Some people really don't like that do they?
Especially near a City centre or railway station or something!
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Some people really don't like that do they?
Especially near a City centre or railway station or something!
Try parking outside Buckingham Palace.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebina
If there aren't any restrictions then there's no problem. Most built up areas are restricted, Canton, Roath, Cathays etc, the places where alot of houses don't have a drive. Some people seem to think that they own that little piece of road outside their house. I'd let them have it as long as they were willing to re-tarmac it every 5 years and repair any street lighting that may fall on their little patch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebina
Problem is those drivers who ignore dropped kerbs between driveways, etc.
We had routine problems with parking on pavements meaning buggies couldn't get through, parking on road in narrow street meaning ambulances couldn't get through. Only got resolved once police got involved, which involved at one point getting a number towed away.
It is perfectly legal to park outside someone's house, unless the vehicle is blocking a driveway or a wheel is over a dropped kerb.
Although, in my experience, restrictions often allow anybody to park free for say up to 2 hours. So residents pay extra for permits but often can't park near their home and people who want to save a few quid on parking for occasional trips into town get to do so for free.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Bloke next to me is an arse , hes got a rusty old land rover he drives to his allotment every day , bloody idiot parks on the pavement outside his house , with his driver side wheels up on the kerb
If hes away digging his veg and a mate comes around to visit I make sure they park in what he thinks is his space , really pisses him off , not as much as having to look out at his rusty old land rover
At my last house, my next door neighbour would block my car in by parking across the drive. One time he refused to move it when I knocked him - it was at 4am and I had to get to Sheffield for work. I had to call the police, they arrived at 6 and he eventually moved complaining that I should not be knocking him at 4am.
Another time, a bloke parked across my drive and was a bit offended when I said he couldn't park there because we were going out a bit later. I got all sorts of verbals off him. He was visiting someone about 8/9 houses away, so it would have taken me ages to find out whose car it was.
Another time I was blocked in by some git who was in the pub opposite. My neighbour blocked him in, and when he knocked my door the next morning he said "Can you move your f***** car, I can't get out". I said "No, sorry, I can't move my car because some inconsiderate twat has blocked me in".
It was a regular occurrence in that house, I was quite happy to move.
One of my neighbours came home to find somebody had parked their car actually on her drive and walked into town to do some shopping.
The amount of people who have a lovely driveway built in front of their house where there previously wasn't one or was a garden, and then don't get the kerb dropped is truly astounding. Councils have clocked this, it'll be the next big fine frenzy.
A completely deserved fine for being stupid, as well.
Worst bit is that's legal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloo
How do you make that legal?Quote:
Originally Posted by tell it like it is
you can't drive anywhere anyway....why move your car.
Is it really? I'd suggest it's wise to know who owns the property before taking the piss like that mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by tell it like it is
On another legal question another neighbour built a garage at the bottom of their garden which provides access to a road, but requires him to drive over the pavement and across yellow lines to get to it. Is that legal? I wouldn't normally care but 'er indoors told me he had a word with her once because she stopped on said road briefly to let her elderly parents out. I was thinking about having a chat with him about his DIY garage access if it's dodgy and he pulls a trick like that again.
Besides which he had a word with the misses for stopping for a minute on yellow lines and the daft bugger has to leave his own car in the same place most days whilst he goes back to close his garage door.
It's one of the vagaries of the law, unfortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
Same as it's illegal to block you in, but it's not illegal if you're trying to get back into your driveway and someone has blocked you from doing so.
Some student at UHW parked on a neighbours drive, police came out and pointed out they couldn't do anything.
I'd want to block the fecker in or ideally get a friend / neighbour to do so, then when they call to the house to ask me to move my car I could deny all knowledge & enjoy watching.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloo
By me it's a nightmare, I frequently have to park 2 or 3 streets away, as the entire street is filled with people who work nearby or want to go shopping and don't want to pay to park their car, there are some great big carparks that are almost empty most of the time.
Since the lockdown I've been able to park straight outside my house 90% of the time.
If I wasn't moving soon I'd be asking the council to make it residents permits only
I would get everyone I know to come and help me move the car into the middle of the street, what a cheeky twat!Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloo
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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I used tio have to travel to different town centres to work and would always park legally in the nearest street I could, it doesn't half piss people off!
I understand because I previously lived near the funeral palour in Birchgrove and every so often cars would fill the street, but thats life you have to accept it and moved!
I (used to) drive regularly to away games. Became a bit of fun trying to find free parking using Google Maps, even to the extent of trying to read the parking restrictions on the road signs using the zoom facility on streetview. Never had an issue with the places I parked but misread the signs at Blackburn away this season and the £40 fine cancelled out the season's savings!
Bloke living next to me is a right perv. Loads of knickers have gone missing from the neighbours washing lines. He's always blasting out heavy metal, and walking about the place dressed like a 15 year old in his Anthrax t-shirt. I quite often hear him abusing the lovely Christians that live next door to him too.
I like to wind him up by parking my lovely Land Rover outside my house. Sometimes I even put the driver side wheels on the pavement.
I knew I would flush you out you ****Quote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
People do this in Twickenham all the time when there's a game on at the Cabbage Patch. A woman who came home and found someone parked onher drive made a phone call and had 120 tons of type 1 ballast delivered and poured on her drive behind the vehicle. The owner on his return called the police who laughed at him. His car stayed there for days until he paid for someone ot move the Type 1 and put it back again.Quote:
Originally Posted by tell it like it is
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Originally Posted by xsnaggle
you need authority to change the kerb, you cannot just lift kerb stones, and I thought, though I'm not sure that you need authority to put a driveway into your house across a public footpath.Quote:
Originally Posted by Der Kaiser
Yes. So what I'm saying is people are just doing up their driveways as it were and not notifying the authorities to request a change in kerb. Thus just driving over a public footpath.Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
that is my understanding. I rembmeer when right ot by fist started, everyone wanted a drive and double gates (Very posh) but the council came round and told some poeple they couldn't have them for 1 reason or another and that was the end of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Der Kaiser
sorry didn't mean to exaberate 10 tons!!! But it was enough :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
I see this lots as I'm trying to park, when working in peoples houses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Der Kaiser
My question is - are you allowed to block the 'drive' if the pavement/kerb hasn't been dropped?
Rules around the Kings highway, right of conquest, land and property ownership, squatting laws, public property, private property, common land etc it is all a legal minefield.
Yes, because you have to have a dropped kerb to drive across the public footpath.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian
The street I live on is fairly busy, so it's not that unusual to find that someone has parked outside your house while you've nipped out for whatever reason. Although I never have to park too far away when this happens, I still have a whinge to myself when it does and I move my car back in front of my house as soon as I notice that whoever was there has moved - to be fair, I don't do this for entirely selfish reasons, I always go by the idea that if my car is outside my house, it's not stopping someone else parking outside theirs.
It’s tribal mentality :thumbup:, I would say, the majority of us are the sameQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
I cannot park outside my house but I have a parking facility just around the corner in a private car park shared by several others. I generally always park in the same place and if, as yesterday I come home and someone is in "My" place it really pisses me off, even though really no one has dedicated spaces. The tribalist me thinks 'they f**king know I always park there.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Then I have to park all of 15 yards away Grrrr!
True that's why some people go overboard with this, I parked opposite my Mothers house making sure I didn't block the peoples drive I parked very close to the car behind. They came back and obviously had a strop and blocked their own driveway and part of her neighbours to block me in so I couldn't move.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
I only live five minutes away so I left it there for two weeks, they are not so stroppy now when I very occasionally have to park there.
That's what I though thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
I try to avoid doing it but know someones going challenge me about it one day.
Actually one downside of this lockdown is that even though the roads are much quieter, parking close to properties is far more difficult as most people are home.
The council aren’t being petty on requiring householders to apply for a dropped kerb crossover and drive. It’s pretty important that drives that are taking place of green areas are permeable. A solid concrete base or non permeable concrete print drive is certainly not acceptable, they are usually replacing grassed areas which drank loads of rainwater, water which now runs off to roadside gullies and drains which were installed long ago without the capacity for the extra volume, witness the build up of roadside water during the recent wet spell. I think people doing it off their own backs should be brought to book and if they are a home owner and an acceptable driveway isn’t included on their deeds it should come back and bite them on the arse should they wish to sell.