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Move the cones and park there, or comply with the neighbours imposed parking restriction. An individual call.:)
 
gookah said:
I am sorry but I take the other view, so will play Devil's Advocate.
It annoys the hell out of me when people park in front of my house when they visit neighbours, and I get back and can't even park outside my own property, I end up walking, and having to go back out again later to re-park, just so they can just step in.

Where are the ones across the road supposed to park their cars, or their subsequent visitors?
It's not their fault that you have four vehicles on your drive and need to park a fifth, meaning they then no longer have space to park one..
That is the part that is not neighbourly, and that is probably how they are feeling,

It would wind me up too having a "big white van" blocking my view trying to get out of the drive onto the road.
Some places don't even allow parking of commercial vehicles in residential areas within the deeds, because of the issues between neighbours that they can cause.
Sorry if you dont like my view, but they probably wouldn't like these earlier views either.
Neighbourly action is about give and take, and so far there apparently seems to be only taker, and a number of enforced givers. :confused:

Reading between the lines, its sounds like you are upsetting more than just one person across the road, which is not going to do you any favours with the council or police, regardless of how legally allowed it may be.
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When we first moved here 5 years ago, the first thing Alan said was the front garden ( as that is what is was ) will have to be made into a drive way :p
As we're not the kind of people who would want to upset anyone :)
I should think the only time we're parked across the road is a very rare occasion, I should think maybe about 7-8 times at the most :)
Which isn't very much at all considering we're been here for 5 years ;)
At the moment we're got 6 vehicles parked on the drive :)
And still room for visitors :)
The neighbours should thank their lucky stars we made it into a drive way , and not just kept it as a garden , like we could of done ;)
It was only because B got home at 11 o'clock that night , and if he'd parked on the drive, Alan wouldn't of been able to get his car out to go to work in the morning, and to be fair B,s van was gone by 7.45 to go to work again :)
And when B did get home at 11 at night, no one was parked in the spaces anyway, ;)
And the neighbours across the road don't work :)
So to me it shouldn't of been a problem :)
 
We live on an early 1900's very long terraced road with no driveways. At our old place we had room for 4 cars on the drive and now we have a garage at the rear for the zed and our dailys park on the road. If I get home late from work and I can't get outside the house I accept that as I knew this could be the case when we purchased the house. It's all about acceptance, now I'm not good at things like this as I tend to be very territorial so when we decided to go with this house I had to have a chat with myself and all is well. If I can't park I go up the road a bit. Jue has found a spot 50 yds away up the entry to the garage to keep one off the road to allow a space for someone else. We have learnt to live with this and I never get upset about it. Like I said in my earlier post, you buy knowing the situation around you. They have zero rights to that layby......simples.
 
gookah said:
Some places don't even allow parking of commercial vehicles in residential areas within the deeds, because of the issues between neighbours that they can cause.
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Our deeds stipulate no caravans or commercial vehicles to be parked outside. We know because we bought the house as a new build. Our new neighbours either don’t know or don’t care. Next door there’s always one van on the road and sometimes two. Directly across the road there’s a van and a caravan on the drive. It’s like living on a trading estate. We haven’t said anything yet as we don’t want to fall out with people but it’s becoming increasingly dangerous as we live opposite a cul-de-sac and on a bend. Reversing off the drive when you can’t see if anything is coming is very tricky.

It has always been our plan to move somewhere more rural in the next couple of years so we’re putting up with it ........for now.
 
You have to turn this situation around and think how you would feel if someone parked a large white van outside your house. Parking isn't great where I live and I always try to be respectful when parking if I can't get in 'my own' space, it really annoys me if I can't park outside the house because someone else has parked there. If I was in a situation where I had to get up and move my own car to get another one of mine out then I would do that, just so it keeps the peace with the neighbours as I know how annoying it is when they park where I normally do. I don't use their spaces so why should they use mine? It's just about respect, maybe you could have had a word to ask if they mind just on a one off occasion. But then they could have had a word with you before dumping cones out. It looks as though your quite lucky and have a very large drive and double yellows outside your house? Not everyone has this luxury and are limited for parking which could be why the neighbours are a little annoyed. If they have ample room and not enough cars to fill the spaces they are doing it maybe because you never asked, even though it's not illegal what you had done.
 
I do respect my neighbours and everyone else :p
That's why Alan made a drive way , it's the first thing we done :)
Like I've said the neighbours should be respecting us and saying I'm glad they done a drive way other wise we'd have all the cars parked over the road ;)
 
@Shelly I have a stack of cones adandoned outside my back gates. Feel free to collect and distribute out side your house ;):p


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g8jka said:
You have to turn this situation around and think how you would feel if someone parked a large white van outside your house. Parking isn't great where I live and I always try to be respectful when parking if I can't get in 'my own' space, it really annoys me if I can't park outside the house because someone else has parked there. If I was in a situation where I had to get up and move my own car to get another one of mine out then I would do that, just so it keeps the peace with the neighbours as I know how annoying it is when they park where I normally do. I don't use their spaces so why should they use mine? It's just about respect, maybe you could have had a word to ask if they mind just on a one off occasion. But then they could have had a word with you before dumping cones out. It looks as though your quite lucky and have a very large drive and double yellows outside your house? Not everyone has this luxury and are limited for parking which could be why the neighbours are a little annoyed. If they have ample room and not enough cars to fill the spaces they are doing it maybe because you never asked, even though it's not illegal what you had done.
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I don't disagree with what your saying Pete. Our old place was a nightmare. It was a cul-de-sac with 8 houses in it. We all had a minimum of a 2 car drive yet parking was awful. There were 6 large vans out if 8 houses plus at least 2 cars per house. I fell out with more people for parking over our drive, as you say it's about respect but few had respect for us although we never once blocked people's drives and never let visitors either. It's an age old problem and it'll only ever get worse with builders building these ridiculous housing estates where everyone shares access to the properties.
 
t-tony said:
It is difficult Pete, I know. When we visit our son's home in Lincoln we have the self same problem. But you have said you can't park outside your house due to visitors at your neighbours not allowing you to park outside your own home. Yet you say the people with the cones are being "reasonable" by trying to keep it clear for their visitors. I can't get my head round that mate. Like I said I couldn't live in a town or city and this will only get worse as the number of vehicles increases. There's plenty of parking at the house we're selling ................... ;)

Tony.

ps. In my opinion Shelly's neighbours would've been better if they'd talked to them rather than plonking cones down.
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I never said anywhere that they were being reasonable, I said that is the end result of how they feel, they now feel they have to resort to that.
It was admitted there was a choice at the time, and the neighbours probably saw there was a space on the drive that was not used. There is totally no acceptance of the effect that this has on the neighbours, why did he not collect the big van using the little van and leave that there? saving a space.... these are all questions they would be thinking.

Why also is it up to Shelly's neighbours to need to talk? they are not the ones causing the original issue? and it seems like more than one of the neighbours across the road is being affected.

There still appears to be no recognition of the affect on them and other neighbours , this all appears to say "poor us with six vehicles on the drive and nowhere to park a seventh".
That is how it reads to me. and I am sorry if I have got that wrong.


This doesn't seem like it will end amicably, and all the other neighbours will be joining forces if it affecting them also.

Sure you can make it all about legal entitlement, but you will make enemies at the same time.
That attitude is so short sighted.
 
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Haha might just work =))
 
Is there not space to open the front up and lay a drive there?
 
Personally it is the neighbours causing the issue :p
We pay our car tax and the lay by across the road is anyone's to use :)
B couldn't leave his little Van at work as he needed it the next day , and someone else picked the other van up :)
I'm no way saying poor us , about having 6 vehicles on the drive ;)
But that's why we have a big drive so we don't have to park in the lay by :)
Like I said it's only 7-8 times in 5 years that we have parked their ;)
We could of only made spaces for a couple of cars but we didn't , and saved our selfs lots of money as well , but we chose to do the whole front garden , so we could have visitors park on our drive as well :)
 
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Manic. ;)

I challenge anybody to park on my 'drive' :D

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A contentious issue parking. Glad I've never had this issue.

There was an estate a few years ago with no garages or parking by design :wideyed:
 
Gail said:
Our deeds stipulate no caravans or commercial vehicles to be parked outside. We know because we bought the house as a new build. Our new neighbours either don’t know or don’t care. .
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I suspect the answer nowadays all too often is 'don't care'

This is how this country is shaping. Each to their own, and sod how it affects anyone else. If someone doesn't like it, it is them that are the issue.
 
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