We have recently moved to a terraced house with limited residential permit parking on our street. We have permits but as there is almost never a space on our street we are often forced to park in a street coming off ours where there are no parking restrictions.
We do our best not to park in front of anyone else's house as we appreciate it will be annoying for them. I have a small car and it has had a note left on it requesting that I don't park there in the past. I have responded by letting them know I only parked there as I couldn't in front of my own house, I will do my best not to park there in the future but legally I can park where ever. Since then I've parked elsewhere and it's been fine.
The problem now is that my partner is a mechanical engineer and has been parking his commercial van in a street going along the side of a house - not in front of their front door and they have no windows coming down that side.
He has had a note on his van to say that residents have been turning a blind eye to his parking but now it's been going on too long as there is a covenant in the deeds of the houses on the estate forbidding the parking of commercial vehicles. This is despite at least two white vans being parked outsides people's houses, one for a small gardening business.
I do understand that it's frustrating for people to see a van but what other option does my partner have when we can't park outside our own house? We now don't know whether to ignore it (as it seems online it's unlikely to be enforced) or to respond to the note-writer.