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

[nail-Z]

My near neighbour has a collection of Jags, and an obsession with Fiat 500’s. Thankfully he has a lockup nearby that he keeps most of his collection but he often has anything up to 10 cars parked on the street at any one time.

I have a driveway that comfortably accommodates our 2 household cars but his personal collection makes the junction where we live quite dangerous as people have to approach a T junction on the wrong side of the road because of him.

But if they have Tax and MOT there’s nothing we can do. I am a regular on the Tax Checker website though as he often “forgets” to keep them road legal, and we all need a hobby.

He’s also a **** for other reasons otherwise I wouldn’t be so petty.

 

[Zeberdi]

If the cars parked outside are all taxed, mot'd and insured, I have no qualms about them being in the road.
My wife, however, will sacrifise live chickens if a strange car even attempts to drive up our road....we live near a school! I'm sure she was the cause of KFC running out of chicken not so long ago

That’s not why people are get pissed off about though is it - it is when those cars make it difficult for people to get onto and off their own property or damn difficult to navigate round them.

If people want to own several cars then they should move somewhere that has residential parking (and pay the permit), wide roads or their own off road parking to accommodate all the vehicles in that household. One car is fair enough per household but to have 3 cars when you have no where to park them except on pavements (where it’s impossible for wheelchairs/buggies to get past them) or where they block the road in both directions is just selfish and inconsiderate.

 

[dsr-burnley]

Nonsense because it's neither to do with being rich or poor as you've interpreted. It's about people living in the same street but some blocking the road because of they've 5 or 6 cars, vans and even speedboats per household, some of which don't even move for weeks/months on end. It's called taking the pee and being inconsiderate neighbour / citizen. Entitlement in a word (compounded by laziness often as not), and screw everyone else seemingly.

Of course it's to do with being rich or poor. If you charge people extra for car usage simply because they do not have off-road parking, you are targeting the less well-off because people with off-road parking are significantly richer (on average) than people without. Terraced houses are worth about half what semi-detached with driveways are worth, in my area at least, and I suspect the same is true down south.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

People who have driveways which are tax free and then if that's not enough take more of the road by getting a. "H" Bar painted over it..

For sometime I thought 'we' should just double yellow every single road in the city. Don't have off road parking ? Either don't have a car or move somewhere that has a garage and/or driveway.

 

[golddene]

Agreed planners need to provide minimum of 2 spaces per new dwelling and with so many SUV these days the driveways need to be bigger too. Does anyone know ANYONE that actually uses a garage to park a vehicle inside? Scrap these in new build just have a quarter garage for a couple of bikes and more land for a driveway.

Yes ! I do, as does my neighbour next door, the lady on my other side does not have a vehicle so her garage remains empty, the young couple two doors down seem to have two cars each, parked on their now paved front garden their garage is used for junk and repairing cars !! This is just as well as there is a terrace of houses ( 10 - 12) at the other end of the small crescent where we live which only have footpath access so any cars and vans owned or used by these residents are parked wherever they are able to leave them, one particular scruffy transit gets parked outside our property for sometimes months on end, doesn’t really affect me as I always use my garage so it leaves on street parking for those less fortunate than I along with the obvious security of my vehicle which garaging gives.

 

[GJN1]

I think the first residential permit should be the same price for everyone and then escalate for the second car, the third and so on. Ideally, I'd like people with three or more cars to pay around £500k per annum for the privilege.

 

[LamieRobertson]

I bought a double decker buss home once ….the neighbours were so happy

 

[WATFORD zero]

My near neighbour has a collection of Jags, and an obsession with Fiat 500’s. Thankfully he has a lockup nearby that he keeps most of his collection but he often has anything up to 10 cars parked on the street at any one time.

I have a driveway that comfortably accommodates our 2 household cars but his personal collection makes the junction where we live quite dangerous as people have to approach a T junction on the wrong side of the road because of him.

But if they have Tax and MOT there’s nothing we can do. I am a regular on the Tax Checker website though as he often “forgets” to keep them road legal, and we all need a hobby.

He’s also a **** for other reasons otherwise I wouldn’t be so petty.

I was completely on his side until that first comma

All my neighbours are lovely people and I know them all and chat to them regularly. I'm now worried that along the lines of the 'bellcheeses at work' thread that if there's not a bellcheese in your neighbourhood it means .......

 

[LamieRobertson]

For sometime I thought 'we' should just double yellow every single road in the city. Don't have off road parking ? Either don't have a car or move somewhere that has a garage and/or driveway.

So if you needed say a plumber…urgently like they’d have to walk/cycle to you….with tool bag?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

So if you needed say a plumber…urgently like they’d have to walk/cycle to you….with tool bag?

OK - fair point - with a number of trades people spaces. Or permits that allow DY parking and aren't charged for.

 

[portlock seagull]

Of course it's to do with being rich or poor. If you charge people extra for car usage simply because they do not have off-road parking, you are targeting the less well-off because people with off-road parking are significantly richer (on average) than people without. Terraced houses are worth about half what semi-detached with driveways are worth, in my area at least, and I suspect the same is true down south.

If you live on a road and have 5 cars, 2 speedboats and a couple of trade vans in your household with no or little off road parking to accommodate then you’re not poor. You just need to move or stop buying vehicles and trailers you’ve nowhere to put them. But the PUBLIC highway (clues in the name) ain’t the place at everyone else’s inconvenience.

 

[WATFORD zero]

So if you needed say a plumber…urgently like they’d have to walk/cycle to you….with tool bag?

But as long as they get a cup of tea, a chocolate digestive and a bit of honesty

 

[Chicken Run]

This thread confirms to me that the boundary/distance between and the adjoining people is ever growing, i’m gonna need to buy a bothy on a remote Scottish Island at the this rate, i f***ing hate people so much these days

 

[Chicken Run]

For sometime I thought 'we' should just double yellow every single road in the city. Don't have off road parking ? Either don't have a car or move somewhere that has a garage and/or driveway.

I’m sure i heard the City Council plans to resident permit every street at some point, i’m pretty sure then that you’d only be allowed two permits per property and declare on application you don’t have off road parking at your property which puts you at risk if you tell porkies. There was a council bod photographing my mums road in Patcham last year i told me they are getting ready to submit planning

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I’m sure i heard the City Council plans to resident permit every street at some point, i’m pretty sure then that you’d only be allowed two permits per property and declare on application you don’t have off road parking at your property which puts you at risk if you tell porkies. There was a council bod photographing my mums road in Patcham last year i told me they are getting ready to submit planning

For years I've said the council plan is to have permit parking in every street - obviously as an income earner ( we'll ignore that when first introduced it was promised the charges would just cover the running costs - an absolute lie ). Clearly my idea would prevent the council from making money .... so despite the fact it would achieve the same outcome will be roundly rejected.

 

[grubbyhands]

On one side we have a couple who have a total of 4 cars. I've no idea why as they could quite easily cope with just two and one of them the man barely uses and appears to have just for show. Without any apparent sense of self awareness he often comments how parking has become a problem in our road. He has a drive which accommodates two of the vehicles.

On the other side we have a family comprising of two parents and two daughters, all of whom drive. They have a total of 6 vehicles between them, two of which also appear to be superfluous Their drive also accommodates just two of their vehicles.

So between our two sets of neighbours they have a total of TEN f*****g cars between them, four of which appear to be totally unnecessary.

Do your neighbours' car ownership practices piss you off?....

I've got 6 cars ,my work van and 3 motorcycles, not that its any of your effing business.

 

[Chicken Run]

For years I've said the council plan is to have permit parking in every street - obviously as an income earner ( we'll ignore that when first introduced it was promised the charges would just cover the running costs - an absolute lie ). Clearly my idea would prevent the council from making money .... so despite the fact it would achieve the same outcome will be roundly rejected.

I’ve got to be honest mate, any income that the council can make after the clusterfucking the Green Party did to our council i’ll back as long as they can be trusted to to spend wisely….

 

[Chicken Run]

I've got 6 cars ,my work van and 3 motorcycles, not that its any of your effing business.

I’d imagine the people around you know all about your motorcycle and car business

 

[Hugo Rune]

Take a stroll along Selham Drive and Selham Close in Coldean and it’s clear to see that someone has at least a dozen vehicles parked parked on the road, in their driveway and on various grass verges. All the veichles seem to be in various states of disrepair and some don’t appear to have been driven in years.

I have no idea how the council allow this to happen but assume that the road and drive could be private unless they are all being taxed which would cost a fortune. I am lucky not to live in that neighbourhood. You can never park there.

Of course, these cars (that never move) could be owned by more than one family but because there is a house with it’s front drive/garden crammed with motor-junk, I suspect not.

 

[Justice]

In my block of 6 apartment's only me and have a nice gated secure parking place.
The others are very unlikely to ever get a vehicle.
One Italian woman who spends her life at her sisters and has never had a driving license a scouser who prefers beer to eating nice fella though, a pest control guy who picks his van up from the office and the rest are Somalians renting who are on benefits so even more unlikely.