, meaning it’s effectively single file traffic. The trouble is these cars don’t belong to residents. They belong to someone who lives in a house on the main road and runs a business, so all of the work vans, his car, and his wife’s car take up much of the road.

He has a drive, an extensive drive, as soon all the houses on the main road.

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