I have had a car parked outside my house for the last 4 days. It is annoying because it isnt mine!! >:( We think it belongs to a family 6 doors away but they already have 2 on their drive and park a van anywhere. My OH has already told the bloke about parking his van there.
Its more annoying as it is taxed so the police wont want to know. Any ideas how to get it shifted it?
I wouldn't think any ideas would be legal.
Best to try to live with it, it's not worth getting aggrevated over it. I think loads of us suffer the same problems.
Sinbad
If its parked legally on the public highway theres nothing you can do.
Park something large outside their house.
Same thing happens here a family have four sons, three cars, girlfriends have cars, mom has a car .dad has a van. sometimes I have a job to get out of my drive because I find it a job to swing the car around, but all the cars are taxed so there is nothing to be done I am afraid, I think we all have to grin and bare it now a days.
June.
hmmm I know that in France, it is not legal to slash someone's tyres, but... air can strangely escape from someone's tyre valves....
Is that good practice in the UK?
Of course that will inevitably start a neighbour war: graffiti will be painted on your house, dog poo will appear on your doorstep, someone will pee in your milk bottles... Probably best just to ignore it, or park your car there at next opportunity, to show that you don't appreciate it much.
This is something that I find very strange. Why does everyone think they are entitled to the road outside their own house? Its a public road, anyone can park there. I can understand your frustration when families have multiple cars/vans but they all have to be parked somewhere. :)
Like most folk, we have the same problem. Normally it doesn't bother me at all. It's just when you come home with a bootload of shopping and you've got to walk the length of the street 5 times!! both ways!! That tends to put the grr into grawrc! ;D ;D ;D
I have lived in properties with no parking space so I had to park on the road and no I do not understand people getting worked up about it as it is for public use and first come first served.
I had a woman once have a right go at me as I parked opposite her large detached house complete with garage and drive.She said I was in her space ??? ??? ???
I now have to pay for my parking spot five minutes walk away.
Why do I fall for properties with no decent parking LOL ::) ::) ::)
Its not that I am against people parking outside on the road ,but it is difficult to get out of my drive sometimes, my road is not very wide and some of these people are not very considerate to their neigbours ,some of them park half on the road. and half off the pavment . we have a blind man living here. also a disabled man living here,who has to use a wheelchair, a little give and take would not come amiss I think.
June.
If they block the drive or on the pavement it's illegal and the police can do something about it. They might not bother of course.....don't around here for starters.....one neighbour with a twin garage and parking for 4 cars still parks her only car on the road ???
A friend of my dads once asked a neighbour to move his car which was parked half on and half off the road making the pavement rather narrow. He refused saying there was plenty of room to get past. As advised he proceeded to use the pavement to move a load of rubble from his house to the skip on the other side of the car. It's amazing just how much damage a wheel barrow can inflict on a car. Needless to say the owner wasn't pleased :D :D :D :D