advice please

We have not very much parking in my road, there are only 7 houses in my road, most have parking, but then we get the people who dont live on the road who park there, three of them are understandable as they have no parking. But then there is one culprit, family of one of the residents, they live nearby, and park 2 of their cars in our spaces at a time, they dont even live in the road and have 2 spaces, I wouldnt mind if they lived there. I cant park on my drive, my parents use the two spaces, so i have to park where i can on the road, or in the local schools car park if its out of school hours. Is there any way i can get them to not park there legally? Or am i just forced to speak to them?

so basically too many cars for the number of houses and spaces provided?

Try complaining to your council that they should issue fewer permits.

There are no permits, its a free for all, with people who dont live there taking the spaces.

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Originally Posted by Blaineoliver

There are no permits, its a free for all, with people who dont live there taking the spaces.

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And thats a clue. (My highlight)

You have off road parking for two cars. Presumably there is nothing stopping you from parking round the corner in another road? (However, if they are parking illegally, or obstructing the highway, or parking on your private property, then action can be taken)

I guess i am going to have to complain to them, tell them their taking the mickey then?

On what grounds do you have to complain - presumably they need somewhere to park as well? How are they taking the mick?

They live about a 5 minute walk away on the high street.

sorry to say this bud, but if there are no parking restrictions on the road, provided they are parked legally & have a valid road tax disc they can park where they like & there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

you don't own the area of road outside your house any more than they do. where they live has no bearing on their right to park there.

imagine how outraged you'd feel if they knocked your door & said "hey buddy, your car is parked in the spot i like to park in, can you move it?"

basically that's what you're doing to them. your house being geographically closer to the spot in question is completely irrelevant so if you do knock their dorr (& personally i'd advise against it) don't be surprised if you get told to do one

Perhaps you have too many cars.

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Originally Posted by Kata

Perhaps you have too many cars.

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I beg to differ, he doesn't have enough cars! If he had more cars he could claim more parking spaces, and he wouldn't have this problem.

More cars is always the answer! :D

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Originally Posted by Andehh

I beg to differ, he doesn't have enough cars! If he had more cars he could claim more parking spaces, and he wouldn't have this problem.

More cars is always the answer! :D

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The error of my ways is revealed :D

If enough residents agree you could petition the council to make it permit holders only.

And then, no doubt, they'd charge you for a permit...

The annoying thing is that you don't have any legal right to park outside your own house. That said I know how annoying it is to have someone park outside when they don't even live there.

My neighbour to the left of where I live has his son come and visit every so often and always parks outside my house, meaning that if our double drive is full I either have to park in the unofficial turning space over the road. Or I have to park outside the house down the road where the son could park his car. The frustrating thing for me is that his Dad's drive is always empty so he could park it there.

The amount of arguments and agro its caused between me and the son is unreal. He's not a reasonable person at all, he likes to keep an eye on his car, hang on a sec so do I !! :angst:

You have no right to the road space outside your house. However, it is irritating when you have to park a fair way away. The people to speak to are your parents - you should be working with the spaces where the locals cannot park i.e. the spaces on your drive and the space on the road in front of it (which cannot be obstructed except by a family member). That's the 3 spaces you need :mrgreen:

The space in front of my drive is not that great, its a bit tight, and when a lorry or two have to get down the road, it makes thigns worse, i have to either park across the road, when they arent doing their army style car swap thing, or down the road.

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Originally Posted by Blaineoliver

The space in front of my drive is not that great, its a bit tight, and when a lorry or two have to get down the road, it makes thigns worse, i have to either park across the road, when they arent doing their army style car swap thing, or down the road.

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I think this parking thing is pretty much happening all over the place. The people who park in your road would probs prefer to be nearer their own place but can't. I'd just park where you can, there's no other legal option.

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Originally Posted by santa claus

the spaces on your drive and the space on the road in front of it (which cannot be obstructed except by a family member). That's the 3 spaces you need :mrgreen:

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I don't think there's a law to stop you parking blocking a driveway.

I'm slowly being forced to park further and further away from my house :(

But that's because the roadworks keep growing :D

God only knows where i will be tomorrow, (there's about 5 teams of workers covering the whole village, most of them have already met up to form one huge group, but team 1 are yet to sortie with super-massive-huge-group), at the current rate they will meet up tomorrow so the whole stretch will be dug up.

Leaving me in the predicament of ditching my car somewhere random (by the time i get home everyone else in the village is back so all areas are already taken) :rolleyes:

I think i should go tell them to move their cars because i live closer than them...

Oh wait... That would be silly and i have fully functioning legs...


You're pretty much screwed whatever you do, if you just put-up and shut-up then you avoid potential abuse and in this day and age, being stabbed :rolleyes:
I doubt any of them intend to cause any grief, but that is the closest they can get to parking at their home.

Think about it, if you ask him to park elsewhere then he moves another street away, same thing happens again, so he moves another street away, eventually they would have to park literally miles away, and get a taxi home...

Surely it is better to have a few people walking and extra street than one person walking a few miles?

Yeah, tough titty TBH. I don't have two cars at mine any more- just lent one of my two to a friend;). One car takes up about 2/3 of the width of my house; my elderly neighbour doesn't have a car so I could usually my park both of mine outside my house without problems if I timed it right. Now I've got one car and I still don't expect to automatically get a space right outside my house. If I have to park it 50 yards down the road it's not really a problem. Annoyingly, I've found that the time I'm least likely to be able to park right outside my house is when I've come back from a booze cruise with a complete bootful of heavy cases of drink, so I have to hump it all three cases at a time 50 yards up the road.

Such is life.

just ask your parents to park on the road whenever they see space. then unless all 3 of you can't find a space on the road (very unlikely), you can park nesr your house..

Not when we know and dislike the family involved, if they hadn't left one car in one spot for like half a year, and if they didn't take the space near my house I wouldn't mind, it's just agravating. Unfortunatley legal.