Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Parking - blocking parking space outside your house
Hello,
I don't want to get over excited about this .. but
My neighbour always blocks a huge parking space outside his house with his recycling crates - pic attached! inside and outside the parking restriction times.
He has asked other neighbours to move their car if it is blocking this space.
I very politely challenged him about this: and he told me to mind my own business.
As I say I am not interested in a crusade: but is a little bit anti social.
Have others had any experience of this, and what have they done?
Thank you.
Adrian.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Here's your answer from the council's website. It's counts as obstructing (with debris) the free passage of the highway. You can report it.
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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Our neighbours used to do exactly the same thing - although mainly before we had CPZ. It was really, really annoying. I had to move their bin once to park my car because it was the only space in the street and my son was sick so I couldn't drive round and round looking for a space. They tried to tell me off for moving a bin, but weren't really rude.
There was one neighbour a few doors down that still carried on after the CPZ was introduced, I tried telling him CPZ didn't guarentee a particular space when he came round and yelled at me for daring to park next to his space (not in it, next to it) and not leaving enough space for him to get out - even though when I parked there was nothing in front of me and space for about 5 cars. He didn't listen to me, a mere woman, but he did listen when my partner told him and stopped putting bins out in a completely empty street.
I think I emailed the council about bins being put in our street (before CPZ) and they sent notes round to everyone saying it was an offence to cause a obstruction and they did stop.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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My old neighbour on Warham Road was even more extreme. Smuts (long gone - and rest his soul) used to patrol the street to keep the spot outside of his house free in case his daughter came to visit (she lived in Australia). One one memorable occasion he chased a bin man down the street with a machette because he thought he had taken the panel off his bath and stolen the money he hid there.
Shortly after that he invested in a can of spray paint and marked parking bays out side of our houses. I think he was well into his 80's by then. In his final years he'd sit outside of our house all night watching for burglars and actually caught one once who spent a considerable time in hospital before going to prison.
Happy days.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Lovely, I've been looking for some discarded green bins to use as raised beds. Whereabouts are these?
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Go go Pamish!
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Permalink Reply by Oh no: nevermind! on
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Thank you for all your great responses and stories!!
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