Car parking

[badhairmonth]

One of our neighbours runs a business from home and has 2 or 3 company vans as well as their own 2 cars - they have started parking these vans opposite our house. Are they allowed to do this? Obviously I don't mind occasionally but this seems to be a regular thing for the last month or so now and I'm fed up of having the vans outside our house. They are on the other side of the road so don't block our drive but it is a narrow residential street so they are quite close. Over the holidays our visitors had to park way up the street cos they couldn't park near us.
I did mention in a casual way to them that I felt it was getting a bit like an industrial estate round here, cos another neighbour parks his company van here too. All he said was - well we have to park somewhere don't we.
Does anyone have any advice? guess I could ask the highways agency but they are probably a bit busy with the snow right now.

I don't think there's much you can do about the parking as long as all of the vehicles are displaying a current tax disc. You could, however, check with the council that he's registered/permitted to run a business from domestic premises - not sure which department this would be, or the "official" name of the permissions needed, but those permissions would probably be subject to him not being a bloody nuisance to the neighbours.

thank you - its a tricky situation - don't want to upset neighbours but am sick of the vans.

Just go carefully, if you start putting things in motion and it escalates, when you come to sell your house in the future you would have to declare anything in "writing" so anything official.

You may think that you love your house and would never wish to move, but if you ended up with the neighbour from hell you may change your mind.

Re running a business, I believe it would come under planning, slim chance he would be charged business rates but it would depend what business he was running and how he used his home for business.

If it is literally people turning up in vans and parking on a public highway then there is little you can do. Sorry.

Def. contact the Council and see what they have to say. You might also want to check your missives - ours don't allow work vans belonging to residents or caravans to be parked in our street (although quite what would happen if someone did I don't know!)

thank you - good advice