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Original poster

To think that my neighbour who has 7 cars a trailer and a campertype van thingy shouldn't park in front of our property?

48 replies

ticktockclock · 30/03/2010 17:08

The neighbour has a driveway and parks 4 vehicles in it and in order to keep his driveway clear, he parks the other vehicles in front of our house and the neighbours on the other side of him. Yep I understand it is a public road out front and people can park where they please but seriously, what a jerk!

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Guadalupe · 30/03/2010 18:23

We have quite a tall ugly campervan which people don't like being parked in front of their house.

This is fair enough, but we live directly on a zebra crossing so we can't park it outside ours since we moved last summer!

It is pretty much always parked on a side road in front of a wall so it's not bothering anyone but still we get it reported as an abandoned vehicle quite a lot even though the tax disc is plain to see.

The police always say people are funny about the road in front of their house, think it's theirs and so on but its about consideration really. I wouldn't want to annoy my neighbours so we try not to!

mayorquimby · 30/03/2010 18:26

If they're parked legally YABU as there is no reason why he shouldn't park there.
In fact there's no one who i think is more unreasonable than those who think they have some form of ownership or control over public roads.

Ponders · 30/03/2010 18:31

He must be running a business - dob him in

Shaz10 · 30/03/2010 18:33

We're in a parking permit area but it's not very popular with commuters so we rarely get wardens. But they will come up in response to a phone call.

BuzzingNoise · 30/03/2010 18:47

YANBU. Ok, so there's no legal reason why he shouldn't park there, but it's bloody annoying. My neighbour has a driveway for 2 cars, which takes up the entire width of the front of his house. For some reason, they have three cars between two if them and so park on right in front of our house. And then proceed to walk over our front lawn. Bloody annoying.

Helium · 30/03/2010 18:57

I'm sure there is some law that says you cant run a motor car business using the public highway as 'storage' or viewing etc - remember it came up recently at a residents meeting I attneded and the police mentioned it.
www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/series9/week_six.shtml

"Some garages and other businesses which sell cars at times park them for long periods on the road. This can be a nuisance to local residents. Section 3 makes it an offence for a person to park motor vehicles on a road or roads, where the vehicles are parked merely in order to be sold. There must be two or more vehicles within 500 metres of each other for the offence to be committed."
www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2005/en/ukpgaen_20050016_en_1.htm

2old4thislark · 30/03/2010 19:25

Beat me to it helium! 7 cars at a 1 bedroom flat means they must be running a business and that is unsociable! Report him to the council!

I know that the we don't own the road outside our properties but it IS very irritating if you have to park up the road!

At our last house we all had parking for two cars but the neighbours teenagers got cars and boyrfriends that moved in as well. When the boyfriend got a van we put the house on the market! Did us a favour as I love where I live now. And we are the irritating 4 car household now!

bellavita · 30/03/2010 19:37

We had our drive widened so we could park our cars on it.

There is a house over in the corner - mum, dad, son, daughter and daughters boyfriend. They all have one car each and there is also a summer sports car in the garage. They have the smallest plot going but the most cars... The dad sometimes uses hire cars to go away on business and when he comes back, he parks them outside our house until they are collected by the company! They also park outside the back of our drive - it is only a small street, so when we try and back out of our drive or try to swing in it is difficult.

It pisses me off.

OP - YANBU.

oldenglishspangles · 30/03/2010 19:38

www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/general-knowledge/253592-selling-cars-residential-property.html a few suggestions here

mazzystartled · 30/03/2010 20:22

I think I would take to parking my own car in the spot he usually uses, consistently, for a few weeks.

I'm surprised that a one bed flat has a drive at all though.

Do you have a front garden/driveway yourself and is he blocking your access/invading your privacy?

outnumbered2to1 · 30/03/2010 21:35

why don't you play him at his own game and park your car in the one of the two spaces outside his house he doesn't use. If he says amything just tell him "well you parked your car in front of my house - fairs fair you knob"

PatsyStone · 30/03/2010 22:01

YANBU, no advice, but we have a similar problem with neighbours over the road. They have five cars, plus a daughter who has left home but nevertheless is permanently there, so her car is always out on the road. The biggest problem we have is he also has a huge van for work which he parks right outside our drive, thus I have to look at his skanky van every time I look out of my window, plus my I cannot see down the road when I want to get off my drive. I wouldn't care if it was one of the cars.

When they put another car opposite, I physically cannot do a left off my driveway so am forced to turn right. I am just thankful that my dh and me are demon reverse parkers otherwise we'd be screwed. Sometimes we have to play musical cars because they're all parked up in way that means they don't have to.

I understand that we don't own the road, but it is selfish, inconsiderate behaviour and I feel your pain!

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ticktockclock · 30/03/2010 22:16

outnumbered2to1 - I wish I could block him in, but he has a dropped drive and thus we cannot. We do not have a dropped drive, we looked into it, but as we live in a maisonette that we share the fron with the property above us which is rented they will not agree to share the cost (£1600) of applying for the permission and getting it done from the council

I do think that he sells the cars as a buisness as they are always changing and he regularly has mechanics on his drive, on the road fixing vehicles. However I have no way of proving this to contact any relevant authorities. I looked once on Autotrader to see if any of the vehicles were advertised but did not find them, not to say they are not advertised elsewhere.

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lucysullivan · 30/03/2010 22:29

YANBU. Bloody rude and inconsiderate behaviour. If people want to own so many vehicles then they should make sure they live somewhere that can accommodate them all ie a house with a big enough driveway for them all, or rent out garages.

We live in a street where our neighbours have 6,7 and 8 plus vehicles per household and no parking, they're all dumped on the street. It's not fair to others who have 1 or 2 cars and can never park them. Not to mention the environmental damage from the pollution all these cars are pumping out. Does no-one use public transport these days?

CarGirl · 30/03/2010 22:35

I wonder if they are claiming benefits and the cars are a sideline?

Original poster
ticktockclock · 30/03/2010 22:56

CarGirl - I actually wonder that myself...

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CarGirl · 30/03/2010 23:02

benefits hotline?

outnumbered2to1 · 30/03/2010 23:04

ticktock

sounds like he is repairing the cars rather than selling them. And you gotta have permission for that sort of thing. Call up your local environmental health to check out where he is storing the old oil and transmission fluid he must be removing from the cars

lucysullivan · 30/03/2010 23:06

If I was prime minister I'd introduce legislation which heavily taxed households who have more than 2 cars. No-one seems to care anymore about the environmental damage all these cars do, and I'm sure standards in public transport would increase if more people had to rely on trains/buses/trams to travel around than gas guzzling vehicles.

I just wonder how people afford all these cars and their associated costs; car tax, insurance, petrol, MOTs, services etc etc

Original poster
ticktockclock · 30/03/2010 23:07

No he is not repairing them himself. There is a mobile mechanic service that is out here at least once a week working on some car or another, so that is allowed. I just wish I could find some proof that he is actually buying and selling the vehicles from his home.

I have my suspicions, I just have no proof of anything. I just want them to move...the other 4 tenants before them were so much nicer and reasonable.

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Original poster
ticktockclock · 30/03/2010 23:09

Lucysullivan - I really wonder too..considering it is a 1 bed flat and there is a family of four in it, and the adults don't seem to do any sort of 'job'.

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outnumbered2to1 · 30/03/2010 23:33

phone the benefits cheat line and fire him in!!

MarianneD · 31/03/2010 09:05

It's not illegal but most of us wouldn't have the brass neck to do it and would be more considerate - let's be honest!

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