[Clive McDonald]

I live on a housing estate and know that by rights i shouldn't park my van on the drive, covenants enforceable by the developer are there to stop vans, especially sign written ones, and caravans etc, from being parked there.

Most estates have this, and it stems mainly from when the builder is first trying to sell the houses and wants to keep the place classy at least untill he has scarpered.

Anyway, quite a few have vans on my estate, and no one complains. I have two, ones a ducato, and the others a scudo.The scudo has full slumpbuster livery.

What i'm asking you fellas is, i'm thinking of getting another. Is three vans too many? And would my so far perfectly reasonable neighbours have every right to complain?

[matt]

i guess you have a car or 2 aswell  ?? ?

if you lived next to me, i wouldnt be too happy with 3 vans and 1 or 2 cars

people on my estate have been told to park vans away from the estate

to be honest the covenant is for a reason, so stop the estate looking like a gypo site

[Clive McDonald]

Never took you for a snob Matt. in addition we have a little chevrolet/vauxhall aveo that was made in korea.

[GTR Windows]

i personally wouldnt have moved somewhere that tells me what i can and cant park on MY driveway, its mines, i paid for it,  if you have somewhere to put the van then go ahead and buy it, if someone complains then move it, if not dont worry about it

and anyway, even if you dont move if off the drive, what can they do?

[Clive McDonald]

Covenants cover such things as not being able to put a wall at the front of your garden- as an estate might be, and often is open plan. In the small print hardly any estate allows a caravan or a van, but in practice people rarely complain.

You must have seen a caravan before that blocks the next door neighbours window?

I just wondered what you all thought was acceptable.

[GTR Windows]

You must have seen a caravan before that blocks the next door neighbours window?

they deal with it in different ways in the kind of estates that ive lived on

personally i wouldnt bother, but im not in any way shape or form snobby, so it really depends on what the area and your neighbours are like, way i see it is your van is your bread and butter and i wouldnt ask anyone to park it that far out of their site

[Pittmonkey]

Clive why not ask your neighbours, I'm sure they're all quite friendly on the Chatsworth Estate

[williamx]

If the neighbours complain, replace the vans with an artic

[ftp]

Can't the employee drive it home - or will he live with you?

[Central Window Cleaners]

If they complain park it on the road outside their house.  I was told by someone from the council that as long as the van is taxed and legal you can park it anywhere on the road side but not on the drive.

[luther1]

If they complain,buy a drum kit, get a pit-bull and let it c**p on their lawns,washing line in front garden, paint your house turquoise, settee on the lawn,plaster the whole house in xmas lights and turn them on all night all year round and get a Harley and rev it up at 5 in the morning. They'll soon ask you to get the van back.

[dave.e]

If they complain,buy a drum kit, get a pit-bull and let it c**p on their lawns,washing line in front garden, paint your house turquoise, settee on the lawn,plaster the whole house in xmas lights and turn them on all night all year round and get a Harley and rev it up at 5 in the morning. They'll soon ask you to get the van back.

lol

[weetot]

I like it Luther, i used to live somewhere like that, but dont forget the homemade beer table in the front garden made of old bakery boards and a B&Q plastic cement mixing bucket to chuck ya cans in...lol

[matt]

Never took you for a snob Matt. in addition we have a little chevrolet/vauxhall aveo that was made in korea.

working class snob, thats me

on a serious note, just like to live somewhere nice and if you treat your neighbors as you would like to be treated, this world would be a better place

[weetot]

Matt i agree, but you wouldnt argue with my old neighbours mate, I,m up for all that nice stuff but half of them had a pig in the corner of their house to use as an air freshener!

[dave0123]

If they complain park it on the road outside their house.  I was told by someone from the council that as long as the van is taxed and legal you can park it anywhere on the road side but not on the drive

Thats correct mate! i know a roofing company with about 5 vans and they used to park them on his drive was a big house! person over the road complained a idiot and council said the same. There no problems on the road as long as taxed and insured can complain all they like then.

[[GQC] Tim]

I wouldn't appreciate my neighbour having 3 vans on the drive at all. Way to much. Nothing to do with snobbishness.

Just my $0.02's.

[GTR Windows]

I wouldn't appreciate my neighbour having 3 vans on the drive at all. Way to much. Nothing to do with snobbishness.

Just my $0.02's.

would you prefer it if he parked them outside on the road right outside your house everyday?

[Niall McAllister]

I live on a housing estate and know that by rights i shouldn't park my van on the drive, covenants enforceable by the developer are there to stop vans, especially sign written ones, and caravans etc, from being parked there.

Most estates have this, and it stems mainly from when the builder is first trying to sell the houses and wants to keep the place classy at least untill he has scarpered.

Anyway, quite a few have vans on my estate, and no one complains. I have two, ones a ducato, and the others a scudo.The scudo has full slumpbuster livery.

What i'm asking you fellas is, i'm thinking of getting another. Is three vans too many? And would my so far perfectly reasonable neighbours have every right to complain?

what would the parking be like if everyone had 4 vehicles outside their house

but well done for being in a position where  you have that kind of problem

[Tosh]

I've not heard of this 'vans not being allowed on a drive' before, but if someone complained, you could park it on the road, as long as it's taxed/insured/MOT'd and not blocking a drive, then I can't see that being a problem.

On the street behind me, the people there actually own the ROAD area to the middle of the road outside their houses; although the council does maintain them.

Why?  because these used to be army married quarters and when some of them were to be sold off, the 'army' didn't want squaddies parking their cars all over the place; they wanted them parked in a designated protected area because there was a threat from the IRA at the time.

So when they sold them on, they sold the road too; so the house owners could 'shift' any squaddie's car on if they parked outside their house.

It causes all sorts of problems and arguements with 'visitors' to the area not knowing and parking on what looks like a street, but is actually private property 

Not for me though; I've loads of parking.