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My neighbour across the road from me objects to me parking in front of her gate. This is not a driveway but just a garden gate. It is single line parking only as the road is very narrow so I have to park across the road from my property. Sometimes there is room to park either side of her gate but not always. It does say in the Highway Code that you should not park in front of the entrance to a property but this is not law. Has she got a valid arguement or not? Considering councils put parking meters and bays in front of gates why is it still in the Highway Code today as parking is so tight everywhere?
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Parking and neighbours - two words that don't sit together very well.
This thread:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=39064
although more to do with opposing driveways may be worth a read for the first three quarters at least. With regard to you problem, your neighbour doesn't have a leg to stand on, unless they are bringing a bike or motorbike through the gate when you may have a bit of a grumble. If she's just being a Meldrew and doesn't want your car in front of her house, tough IMO.
Did she say WHY she objects? If there's no good reason, personally, I'd ignore her. I have a PITA across the road from me who has cleared his garden to park his car on, but as soon as a particular space on the road is clear, he goes to the effort of parking in it! Some people are just odd, some are grumpy and some are both.
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I'm not supporting either side in this, but I have tried to see both side's point of view. Perhaps your neighbour likes to have a more unrestricted view. After all, motor vehicles are not the prettiest things for her to have to look at out of her front room window. Particularly if she hasn't got a car herself ~ has she? There are more things in life than what someone is legally entitled or not entitled to do. You don't say by what means she objected ~ was it verbally or written? Why not discus the matter with her calmly and rationally and try to find out why she objects. You may be able to come to an amicable arrangement/agreement.
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Is there a pavement or are you hard up against her gate ?
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There is a pavement so I'm not hard up against her gate. She objects because her grandson who visits wants to park his scooter on her garden path. This is odd because it must be easier to simply park in the road. My guess is he is being over protective about his new toy. I wonder what happens when he visits other properties or places, he can't park off the road everywhere he goes. If there is a spot where I can park elsewhere I do but then someone else will park by her gate anyway. I supposed she is singling me out as I a park there more than anyone else. She hasn't got a car and she remembers a time when there was hardly a car in the road and can't see the problems of finding somewhere to park today. But all that aside parking is getting increasingly difficult and you just have to park where you can.
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Apart from the oft quoted mantra that any car parked on a road is an obstruction, I doubt very much whether she has a leg to stand on. Smile politely and get on with your life.
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Ah the scooter. Fair comment. Maybe to accomodate her you can park so grandson has a gap to reach the gate? Or as PU says, just carry on. Up to yo, depends on your overall relationship with them.
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Can't the grandson wriggle through somehow, or is it just a 6-inch wide kerb and a one-foot wide gate with garden walls two feet thick?
Have a word with the grandson and get him to tell her it's OK by him.
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as parking is so tight everywhere ......
and you just have to park where you can.
I don't agree. It's only a problem if you choose to live somewhere that doesn't have a big enough drive for your needs.
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She objects because her grandson who visits wants to park his scooter on her garden path. ........... My guess is he is being over protective about his new toy.
I was protective about my new scooter. I think it was a Triang!
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I have some sympathy for the lady. Why should she have to put up with a stranger's car parked outside her house? And why shouldn't her grandson be over protective about his scooter? I know that I'm very protective about my Accord.
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The lady in question has no juridistion over the pavement or road area outside her property boundary - it is a public highway.
If it was a driveway or through road access you were blocking I would support her (it's an offence to cause an obstruction) but, as anything of this nature is not involved, then she has no right to try and prevent you parking your vehicle.
The problem is that such people tend to dwell overlong on such matters and it becomes more and more of an issue, but for no real reason other than personal anguish.
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>>juridistion>>
..jurisdiction..:-)
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Even for someone past middle age, minding someone's car being parked in front of your house seems a bit barmy in this day and age. If everyone took that attitude London would be a total war zone.
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If the lady wanted to park a vehicle there herself, she would have a case. But even if not, perhaps your wish to park there should defer to her wish that you don't, once she has made it known. That is nothing to do with law, just courtesy and neighbourliness. Of course, if you have no other parking option, you could appeal to her better nature - but I feel she has slightly more rights over 'her' stretch of roadside than you do.
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>>should defer to her wish that you don't, once she has made it known>>
Why? She doesn't own the road.
My next door neighbours have four vehicles (one a big Transit) respectively and use anywhere they can to park either on our side or across the road, which is just over three vehicles' width.
The only time I have a "barney" with them is if they block my drive (this has happened on occasions, usually late at night).
The main problem is getting out of the drive in my car if the Transit is parked adjacent to it due to visibility being restricted of moving traffic.
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The main problem is getting out of the drive in my car if the Transit is parked adjacent to it due to visibility being restricted of moving traffic.
I have this very problem with a Shogun driver who insists on parking right next to my drive entrance, on a bend, when there is plenty of space further along the road (still outside my frontage).
I (naturally) have no objection to taxed vehicles parking on the public highway but this 4x4 totally block my visibility. If I ever did get round to leaving a polite notice asking for a little more consideration I'm sure it would get her (for she is a she) back up.
Some people simply have no consideration or awareness.
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my parents drive used to regularly get blocked by unthinking drivers parking on the opposite side of their road.This would stop them being able to reverse out of their drive.I "accidently" reversed into one of the offending vehicles when visiting them.They dont seem to have had a problem since.
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"I "accidently"(sic)reversed into one of the offending vehicles when visiting them.They dont seem to have had a problem since."
I must be really old-fashioned, but I never cease to be amazed on this presumed car-loving forum that the apparently instinctive response by a minority of people to damage or inconvenience to one pride and joy is to create damage or inconvenience to another!
We must all have sympathised, for example, with HJ when his car was vandalised at BCA, and I must say that I didn't previously have Turbo 11 down as someone who would condone criminal damage.
Jack
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I am sorry but if someone continually blocks my elderley parents drive, despite them very politely requesting that they don't then if they end up with a damaged car then tough luck.
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then if they end up with a damaged car then tough luck.
And police involvement wiht the potential prosecution of their son would help in what way ?
Or would you beat the coppers up as well ?
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remember actions speak louder than words.
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Oh don't be so ridiculous.
Firstly I doubt you would do anything of the sort, its far too easy to be brave when untested - I'm always at my most macho when hiding behind my keyboard.
Secondly if you did you would be smashing up somebody's car for parking somewhere they are legally allowed and have the right to park because you didn't like it ?
Pathetic.
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I think I would be sympathetic with her if there was no pavement and the access through her gate was obstructed.
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You could suggest sweetly that her grandson is welcome to park his new scooter in your front garden if your car is ever in his way. Also check his scooter is locked with TWO chains for security - even off road, Young lad we know is still paying for his despite no longer having it as he 'only' used one chain and insurance refused to pay out! See, you can be the ultimate helpful neighbour.
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Concern about the scooter is probably down to worry of it being stolen, which is very unerstandable.
I assume this is a car that you're parking in front of her house and not a van or a 4x4?
Fortunately I don't have a parking problem where I live, but if I drive around housing estates I do notice a lot of 'work's vans' parked all over the place. In fact some housing estates look more like small industrial estates - especially since, IME, the larger the vehicle, the less considerate the parking... (or perhaps because of....).
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