Car parking disputes rank among the most common sources of neighbour friction across the UK. Whether you live on a busy suburban street or a quiet cul-de-sac, tensions can quickly escalate when parking spaces become contested.
Before taking any action, it helps to understand exactly what rights you have and what options are available using our free Parking Dispute Resolver.
Most parking arguments stem from a mismatch between expectations and reality. People want to park close to their homes, but public roads don't come with reserved spaces. Multiple cars per household, visitors, and the occasional inconsiderate parker create a perfect storm for conflict.
What the law actually says
The legal position is straightforward but often misunderstood. Any driver can park on a public road, provided their vehicle is taxed, insured and they're not breaking traffic regulations. This applies even if they're parking outside someone else's house.
The Highway Code sets out the basic rules:
- No parking on double yellow lines at any time
- No parking on single yellow lines during restricted hours
- Keep clear of school entrance markings
- Don't block driveways or property entrances: this can be considered obstruction
- Avoid spaces reserved for disabled drivers or permit holders unless entitled
Beyond these restrictions, drivers can generally park wherever space allows on public highways maintained by the local council.
Many people believe they have a claim to the space outside their home, especially if they've lived there for years or pay for a residents' parking permit. However, buying a permit doesn't guarantee a space outside your front door: it simply gives you the right to park somewhere within the designated zone.
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Finding another car regularly parked outside your home can be annoying, especially if your neighbour has space outside their own property. Getting angry or confrontational rarely helps.
The most effective approach is usually a polite conversation, and if a quiet word does not work, a written note often does: see our letter template for inconsiderate parking. Your neighbour might not realise their parking causes inconvenience. They could have practical reasons: roadworks affecting their usual spot, accommodating a visitor, or finding it easier to reverse into their driveway from a particular direction.
Disputes over shared driveways involve private property rights rather than public road etiquette. Your property deeds should specify exactly where boundaries lie and what rights each household has. If boundaries aren't clear, you might need help from a surveyor or solicitor. Before resorting to legal action, consider mediation services.
Your situation may be slightly different. ask a question below ↓ and our editorial team will reply with our advice.
Blocked driveways and enforcement
Having your driveway blocked is probably the most infuriating parking situation. You can't get your car out, and you feel trapped in your own home.
Blocking a driveway entrance is illegal under the Highway Code, but enforcement varies. The police will sometimes respond, particularly if you need to move your car urgently. However, they may treat it as a civil matter and suggest you contact your local council instead.
Some councils send parking enforcement officers to deal with blocked driveways, while others won't get involved unless official restrictions are being violated. Persistent obstruction can sometimes be addressed through legal channels if it constitutes harassment or nuisance.
Preventing and resolving disputes
Most parking disputes can be avoided through consideration and communication. If you're struggling to find spaces near your home, think about whether you could use your driveway more efficiently or park a less-used vehicle further away.
When problems arise, approach neighbours calmly and assume good intentions. Explain how their parking affects you rather than making accusations. Many people will adjust their habits once they understand the impact.
If friendly discussion doesn't work, consider whether the problem is serious enough to pursue further. Occasional inconvenience might be easier to tolerate than ongoing conflict with people you have to live next to for years.
For persistent problems involving illegal parking, contact your local council or police. Keep records of when problems occur and how they affect you. You might also involve local councillors, community groups, or mediation services. Good neighbour relationships are usually worth more than winning parking arguments.
Suburban avenues where houses come equipped with drives and limited attractions such as pubs, conveinience stores and takeaways are the way to go. Usually, modern residential areas 1970 onwards, are built for the car era and if one is looking to avoid angry confrontations with inapprpriate entitled drivers, look to move to a highly residential area.
For unknown reason he keep buying old (at lease 12 year old ) second-hand cars which need constant maintenance/repair.
Recently he seems in taxi business so another car is added to his collection. Worse still he has no hesitation in parking his taxi outside my house and there is nothing I can do about it.
Wouldn’t it about time our parliament passes a regulation which demands any household who has more than two cars has to have their own garage. Otherwise neighbours to a multi- vehicles household will have to suffer. The situation is just sicking.
I have a piece of land attached to my house and garden which is my driveway and access to my house along with space for parking several vehicles. Its basically all part of my garden. An old covenant was in-place years ago to say no "stationing of vehicles" eg: no parking cars on it. This was never told to us when we purchased the house over three years ago and we have always parked on our land/driveway. I also work from home and my clients park there too, a big reason for buying the house.
Recently, after being here for over three years, a neighbour has told me I shouldn't be parking anything on it (although they are happy for their deliveries to come down my drive and use it when building an extension). She also says I should've consulted her before making changes like moving hedges, cutting down scrub or installing veg beds. However, the main thing is my right to park on my own land!
So the basic question is, am I entitled to park on my own private land and can she stop me or my customers (between 3-8 visits a day mon-fri) in anyway??
Many thanks for any useful advice.
Neil.
They have never asked us if this is okay, which I thought would of been considerate. They even stare into our home when they park up. I feel so invaded by this neighbour, almost intimidated. What can I do? Oh and when I say over the pavement, I mean completely over it. No-one could walk on it. Thanks Tracy
I have a problem with my neighbours cat and mine fighting in my back garden and me in between!
she refuses to help or put anything on her fence ,
Her cat runs along top which is flat and she almost loves it!
I sent a letter to her but she ignored it,
I contacted environmental health but they are not interested.
So who can I turn to now?
I don't want to spend the hot summer indoors!
I have a cat fence already which stops mine going out.
Thanks,
N
I have a query with regards to a communal cark park
I am trying to find out if a neighbour would need planning permission to put bollards up which is restricting other people that own their own homes and use the car park from turning and parking
He has put bollards up which is causing problems from us using the car park and turning and also when we have visitors / workmen to our homes
I'm in my middle 70s police said he can't park anywhere else but he's blocking my exiting view what can I do?
I work nights and have told him repeatedly not to wake me up but he always ignores me. I and my neighbours are getting fed up with his moaning about his car needs to be outside his flat because he can get his camera on it.
What can I do to stop him harassing us whenever I have no choice but to park outside his flat. I always try not too so as to avoid conflict but I and my neighbours can't always do so.
Any advice appreciated
What can I do the police or council can’t do nothing
I can’t find him registered with Companies House, and surly it’s illegal to do this from a residential house and on the highway? Fedup
Why won’t one if these ‘official’ bodies just send someone to have a quiet word, I’m
sure that would fix it!
Any one any ideas - we have to park on main road at the end of avenue
We have a a set of flats round the back of our street with a car park at the rear. A very large Sprinter type van has always parked at the side of the flats, out of the way. For some reason, they have now decided to park directly outside the front of our house which means the view from our living room window is the side of a white van. Wouldn’t be so bad if it was a car as you could see over the top! There is space further down for them to park which is next to a fence, as a single woman I am nervous about confrontation if I ask them not to park outside for just manners. I understand it’s a public highway with no dropped curb but surely it’s courtesy to not block someone’s view from their window?
She has no car and a dropped curb and spaces for 2 cars to park outside her house.
She has relentlessly fallen out with everyone parking outside her gates and i have no idea if she has a legal point due to her dropped curb even though she has no car. Everyone struggles to park (not myself) but due to not parking outside her house everyone cant park.
Can people park there or are they breaking the law? She has no car.
My neighbours have two cars and park across both spaces outside the house. My husband is v ill and we have nurses, carers etc each day to the house. I have asked for a bit of space and when the cars have been moved soon come back again. My daughter who is in a wheelchair visits and needs to be over the drive. She cannot park when they are at home as she will block my other neighbours drive. I have no idea why they will not allow me just a few feet outside my own house. I feel threatened by them and am suffering unnecessary stress due to this. They have a drive which they could use and stands empty.
The H lines are also being ignored.
It’s a bridle path to the right
I’m not a very good or confident driver
I have already banged the side of my car
We can now not get easy access to our drive
We usually need to reverse out into the lane
This is now impossible for me
I’m 68 and not a very confident driver
Is there anything we can do ?
Me and my neighbours have a lot of problems with other people parking ours street. The street is open to everybody but we all wanted to park close to our houses.
We finds that many cars is dumb and left for months on parking spaces also mechanics use road for no taxes cars and parking them on our street.
Many of our neighbours get tickets because was parking on double line. This neighbours is people with kids and they parking they cars close to the house.
I don’t know where we can find help regarding this problem.
We all neighbours wanted permanent residents parking but how we can sorted this problem?
Many thanks for any suggestions.
She’s recently had her front garden removed and made into parking hard standing. Now she’s had drop kerb widened so no one can park in front of her house. Parking is a nightmare on our road, if anyone parks over the extended dropped kerb when there aren’t any cars on her drive, is this illegal?? What could happen??
This nightmare has been ongoing since 1995!!
I don't know the name of the landlord or current address of the landlord of the person parking the vehicle. I don't know the name of the person parking the vehicle. I have asked the company to stop parking as the person works for a company. This will effect the sale if I try to sell
Is he even allowed to do this?
I have called their attention but not yielded
How do l address it
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 Section 69
guidance or direction of persons
There's one person that parks their car in a way that blocks the entrance and exit of the car park for my row of houses. Once it caused me to hit another car. The other day I had to ask them to move it as my sister had to go to the hospital to get tested for cancer. The person claimed it's legal to park in a way that blocks entrance and exit to and from the car park. I said it's illegal because it's stated in the highway code. Who's right? The other person or me?
On this street are some flats with four designated spaces and four visitor spaces, when the planning application was put forward for the flats to be constructed the whole of oak street and Bright Street objected due to the lack of spaces.
They managed to get the application passed by saying that we could use these spaces.
However the owner of the bottom flat doesn't park in her designated space, she parks in a visitor space placing a traffic cone in her space, yet threatens anyone who parks in her space with the police.
Is there anything I can do? I am physically fit but still due for a knee replacement June of this year. He seemed smug and unwilling to compromise in anyway.
He does clamped car business. He brings the car and take our space. We all next door neighbours spoke to him but not listening to us.
Can you please do something. He lives in ivy close . Harrow.
I have damaged my car twice due to this
Please help who can I go to for help
Who do I ha
Also one more thing sometimes a large vehicle could be someones livelihood so if they do park outside your home.. just explain in a nice way that its causing an obstruction.. nip the problem in the bud instead of lifting up someones wiper to indicate your concerns..express yourself in a better way.. its nt worth falling out with neighbours over car park space its waste of time and could affect health.
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Could anyone let me know who do I have to talk too because is disturbing us!
I live with my Partner in a Public Road
With private property at the end of it (the
Property is converted into flats accessible by a gate, where there is adequate parking for each resident,)
The issue is the fact that one of the residents works for a local painter & decorator,
Who regularly parks his bosses van outside our front door (despite the fact that he has his own parking space inside the
Gate)
Polite requests to him to park inside the gate
Have fallen on deaf
Ears, and contacting his employer has only provided a temporary resolution as the employee has done it several times
Thank you.
This issue does needs attention!!
Sort it out, councils. Put our money to good use. Our parking is more important to us then a single use bomb. Hundreds of thousands of pounds to blow people up. When all we really want is to park outside the house, stress free.
What can I do? Reasoning and talking with him does jot work.
I asked kindly that when they have visitors, they use the carport when possible, as it's not hard to juggle your own traffic, they dont understand that they block me in.
Many off them decide its them park and they put bins to keep the parking for themselves.
Its a comunual and we can park anywhere if you leave there
I'm so feed up with that and council should do something.
Its very stressful for my father.
Anyone can help me with that.
She said I was inconsiderate and selfish and I said but I ALWAYS park inside the lines and never take up two spaces and I never park sideways like some selfish person around here does. Which I then realised might be her. She was going on and on about needing 4 spaces for her daughter and son and I was taking up their spaces. I told her my friend lives there and I have her permission to park there which is true but I don't need it because I am a resident and the council said I could park there. She demanded my friends name and when I wouldn't give it because I didn't want her involved she told me I was lying. I mean 4 cars for one tiny flat and she was shouting at me for being selfish. I felt she was harassing and bullying me and now I am very worried about my car being there. It has already been bashed before with a silver car which I now suspect was her. Am very worried. I ended up shouting back in the end which I never do I am such a quiet kind person normally but I was at the end of my tether as i have had a lot of other problems with family after my mum died in may. Its a total nightmare I just wish I could move. I now have the beginning of a migraine and i had thought it was such a nice day. I hate hassle at the best of times and try to be diplomatic normally. I am parking considerately and legally. I would gladly park outside my house if I could. I think she is being selfish taking up 4 spaces. What does anyone else think?
I do not have a car at present, but my 70 yr old mother does and visits regularly. The problem is, 1 house is a shared house and 1 of the occupants has 2 or more cars (cant be sure) anyway, there is always a car parked slap bang in the middle of the car park/yard preventing my mother from being able to use my space and she is having to park up the hill which is not ideal due to medical reasons I will not go into. Anyhow,have spoken to them a couple of times and been told I am disrespectful and they are unwilling to cooperate with me and park the extra cars elsewhere (not the only issue with the new tenants in this house)
Is there anything I can do to get them to abide by the rules of deeds of the houses/flats and not do what they generally please?
thanks
His house dosent have a drive and a huge wall overlooks the front of his house. If he parked his van, he wouldn't see his van either like we do.
Please help. I feel like letting his tyres down. I'm so annoyed.
We have a turning area outside our house, people use it to park and always park outside our house! Blocking my drop kerb!!
I’m fed up of it!! The people who do it don’t care they block my driveway access.
The police have been involved and so is the local councillor!!
All of a sudden he has started parking his large works van in a way that restricts the rest of us, meaning only 3 can now park their inc his van.
Whilst of course technically speaking anyone can park on the road, he several times has reversed back leaving inches between my front bumper and his rear. Tonight after I'd got home from my work I parked considerably leaving plenty of space for 2 others as 1 was already parked. Including leaving plenty of space behind me for his van if he or anyone else chose to park there. I noticed just now he decided to park in front of me inches from my front bumper and leaving 6/7 foot gap in front of his van to the next car.....
If someone parks tight behind me I won't be able to get out. I'm oncall for the NHS and it's frustrating me! I've parked my car in a diff spot on the same small area other day and he has done the samething by reversing back right as close as poss to my front bumper.
So the first thought is to think he is trying to make a point....as if he thinks it's his spot and I'll make a point by getting right close to you. He couldn't open the doors being so close to me either so all seems a bit daft.
If he struggled to get in a parking spot and had no option but to be close I'd understand it. But there is plenty of room in front for him but just gets really close to my car. Where my car is now there is plenty of space behind me for his van, and it's nearer his side entrance! I'm getting pissed off but have a volatile nature and know I can't have a quiet word as I find if others react I can't control myself as I feel threatened and get aggressive.
I'm trying to think does it matter, but if I keep getting blocked in like that I'll have to do something.
What should I do??
If I confront him I'm likely to lose my temper, and I'd rather not contact his employer to complain as it might escalate it....
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I need help...who should I be phoning
What can we do. They are also having an H bar put on the road similar to ours.
Also the drive next door has NO boundary edge between their drive and the public footpath. Yet when we had our drive put in we was told there had to be an edge from my property to public right of way. Are they wrong by doing a full drive from property to drop kerb, without drainage grids or edging to end their driveway??
Please any advice would be very much appreciated.
The neighbour says that they cannot get in or out this access way
They are complaining saying the wife cannot "..swing.." her car out of the driveway because her car is bigger than mine
They are complaining that their car or the delivery trucks or the ambulance cannot get access to their house
They are threatening me by saying the wife is a lawyer and that I can get into serious trouble
I have lived here for almost 35 years
The neighbour has lived here for less that 10 years
I have been parking my car in the same spot (on and off) for 15 years
I have even started parking my car a little further away from this access way and still they are complaining
I have also taken videos of their car and a delivery truck reversing in and out with no problem even the green bin lorry and the rubbish lorry reverse into this area with no problem
What are my rights
Am I blocking access
All I need is some advice and who I can contact to find out if I am wrongly parking my car and blocking access
Parking ..
I was wrong.. the neighbour further up‘ not even an attached to my terrace house, as there’s a gap between the houses (which he bought off another neighbour to actually park his car in .. ??) he moves his car in front of our house if he sees us go out ..
Meaning we can’t park near our house’ we have to park over the road on someone’s car park who could clamp us .. we have 3 young grand children living with us just now and I struggle walking sometimes because of sciatica and arthritic knees but we have to cross a busy road to get to our car .. we can’t even hoover the car out etc
As everyone else parks outstanding their houses, the only legal space for us to park in is outside our house .
I have had words with him already and he spouted off that he’s parked there 14 years .. (I found out the previous home owner didn't have a car) ... my landlord who lived here for a year before we let it couldn’t even park .. I have to admit I was angry and asked him when he moved into my house and when he was going to start paying my rent etc ... and I called him an ignorant plonker ..
I suffer from anxiety and depression already this just makes me feel physically sick that we have neighbours who are absolutely pig ignorant and have no consideration or respect for others .
Since the car is a plug in hybrid, we charge it up on the home plug charger using an extension to reach the closest parking bay to our home. Unfortunately the spaces can easily be taken up so the odd times i've had to drive directly outside our home on the grass to charge.
An old nuisance pompous neighbour believes he's Judge Dredd (he is the law) and everyone on the road should abide by his rules. He's now not happy that we've had to do that and has threatened if we do it again, he will attempt to have it towed, even though it's directly outside our home and in no way affects him as he doesn't live on our block and doesn't bother our actual neighbours in the slightest.
I just want to do my homework to know if it is an actual problem as it's in a grey area or if i should just ignore him.
He has a large rust heap of a transit van which is never used and parked so close to low wall and my lounge window that the only view I have when sitting in my lounge is the van.
I keep my blinds down so I don’t see the van, however, I’m not getting much
daylight in my lounge.
The van is not taxed or insured.
Is there anything I can do about this?
To encourage her to use her driveway I want to drive up their driveway and onto my garden grass (which I know will drive him insane) but they will call council on me so il get a parking ticket as I know we not meant to park on grass. But I'd only stay on grass for an hour or so to prove a point. So, would stevenage council workers come out in evening to ticket my car?? Any ideas??
So half the time I get home from work I can't park my car anywhere near my home.
Occasionally The Irish neighbour gets his visitors to park half on the pavement and half on the road behind my car which is nice of him but because my space is by the kerb I have a right game getting out avoiding scraping my alloys on the kerb and avoiding the car parked behind me.Any advice?
Even worse than that, one of them rents out his drive and because he makes money out of it and doesnt have to work for a living and sits at home all day he can park his car outside of his house and take up a valuable spot that others could have! Surely this is socially unacceptable?
It's that anything that we can do?
NOI
When the neighbours actually use the RV on holiday, they move their 3 cars in the space so that they can "keep" that space.
own drive parking I have good expert independent survey report where is boundary line between two properties are.
now l want to know can l built wall in my front garden with out next door permission
thanks
king regards
On our close we are in a situation of living just a mile outside of Nottingham city centre in a one way street which constantly has people screaming down the road as for some reason the council removed the dead end sign and erected a speed limit sign instead so there is no indication it is not a through road (and on 2 separate occasions I have had my car damaged when said numptys have been going too fast attempting to reverse when they eventually realise they cant get out the other end and in doing so hitting my car!!
This situation is further exasperated by the fact that we have 3 different sets of non residents parking their vehicles along our street meaning that actual residents are struggling to park up (let alone friends and family not being able to visit due to these inconsiderate individuals feeling they are entitled to park there). 1 guy dumps one vehicle, another guy 1 sometimes 2 and the third guy has his small work van, a range rover, a flat bed truck and now seemingly a blooming mini so you can imagine that we are all cheesed off as due to this it makes it really hard for people to get their own cars on and off of their own drive ways as each house has at least one car themselves and in many instances 2!!!
I think its the total arrogance and abuse if you challenge these people as they only see as far as their needs and have no consideration for the impact on everyone else and this sense of entitlement really stokes my fire and exactly why is it that such behavior cannot be challenged? We also requested that road to be changed to resident permit holders only but this was also turned down so what next? There should be actions that can be taken to look after residents and sorry to say it but if you haven't room to park all your vehicles considerately and appropriately then dont have so many!!!
I live in a terraced house on a street with houses in either side. Most houses in the street have off street parking at the rear, mi e however does not. My next door neighbour parks his car in his garage during the weekend with his work van outside his house. However when he goes to work he moves his car from the garage to outside his house to save the space for his van. Very sad I know. But what makes this even more amusing is that when he is moving the vehicles around to save the space he makes his 20 odd year old son stand in the space to make sure nobody else parks in it..... Even at 2am.
Doesn't annoy me, I park over the road to avoid having him crash into my car (again) I just find it utterly hilarious.
I can't tell you how many times over the last five years I've had to politely point out to residents that they don't have any right to park in front of their own house when they come to confront me. It amazes me how so many people still don't get this.
I had a minor run-in with an idiot a few years back in a not very nice area, making a quick drop off. I didn't know the area very well so parked in the only space I spotted, but then when I got out on foot and walked off to look for the property, realised there was a space right outside it which I could have parked in. At that time, a car pulled up by mine further down the road with a family in it, they all went inside but the guy started ranting and raving to himself and to his embarrassed wife, looking around for who had parked in "his spot". He then spotted me knocking on the door I was delivering to and also spotted the space outside of the delivery house, and made it very loud and obvious to his wife of how stupid I was and why wouldn't I just park outside, obviously aiming for me to hear every word. In and out of his house he was going, getting more and more irate, trying to play the big man. I shouted over to him, "It is a public highway this mate, it's not private parking, but I will literally be two seconds I'm just dropping off" and he just stared at me blankly all the way back to the car and as I drove off trying to intimidate me.
People just don't know the rule of the road where parking is concerned, which is worrying as most of the same people drive cars, so should know full well.
Oh...and people who take up two spots in an unmarked car park as well. I live in an apartment. It's quite a nice area, most people drive nice cars, some, in particular, are very expensive, so don't want their doors to be hit so they take a little extra care in the private car park when parking - which I get, I do the same. But there are no parking bays and it infuriates me to see people purposefully parking to obstruct others from parking in an already oversubscribed car park for an apartment block which is full. They take up two spots on purpose. Arrogant isn't the word for people like that.
Anyway, rant over.
Dont know what makes people think blocking someones garage is OK!!!
When we moved in 3 Years ago they had 2 cars, they soon got another making it 3.... which was 1 to many for their drive.
So they started parking opposite my drive making it very difficult for me to get out.
I mentioned it politely and they agreed to gravel over their lawn short term to provide another space, problem solved... For a few months.
They now have 4/5 and sometimes 6/7 when the boyfriend and sister are around (most days) cars parked outside, 2/3 are constantly parked outside my house.
Which means I have great difficulty getting out of my drive, we also can no longer have visitors as there is nowhere for guests to park.
I asked them to think about their neighbours before they park but I only got abuse in return.
So I now park my car opposite my drive due to the great difficulty of getting in and out, this just gets me more abuse.
Essentially we are being punished for only having 2 cars,
We have now decided to sell the house and move on, on the open day I moved both my cars off the drive so viewers could have somewhere to park, again I got abuse from my neighbours.
He has spoken with a number of my guests, some only popping to collect something other. He & his family kick up a fuss if anyone is an inch over his dropped curb. However, on certain days, all his family come over - 5/6 cars at a time (I have pics) and Park where they please.
Just now my asda delivery driver was dropping off my food, parked outside my home, but blocked the road.
Someone came and complained that the driver had blocked them in - they were parked over the drop curb funnily enough.
After the asda driver left, no-one drove the car away. It is still there.
So there was no need for them to comment. If there is an immediate issue I could completely understand, it seems they're complaining for the sake of it.. Which creates animosity and a lack of compassion from my side because it is like the boy who cried wolf.
I have to add, no one in my house drives, so the issue of parking is nil for me. It just frustrates me that my guests get hassle.
It's like harassment by proxy.
Any advice on how to deal with this? I really don't want to lose my temper but I'm afraid if it continues then I might.
We have a grey Van
Parked A 100 meters from our Front door
Been there since
31st January
I phone police / Council
No wants too know
Ask Neighbour to move it
Awaiting on parts
SORN
We have a grey Van
Parked A 100 meters from our Front door
Been there since
31st January
I phone police / Council
No wants too know
Ask Neigbour to move it
Awaiting on parts
SORN
Is it worth calling the police or contacting solicitor.
We are having trouble with cars parking on blind bends on the start of our estate and it is becoming a safety issue. Can you please advise me who we need raise this issue with?
We are located in GLastonbury Somerset.
Thank you
So my husband has sometimes overnight 8pm-7am ish had to park in the side street which has meant another neighbour bangs on our door complaining that he can't get to his garden where he parks. This man has a history of keying cars parked on the side street. His recent demand is that we park on the back street out of the way (our last car was vandalised there so no chance). He's threatened the police over it, I said to go ahead. There are 2 other side /backstreet roads for him to use but sometimes they are blocked also. HELP!
Their gates open directly on the road (No pavement) we always leave room to walk round our car if we happen to park by there gates. But they both seem to have taken offence to us parking in front on their properties but only in the past 2 weeks?
We have tried talking to them but they have both said we need to be more considerate. I asked how and they both said leave more room. Which is impossible. I explained that and they walked off??
I believe we leave reasonable room, but what are the laws around this type of situation?
I need some help in terms of what I can do at my block of flats, there are 6 flats each with their own allocated parking bays, however 2 households have 4 cars which is taking up 3/4 of the lot, I have provided my deeds to prove which space I’m entitled too however they still continue to park wherever they want and become aggressive about it.
A lot of people will say park somewhere else but If I do I’m then taking someone else’s and on one occasion I took the persons who took mine and he took pictures and reported me.
If I can’t park in car park the next option is a narrow street which I don’t want to risk bumps to my brand new car.
I don’t feel like I’m being unreasonable but I want to know what steps I can take now to resolve this, I’ve contacted their letting agent who said they don’t think it is allocated. One of their landlord actually knows it is because he told me which was his on one occasion, I’ve found his address and Facebook page through a google search should I message him and say can you help or just go down a more formal route.
Council, MP, do not want to know. It would be different if neighbours parked but not inconsiderate workers.
What do I do now? It needs to be formal, and I would like it to cost them as I find that speeds up the learning process.
On my terraced road, a lot of people leave lots of space ethier side when parking. This results in them taking 2 spaces up. Leaving not enough room for everyone. This happens most days, is there anything that can be done ?
Thank you
Annoying everyone as they have taken up so much room.
Got the other van today
We have received complaints from residents that someone in the block has given a copy of the key to the landlord of the pub next door who now accesses and uses the car park.
There is only 1 parking space per flat so this 'visitor' is taking a space allocated to a resident.
I have written to all residents letting them know this is not acceptable and the key should not have been given to anyone else and I am in the process of writing to the pub owner saying similar - private car park and to find an alternative space for his vehicle.
I have a feeling my letter will be ignored as when challenged by residents the pub owner has been rude and dismissive and continued to use the car park.
If this continues to happen is there any further action that can be taken against the pub owner?
I live down a private road with allocated parking spaces out the front and behind the back of one house. The neighbour with the spaces behind their house has parked 2 cars there, one of which has had the engine in the boot for 2 years and looks a mess. They have also parked one car (with a broken window for weeks until another neighbour changed it for them) on the access road so there is barely enough room to get past in a car and parked a 4x4 out the front of their house blocking the pavement and making it hard for us to get our car out. I've asked him to move it but he won't.
Do I have any rights to get him to move the cars that have been parked there for months in a non-driveable state? Can I make him move the one that is preventing us from using our space when another neighbour parks in his? What about the one blocking emergency access?
Thanks!
I park over the road from my house, infront of my uncles house, I always leave plenty of room for the people living in the flats because I don't want to be a hassle!
I left a great amount yesterday but when I went out the grump who lives in the flat had literally left no room not even for a piece of paper between mine and his car yet had loads of space infront.
I know he's doing this to try bully me into not parking there anymore.
I have photo evidence of what he done yesterday.
Im just not sure what I can do about this, he isn't a pleasant man and definitely doesnt want to communicate with me a female but is ok to shout at my partner.
Help please.
We have a shared driveway and a turning area with 2 blocks of 4 double garages in an L shape . It’s not a parking area just access to the garages. If my neighbour parks in fron t of his garages I cannot access my garage and visa versa. Basically 3 of the 4 double garages would obstruct the others from access.
This is a shared area, we all pay towards upkeep and repairs.
My neighbour has been parking his car across my garages, I have asked him not too, he says he has taken legal advice and that he will continue to park there , if I want to gain access I have to ask his permission. I don’t want to go to war with this guy. I don’t really know what to do
People who park in a residential area can park anywhere they like within the Highway Code . Sadly people are so ignorant they believe their propert ownership entitled them to park on the public highway in front of their home ( which they can) but that no one else can which is incorrect . As long as you are not blocking someone’s drive and there are no parking restrictions you can park where you like . If people leave notes on your car let them because they aren’t worth the paper they are written on .
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1000 a month seems alot of money for your mortgage, I would recommend speaking to a Mortgage Advisor
Hope this helps
J
The garage is in disrepair and my landlord is working on having it demolished and replaced with a fence. (This is taking a while due to some unforeseen circumstances.)
The problem I'm having is that someone from the street behind keeps parking directly outside the garage. Can I prevent them from parking there? I'm worried that the garage may fall and cause damage to the persons car? Would I be liable? Is there any steps I can take to protect myself? also the road is very narrow and the car has once already caused a delay in the demolishing of the garage. I don't drive and never have so I don't really understand the road laws. I don't have a problem with them parking the car there, I just don't want to get a bill through my door. Any advice is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
The local authority can remove "abandoned" vehicles even from private roads but they do have to be abandoned which includes:
- they have no keeper on the DVLA’s database and are untaxed - check vehicle tax online
- they’re stationary for a significant amount of time
- they’re significantly damaged, run down or unroadworthy - with flat tyres, wheels removed or broken windows
- they’re burned out
- they have number plates missing
There is also another house at the end of terrace who have their own driveaway backing out of the property; however they have 2 cars. The other car will also continually park opposite my garage. Again am I within my right to ask them to move.
I park adjacent to and in front of my garage if there is no space; but the sight of their cars continues to wind me up. Can I have some advice?
Hope someone can give some advice.
I live in a narrow Street, as well not very long, we have no off road parking. So it is sometimes not easy to find space.
A couple of weeks ago my neighbor across the street has got now a disabled car park, ( it's marked with white paint) I don't really have a problem with this. But now I can see that he also want to lower the Karb beside the disable parking,in front of his house ( flat) this means in
this short street will be less space available.
Is he allowed to do this?
As well since his wife has got the disable parking space and he got a big Van because of his job,and always parks behind her or in front of her car, the part which drives me crazy is that, that he leaves so much space that he actually taking a lot of space away for other people to park. If he doesn't can get parked close to his wife, he is waiting that he can park close to her. I know this from experience. When I left just to get something from the garage takes 5min, come back you can be sure that he has moved his car. I know it can be funny, but I lost my humour for this kind of behaviour.
I live in a narrow Victorian St, where the majority of houses have no off road parking. Only one side of the street can be used for on road parking. I have put in for planning permission, For a house with provision for 2 off road parking however the new dropped kerb will mean,if approved, it will take one ‘on road’ parking for the rest of the households and visitors to the street. I have faced a lot of opposition although highways has no objection to the plan. However as many of the opposers are homeowners who have 2/3 cars per house with no provision for parking and 2 have garages that they do not use instead parking on the street do they have any legal entitlements to oppose my planning application.
Thank you
I live in Shrewsbury and a guy down the street from us runs a mobile mechanic business from his home - I know because after a bit of digging on the net I have found a business address and mobile number for it to his house. He doesn't appear to work on the cars at the house, but clients drop cars off. or he leaves a number of cars (typically 2-4) that he will be working on parked on the road outside his and other peoples houses down the street. He also has 2 to 3 cars / vans parked up his drive for his own and family use.
The parking outside other peoples houses can cause problems as if you have alot of shopping or bags you have to go back and forth to your car which is probably parked 3 or 4 houses away from your own. It is also difficult for guests who may come to visit to get parked. Most of the houses down the street have drives but like alot of residents we have 3 cars- all of which I park on the drive. Am I being over sensitive that the cars that are parked on the road are for his business and not residential use? It does annoy me though when my guests have to park in the next street and I have to carry shopping in the rain from 3 houses away to my house due to him parking the cars outside my house for his business
Could you advise if it was legal for him to use the road in this way especially as he is running a business from home - should he be paying more council tax to do this and what are his mortgage implications - mine states that you have to inform them if you are running a business - somebody told me that they should but Im not sure and what if anything could be done about it if anything. I wouldn't want to give my name to the council in case the guy up the road found out and have never spoken to them about it as a month ago my sister parked her car outside the mechanics house and they told me to move it as that's where they park their cars, so I know what reception I would get .
Any advice would be apprecicated
The neighbours have a drive & they have 2 cars, they park 1 on drive, 1 on road.
However they often have between 3-5 vans and they park all down the road, making getting off our drive very difficult. Are there any laws to amount of vehicles someone can have outside their house?
We had tried to speak to the neighbours but he gets aggressive. He has threatened my 19 yr old dtr & had a go at my other 2 children. His dogs bark all the time & we have even had rats running from their property. The wife is as unapproachable. They rent the house, not that this makes a difference.
Any advise would be helpful.
My driveway & garage backs on to a private road (we contribute to its maintence). Two of the neighbours adjourning have decided to block up their garages & driveways to make the most of their gardens, they now park their vehicles along the private road. The private road has no allocated parking and as people park so tightly either side and opposite our driveway we struggle and can really only park one vehicle on it. Our other car (my husbands) we park in the same format as our neighbours, along the private road (which has plenty of space for all). However this has clearly annoyed one of the neighbour as she previously decided to parked in our driveway to make her point, this led to a dispute. Subsequently she has left notes telling us not to park on the private road and more recently she pushed her wheelie bin up against our car (she often uses her wheelies bins to monpolise that park of the road). I have tried talking to her which was unsuccessful and now she has other neirghbours approach us in order to tell us not to park. I have written a letter to her to explain our point that we are just as entitled to park there as she is, as well as our other neighbours and that it is a road with no allocated parking. However my concerns are that she will either damage one of our vehicles with her bins, or that she will park across my driveway preventing me from using my main vehicle, which would be hugely problematic as I am an on-call medical professional who uses my car for that purpose. Could you advise on where I stand on this, any assistance would be gratefully appreciated.
I understand that it may be possible in some cases for a resident to get a single white line painted nearby to their home- what does this mean exactly? Am I right in thinking this would be advisory only?
As your article says, I am concerned that these types of dispute/frustrations are only ever escalated when legislation is quoted.... especially in error!
The man is very rude, intimidating and bullying. He has parked one of his diggers on my neighbors drive without consent and today he parked his van on their drive without consent, my neighbor is 92 and doesn’t need this happening. He has bullied my partner into moving her car even though it was on our drive, he said if she doesn’t move it as it is blocking him parking his truck on the shared access he will charge us £200! She was at home alone with a sick 6 month baby at the time. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
A new neighbour for some reason likes to park their car in the cul de sac right outside my house even though they have a drive which they leave completely un-used. This forces me to park my car in the turning circle leaving only just ebough room for cars to use it. Friendly words got a door slammed in my face along with the words "wouldnt dare mate, get lost"... is there any advice on how i can approach this ? As i might actually be parking illegally (im not too certain). I have considered just parking on their drive since they won't but fear of having my relatively nice car vandalised by these people has stopped me. All other spots on the cul de sac are taken and for respect of my neighbours which ive got on with for many years. I wont take their spot and leave them in my situation
I live in a cul-de-sack which is very narrow. I own the only house which has no driveway. My neighbour who is a family of 4 and they all own cars but have a drive which only fits 2 cars. So the other two are parked on the cul-de-sack and one in front of my house. This is a problem for me because being a car driver myself leaves me struggling to find parking space. So I usually end up parking on another street. I have tried speaking with the neighbours. But was rudely told to get on my bike as there is no law stating they can not park outside my house so it's a first come first serve basis. I was wondering if it's worth contacting Birmingham city council and asking them what can be done but don't know where to start. Any ideas please
I live in a dead end street where's there's semi detached houses so we all have drive ways. However there is a house in the middle at the end of the street his address belongs to the other side (culd de sac) as that is his entrance and his actual drive way. However he has made an entrance (drive way) in the middle of my street by knocking his wall down. He used to park his car in the middle of the street rather than in his garden ( just to point out his garden is not wide or big enough for a car). The neighbour hood complaint several times when an entrance was made to the council but it was ignored.
After many years and phone calls to the police they have decided to use a highway code of double parking as the street is not large enough to park a car in the middle.
Now the person does not park his whole van in the middle. He parks 2 wheels inside his garden and the rest on the road still obstructing our driveways and turning points.
There's is no footpath at the end of the road either so he has no actual driveway. The council say they can't give him tickets unless all 4 wheels are on the road. What can be done about this? What are the rules and regulations. The council are quite lazy and ignore the matte
I recently moved into a house in a small car-free development (houses built and connected behind shops) so parking is a nightmare at times as park and display spaces on main road quickly get taken up throughout the daytime hours of operation. The development has a small gravel driveway where cars can drive through and quickly park to load and unload, e.g groceries, but, out of courtesy, must leave when finished so as to not block driving path for other residents wishing to get in. There is a small space at the beginning of this driveway that is large enough for two cars. It is directly behind a business, a hair salon. I parked my car here once only to be told I couldn’t as it is only for the hair salon. I moved my car thinking nothing of it. I don’t want to continue paying for my parking every single day as my council will not grant me a parking permit because of the car-free development- but there is no signage whatsoever indicating the small space is for the salon, could this simply be a case of first come, first serve parking? I should add that as time went on, I have noticed that all the bins for me and other residents on this driveway are kept in that clear space - surely this is a clear sign this is public space otherwise the hair salon would have complained by now? Also the space is overgrown with weed. Another sign of public space? My friend says the hair salon does not own the “dead” space behind the shops. Please advise. Thank you.
Although this family basically has 9 cars and 2 vans which includes the children's cars and their partners they always park out side mine and my neightbours houses sometimes double parking in front of one and other to make it more difficult to get in and out. I have 1 car and I find it difficult to get parked outside my front door.
I do have a drive way out my back but I find it difficult to park my car their as children play out our back and play football and I'm scared incase they break a window.
My neighbors also have a parking bay across from their house to park their cars as well as out their back, but never use those spaces.
Does anyone have advice on what to do. They are aware of the suitation but they don't care, I would like to think they would have a bit respect and say look let's let ------ park out side her front door we will park up the street but they don't.
It's even worse when they have a family party or get together because at least 20 cars are in are cul de sac and no one can get parked.
I am aware they pay tax like the rest of us but having so many cars is a bit ridiculous?
Help?
A Neighbour has recently been putting cones out to block the space outside their house even though they have parking behind their house. Are they allowed to do this by blocking a space off with cones.
It is infuriating as even if there is an empty parking space on the road he will block us in.
thanks very much
There is enough room in front of our houses to park two cars, however, they claim that the space directly outside their house, is for their sole use. I have explained to them that as long as no one obstructs their drive, anyone can park there.
I also explained that if they actually used their drive, they wouldn't need to worry and that it would also free a space for other residents (we don't have much parking space on the road). They refuse to use the drive unless the parking spaces are used when they arrive home. They will even bring their car off the drive as soon as the space becomes free!
We have to deal with abuse when arriving home in our car and have tried to reason with them, but they firmly believe that they own both the pavement and space.
Any advice?!
They have also caused our drive to split by the weight of their car on the soft grass next to it. I don't think I'd mind so much if they had a proper drive but it's almost as if they don't want to dirty their feet by walking on the by now sludgy mess that was once grass.
I want to put some kind of permanent divide up but when the houses were built it was stated they had to remain open plan and couldn't be fenced off so I don't think we'd be allowed a fence or wall. I then thought about putting tall pavement edges up or tall planters with shrubs in.
Last weekend their car was one millimetre from been on my driveway so when all our cars were missing I went out with the hosepipe, brush and bleach and decided to scrub all our drive. I'm ashamed to admit it felt good splashing his car as he is one of those who washes it five times a week ! Has anyone got any advice as to what I could use as a suitable divide as I think we need a permanent solution.
If we have guests and they park on the cul de sac he blocks them in with his work van. I've tried talking to him, the agent, police and council.
I don't know what more to do?? He's very aggressive, when we ask him to let us take the car out he refuses and threatens us not to damage his car. It's so sad to say that even the police won't help so I have to shut up and put up.
I moved to a small council house with narrow street ( cul de sac ) my next door neighbours have a drive way and two cars , they keep 1 there n park the other in front of my house and they work day time while I work night shifts n I come back home 2am by the time I finish they r sleep n I find his car in front of my house I parked my car in front of other neighbor then I got told to move .
I explained to next door to leave a space so I can park in front of my house he n his wife keep ignoring me this makes me angry all the time because they r bully n I'm oversea student in this country I'm afraid of their reaction because I hear them fighting with each other on daily basis and I hear swearing and ..... , I wrote to them twice small letters but they still ignoring my present .
What can I do ! Thinking about moving out .
The road is narrow but fortunately most of us have a drive way which is big enough for 2 cars which they also have. They insist on parking their one car in the middle of the drive so when they get visitors which is every day they park right opposite our drive, not I front of theirs,
making it very difficult for us to get our cars in or out. I have got cancer so coming home from treatment at the hospital and having to go backwards and forwards to park is very frustrating. I knocked on the door one day and asked the visitor to park further down to which he came out with a rude remark, l explained about my situation and said how uncomfortable l was feeling and he told me l was using my cancer as an excuse. A couple of weeks ago my son went over and asked if they would use both parking spaces as no one else in the street is uncurtious. He was told that the guy had dementia. He isn't the one driving or being selfish. Any solutions?
There is a 10 metre tarmacadamed access with a dropped kerb that was installed at the same time.
In the last 6 months there has been a visitor to a flat next door where the tenant has a long term illness. The visitor is having difficulty walking and, without asking, parks on the 10 metre section. Usual parking is from 2 to 4 hours but recently he has left the vehicle overnight.
I am currently not able to drive due to medical conditions and have sold my car.
My question is at what point, if I say nothing, does the driver get rights due to oastvactivity that is unchallenged?
I live in a house with its own driveway on a busy A road in Staffordshire. Just before Christmas, a very large white van started to appear (the type with two or three rows of seats in the back as well as a large storage area and often used by roads / rail maintenance) and started to park partly on a verge / pavement between myself and my neighbour. The owner of the van lives in a row of terraced houses just down the road and they park a car in front of their property. The issue is that it is totally blocking visibility down the road as we are leaving our drive and emerging onto the A road and for my neighbour the van is parked in such a way as to be two or three yards from her driveway meaning she cannot see anything. For both us and our neighbour, we are therefore having to pull out into the road (30mph limit but people drive much faster, including large lorries accessing nearby quarries) quite far before we can see anything and have already had three near misses.
I have spoken to the owner and politely asked them to move the van, explaining the issues it is creating and although there is a free public car park 2 to 3 minutes walk away, she refuses to park there as she doesn't want to walk. She has also said she will not swap her car and van over and park the van outside her own house as it will block her view and overlap her neighbours windows and she doesn't want the grief.
She maintains she has a legal right to park where she is but, given the visibility issues she is causing is there any recourse to force her to move the vehicle?
My wife and i live in a terrace house and usually get to park behind each another infront of house. We take up our house and a bit of next door and have so for past 3 years when we can(neighbour doesnt have car so works fine)But....
Recently a neighbour 5 doors down parks his work van taking up 2 places instead(he really cant park ,if parked normal, closer to another car, someone could park easily). he also takes up space up on our other next door neighbour aswell with his other car (using 2 spaces as parks way away from counterflow in street). aswell as his partners car outside thier house. Meaning we park at end of street with cars out of site.. little worrying.
Could you suggest what to do other than mutter under my breath that he cant park.
We understand we cant park outside our house everynight but how do we tell someone he cant park properly? And is wasting space for other people could use to park?
Thanks
Grumpy Man
We live in a lower cottage flat with the neighbour upstairs having a driveway at the side leading to a garage at the rear.The driveway is also used for access to my rear garden and for taking bins out.Recently a new person has moved in and keep blocking the pathway with their car.are there any rules or laws against this?
Thanks
I live on the end of a terraced row of three. I share a drive between the terreced on the left and a semi on the right. Each house as a garage at the back and drive way in front of the garage and ample parking on the lane at the front.
My garage is on the left at the back of my house. The middle one. The first is middle neighbours and the end one the opposite end of terraced.
I don't have terrific relations with next door. The son aged 20 persistently parks on my drive whilst I am out. We had crossed words last summer regarding this. Having just returned home to find his car on my drive. I waited and pondered whilst he rushed out of the house and drove away. It's against the law for me to obstruct his parents car on there drive and block him in on mine.
Honestly I find it rude and bad mannered, I live on my own with two children and get the feeling it wouldn't happened if a man lived here. I have polity and crossly asked him not to do this to be told he's unloading.
Any suggestions please as I am tiring of it all now. Thank you
Recently new tenants have moved in across the lane and have persisted in parking on the lay by, churning up the surface and preventing our own visitors from parking there. Among the vehicles parking in the layby is a large insightly van. No one has asked if they can do this, despite notices clearly stating private parking only. Last night, my son moved a large planter onto the layby to be confronted by the neighbour in question. On explaining ( politely) that we are fed up with the parking situation and that we could do what we like on our own land, she called him a w*****r. This morning the planter had been moved to the middle of our gate, blocking the driveway.
Suggestions please?
We had problems when we first moved in with people from further down the road parking and blocking our access to our drive and leaving us with nowhere to park. As a result the house builders put signs up on our fences advising there was no parking apart from for us. These faded and we subsequently replaced them - so they now do not have the Barrett logo.
We have had no problems.
Now, our next door neighbours house is up for sale and I have just seen the potential buyers taking photos of these signs.
My question is what can I do to minimise any risk? Is there something I am not aware of that could be enforced so that we have to remove the signs? Are there any actions I could take in the meantime?
Thanks
I've posted on here before but things have gotten progressively worse since last time. I own a detached house with a driveway. My neighbour has the same. Its a strange layout as our houses are next to each other but the driveways are in front of my property and next to each other. Initially i had an issue with them parking cars outside their house but that meant i couldn't get on or off my drive. Now i have them parking on their garden but also parking several vehicles down their drive and right out into the road meaning i still cant get on and off my driveway as the overhang into the road from the cars on the garden and the extra vehicles off their property means i cant drive around them. After asking politely once for cars to be moved i was sworn at in the street so now i'm loathed to knock the door. In addition the footpath which runs to my house is completely blocked by their cars parking (i mean literally fully over it) so i cant even walk safely outside of my house with my young son. Some days it means other residents cant get to the end of the road or turn.
Please help, any advice would be gratefully received.
Thank you
Is this legal? Can the cones be moved onto the pavement.
A second question. Often people park large vans which are clearly owned by the company they work for. Are commercial vehicles allowed to park on residential streets?
It is obvious the cars never move - there is even moss growing on the road beneath them. I am wondering is there anything else I can do to try and get the cars moved. Is if the cars are taxed (which they are) is it legal to park them indefinitely and never move them?
Thanks!
However on another Street with private parking and garages we have a person who lives on the other Street who has decided to park outside our house and not use there own driveway...surely there must be a law about that. I cannot believe the audacity and sheer inconsiderate behaviour to do that. I have left a polite letter but without any back up....I haven't a leg to stand on. I'm sure if I parked on his private driveway police would take a dim view. Sometimes laws should be updated and reconfigured. Changing times should adopt changing laws.
The main issue I have is that on numerous occasions children have had near misses because they have to cycle around these parked cars and vans causing them to enter onto the road often with poor visibility especially on the tight corner where it gets so bad you barely clear the wing mirrors of the cars parked opposite one another on the corner where the turning circuit is badly reduced and narrowed.
The family is a group of teens who's parents no longer live in the family home so talking to them would not get any where.
Is there any way of reporting this behaviour before a child is seriously injured or even killed?
The elderly neighbour who is on the other side of the road to us, has two cars and a massive caravan. He parks one car and his caravan in his driveway, but always parks his second car in front of our house, on OUR side of the road.
Couple of years ago, he asked if it was okay for him to do this on account of his wife having a neck injury, and I understand why one would need a lot of space to bring the caravan out and put it back. It has since become a problem, as he parks his car in front of our property to STOP me and my sister from parking there.
This is forcing us to park our cars a few feet away from our property, which wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't a massive tree in next doors garden with branches hanging over the road. Basically, our cars keep getting covered in tree-sap and we're getting sick and tired of having to clean it off every week.
We'd speak to him if we could, but he has a bit of an attitude, and at least twice a week he's moving his caravan and putting it back.
What irks me even more is that sometimes I have to reverse-park, with his car in front of mine. Times are he's outside messing about with his caravan, and he'll watch me trying to reverse-park between his car and another...and he never offers to shift and give me more room. He just stands there and watches me struggle to park.
I feel there's nothing I can do until my sister and I move out of our parents house and take the cars with us
I live on a busy street we all have driveways I have a car which I park on the drive and a van that I park directly outside my house cannot fit up the drive as too wide (not obstructing entrance to anyone else)
My neighbour is now complaining that she cannot see while backing out of her driveway and is complaint about me parking it outside my house!
What can I do about this as there is nowhere else to park?
I have a gated driveway and a driveway outside my gates which is shared with my left side neighbour giving me space for two cars. However parking on the shared driveway blocks any car in the gates as the gates opened wide have just enough space to fit a car through.
I have recently started having an issue with my right side neighbours visitor namely their son around thirty years old didnt grow up on the street and has only recently started visiting.The son i'll call him K is parking on my shared driveway which is near to their house blocking access to the street from my driveway.Although they have a gated driveway due to parking issues with their right side neighbour they refuse to use it and park on the street in front of their driveway meaning K has nowhere to park.
I asked K to stop parking using my drive way figuring that since he hasn't been here before maybe he just didn't know it was part of my property.K didn't say anything didnt move his car and has continued parking there on saying that he doesn't have anywhere else to park and I should "just deal with it" refusing to move it when asked. I have tried parking on the shared drive way but he just parks his car in the middle of the street in front of mine and still won't
K's car was recently damaged by kids living at his parents' house and he blames it on me as "it would have been safe on the driveway and not in the street".
I have even approached the parents and asked if they would be able to park their car in their gated driveway when they know K is visiting so he use the pavement in front of their house when visiting but their still refuse due to their neighbours' visitor having parked there once at Xmas(they moved it when asked btw and didn't use it before that one incident or since)
We have lived in this house with these neighbours for over ten years so they know the shared driveway belongs to us even if the son doesn't and they are aware that parking on the street in front of it completely blocks my access to my shared and gated driveway.
parking behind his car if he arrives when I'm out is not an option as I would be blocking access to two other houses and would be a hazard to any cars using the street to turn as it's a sideways T shape with only the - part of the T shape having space for cars going opposite ways.As the street is just off a busy main road with no space and too fast moving traffic for U-turns the street is used often by people to turn without being a hazard on the main road.
What options would I have available as the person actually blocking me is a visitor to the property?
Sorry if this is difficult to understand
Thanks for any advice
He has three cars and a carport for one but chooses to park the one that he doesn't use outside my house. On our side of the street, the immediate neighbour has one car and we have two. There is enough room for three cars outside our houses but the one of the heighbours makes sensible parking virtually impossible.
Tonight, after I parked too close to another neighbours' carport, and he (understandably) complained, I moved my car in front our own carport. My partner leaves alot earlier than me in the morining so we have to shuffle cars.
I approached the guy on the opposite of the road to ask if the car could be moved and he said that the least he would do is it shift it in the middle on the parking space for the three cars. I said thats better than nothing, but then he suddenly realised he didn't have the keys.
Is this either fair or legal?
The flat next door has been turned into an office for the housing association.
There are parking places outside but only one for each resident.
The office people park in spaces leaving little to no spaces for us.
Is there anything that can be done ?
I'm not 100? sure but think there is a restrictive covenant regarding this where I live.
Recently my neighbour has got 2 cars and a large van ( which is a world van and says it's gOt to be parked outside her house) and parks all 3 of them outside the neighbour to her left her own house and my house.
This now leaves me no access to my garden which has a gate on and would damage their car for me to open it!
Does anyone have suggestions on how to help me resolve this. I also own a car too!
Do you think I could complain to the company about his work van?
We have a car park outside our house and our neighbour deliberately keeps parking over the lines so makes it extremely difficult to get my child out of the passenger side and he has to climb through the other side to get out. Can I report this to anybody and who would it be? I have photographic evidence of all this as well.
My question is, what rights does he have over that verge? Di t the council own it? It just doesn't seem neighbourly and it does no harm to anyone parking there.
The other thing is to mention the front of his house and verge are completely over grown and a mess. He just has issues!
Many thanks
Thank you for your time.
I live in a gated community of freehold houses. We each have one numbered parking space and there are visitor spaces. The title deeds state that owners are not permitted to use visitor spaces, only their own numbered space. A new family have just moved in with two cars and despite being told otherwise, are using a visitor space. Our Owners Association has written to them but to no avail. What can we do about this?
He has been spoken to but this has had no effect.
Is there anything we can do? As we are at our wits end with this nonsense of these cars.
Advice / guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
He has now started a car leasing business and we is parking about 10 cars on the street. Parking is constrained anyway on the street, and these additional cars is making life impossible for families with children (who are now parking around the corner). I phoned our local council who were useless; basically said as long as the vehicles are insured and taxed he can do what he wants.
Advice of having a reasonable conversation with the person is not on, as people are fearful of a member of the underworld. Advice appreciated
When ever I have visitors, my neighbour makes it clear that we're not allowed to park in front of the gates/dropped kerb, and this causes problems.
Any advise please?
Each day I have as many as 5 vehicles park on the opposite side of the road to my drive making it very difficult for me to reverse off having to do at least a six point turn. We live on the crest of a small hill and the road is a busy access to 2 cul de sacs. The vehicles belong to the workers of a cleaning company that electrically charges at least 5 white vans overnight on the drive of a large detached house at the bottom of the road on a T junction.
The workers arrive at around 8.30 every morning park their cars opposite and drive the vans off to work leaving their drive empty ! When I say "their drive" clearly the workers of the cleaning company don`t actually live in the property.
The police say that if the cars are not parked illegally then they are limited as to what they can do. I guess the real root cause of the problem is a residential property in a residential area being used as a business. Who could I contact in this case to look into this issue ?
I live down a cul de sac, and to begin with about 4 romanians moved in 3 doors up with 3 cars from me at the start of the year.. they now rent 2 houses which are 2/3 bed houses.. there are now lots i have lost count of but they now have at least 8 cars.. 2 are normally parked outside their 1 house at the bottom and the rest park outside ours.. i alerted the council and local police as they have about 30 different cars since they moved down here.. some been taken for not insured/tax/mot.. but 1 has been in a rear end accident and not moved for months.. they keep parking and leaving different vehicles outside ours and neighbours homes then leaving them parked there for weeks then move them and swap with a different car. No houses down the road have off road parking so we all park on the road.
I have a neighbour who parks outside my house everyday. Preventing me from being able to or guests being able to. The kerb isn't dropped but our driveway has concrete for one car and the rests grass. The dropped is enough for the concrete part. I have to park my car on the grass and it's hard to get my car off only having a cars width dropped kerb and my partners car in the way.
I really can't afford to get my driveway completely redone and my car has actually being repaired due to the grass being so unlevel and my car getting stuck and caught on bumps etc. I don't know what to do. I'm not sure I will be allowed to ask or the kerb to be dropped or not. And I find the neighbours very unapproachable. So I don't know what to do. Any advice would be great
I've just moved into a house that has a shared car park next to it. There are 3 parking spaces outlined on the title deeds and we have the right to park on one of them. The spaces are not marked in the car park and the 2 other home owners have so far not allowed us to park there as they say there is only room to park 2 cars. Each space is 2.4m so it's a bit small but still doable. I've shown them the deeds but they have just ignored them. The car park is off a private road so the council will not help. Is legal action the only option and will that resolve the situation?
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The problem is a private resident across the road feels he has the right to park his van on the driveway. Sometimes I can't park in the driveway and this has became worse now as a new resident has moved into the flat next to me and they have a car and Are within their rights to park there. I have written several times to the housing explaining the situation as the man has said he has had permission to park there I have had numerous letters back from housing to say he has no such permission and should not be parking there. The man is a bully and and intimidates me daily to the point I won't go out when he is outside. He won't say anything to me if any members of my family are with me only on my own. The police will not act on it as its a civil matter the housing association day there isn't a lot they can do but will monitor the situation. Now the new neighbour who moved in last week doesn't use there car it's parked permanently there which they have every right to do so as we pay rent and service charge for this service. My son in law some evenings comes and takes my car to get my shopping for me after he finishes work last week and this week as soon as my car moves this man comes out of his house and moves his van onto the driveway when my car is returned it has to be parked away from my home making it difficult for me to get access to
It the following day. Is there anyone else that can give me any sensible advice as this is now affecting my health as he has threatened to damage my vehicle I already had a tyre damaged and scratches along the side of my car but police say their is no evidence to
Back this up. I'm not sleeping and continually going to the window getting out of bed several times a night if I hear a noise
I have a dropped kerb outside my drive now my neighbour across the road has said they are having a disales parking spot put in opposite my drive it's only a small road and if there is a car opposite my drive Its not wide enough to get my car in and out..my question is are the allowed to do this?
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Mark
We have had issues for over 2 years with the upstairs neighbour including; an assault, an attempted kick in of our door, threats to myself and partner and most recently another attempted assault over us having a drive way and the neighbour not entitled to it, constantly parking across our driveway which has a lowered kerb and white line, which they also park over. We either struggle to get in and out our own drive or have to enter the road blindly as their vehicles hinder vision. Police have now been involved but the local council say there is nothing that can be done? Surely that is incorrect? Most recently the neighbour has decided to borrow another car and block my own in on the street with no space at all the move it. Due to the aggressive background and nature of the neighbour mediation is not an option and approaching them is not a great idea either. Any other advice? I hate to involve the police every time I need out the drive when they can't attend quickly either.
I live in a block of flat and I have my designated car park space. When i go work during days or nights l, my neighbours who lives on ground floor, have only one space next to me always park in mine or her partner do so. Even if hers is free she always park in mine and they have two cars. When i come back from work im so frustrated because the car park is full and i need to drive around to find a space when i have my own space.They have two cars but allowed only one space. I spoke to my housing association several times but she is like a crazy woman and doesnt listen. She is doing it again and again. Please give me some advice thank you.
Kind regards
Prishi
I have spoken to the neighbour but nothing has been done. We have plenty of room in the street to park but they always park on the corner.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
The property has a drive directly to the front which houses 2 cars. The neighbouring property has a garden area but no drive. The housing association told my daughter that one of the parking spaces outside her house belonged to her neighbour and the space allocated for them was the one situated directly outside my daughter's front door.
The reason they have given to my daughter for doing this is because there is a drain directly in front of the neighbours house which prevented them from dropping the kerb which in turn did not allow them to build a drive on the neighbours ample garden area.
I have told my daughter to dispute it with the housing association as she has plans to eventually purchase the property under the voluntary right to buy scheme. I advised that she would have an issue later down the line if she decides to sell the property with this arrangement in place. Can the housing association do this or are they pulling a fast one in order to comply with the housing corporation new build rules where all new builds should have an allocated parking space.
Please advise.
Any advice, I can't find any mention of distance to leave between vehicles from a legal point of view, maybe anti-social behaviour?
In the grounds is a small bungalow which was owned by the the freeholder and when a family member who occupied it went into sheltered accommodation they decided to sell. Gradually a couple of no parking signs went up reducing the number of parking places to 4, a ridiculous situation in this day and age. Six apartments and four places just does not work. Unfortunately the new owner of the bungalow has taken to attaching not very polite notes to people's cars and for some reason she has a key to the main block and on occasion has taken to banging/ringing incessantly on our own doors telling us to move.
I have now had two unpleasant episodes with this lady during which she has threatened me with legal action. Today, apparently the documents to take me to court are being drafted!! As I am the least likely of the residents to park in the "wrong" place naturally I feel I am being victimised. As well as this we now have new agents overseeing the properties and they seem to be siding with the bungalow resident. The rest of us are at our wits end. We live in a seaside area and there is very rarely any road parking within a mile of home. Please advise.
The trouble is our neighbours opposite. They are really annoying. The lady who lives there is in her 70's but her son who doesn't live there but is there a lot parks endless cars on the road. He loves in a different part of sheffield and is a second hand car dealer and uses his mum's property to park the cars. Currently they're are 6 cars on the road belonging to this man. The way he parks them makes it difficult for people getting on and off their drives and also people visiting neighbours houses can't get parked as he parks smack bang in the middle of the side of the grass verge whereas if he moves up you capild fit.another car either behind or.in front of his car. I have told him twice about it but he just keeps doing it. I have 2 yung children under 4 and can't be walking distance from the house with shopping etv and trying to control the children. It's driving me insane is there anything we can do abkut it?
What to do?. Can I call Brent council put clamp.pls advice me
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Craig
A dispute has arisen between two neighbours and one has decided to park a vehicle off the kerb opposite the other neighbours dropped kerb.
The parked vehicle is permanently situated there, moved only slightly to meet non abandoned criteria.
The parked vehicle makes entering and leaving the drive of the affected neighbour difficult.
What rights does the affected neighbour have to relieve him self of the hazard created.
The neighbour with the garage furthest away works from home and uses their garage for work. They have a van and a car in their driveway and often have family and friends who park behind their drive (effectively making it a 3 car driveway).
Now the next door neighbour has a new boyfriend so they now have 3 cars and do not use their garage but have decided to park outside my house. This is in front of my side gate and rear access to the house and right up to my front door. They are constantly coming and going all weekend and doing the '3 car shuffle'. It drives my dogs insane and it really upsetting because I have cancer at the moment and am still trying to get over the treatment. I have just had all 3 of them at my door getting annoyed with me and telling me I am rude and inconsiderate because I have parked my car outside my house to try and stop them from parking the third car there because this effectively means I have to shut myself and my dogs into the rear of my nice house and cannot use the front half of it because of them. I explained this to them and they just said that he is 'family' now and everyone has a right to go in and out of their own home and they have always done that.
Is there anything I can do. I see from this that they cannot park across access to the house which they are definitely doing at the rear access and sometimes at the front door as well.
I hate conflict and just want to get on with my life quietly, which I have always done.
I have a next door neighbour that I think is running a business from home.
He appears to have deliveries all the time for building materials and has half a dozen vans on the road.
My house has a double driveway which they do not block but the vans take up alot of space on the street.
I have been in touch with the people that own the land on the housing estate but they can do nothing.
Please advise me
The division of the driveways are clearly marked.
For seven years we got on wonderfully with our neighbours, who I may say are much younger than us. We chatted and I was so delighted to have such lovely people next door and I told them so on many occasions. However, they decided to erect a chimney onto the house - we remarked that we hoped it would be tall enough not to allow smoke to affect our house. They assured us and promised to have it built to eliminate any problem.This did not happen and eventually we offered to pay half towards having it extended - again they promised. Winter came and the smoke was horrid, entering our house and garden, making us ill. Eventually, we had no other choice than to ask for help from the Council, which upset them. Since then, they have parked as near as possible to the dividing line and we heard the young woman comment to their foster child that the object was to make it as difficult as possible for us. This has caused us much grief and disappointment as we are in our late seventies and we do not bother them at all. We have enormous difficulty in getting into our car as we are not as agile as once we were and I have a painful hip condition.
Most of the time we try to ignore their nastiness, but it does get us down. What are we to do ? I did try and appeal to them over the chimney, but we were told to 'go away.'
Paragraph 207 of the Highway Code does say that people should not park anywhere that their vehicle might cause an obstruction to pedestrians or road users, and does also give an example of not parking in front of another person’s driveway – but it doesn’t actually say that you can’t park in front of another person’s driveway or property.
We live on a new estate which wasn't designed well for parking. 4 out of the 5 houses in the street we live only have space for one car on the drive, and we are all fairly courteous to our other neighbours, however the other one, can park 2 cars onto his drive and park directly outside of his back gate. He now though would like to make a drive at the side of his house, and make a bad situation worse by basically claiming one of the spare spaces. My other concern is that is it right next to a public footpath (as in it will run parallel to, rather than in front/behind as in normal drives) and I have some concerns about safety of mine and other children who use the path as there is no way he would be able to see if another is coming over the fence. He will need (I hope) to apply for planning permission to drop the kerb from the local council. Is it likely he will get it? Ive never seen a drive in such a location, other than when it has been put in by the developers per the original plans.
I'm renting a room in a flat I share with one other person. The property has private parking (there's even signs on the wall telling people it's for residents only and 1 space is for disabled people).
New people moved into a house on the other side of our road, which has no connection to us. Not only do they park their car in front of our house, they also make repairs, keep revving the engine and play loud music. Today one of their visitors has parked in the disabled space.
The house is managed by a housing association (we never met the landlord) and we have mentioned it to them but nothing has changed. Is there anything we can do to stop this?
Thank you
are you allowed to park so many commerical works vehicles etc.. in a residentail area ?
they also have 2 old vans parked a bit further up the road.,
Recently each time I have arrived home the spare parking space has been taken up by someone visiting the house next door, or a work van. I completely agree that had they asked me if it was ok I would have more than likely said yes anyway, it was the fact that they didn't ask, but when I (politely) requested they moved their car they did it without protest.
I only moved into the house in January and one of the reasons for this was the two parking spaces each property was allocated. I don't want to go back to living in an area were you have to leave work at 3pm just to get a parking space. Another bug bear is the man next door parking his Estate car on the path! Is this even legal?
Our neighbour from a couple doors down has began to park outside our house. He does not block our drive (dropped down kerb) however parking his van right outside our house blocking any views from our front window.. Is there anything we can do to prevent him parking
Regards
Totally fed up
I've lived in the same house in bristol for 6years and have my own driveway. However, over the past few years, due to it being a built up terrace housing area with new tenants moving into rented housing, I've had issues with trying to get into my drive.
It seems that people are too lazy to look for a space or find somewhere else to park. So they park in front of my driveway basically so it's nearly impossible to get into it properly in my Saloon!
I keep leaving notes on the cars for them to please stop parking there but there's a new car every week. I don't want to have to "deal" with this sort of thing. There should be a "no parking" zone in yellow and white paint on the road to stop this from happening. I shouldn't have to deal with this everytime i come back in the evening! It's become such a nuisance that I actually park in public spaces to avoid the hassle of someone being there in a larger car car in the morning!!!
Can anyone help or share advice on the following
We have lived in our house for 36yrs, parking has never been an issue, until 8yrs ago the neighbours across the road moved. The family who moved in have a reaL issue as to where I park. We don't have a drive and don't park on our side of the road, we have been courtious and parked the same side as the other cars. Where I place my car is a gap the length of a car, just down from their path. So not in anyone's way. Then our other car is parked 6ft further down the road. These newish neighbours have a driveway, which could potentially have 5 cars on. Instead every couple of weeks they park where I do or if my car is parked, they will park mm from it. For no reason. Then come night time move there car onto their drive. Please bear in mind you can get two-three cars behind me the other side of their path. Apart from being bloody minded and pathetic, I have no clue. ..sorry for the rambling
I own a flat in a large house converted into 17 flats, each flat gets a parking space. Recently one of the ground floor flats was rented out to a disabled tenant who has had an enormous wheelchair ramp installed, blocking over half of my parking space and making it completely unusable. I have contacted the freeholder regarding this and have been told he is obliged to make "reasonable adjustments" but he has confirmed the ramp fitted was not the one agreed to in the plans he saw
The ramp builders have been contacted and have stated they cannot change it.
I now am being asked to enter into dialogue with the care worker in charge of this case. I have no issue with this but don't really see what can be gained by this.
I work shifts and come and go at strange times, the tenant has offered me the use of her space which I agreed to on a temporary basis but have already found it occupied several times.
Do I have to right to insist it's moved?
I dont want either of our cars damaged but due to us not parking outside houses which already have cars we have little choice but to park close to their property?
What can be done?
And on the road in front of his house he has a pick up truck which is level with my wall. And on the left of me next to my neighbour on the road he has a tat van.
So there's no were for my partner or daughter to park. And there's hardly any room to get on & off our drive ways.
Is there any that can be done ?
The properties are all Council Rented.
One neighbour who lives to the right of us could not park his car where he normally does so parked behind mine thus taking the space of the neighbour to the left of me, this neighbour then phoned me telling me to tell my other neighbour to move his vehicle as he was parked in her spot, I told her to go and speak to them herself feeling it was nothing to do with me the language was rather blue but as I told her as the law stands we pay our Road Taxes and Insurance etc and can park where we want but preferably outside our properties if possible she is now stating that when we go out she will park where we park. My Husband has a false leg and I suffer with COPD Osteo arthritus in my lower spine and right leg plus am also diabetic and
have severe difficulty walking. What can I do your advice would be greatly appreciated
I'm having problems with the next door neighbour parking in front of my house. Is there a process to apply for permission to have that spot reserved for my use only as it's becoming a nightmare arguing and a security issue to me?
Thank you.
It's in the deeds to my property that the drive should be available for those needing to get to the rear of the property's 'over full extent in length and width' of the drive which he is clearly contravening. Second to this I have had my property vandalised recently resulting in my putting up security cameras, his vehicle is now blocking the view of one of the cameras and I'm worried that more damage will be done.
Not sure what else to do, other than knock his door and have it out with him which may or may not do the trick ?? Please advise?
On another note, there is a possibility to extend parking spaces of having permission to park on the kerb. Who do I need to contact to get such a permission.
Thanks
I never complain I simply park elsewhere and walk.
My issue is that I park in a space where the house does not own a car.
However when she gets a visitor with a car, This lady asks me to move.
I am a very friendly person and very considerate to disable drivers who need to be close to their house, but even I am coming close to presenting her with the parking rules in writing instead of politely verbal.
Is there anything we can do to stop him?
The neighbour however, who is into doing up cars and selling them has 4-5 cars parked there permanently, reducing the space for us, our visitors etc.
I've spoken to him nicely to move a few of the car away, but he just ignores. How can I legally stop him from parking and reverting to what the deeds state please ?
Grateful for your help.
I have all relative plans approved by the local council what can I do ...
I have a end house in a close next to a field. I have always parked my vehicles up the side and on our property which leads from the drive and has a dropped kerb. The housing said it wasn't a problem before and we are looking at stabbing it too. Now the neighbours from hell who constantly harassed us since moving in 3 years ago have complained and now they are saying we can not park there? The shortage of parking has always been a problem and this would make things worse.
I don't think it's fair that I have to pay out huge paint job fees just because my cheap skate neighbours can't be bothered to move to a house that has the parking they need. Any help would be appreciated!
There are no signs or markings to indicate this and I am not restricting anyone's access to the street/drive/pavement.
It's slightly annoying because last night my work colleague took my van instead of myself and a car parked in the space where I usually Park the van overnight.
The only reason why someone might be angry about it is because it's a little bit of an eyesore?
Advice?
First of all is he allowed to have his wheels on the pavement and secondly is he legally allowed to park across the boundary line?
We had an almighty falling out in the summer because of his kids kicking balls across our fence and we no longer give one another the time of day. We were the only people in the street who bothered with them until then.
I am wondering if anyone can help.
We had new neighbours move in during the summer. After a couple of months a caravan appeared on their drive, which is outside my dining room window.
The caravan does not belong to the neighbours but one of their relatives, neither of their cars have a tow bar on.
Because they are using the drive for the caravan, they then park a car and a van outside their house which blocks the entrance/ exit to the close. I have checked my title deeds and unfortunately I cannot see anything on the covenants regarding caravans, however there is a clause about not causing an annoyance.
Because of where their drive is situated, they would not be able to see the caravan from inside their house, however when I sit at my dining table, I am sat looking at a caravan which is also an eyesore.
Anyone got any ideas whether or not I would have a case to see a solicitor?
Thanks
Julie
Looking for some advice please.
I've had the neighbours land law complaing to me about having 3 cars on our driveway.
He's saying I should have got permission from him to be able to put the driveway in.
I spoke to our council and ask for advice and all they said is as long as the drive has the correct drainage in the all will be ok.
I've had the driveway in around a year now and had no complains from anyone not even the tenants.
Would I have needed to get "permission" from the land law of next door before putting in my drive? He's saying by law I should have???
Thanks in advance.
After some advice, I live in a cul de sac, my neighbours have 3 vehicles 2 vans and a car. The area at the front of the house is a shared lawn. They have decided in their wisdom to now park the vehicles on the shared lawn and have the vehicles half on the grass and on the pathway in a row in front of the house. With the weather being wet it has now churned up the grass on their side. Is there anything I can do, I want to move but I know this would put future buyers off. Is this not illegal to park half on half off a pavement?
My neighbours opposite have a large driveway. We do not and have to park on the road.
My neighbour has decided to park her car outside my house although she has the space for her car in her drive way. Her car has now been static and not moved for 3 weeks as she is using her husband's car.
We have 2 very young children and my neighbour next door has a young child too.
Out neighbour opposite has no children.
She is aware of how difficult this is making our life as we have asked her if she could park it on her drive or further up the road. She refuses.
Its making our life very difficult are there anything we can do or law we can aply?
Thanks
My neighbours opposite have a large driveway. We do not and have to park on the road.
My neighbour has decided to park her car outside my house although she has the space for her car in her drive way. Her car has now been static and not moved for 3 weeks as she is using her husband's car.
We have 2 very young children and my neighbour next door has a young child too.
Out neighbour opposite has no children.
She is aware of how difficult this is making our life as we have asked her if she could park it on her drive or further up the road. She refuses.
Its making our life very difficult are there anything we can do or law we can aply?
Thanks
I thought disabled parking only had stronger signage than this.
Anyone help?
Thanks ,Di.
Thanks in advance.
We have been neighbours for 25yrs+ and this has only become an issue since both of our kids have passed their tests and their son thinks he owns the road. To try calm the situation, we went to the expense of adding another driveway to our home - but whenever we don't park on this (say if we're just running in or if our daughter is parked there when she visits) we get a swift facebook status written about us!
Is there anything we can do as we'd prefer not to fall out with them.
We've recently had a new dealership (Mini) move in which use to be a Subaru garage.
Now, we (residents) live and park in a layby opposite the dealership. There is no restrictions on parking in laybe. Problem occurs we now have the work force parking in the laybe and we also have 65 plate Minis parking in the layby. Ok understand odd worker parking in the laybe although they have a nice big car park but parking there brand new cars in the laybe is just takng the biscuit now. Every night there is no room for parking for us residents until they have shut and we then scramble all our cars of the double yellow lines, touch wood with haven't had a to let yet.
My next question is, the 65 plate minis, under what insurance are they insurances under to park on the highway? Is there Nythjng we can do?
Also I have taken to parking in there forecourt which they didn't like (old citroen lol) got told " this is private parking" so I pooped up and said where does the sign say private parking?? I don't see any signs. For which she then stormed off. Any help would be appfeixated, thanks.
He only uses one car but seems to collect them, had plenty of viewings but his unsightly cars are putting people off , does anybody know if the council can do anything about it .
The double yellow lines have just been applied and one of the reasons was to prevent vehicles parking near a private property drive. The parking of vehicles and especially a public service vehicle (small bus used to carry passengers to school) restricted the view when leaving a private home when approaching the main road.
The public service vehicle is quite large (probably about 20 seats or more) and the driver who lives locally parks the bus within the doubly yellow lined area directly opposite private houses when not in use and away from his own home. Often the bus takes up a space that prevents another car parking in the remaining space thus restricting the amount of cars that can be parked. In addition the bus looks rather unsightly being observed from the front window of private properties.
On occasions the bus also parks opposite the entrance of the small development in question and this does restrict maneuverability of vehicles entering and leaving the development. The development comprises 7 homes with two completed and undoubtedly residents and their guests will eventually require additional parking spaces and will have to park on the public road.
The driver of the public serve vehicle was approached in a polite and courteous manner and was asked if it was possible to park the bus elsewhere for the reasons mentioned above. The driver was rather defensive and commented that he had been parking the bus in the same vicinity for the last two or more years. However, it was pointed out that properties have now been built opposite the parking area and this changes the use and need of the surrounding environment. He was also asked if he would like the bus parked outside of his own home but refused to give an answer.
In addition, there is a local car repair garage who tend to use the parking space also for their business use such as leaving cars parked that are awaiting repairs or have been repaired or cars that are owned by staff who work at the garage. There was also once a battered van parked in the area in question owned by the garage, which really was a sight for sore eyes. The garage owner was contacted and he has taken steps to reduce the use of the parking spaces. Incidentally, the garage owner was asked if he would like to have the same vehicle parked outside his own home and this appeared to make him think about the request to remove the car. One of the reasons given why the cars associated with the garage was because they did not have enough space on the forecourt, which also accommodates second hand cars for sale.
The bus in question is now parked in the area mentioned above and as schools are on holiday it is likely to be left for around a week before it is back in operation. This means that the position of the parked bus will restrict the amoun
What can I do?!?!
I have a neighbour who has a drive for 4 cars buit is constantly parking 1 or 2 of the cars half on half off pavemets outside our house and others.
I needed to keep my drive clear for one day and could not park outside my house so parked down the road .
I parked off the dropped kerb on their drive .
I had this woman come up and demand that I was blocking her access
It turns out they didnt have the full drive dropped kerbed ( all be it 3 foot or so)
We had words politley and the matter is resoved for now
What I would like to ask is Should they be driving over a normal kerb to gain access to their drive .
I cannot find anything on this and would like to be armed with the information before myself or someone else in the close parks there
Regards
Steve
I have a drop kerb what allows me to park on my driveway. either side of the entrance are marked parking spaces that are half on the road and half on the pavement.
Opposite me is my neighbour who also has a drop kerb and a driveway that allows him to park 2 cars on it. He also parks 3 cars across his driveway, the cars are parked close to the front of the cars parked in his driveway but also block the pavement.
He has 5 cars parked in front of his house.
I have spoken to him several times as the cars he has parked make it extremely difficult (and sometimes impossible) for me to park on my drive.
He insists that he is doing nothing wrong and is entitled to park all 5 cars outside his property. He buys cars at auctions, fixes them up and sells them on but there is almost always 4/5 cars outside.
I have contacted the council but as he is not parked in a recognized parking space they are powerless to do anything.
I have been advised that the police may be able to intervene but before I go down that route would like to know if I will get anywhere or is there some other route I can go down to resolve this.
Any advise gratefully received.
of which i am awaiting a reply, he also said that this is a shared drive but the drive only overlaps his house by 1ft & there is a fence seperating our gardens
House no.8 - My neighbours have a driveway but they park on the road outside their house/driveway. Can I do something about this? Or is it legal? I do not see any reason why they wouldn't park on their driveway. It is clear and in good condition for parking.
House no.9 - This is causing another neighbour to partially obstruct the parking space outside my house as they have 2 cars (one on driveway/one on the dropped kerb road.
My house no.10 (I am disabled and have 2 dedicated drivers) - Parking enforcement team cannot do anything about it because it is only PARTIALLY (2-3 feet) across my driveway. So although it is not blocking me completely, it does not leave enough space to park an estate car.
Many thanks for your time.
Shirley.
"Prohibition of parking at dropped footways etc.
(1)In a special enforcement area a vehicle must not be parked on the carriageway adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge where
(a)the footway, cycle track or verge has been lowered to meet the level of the carriageway for the purpose of
(i)assisting pedestrians crossing the carriageway,
(ii)assisting cyclists entering or leaving the carriageway, or
(iii)assisting vehicles entering or leaving the carriageway across the footway, cycle track or verge; or
(b)the carriageway has, for a purpose within paragraph (a)(i) to (iii), been raised to meet the level of the footway, cycle track or verge."
I have a dropped kerb but I need access to the driveway for deliveries and such for the building work going on
I live on a narrow street, i live in a disabled bungalow and i also have a driveway but the problem is the neigbours across from me have 2 cars and make it a struggle for me to get in and out even though they could park round the back, they just stand there and watch me struggle to get in and out, surely something can be done about this.
Regards
I Rent a property which is on a main road. I am unable to adapt our driveway to fit our vehicles. I have a small car and a small (unmarked van) My partner has a family car, as we both work in different areas and have children we need all of these.
I have seen neighbours parking on the main road but when I do, with my Van or car. I get complaints and threats, the police have even attended twice. On once occasion they were angry that the neighbours were wasting police time on the second occasion they listened to our situation (Not easy to move them back in our small drive start away due to having to take my toddler to and from each car just to keep neighbours happy) they still asked if we could find a way to stop the neighbours complaining - just to consider this
There are NO double or single yellow lines anywhere near me - residents are mainly elderly, there is a smaller street opposite but on parking there to be considerate on two occasions my car has been SHOT with an air rifle. I cannot park outside of my house anymore as there has been a zebra crossing built right outside. Can anybody give me advice?
Most homes are home owners.
People often park outside our property. I don't have a problem with this but if I park outside theirs, I get a nasty note and they say that they own the area outside their home so they own the land they park on.
Is there any way to find out if this is true?
Can someone please help where would I find any legal information if someone allow to prevent me to access my land if the surrounding land is not his/her property?
Thanks in advance.
I live on a small estate with a large green area. There are no dropped kerbs for the side that has the large green area. Every house has a driveway big enough for 2 cars, 3 at a push. Some residents have decided to mount the kerb opposite their house, and actually park on the pathway and/or grass. This is now wrecking the nice green area, and sometimes completely blocking the path so people have to go on the road/grass.
It's an estate with rented/part buy houses, so we contacted the association to get their views who didn't want to get involved. We contacted the Highways agency, who said that we would need to prove (pref by video) that they are mounting the kerb.
It wouldn't be so bad if it was once in a while, but now you get 4/5 cars every day.
Is this a case of 'put up/shut up'?
A few days ago I had to park outside the artists' studio block, on the double yellow line to unload my car, which I believe is completely within my rights. I had the hazard lights on and I had put up a sign stating 'LOADING'; I was only a few minutes (I would never park on a double yellow at any other time). I have an MPV which ended up half parked in front of the house. There is a sign on the house stating 'No Parking'. They had recently made the front of their house into a large entrance on one side, a concertina door which is about 2 metres wide. I was told by the male owner of the house that he was 'very annoyed' at me for parking my car outside his property.
My question is this: if there were no double yellow lines or any other parking restrictions, are they allowed to put up the 'No Parking' sign and it be legal?
Am I wrong in thinking that I can park on double yellow lines simply to unload/load? What are my rights and what are the rights of the owners of the house, so that we are all clear about parking?
Many thanks for any information received.
Each flat has one parking space and there are about 10 visitor spaces.
Up until about a year ago it was a lovely quiet place to live. Now a resident who lives with his girlfriend and vicious dog moved in along with their 5 cars. All 5 cars are parked outside his one bedroom flat in his space and various other flat owners spaces who are to scared to say anything.
Half the cars are on stands, there are engines covered up with tarpaulin in the communal garden, if someone manages to pinch a space he will Park in the garden. He works on the cars using electricity from communal plugs that residents pay for instead of using his own.
The management company refuse to do anything or even acknowledge letters that residents have sent complaining. We are at a loss of what to do.
Help
We have asked him to move at least 2 of his cars to the road in which he lives but he doesn't want to as its a main road!! His argument is that its a public road and as he is entitled to park on our road, which is true but he is being extremely selfish and also forcing other cars to park at the end making the road narrow potentially preventing an emergency service vehicle from getting to the road especially a fire engine. Is there anything we can do considering he doesn't live on our road?
Wonder if you can advise. I moved in September to a private road. If you imagine a Y shape and the middle of the y is where my house is situated. Both roads veering off are private on the left is space to park several cars against our hedge and on the right the road leads down further to other houses. I live in the middle with the entrance to my property being closes to the road on the left and is the first house when you enter the road to both private roads. My address falls under the right hand road. My deeds state that I am liable to pay for any damages down both roads and also states that one neighbour owns the land (there are 5 houses on this side) we have space for 3 cars within our front garden and a double garage, which is great. But we have had the odd problem of visitors stopping by for a cup of tea and leaving there car in the open parking area against my hedge on the left of the property and returning to their car finding a letter from one of the neighbours who isn't mentioned on my deed. Yesterday I arranged a surprise birthday party for my husband and his brother went to park in the same area and another neighbour has complained to us and was actually really rude and has really upset me. We haven't blocked anyone's way, never been rude to anyone. In actual fact this lady is on her own and I invited her over for Xmas and gave her an Xmas gift. I sent Xmas cards to all houses in the area with no one sending one back.
I contacted the British parking association and they said that unless there are signs then it shouldn't be a problem. Also the road sign to this private road is on our brick wall.
I just wanted to know what my rights are? The last thing I want is to upset anyone or to live there upset myself. Do I go to the person who It's says owns the land? They are always away and never mentioned anything to us before.
Thank you
Hi,
My house is located at the end of the street. I have my private car park behind the house with other neighbors. From the front of the house I have a large garden (he is in the arch, And how long is this arc street is marked with one white line) I have two entrance to my property. One is on the street side council (so I always have blocked the entrance to my property by parked cars there). Secondly, I have input through this arc, but the funniest of all this is that people still parks his car there! Not understanding that the blocking my way home! I have a small child (it is associated with a stroller). Wanting to get out of the house to the streets council must pass through the grass !!! Despite Garbage bins posed by me on this arc, people move where they want my baskets and parks there are still cars! We have no nice atmosphere on the estate! What do I do in this situation? The entrance to my two estates are the ornaments, and the road to the house is to be my lawn? Can I go to the council?
This causing excessive wear to my brick drive .....what can I do...
this is so frustrating. It only happens when the guy across the street has people over. I also have a handicap spot in front of my house and they try to park their too. please help with good advise. thanks
am i right in complaining about his car though bcuz i have a one year old that i cant leave on his own in the car or in the house if i need to bring shopping in especially if I've parked far across the street, it's fine if I have my husband with me but surely one has the right to park nearer their house? I know that no one has an automatic right to park in front of their house bcuz our street is public. But the problem neighbours behaviour is getting out of hand when it comes to his car today he's parked so out of the kerb that no one can manoeuvre to parallel park behind his car. So do I have rights to report him? He doesn't answer his door to anyone whenever I try to talk to him. He's a retired old man who works constantly in his garden and I'm thinking with all the banging and sawing and drilling he does I would like to complain about that we can't open our windows due to the noise not to mention he blares his radio and sings along to it...plz help I don't want moving to another home be th
lived at my recent disabled adapted property around eleven years.and got private parking space,its been 2 years a mom and her 3 dauthers moved in opposit my driveway.they allways abusing me by boxing my vehicle or blocking my way at the pavement although obstructing my power chair to drive outdoor,then several times occupying my parking space all of these just to annoying me.
asked local authority as well as local council and anti social behaviour police,all thier action were advice and no to worry.
ive been fed up
Trying to talk to him is proving impossible I manage to get the title deeds and am entitle to two parking spaces that he he now using
Please tell me where I can take my complaint coz I can't speak to him he is freighting and nasty
Is there any legislation regarding vehicles parked on a driveway in front of a garage with NO dropped kerb.
A friend advised me that if a car is parked then the offence of obstruction is committed but I cannot find legislation to support this.
Many thanks for reading
I am now told, after 10 years of parking in the same spot, that I can no longer do this.
I am also told that the management company will implement ticketing and fine me or parking outside my back gate. My 10 year parking space is not a designated space but does not obstruct anyone and was confirm, albeit, verbally by Barretts as ok to park when i purchased. Any advice please
I live in a cul-de-sac where each house has 1 parking space allocated to them, with several visitor bays amongst them, which I've taken from my houses deeds.
A neighbour of mine has 2 cars and this weekend painted their house number on the space next to their allocated space - leaving them with 2 bays stating their door number, which is not correct as the 1 space they painted is for visitors.
I have tried to reason with them and even showed them the deeds but typically, they are taking no notice.
What further action could I take?
Thank you
I have a single drive, 1 car and my house is on the corner. On my side of the road, there are two houses inc. mine, with drives, between the drives is a kerb about 3/4 metre. So no room to park a car without blocking either my or my neighbours drive. My daughters boyfriend who obviously visits regularly, parks across the road outside a neighbour house, opposite my house. They have two cars and they park them both on their drive. The other day my daughters boydriend got a note on the car saying please park on your own side of the road!! Now this quite concerns me as my daughter is in the process of buying a car and I obviously don't want her parking roads away as she finishes work late at night. Are the neighbours within their rights? can they do this? Are we breaking any laws parking there. I know if I blocked my own drive I would be parked to near a corner, probably causing an obstruction.
I have a neighbour who for nine months parked his van facing my ground floor bedroom window with no problems but since getting a new dark blue van he's started backing into the space blocking any natural light from my bedroom window. I can't open the window as he's backed in do close and I've had to ask him on numerous occasions to move it off my bedroom wall.
I've asked him not to park this way for all of the above windows as well as blocking any chance of escape if there was a fire and he got aggressive with me and continues to park this way. Why would someone intentionally go out of there way to stress their neighbours?
I own my flat and he rents so we have allocated parking spaces and unfortunately his is directly outside my bedroom window.
Help!
Is there anything I can do to get hm to park more reasonably as it's really stressing me out.
And lots more spaces on others end of the crescent I have been parking my car outside of my building for along time now my neighbour says anyone can park there and has his step daughter or friends park in the space all day and sometimes stand in the space so I can't get in and my neighbor does own a car and can't drive is there anybody that can help
Today I saw someone taking down my vehicle registration number of my vehicle which was parked on my drive way.Before I go out to ask him why and who is he,he climbed into his car and drove off.I haven't notice he was wearing a uniform or not.Who he could be or who got authority to take down parked vehicle numbers .
Please help.
According to the council it does!!!
I live on a private housing estate and the road has not been adopted by the local authority, and is unlikely to be as its been there for 12 years now and is a block paved road. It is privately owned by the developer. Some residents park on the pavement to avoid blocking the road. Can the authorities do anything about this or not as its a private road?
I have a driveway for 2 cars and we have 2 cars at our household. The problem is that I work shifts (nights and days) so when we viewed the property it was ideal that there was a bay outside our semi detached house for 2 cars great I thought. Great for me to leave the car when I come home from nights so that I'm not blocking in my partner when she gets up to leave in the morning.
The issue we now have is the neighbours across from us who have 3 cars and a driveway to accommodate them but they choose to leave one in the bay right outside our house so this leaves me with virtually no where to park in the street. They very rarely use their 3rd car but treat the parking bay as if it's a 2nd driveway for them to leave their car. Although it doesn't seem illegal I find it rude and very inconvenient and it is becoming increasing frustrating.
Is there anyway around this?
Are they actually breaking any highway law by shouting at people "you can't park here - disabled".
we recently move in a new house...when we saw the house the person who selling to us told that there is a parking fon 1 car...and then we move here...but now in front of my house the in the parking pavement every one is parking and now the person said this parking is free and every one can use it...there is school in and a sport college and flats...and every one is parking here..we have 1 infant and 1 toddler...and in moring evening we have to park our car far from home and we have to walk lots to get to our car...is there is any solution that we can park our car infront of my house???or is there any allocating procedure for this car park???please help us
However, our neighbours (that can only access their drive via the shared access as they don't have their kerb dropped) continually park either in excess of their driveway - ie half in their drive and half sticking out onto the shared access (albeit on their side of it). Often their builders park straight in the middle preventing us from being able to park via the shared access (ie horizontally to our house).
If we parked in the same way it would obstruct their ability to exit their drive. They are not communicating with us at the moment because we had issues with their builders resulting in cement on my car and them tipping a pile of rubble into the middle of the shared access.
Where do we stand on requesting them not to park on the shared access as it is private land? The land registry documents we have says that vehicles should not be parked there nor must anything else obstruct the access. Do they have a right to park on their own side of the shared access if we can still get past on foot?
However they complain to anyone who might park across the section they so obviously can't use, even though they are still able to move all their cars on and off their drive as they are not blocked.
Are they allowed to insist on this or are they just being greedy?
I have asked them nicely but they don't seem to understand what common courtesy means. Late at night to get a parking space is a nightmare, double parking in the road to offload shopping etc.
What can be done about this?
Is there a way to get the Police to uphold the law!
We have a shared drive between 3 houses and a drop curbing on one side. Relationship with nehbourghs was good. Because the builder parked on my drive over lapped one nehbourghs drive by 6 inches she called the police.
Did not speak to me nor was I braking any rules as far as I know. The officer was very helpful. And I am open and friendly person. So a neighbour I just banged on my door f.....k at me and threatening me
I have twice told them to move their cars and not to park on our half of the drive, both time they have grudgingly moved them as though they are doing us a favour.
I want them to stop and do not want to have to ask them again as it is stressful.
Whats the best way to proceed? - thanks
Over the last two and a half years, we have endured countless cars totally blocking our driveway.
ALL the cars that are parked across our drive-their owners do their shopping in the onestop shop next door to us.
They provide NO Parking, aside from one space that is not double yellowed before our drive!
I'd say about an even split of polite people and cars moved promptly when I've asked them to move, but the remaining half of the annoying parkers are viscous tongued and some have even threatened me!!....
I would deal better with this whole thing if it were not for the fact that this shop actually has an abundance of Tarmac outside, to its side and a rear fenced off area that is currently full of rubbish and weeds!!!!
Any of those areas could easily be converted into parking, and if done with thought and care it could provide their customers with about 11 spaces!!!
BUT...All this Tarmac space has been bollarded off by them.
Preventing any parking at all!! Such a waste!
I have recently complained to head office after a particularly nasty chap threatened to punch me! (I'm not one who is confrontational, nor am I rude or aggressive when I ask them to move so I can get on/off my drive)
And politely asking if he wouldn't mind shunting up a foot or two is not asking the earth I don't think?! Well, it certainly doesn't warrant a threatening punch?!
My question is this though....
Does this shop have a legal responsibility to provide parking?
It is situated on a corner and far larger than the average paper shop! More akin to a mini mart selling a bit of everything. They have many many customers in there daily.
The bollarded areas I spoke of earlier are vast, they could accommodate parking bays, pathway and still bollard around the shop preventing any smash and run type examples with the cars.
I can't seem to find anything where it gives me a definitive yay or nay as to my rights.
Surely they have a responsibility to both their customers, and immediate neighbours?
Where do I go and who do I speak to regarding help in this matter.
I shouldn't have to run the gambit every single day just to do the school runs on time!!!
I should have mentioned, the council offered nowt but a white line outside our dropped curb, and the same to our other neighbour beside us who also is effected.
Help!! Many thanks guys!! X
I live in a block of six flats and each resident has been allocated a parking space as part of their lease. One of the other residents constantly parks his car is my space, instead of his own. I actually know it’s his friend parking their car, I don’t believe the resident has his own car. When i say "constant", it is everyday, other night, during the weekend etc.
I have spoken to the resident and the owner of the car on more than one occasion. The housing agent has written twice to all residents explaining the details of allocated parking, yet he continues to park in my space – for no apparent reason.
I don’t have my own car so the space is often vacant, but I do have visitors who have trouble parking when they visit. Am I being unreasonable, or unneighbourly? I wouldn’t mind so much if he used it when the parking area is full, (and asked to do so). But he is using it instead of his own space, purely for his own convenience, with no consideration for me, or the other residents.
What should I do next? Do the police or community support officers get involved with matters like these?
According to lease agreement we have a garage which is located behind the property and has driveway leading to the street. Deeds is stating right to access garage wit or without vehicle.
I kept my car in the garage without any problems for couple of months.
Then my neighbours started to park their car in front of my garage on the common drive way, blocking my car. As I do not use my car on weekdays we agreed that it was ok for them to park it this way as long as they remove it on my demand, which was as rule over weekends.
This scheme worked quite well for couple of months.
Then couple of weeks ago on Saturday my neighbour refused to remove her car when I asked. I insisted saying that according to the lease agreement I have a right of access to garage with vehicle. She assaulted me verbally in front of my family. So I called the police and complained about this situation. Police called neighbour on her mobile and as a result she cleared the driveway and I was able to use my car.
Next day police officer visited me and my neighbour one by one.
After that my neighbour started to park her car exactly in front of her garage, but the drive way is not big enough for me to perform manoeuvre and go out to the street. So technically my car is blocked inside my garage.
One week later on weekend I again asked neighbour to provide an access for my car to leave a garage. But she refused arguing that her car is parked in front of her garage not my and it should be enough space for my car to go through.
I called a police again. When officers arrived she told them that the land is her and that I should be able to drive through. One of the police officers tried to assist me to navigate my car to the street but the remaining space was not enough.
As a result I did not go through even with assistance of police officer and damaged my cars bumper while trying to do it.
Police officers said that it is civil matter and suggested to contact solicitor or citizen advise office.
Its a nice estate so everyone is relatively decent but recently a large van (the owner of which lives in a flat across from us and has a parking space allocated) is continuously parking on the street itself because it is easier for him to get out. Leaving his allocated spot empty and whoever gets home after him, with nowhere to park. Not to mention that not only is he taking up two spaces anyway with the size of his vechile...but he also parks horrendously nine times out of ten and ends up taking three spaces up instead.
What would you suggest there? Anything possible? Have been considering leaving a note on his windscreen in the early hours anonymously asking him to consider other drivers when parking his vechile, baring in mind he has an allocated parking space. Is this advisable? Might just make him think twice but don't want to cause confrontation. It us just becoming very tiresome parking round the corner and walking home every night because someone who has his own space is choosing to be so ignorant. (If parking in front of a drive isn't technically a law...which is ridiculous, I'm guessing this isn't either?)
I can't just pull out of my driveway up the road I have to go into the cul de sac to do a 3 point turn and then squeeze through a tight gap between his car half on the pavement and my next door neighbour legitimately parked car on the road. A lot of the neighbous are annoyed but too polite to say anything.
My question is.... Can I just dump one of my cars on his drive as he doesn't want to use it. ??
My next door neighbour keeps parking his truck outside on the thoroughfare.
He has a big driveway but keeps insisting on parking there and then reversing blindly out of the dead end is this allowed our houses are all bought
I have purchased a ground floor flat which has an alleyway to the side of it. In front of the alley is a dropped kerb which my neighbours regularly park in front of. I own the alleyway but there is a right of way through it. Do they have the right to park there? It causes difficulties when I am trying to access the alleyway on my bicycle.
Regards
Dave
There are parts of the road that lead to the marked bays - these parts of the road would be wide enough to have one car parked and another car to pass by.
These parts of the road are not marked in any way whatsoever. We have received a letter stating that parking outside of the marked bays is prohibited.
I believe that since there are no double yellow lines, on the road, that this is not enforceable - please can anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
Also if you have any ideas on what visitors should do, I'd welcome your input.
thanks in advance.
Could you please give me some advice with a parking problem I have. My neighbour has 4 cars, which he parks along the street. One car doesn`t move at all because it is for sale - it has payed road tax. He moves this car only to make space to park his other cars. Another car is a brand new silver expensive car, for which he suddenly has a freshly painted disabled parking bay for - this car also rarely moves from this bay and he does not display a blue disabled badge.The third car is a brand new car parked in between the car that is for sale and the silver car in disabled parking bay. They also have a fourth car which he parks right after the car in the disabled bay. By manouvering all these cars he is reserving spaces for himself, making it impossible for us to park anywhere near our house, and blocking our flatmate from bringing his bike to the front of the house.
There is no way of communicating with him, because when he sees anyone from our house at his door step, he does not even open a door.
Is there anything I can do about this situation?
Today I parked their again to collect my grandson and her daughter came and knocked the door asking me to move which I did immediately. In the way to my car though she said I wish you wouldn't park ther and can you make sure you don't again as I have asked you not to do this before. I just found out that no one lives at this property anymore as her mother died a few weeks ago, can she stop me parking there or keep asking me to move despite the fact she only visits as infrequently as I do and her mother who was elderly and slightly disabled is no longer there?
Myself and my neighbour have shared access to a drive that is own by my neighbours neighbour. Myself and neighbour have our garages at the back of our houses and they are accessed through the drive which enters between our houses.
Currently neighbour but one (who moved in this year after the house was empty for a very long time) is having work done.
On a number of occasions they are parking avns/cars on the drive stopping access for my neighbour and myself.
This morning my car was blocked in, when I found them to get them to move it and inform them again they are not supposed to block the drive I was met with 'we own the drive' as if it was ok?
I was under the impression that even if they own the drive they are not allowed to block access to or from the drive.
Is this against the law? I would like to know as I do not want to keep experiencing the problem especially when I am rushing to get to work or any time of the day.
Many thanks
Please can someone give me some guidance before I lose my temper with this inconsiderate neighbour.
Basically we have moved into a new house on an estate that is still being built. Our house overlooks a brick wall (someone's back garden wall), we all have double driveways. However people from the close next to ours, specifically a white transit van owner, who bought their house without thinking of parking, continually parks on the kerb not blocking but making it very difficult for us to get on our driveway when both cars are there. Which also means we can't park in our close or opposite or own home because of said idiot. Today he laughed when he saw me struggling to get on the drive, he knows our elderly neighbour has had knee replacement and has an old car with no power steering so hinders him and that our other neighbours have two cars and also can't get on.
We can't even have visitors park there so we have to ask them to park off the estate and walk to our house!!! What can we do? Council couldn't care less. Can we pay for white lines to be painted opposite to stop this?
My neighbour parks her car on a blind corner on a narrow road, half of the pavement. I have a 5 week old baby and refuse to walk on the road with my child in his pushchair so I have no choice but to walk into her front garden. I have spoken with her but she will not park elsewhere, even though she has a driveway of her own which is unused. Also when I'm driving, her car causes an obstruction as only one car can just about fit past but you can't see around if there's another motorist coming the other way. Please can you suggest a way that could resolve this problem?
Thanks
I have two questions :
1) is it ok to park in front of a driveway when you remain in the car to make sure you can move your car in case of an emergency and not parking for more than 20 minutes? (even though there are places available on the road)
2) can neighbours park in front of their driveway marked with a white line, which happens to be opposite your driveway making it extremely difficult (sometimes impossible) for you to entre/exit your driveway? is there a law to stop people from doing so?
I live at top end off cul de sac and have had my kerb dropped. Many other neighbours have done same previously including those at top of cul de sac.
My neighbours l next door live in the end house and have only room to walk to the front of their property as this is how street was designed but they have more land at back where our garage spaces are.
Now they have 3 cars and insist on one of their cars parking in front of my dropped down or as close too, often with rest of car on pavement next to road as pavement boarders top of cul de
It has cost me a lot of money to get the front of my property suitable for parking as well as having kerb dropped. We only have one car and I had this work done because we couldn't park near our property and ended up down the street (other neighbour has 2 cars). Appreciate no one has the 'right' to park outside their property.
I could apply for white line but that would stop visitors coming to our house from parking behind my car (our driveway only allows one car).
Guess I should have to put up and make do as I don't really want white line, but my concern is if my car slipped in inclement weather and hit their car parked in front/near too dropped kerb would it be my fault?
Thanks
I live in a flat that looks onto a park. My neighbour brings home a very large van (at least twice the height and length of a transit van). He generally parks it in front of my sitting room window and it blocks the full window. (He could park in front of his own house). I have three questions:
1. Is there a maximum size of vehicle that can be parked in a residential area?
2. We have a property management company that looks after the area, can they set standards for what can be parked in the area is is it only the local authority?
3. Do I have to approach him to ask him to move it to the front of his own house - or can I ask the local authority or police or someone (I'm not too keen to ask him myself?
Because I don't park in the garage my neighbours seem to think it's fine to block it. One of the reasons I don't park in my garage is exactly that fact. I either can't get in anyway because someone blocks it or I'm too worried that I can't get out when I need to. I don't have time to locate owners and/or call the police if someone blocks me in there. I can't afford to be late for work because I can't get my car out. I tried leaving polite notes on the cars but no one seems to care. It's a lose-lose situation.
down at me calling me trouble maker where clearly they are being extremely selfish. I have lived in my house I bought for over 10 years and have not had any problems with the previous neighbour who also own the house but sadly it was repossessed by the bank.
I leave in a cul de sac , when I leave every single morning ,
A mini school bus get in to the road leading to the cul de sac driving backward
The bus has a lot of space to be able to park on the side of the road in order to pick the child but decide to park In the middle of the road and block my way out while picking up the child.
If it was a one off I would be patient and wait but this is happening every single morning .
I have tried to speak to the parents of the child to convince the driver to park on the side but it didn t help .
Looking for a limiter 'friendly' advice here please.
Recently I moved into a property which due to renovation only has one entrance/exit which is in the area of the neighbourhood communal car park. There has been a small car parked outside our entrance since we moved in which although a bit annoying hadn't been too much of an issue, but the person has purchased a bigger vehicle which means, due to the other cars parked nearby, they are virtually blocking our way in and out if our house. For were we to have a wheelchair we would be unable to exit or enter the house.
The natives who own a property here are non too friendly towards tenants we have discovered, and this person is an owner.
She is not parked in such a way that she can keep an eye on her car or anything.
Is there anything we can do?
Just a quick one. If I approach my local council (Greenock, Scotland) am I able to pay for a bay to be installed on my street?
With thanks My quesiton is, is this legal or acceptable?
Instead allways parks in front of garage in the street.
If anyone parks there he says in notes attached to their car, access needed to garage,,which makes the place clear for him to park his car,in front. Of the garage.
This is causing annoyance with all his neighbours,,because he is parking his car where he
Thinks it is hiss right only to park there.This is 24hrs a day.
Please give us the right advice,he is terrible neighbour.
Stantheman
The neighbour at the end of the road has purchased the space outside their house and fenced it off
They also park in front of our house-double parked.
Is this legal?
I understand that we do not have the right to park outside our house but can they double park?
Your thoughts - it happens for 5 days once and will again be done for 8 days in November.
I have contacted the local authorities highways department who are sending out environmental health to deal with the 'matter' there is no indication as to who owns that land or whether it is a walkway hence intervention from enviromental health. how could I find out who owns the land??
I fenced the land of but the footpath which is on the land i purchased i had to leave open for access and egress only for the neighbour on foot only he is
parking on the kerb directly in front of the path to properties as if it is his. I leave my double gates open so people can come down my drive rather than having to get past is car and come down the proper route to both mine and his property i own my property he is a council tenant . I spoke to councillors but not happy with there answers to solution. I have no trouble with son or anybody else related to the gent next door is there anything i can do
We call the police, as I keep getting called a spa22y old C***, even though my neighbour is around the same age as me. The police are less than helpful, they say we have a back gate and I should use that. I cannot use the back gate as it has 2 steps up to the house, my wheelchair will not go up steps. The front gate, entrance, has been adapted to allow me access in the wheelchair, wider gate, slope etc.
The police say he is being humourous when he calls me a spa22y old effin C*** and he is breaking no laws by stopping me entering or exiting my home as I have a rear gate which is unusable for me. By the way, social services said I mut use the front gate.
Advice please
The laws in relation to highways is governed by the Road Traffic Act, Con & Use regs, etc & Local Traffic Orders issued by the local authority. Thank you.
We have recently had an issue when my son parked across the dropped kerb of a neighbouring property. He wouldn't normally do this BUT there is no driveway, just the pavement then double doors to a 'garage' that we know is not a garage but a room and in the 10 or so years we have lived here we have never seen the doors open!
Another neighbour wrote in lipstick across his windscreen saying 'Do not park in front of my garage' and there was also a note left with the same message.
Apparently it is not illegal to have written on his windscreen (I checked already)
but is it ok to have a dropped kerb outside your property when it does not provide access to the property?
one parked in a layby (along with his private vehicle) and the other on his drive. The layby
used is in another street as a result residents have no visitor parking ?
The disabled bay is for a nieghbour several houses along who does not have a road outside his house. No notice had been given that PCC were to do this, it has been a complete surprise. I am not sure that where they have put the bay is legal as it is on a bend where there are continuous white lines. Can someone advise me? The council have been unresponsive.
thanks
can you get a fine or car towed
away
Today my husband parked his company car (a taxi owed by us 1 year old) outside my neighbors house not blocking anybody in, in 10 years we have only parked outside their house probably 20 times approx we make a big effort not to, however my husband was in a big rush and did on this occasion leave it there to be returned back to the driver this evening when he comes home, I must add this particular car is always parked at the drivers house not ours so this is a very rare occasion. My neighbor came home and parked his car across my drive stopping me getting off my drive and my husband gaining access to our drive. My daughter asked him to move his van from across our drive please, his response was no I ffffff can't get your dad to ffffff come round and see me. She was a little shocked and upset. So Iwent and asked the same question and please don't swear at my daughter, I asked him how would you feel if my husband swore at your wife or daughter his reply was I would knock him out, I also said if you wanted it moved you could always ask, his reply was well I don't want to, so he was going out of his way to be nasty, I asked again please can you move your van from across my drive and I am very sorry if it has caused a problem our car being there. I also said your visitors are park outside our house all the time and this is on a daily bases we have never complained his reply was we don't do that my reply was only yesterday your visitors parked outside my house and we did not complain, his reply well I don't run a ffff business from home do i, and I don't want your work car outside my ffffff house, my reply even though your veichle is your own work van parked across my drive seems a bit extreme to me, he told me he does not have a problem with you but I do with your husband, tell him to come and see me when he comes home,my flywas no iI won't he is out earning a living like everybody else I won't send him round when he finishes tonight, I asked again to move his van please and he said he would and he did, I reversed the car onto our drive after moving g my car, Imust add next door did have room on is drive for another two cars at this time, iI did knock on his door and said just to let you know I have moved our car sorryit caused trouble but it did not have to, his reply was I did not want you to move it send your husband round, then he started complaining about a summer house we built, next door has regularly complained about everything we have done and do, I feel I am getting to the end of my teather with him, we are a family the same as him and we and they get on with all other residents of our road, it just seems to be him against us. I know this is long but feel I needed to air my feelings before I get upset any more do hope you can give some guidance thank you in advance Gill
Although she damaged her own car she could not afford the £350 access and had to have it fixed by a friend who purchased the required bits from a second hand yard. The van has still not been mended and the driver has been driving/using as normal, but she is being told by her insurance company that the damage caused seems to be more excessive (including electrical damage) than it appears.
Are there any grounds for the van driver being at fault due to his parking positions please? Does the van have to be repaired to enable them to claim the costs please?
I know from experience driving removal lorries, that is ILLEGAL to bloke a driveway with a vehicle in it, but NOT ILLEGAL to block it if there is no vehicle in it. This has caused me many disputes over the years whilst moving neighbours.
We always endeavor to knock on doors before we begin loading/unloading and ask politely if people would mind us parking in front of their drives and offering to either wait for them to move their cars or moving at a later time.
Regarding your reversing onto the road, I get very angry about people who drive into parking spaces and reversing out! This is dangerous! I recommend you start reversing into your driveway and driving out. This will improve your visibility. After all, you wouldn't push your child's pushchair into the road if you can't see so why push the children in a back seat out first?
If you get permit parking then no one without a permit can park in a permit area.
Other than that you have to be able to prove that they are making it impossible for to access your property.
Direct action could end up with you in prison so be careful.
If disabled try and get council to put an official spot outside.
Still struggling become a local councillor and influence the right people to get the job done.
ASKING PLEASE DONT PARK.DISABLED PERSON LIVES HERE, BUT
NO ONE SEEMS TO TAKE NOTE OF THIS.
SHE AS A BLUE BADGE,.WROTE TO MY LOCAL CONCIL TO ASK FOR A PARKING BAY , BUT THIS CAN TAKE UPTO 12MOUTHS.
PLEASE IS THERE ANYTHNG I CAN DO.TO GET TO PARK OUTSIDE MY OWN HOME
ROLEY.
Please could politicians take up this cause?
In Horsham residents can purchase the right to one parking place outside their own home to protect them. If this is the case, how can it be legally right to block anyone's drive or park where they want without due consideration to others?
I'm currently having problems with adult cyclists zooming up the pavement whilst I'm reversing. My drive is a nightmare and when I first back out there's a bit of a blind spot for a few feet - pavement users can clearly see me but I can't see them. I back out extremely slowly and stop immediately if I see anyone but I have had some near misses with cyclists and they glare at me. Surely they shouldn't be on the pavement? It's a residential road with a 20mph limit so it's not as if it's too dangerous to cycle on the road.
There's nothing I can do about the visibility issue - a mirror would be stolen/broken within hours.
So this morning after a sleepless night through the heat, I walk to my car to go to work where she is putting her young children in the car and she says “next time your f***ing sister parks so close to my f***ing car again I’ll have it f***ing removed” to which I responded “next time you husband parks so close to my car living me no room to get in, can you get him to move it”. She said “well f***ing park in front of your house then”. I said to her “well you shouldn’t park here anyway as you don’t live in this bit” and she said “errrr neither do you”. So charming as you may guess but I was fairly shaken up/angry that a woman in her mid-40’s was swearing at me like that. Is there anyway of me making a complaint anywhere about her or do you think complaining will just be the worst thing to do??
Make sure you slash 2 though... 1 is too easy to fix... :)
My garage is the last one and near to a road. People tend to park right outside my garage, and many times I cannot gain access to my car. I need my car to get around, as I am disabled. Plus I live with my elderly mother, and I need to get to my car when needed for doctors appointments etc. I have left notes asking them not to park there and left them on their wipers, but still it goes on. I contacted the council and was told they could put a "keep clear" notice up, but "the sign writer lives miles away." I can almost predict that I will be told "due to cutbacks" this isn't going to happen.I don't think that would work anyway, it would just get ignored. Apart from anything else, I pay weekly rent for a garage I can not always use. The other 8 garages don't have any problems, and can come and go as they please, unlike me. Any ideas? Thanks.
Problems started a few years ago when my dad was seriously ill in hospital and my mum was staying at mine, when she parked her car a bit too far out from her usual space. This neighbour came and asked her to move it as "he may need to get out in a hurry", she moved the car and nothing else was said. A few more times, i have had friends round and he has come to my door and asked them to move their cars even though he wouold have been able to easily get out.I said I understood shared driveway rules but he was taking it a bit too far. My dad passed away in May of this year and when my mum and I were on our way to see the minister, said neighbour came racing after my car and jumped on the side to stop me as mum had parked a little too far back!!at end of my tether, he is just so nasty, any advice please?? we have been advised to speak to police??
I live on a shared parking area where we all have designated parking spaces in front of our garages. The people who live in the apartment above our garage keeps blocking our drive by parking on the no parking zone ( as shown on the deeds)
We asked them if they could move & got a mouthful of abuse.
What are my rights on having the vehicle towed?
Who should I contact to make a complaint?
I don't want to go down the injunction route unless I really have too.
P.s they've been blocking us in for ages and its simply got too much now
barbara eades
New neighbours (with a double drive) are constantly parking on the turning area and do not use their drive, because of the way my parents drive is angled they now have to do a 4 point turn to reverse into it as they can't use the turning area as it is constantly blocked.
Mum has a medical condition which makes this frustrating for her but I don't need to go into the details here.
I guess the polite thing to do would be to go over there and ask them to move the car as they may not know it is causing us a problem. However the man who lives there is generally drunk so we are all feeling a little intimidated, what can I do?
white-y
Then my NFH had a go at me for not parking in front of the drive...I said I wouldn't...Result...NFH started parking on my bumper -by this I mean a cm or less away...if he got the opportunity, then he would get bored and then he'd start again any time I upset him (and quite often I had to guess how I'd done that...once it was putting my bin out at 8am cos I'd forgotten to do it the night before...) I used to be scared of him and didn't want to go and ask him to move...I started taking photos of it when I could (he can see the road from his house and didn't want him to see me do it)
The other neighbours realised what he was doing and left me more space to get out but still I worried that one day he would block me in ...I asked the police and they told me they couldn't do anything (public highway and all that). Then he started parking on my partner's bumper too - one morning partner couldn't get to work and went round - NFH refused to move - shouting and swearing in my partner's face- I thought it might come to blows- so we got the police involved again...
They looked at the photos and said although it wasn't a highway offence it was harrassment and warned him off... (along with other things he has done)...
Occasionally he still does it - but now the police come out every time and have a word with him ...last time he said it was in the dark and an accident - this was at 3 oclock in the afternoon... but I think he is finally getting the message...
One of the flats is rented, about four months ago
New tenants moved in, they have never parked the car
In the car park but always directly in front of my flat.
this is very annoying and frustrating.
I park in a residential street every day when I go to work (I have no choice). Most people are fine about it as they're off at work too, but occasionally you'll get some idiot (nearly always elderly) moaning that you've parked your car in "their" space. They're not polite about it either, some of the language is shocking, yet they're the same people who'd have you believe that it's only their generation who have any manners.
As for the comment about "these "young ones" and their sense of entitlement!", are you aware that it is you who sounds like you have the sense of entitlement? You feel that you are entitled to a piece of road that doesn't belong to you. You don't. It isn't yours - not even a tiny bit. It's a public road. Get over it, you miserable Daily Mail-reading curtain-twitcher.
They are all eastern europeans, I have tried to discuss this with them and requested not to park in front of my property but no success.
What do I do?
A man who lived near to it asked me if he could rent it but I declined because I said I may need it in the future and we were thinking of building a garage on it.
This was autumn last year, Since Xmas he has parked his van either on the space or in front of it. Had sand delivered onto it, put a van up for sale on it, parked his van on the space next to it so that if I put my car on it I couldn't get out and now parked a skip on the centre of the two spaces. I left a note on the skip saying that I was a little put out because I couldn't park and could he arrange to get the skip moved over onto his own property so I could park my car because the water company was going to be digging up the estate. His answer to this was to park his van across the two spaces even though the skip was still there anyway. I must admit I got annoyed about that so I parked on another space where I had seen the van before - then when I returned to my car someone had taken all the valve caps off my tyres and let a bit of air out of one tyre. Is there anything I can do to stop him denying access to our space that will not make him escalate what he is already doing or that can put law on our side so if he does anything else he is in breach of the law?
In common law, you have some rights one of which is free access on and off your own property at any and all times, along with the torts of trespass and negligence and the right to enjoy one's own piece of land.
Parking in front of and blocking access must be covered by at least two the above mentioned circumstances and also count as harrassment not to mention human rights.
Just a lay thought?
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