Well, it’s 1:16am and the ****** 2 doors over is doing DIY. I’ve already had words with him this evening (most of them 4 letters in length) regarding the two cars parked in the driveway for four hours. They’ve been moved. After he claimed he owned half of the drive which he knew because he’d checked his plans.
Actually, if he’d checked the documents he’d have seen he owns a third. “Well I’ll park on my third then”. Ah, no. You see it’s one third ownership, not ownership of a specific third. This disregarding the fact that his car is approximately twice the width of a third of the drive anyway.
His excuse of “if you had kids you’d know how hard it is. I’m not leaving him alone in the house for two minutes while I move my car back out of the driveway” was rather weak. Especially as there was at least one other person in the house with him. Also, if the kid’s in a safety seat (which he is), then you plop the seat in the hallway – in view and with the little lad still strapped in – and move the car. Or you park it where it should be parked and carry him the extra 10 yards to the front door. Either is safe.
I did threaten to clamp him the next time he was parked there for a length of time, but in all honesty I’m not sure how legal that would be with him having part-ownership of that piece of land. However…
Courtesy of Steve, the chap next door, we’ve had a dig and looked at our title deeds and the HM Land Registry Property, Proprietership and Charges Registers which we’re all provided with upon buying a house. Interesting reading.
Charges Register section (10) (b) reads:
Not without the consent of the council in writing park any motor vehicle upon any part of the premises otherwise than in a properly constructed garage.
Without getting into too much legalese, this means that the little toerag is well and truly ******. We’re giving the council a ring on Monday, and have a feeling they may ask us to call the police to give him a quick visit. Oh, how I’m looking forward to that.
Do let us know how you get on. This saga is better than thingy street or deadenders
SFG
grr, neighbours, grr, cars, grrrrr
I shall take that as a compliment, though admittedly the competition isn’t up to much.
Well, the friend who I’m staying with for a few months has had an ongoing problem with our neighbours being noisy late at night, being abusive etc, so a YEAR ago he printed out a BBC NewsOnline article about the new ASBOs, which mentioned both nuisance neighbours (story and headline) and the homeless (story and picture). A few weeks ago, we had the article shoved back through the mailbox, saying “don’t threaten us with homelessness, watch your back”. My friend filed a report of this with the police, of course, but geez, are these people slow on the uptake or what?