A parking one!

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I will start this by saying I probably am being unreasonable and peri menopause may be contributing to it.

So i live in a close with on road parking and parking bays. The bays are for visitors and also my close has an alleyway off of it that has about 8 houses down it. The bays are also parking for these houses. I have a driveway but it contains a caravan so i am unable to use it to park. Whenever i have visitors I always ask them to park in the bays so they don't block the parking outside any of the residents homes. There are two particular houses from the alleyway ( which is two doors away from my house) that constantly dump their cars outside my house sometimes for days on end therefore meaning I can't park there. I can't say anything because they aren't doing anything illegal but in my mind its not neighbourly or polite and it makes me seethe silently! AIBU?

Are the bags specifically visitor and houses down the alley parking? Or is this just a rule a few people who live down the street have made up?

Unless there are allocated bays, everyone can park where they like, within the law.

If you want to be guaranteed a place by your house pay for a place to store your caravan and use your drive. If not, just take whatever space is available.

Caravans parked on driveways are a bloody eyesore anyway.

Ha ha ha no, not at all 😂

they aren't doing anything illegal but in my mind its not neighbourly or polite

It's not neighbourly or polite to leave a caravan on your drive.

You bought a house without sufficient parking for your needs. Yet they are unreasonable and you’re not? Move the bloody caravan which I’d bet your neighbours are sick of the sight of anyway parked there for months on end

In my mind they purchased houses that they knew came with no parking outside them yet they constantly take up the spaces outside mine. Making it impossible for me to park.

I don't think neighbours did purchase a house which had no parking at all, they bought houses that had spaces nearby and on street parking. They just didn't have drives and .unless one house has 3-4 cars, they've been no more CF than you as you've a caravan and car(s) and also need on street parking, I appreciate your caravan is used to be in paid storage and not taking up all your drive.

I've lived in permit parking on street terraced house without driveways and it's assumed you'll park as near to your own house as possible. The only time some one stayed out the road outside their house is when they are moving house and needs space for movers truck. Then the wheelie bins come out to save space with big signs on them "Saving for moving truck so we don't block the road tomorrow"

YABVU. Store the caravan. If you can not afford to store the caravan then sell the bloody thing!

I can guarantee you most of your neighbours are "silently seething" about that eyesore parked on your drive.

Yabu

I have accepted i am being very unreasonable. One thing I don't understand is why people consider a caravan an eyesore? There are quite a few parked on driveways around here and ive never even noticed them until lots of people on this thread complained about them being an eyesore! What is so awful about them? I understand if its some rusty old thing covered in bird poo and algae that's just left to rot, but just a standard caravan thats kept clean and used regularly? I don't see the problem.

Because they look awful. They're massive and ugly. They distort the regular lines and spaces you expect to see when looking down the street. They block the view. They block the light.

Ugly, block light, massive

Should be kept in fields.

Have you never heard of kerb appeal?

The home looks inviting from the outside. Well kept. In keeping with its neighbours. Gives the impression of a spacious interior flooded with light.

And you are keeping a caravan on your drive in a residential street. No-one else is getting close to that level of annoyance.

You could afford to sell it though.

Seriously, stop parking a caravan in a residential street. Your husband’s employment issues are no excuse to be such a bad neighbour.

I don’t really object to a caravan in a drive unless it’s on mine and then it would block my light🤣 It’s not attractive on a small drive but each to their own.

I would be peed off if neighbors filled their off road parking with a caravan or motor home and then complained about parking in the street!

YABU

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone park a caravan on a drive for more than a day or two when they are getting it ready to go away. I can’t imagine what sort of place would have several actually stored there.

@HappyChloé2 i live in a nice close full of detached and semi detached houses, the surrounding streets are also nice roads. As I said in a pp ive never really noticed until people said they were an eyesore that my street has 3 parked up and the street behind me has 2. Ive only ever heard people complain about them on here, never in real life. I honestly couldn't care less what my next door neighbour has on their driveway.

This!

And yet you care very much about people parking their cars in spaces that they are completely entitled to use.

It’s a funny old world really.