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Neighbours petty parking

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Samthenanny · 27/07/2024 21:30

So we have a drive with a dropped kerb, facing the road to our left is a parking space and to the right the neighbours have a dropped kerb also.
The right hand side neighbour is a builder and he has a huge van which he parks over his drive.
for petty reasons he won’t speak to us anymore and semi thinks he owns the road as they’ve lived her the longest, they have another 2 vechicles parked on the road which don’t move for months at a time but have issues if somebody does the same thing.

he’s been parking within millimetres of our dropped kerb for months now, anyway we’ve had a painter for the last week and if we’re both home he’s been parking over our drive but obviously this means said neighbour can’t fit his van over his drive so he’s been deliberately blocking our painter in and once he’s left he’ll move his van as close as possible so nobody can park over our drive.
it’s such a big van getting off our drive means visability is 0 when driving off. We always reverse on and honestly have to inch forward and hope there’s no traffic coming and with having a normal parking space to the left if a van also parks there that’s a van each side with no viability either way.
what would you do? And thanks for reading, as its slightly long and boring

Neighbours petty parking
OP posts:
Nothereisnotashortage · 28/07/2024 00:13

My colleague got a ticket for parking over their own dropped kerb. They appealed it but had to pay in the end.

SEL0ndon · 28/07/2024 06:14

Hatfullofwillow · 28/07/2024 00:01

You can avoid getting a ticket for parking over your own kerb "in most places by registering your vehicle with the local council. They’ll require the make, model, and registration of your vehicle along with proof of residence. Once that information is registered, you’ll be safe parking on your own dropped kerb."

Oo that’s interesting I’ve never seen that before. No mention of it on my councils website either. What’s guessing that if I didn’t know, others didn’t either and so perhaps the neighbour hasn’t done this..!

Chester23 · 28/07/2024 06:28

I always thought you couldn't block any car on a drive regardless of if it's your drive or not.

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