Mad neighbours

Surely this makes it easier to charge an electric vehicle overnight too. How do others manage that?

NittWitt

Maybe it'll reduce their insurance to have off-street parking, and may make the property more attractive when it's sold by them or whoever inherits.

I hoped for much more interesting 'madness' from this thread.

My partner now parks his car on his drive since a delivery driver wrote off his last car. I have to state on my insurance if my car is parked on a driveway at night. Maybe the neighbours have supermarket deliveries etc and want there to be space on the street for them to park?

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Surely this makes it easier to charge an electric vehicle overnight too. How do others manage that?

Good point!!

We don't have an electric vehicle (it's hybrid) but that makes sense.

watermeadow

The couple opposite me, mid-80s, are having their front garden made into a small parking area. Everyone else parks on the street or at a space reserved for residents about 20’ away.
He said it’s so nobody can park in front of his house. They only go out once a week so their car is almost always in front of their house.
This must be costing at least £5000 and I think it’s crazy.
Tell me about your odd or troublesome neighbours.

My husband is almost 80, birthday next month. He has limited mobility and walking is very painful. Being able to park on the drive means he has a guaranteed parking space just a few steps from front door. Might not seem worth the money to you but might be worth it to them.

Unloading the supermarket shopping this morning would have been difficult if the car had been parked 20 yards away.

Why judge them as «mad» ?

They may be looking for lower maintenance, more secure parking for their car, and possibly lower insurance, along withtheir own convenience.
Not your choice or your decision.

Well at the end of the day whether it’s a brilliant idea or a bad one it’s no one’s business but theirs
I bet the original poster watermeadow would be mortified if her neighbours were writing on here a public forum, for all the world to see “my neighbours have just paid a lot of money for new curtains and the colour clashes with everything around”

Fallingstar

We thankfully have lovely neighbours though some are a bit weird, which is fine because we probably are too.
A couple a few doors up play some kind of dragons and dungeons game that involves dressing up, they belong to a local group and one of our DDs got a shock when she came round one day and saw them having a cup of tea with us in full fancy dress.

I love this 🤣🤣

I think it’s highly likely WE the mad crazy neighbours! 6 of us living here, in a three storey mid terrace, 4 dogs, son, 23 has an alternative metal band and sometimes practises his “roars” & “screams” at home. Dogs bark if someone breathes the wrong way!

However, even though the children living at home still (aaaagggghhh) are all adults, they are pretty respectful of neighbours, try to keep dogs quiet, don’t let them out in the garden between 10:30pm-6:15am, no “roaring” or “screaming” between 10:00pm-9:00am or loud WiFi use (gaming, group chats etc) between those hours too, no cooking after 9:30pm - so despite a full house and chaos it’s no more noisy (as a general rule) than smaller households.

Next door to our right is also a house with now only two newly retired people who are very quiet, however next door to our left neighbours are two flats, downstairs is one lady and one very noisy dog who she often leaves in the garden barking for up to half an hour, upstairs is a very mad young lady, with a 5 year old son and three dogs and no direct access to their part of the back garden. She also is a dog sitter? Not sure how! Lots of different dogs coming and going and child shouts and screams a lot, no so bad in winter, but in summer they spend hours and hours in their back garden and it’s horrendous sometimes.

Many years ago our, then, 14 year old son wandered through our kitchen and said as he went through. 'I am so glad I have eccentric parents', and disappeared.

I have always shrugged this off as teenage insrutability, but this week we had an expert in to look at our house and take wood samples to date it. Himself, a little eccentric, greying, with a ponytail, he used to commute between the UK and Japan.

Anyway talking about old houses generally afterwards he said to me 'The thing about old houses is that they have real character and so do their owners' Hmm. I told DD who merely commented. 'I keep telling you that you and daddy are really odd.'

It makes me think. perhaps we are an example of odd and troublesome neighbour. We have only been in our house six months. One neighbour hasn't spoken to us, if fact has cut us dead since day 1. The other side is a vets practice, we have spoken to him and he seems very pleasant and I hope we gave the same impression, but I am beginning to worry.

I am not spying on my neighbours, their house is just across the road and while the work was being done it was as visible and audible as if it had been in my front garden.
I too had hoped to hear of some really odd neighbours.

Perhaps all our neighbours are odd because 🤞 we all get on well
😁

watermeadow

I am not spying on my neighbours, their house is just across the road and while the work was being done it was as visible and audible as if it had been in my front garden.
I too had hoped to hear of some really odd neighbours.

All our neighbours have their quirks but, probably, so do we .

Watermeadow , if your neighbours are doing it to stop people parking outside their house . They must have applied for a dropped kerb of to extend the original dropped kerb .

Why are they mad? Its their money and they obviously think its best for them. I wouldn't like my car on the road but I do dislike gardens turned into just hardcore so would have to still have shrubs and plants.

You do not need planing permission to turn your front garden into a parking area.

However, you have to ask the Council to drop the kerb.
Our kerb was dropped already.

My ancient next door neighbour could barely walk; she drove everywhere and parked her car very close to her front door; in the disabled space nearest to the shop door, etc.

When she came to mine for coffee or a meal, she drove. Less than a hundred yards door to door but she couldn't walk that far. Into the car from her front door , up her drive, along road to my gate, down my drive to stop right at my front door.

There must be many mid-80's people getting increasingly frail on their pins, hanging on to their car because without it, they'd be housebound.

Monica - your ‘himself’ sounds like a Lawyer I see on TV - Court TV 😂

crazyH

Monica - your ‘himself’ sounds like a Lawyer I see on TV - Court TV 😂

He sounds like my Godson - not a lawyer or M0nica's expert 😁

Agree with other posters - their money and their business

I'd have thought turning their front garden into a drive is a good idea, convenient for them and leaves a clear road for drivers. If more of your neighbours did this you would feel the benefit of being able to drive freely without the starting and stopping (giving way) to oncoming traffic when the parked cars on the road create a slalom effect 🙄.

Maybee: I have to state on my insurance if my car is parked on a driveway at night.

A good point. Off road and garage parking should reduce premiums.

By many accounts on here, premiums can increase substantially past 80 so anything one can do to minimise that seems sensible.

It saves your wing mirrors too 😉

crazyH

Monica - your ‘himself’ sounds like a Lawyer I see on TV - Court TV 😂

Absolutely not - though come to think of it, my best friend is a lawyer and a judge - and she is as mad a box of frogs.

BlueBelle

Oh Cariad sing another song

PMSL 😂