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[Misc] How many f*****g cars do your next door neighbours have between them?







Justice

Dangerous Idiot
Jun 21, 2012
21,514
Born In Shoreham
It’s what most of them do now. You are always charged a minimum of 1 hour. 55 Mins travel time. 5 Minute job.
That’s a pet hate of mine especially when the customer is calling every ten minutes how long will be. You do the job fairly quickly and then they moan they have to pay a full hour for 10 minutes work which incidentally they had agreed to prior. Twats
 


Zeberdi

“Vorsprung durch Technik”
NSC Patron
Oct 20, 2022
7,711
I live in a block of 26 flats, we have 5 parking spaces between us so it's sometimes tricky to get a space.
One neighbour has 3 cars, and he's the only driver in his household. He has one car parked in the carpark, one on the road outside and another around the corner.
When he wants to use the one in the carpark he'll swap it with a other one so he doesn't lose "his spot".
Thankfully we are moving next week and I'll have my own private space so I won't have to deal with this weapon anymore.

It seems unusual that a single driver should have 3 cars in the household but fortunately most local authorities now recognise that planners need to include better on curtilage parking facilities for new builds so all local transport plans impose mimimim provisions (which may vary according to location/public transport provision).

The Norfolk County Council plan requires one parking space per residential unit, plus cycle and mobility scooter, 2-3 bed dwellings two spaces, 4 bed or more 3 spaces and houses in multi-occupancy 0.5 spaces.
 


GrossTurn

Well-known member
Jun 20, 2020
375
Victorian terraces where I live in Brighton so no driveways.
Parking used to be a major problem but since they introduced resident parking it’s sorted that.
Not many multiple car owners in our street, it may just be a sign of town living.
Same here. No obvious way of knowing if any/many households have multiple cars but the average would definitely below 1.
 


grubbyhands

Well-known member
Dec 8, 2011
2,306
Godalming
If you’re parking them all on the public highway you don’t own, and if it’s causing a problem…then you make it so. Sorry, but that’s the reality.
It was a tongue in cheek reply really. They are all ,with one exception, parked on my property or in the case of one of them and the motorcycles are in my garage. I thought I'd answer the post with something approaching the same "venom" as the OP.:)
 




portlock seagull

Well-known member
Jul 28, 2003
18,134
We've got 2 cars and a van plus my motorbike but that's got it's own cosy shed. Next door have 2 cars, next to that bloke has 3 vans and his Mrs doesn't drive. One work, one camper and one feck knows. Luckily they have a decent drive so they don't block the road

Next to that is a family of 4 with 2 early 20 kids. Each has a car so that's 4. The dad is a mate and told his kids not to park outside our house so they park up the road which is really nice of them. I've told them a few times how I appreciate it. I like my van outside my house because of the tools and the Mrs works late and has shopping etc so likes to be outside.
That's lovely and very civil. Neighbourly in other words, mine are the same. See, it can be done. It;s just when you get arseholes who only ever see the world according to their needs and 'rights' (but never responsibilities!)
 


Wrong-Direction

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2013
13,724
Quite lucky in my close as everyone has decent size drives, but I notice many roads locally where I work seem to have plenty of parked cars during the day, many more than 10-15 years back.
I do see a fair few houses that have a caravan or camping van on their driveway but their cars parked outside neighbours houses.
What I find odd is when I see a house with sometimes 2 cars on a driveway that probably haven’t been driven for several years and should really be scrapped, these homeowners usually have a few roadworthy vehicles parked in the street.
I'm currently doing a bathroom in the laines! Only got one parking ticket in 2 weeks, I feel blessed 🙌 😇
 






brighton_dave

Well-known member
Apr 13, 2016
511
Chap next door has 2 vans (maybe even a 3rd) with a LWB one that has not moved for months. It appears as though he uses it for storage of materials. They then have 2 cars. Parking had been fine, but there seems to have been a real influx of people moving into the area with vans. Our diveway is on a steep download slope, seeing around them to get onto the road is a nightmare.
No consideration other than for oneself unfortunately. Something that will just get worse... 🙁
 


BN9 BHA

DOCKERS
NSC Patron
Jul 14, 2013
23,069
Newhaven
I'm currently doing a bathroom in the laines! Only got one parking ticket in 2 weeks, I feel blessed 🙌 😇
You have had a shocker there mate :lolol: Whichever area you are talking about it would take a gun to my head to work in central Brighton, someone asked me if I would do a job in Sussex Height recently:rolleyes:

Hope this helps :thumbsup:

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Gabbafella

Well-known member
Aug 22, 2012
4,968
It seems unusual that a single driver should have 3 cars in the household but fortunately most local authorities now recognise that planners need to include better on curtilage parking facilities for new builds so all local transport plans impose mimimim provisions (which may vary according to location/public transport provision).

The Norfolk County Council plan requires one parking space per residential unit, plus cycle and mobility scooter, 2-3 bed dwellings two spaces, 4 bed or more 3 spaces and houses in multi-occupancy 0.5 spaces.
Our place is about 20 years old and has underground parking but apparently it's owned by a local company and not the building owners which is bizarre.
Every flat would have a designated space if we were allowed to use the underground parking.
I have absolutely no idea why my neighbour needs 3 cars, he's a selfish twat, even admitted to me that he considers that parking spot to be his and nobody else's.
Can't wait to move next week and enjoy my own personal space. And I'll be a stones throw from mill lane so travel to the amex will be so easy.
 




RandyWanger

Je suis rôti de boeuf
Mar 14, 2013
6,960
Done a Frexit, now in London
We have 3. 2 on the drive 1 in the garage.
Next door have 1 on the drive.
Other side have 2 and a work van, all on their drive.
Next door to them, they have 3 cars and a work van, park all 4 outside other peoples houses leaving their drive empty :rolleyes:
 


Wrong-Direction

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2013
13,724
You have had a shocker there mate :lolol: Whichever area you are talking about it would take a gun to my head to work in central Brighton, someone asked me if I would do a job in Sussex Height recently:rolleyes:

Hope this helps :thumbsup:

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North Laine so guess I was half right! Opposite an expensive bakery which has been dangerous!
 






ofco8

Well-known member
May 18, 2007
2,401
Brighton
Well, my next door neighbour had 8 cars, six in garages and two on drive. He is now down to two as his house and garages burnt down just before Christmas and all the cars in the garages were lost. (Did you see on social media or Argus or South East Today?) He is a car fanatic, mainly Mercedes, and did them up. They now live on site in a park caravan with the two remaining cars waiting for house rebuild to begin.
 


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