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Interesting views on this post. I don't think jealousy comes into it.

Maybe the complainant doesn't like looking at a caravan. One poster admitted their van isn't particularly pleasent to look at and previously posted that they made sarcastic comments about a neighbour's speedboat on the drive. I guess I'm lucky living on a development with a covenant stating that caravans & boats shouldn't be kept on the drives. We used to have a caravan 15 years ago but after a few years of caravanning, you instinctively know it's time to give up when planning a holiday and the whole family says anything that doesn't involve the caravan.

There are some sad people about who are only happy if they are causing other people grief. There are others with the cavaman mentality, it you don't understand something or it isn't the kind of thing you would do, attack it.

Perhaps you could have told your neighbours, that's what we do when we bring ours home from storage for a short while, I tell the neighbours that we will be bringing it home and I tell them how long it will be there, most people are happy once they know it's not going to be there permanent.

I have my caravan parked in my drive and when I told my neighbours I was getting one I could see that they were a little scepticle.  After getting it I gave them all the guided tour and asked them their opinion.  There initial reaction when I told them I was getting one was 2 things, first, what peice of crap am I going to put in the drive and secondly from a safety point of view, when the van is not there it is obvious and inviting to theifs.

I have worked with the neighbours to try and minimise the impact as I don't have a big drive and it is a big van.  When away my neighbours have a key to the house and do the blinds and they also park their cars in my drive when I am away.  This makes me and them feel safer.

I guess what I am saying that not all neighbours are WXXXXERS..

That aside I do have old yans that moan, but they moan about everything so it is just one more thing for them

Good luck with yours

Cheers

Richard

hi donna,

where abouts in tyne and wear are you,we are in birtley and have our caravan in storage but we are bringing it home tonite to do sum jobs on it before we go away nxt weekend and it will be intersting to see weather we have any complaints as it will be in the carpark where we live.we were told when we moved there we were'nt allowed to keep it there,so we will just have to wait and see,but like you we are going away in it nxt week.

tracy

Quote: Originally posted by rhsc01 on 07/8/2009

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I have my caravan parked in my drive and when I told my neighbours I was getting one I could see that they were a little scepticle.  After getting it I gave them all the guided tour and asked them their opinion.  There initial reaction when I told them I was getting one was 2 things, first, what peice of crap am I going to put in the drive and secondly from a safety point of view, when the van is not there it is obvious and inviting to theifs.

I have worked with the neighbours to try and minimise the impact as I don't have a big drive and it is a big van.  When away my neighbours have a key to the house and do the blinds and they also park their cars in my drive when I am away.  This makes me and them feel safer.

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i am the same, i told all the neighbours beforehand and a few were worried about having the gas bottles but as i said with 2 petrol cars on the drive the van wouldnt make much difference. i keep my van clean even in winter and the neighbours give me a shove on and off the drive, suffice to say i give them a beer or 3

the caravan is normally took out the night before we go away and brought round to the front, on the road till we leave the next day.

I must say our neighbours are normally ok when caravan is out, normally asking where we are going and telling us to have a nice time.  Well the ones that speak anyway, there are only 5 houses in the street where you actually see anyone !!

The council guy asked where we normally kept it and my hubby told him our back garden, safe and secure, he then said "oh you might not be able to keep it there", i wish now we had put it straight into the garden!!!    It is not a eyesore either, it is immaculate, all clean and tidy, my husband even polished it again last night (im sure that was just to annoy the complainers ) 

Thats all I need for them to now come back and say we cant keep it in our garden. (it is a council property), though we did ask when we got the house if we could keep it there and the guy said yes no problem.

Anyway he said it is fine there till we go away next week, so its staying!!!  We told him it would be straight back into our garden when we get back.

Sooooooooooooooo looking forward to getting away, my first 14 night trip out.

i wouldnt leave mine in the street for any more than a hour as the street is very busy and i wouldnt trust the local drivers not to see the van (yeah i know 8 feet high, white etc), fortunately a family friend lives in a cul-de-sac 100 yards away with 2 houses so if i am late back and cant be bothered shoving the van about i just abandon the rig there

i checked with the council before i got my van and as there isnt anything stopping me legally from parking my van on the drive the neighbours cant complain. (drive was our garden before we built the drive anyway) but it is amazing what a beer and a few sweeties can achieve

we are away at the moment,home tomorrow and spoke to our daughter who says the neighbours have all their 6 piles of rot strategically lined up to make it virtually impossible to get in the drive when we get home.

sad sad b****rds.

i can see us having to offload our new to us senator wyoming because of these idiots purposely making it impossible to get in or out.

its just going to be too big to fit between all the badly parked rotboxes

Quote: Originally posted by Khanny on 09/8/2009

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for a lot of people the drive is there only option i have seen the damage done on so called storage sites and as long as the van is road worthy the police cant stop you parking in the street unless it is causing an obstruction this i have checked up on

Post last edited on 09/08/2009 01:23:03

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Any vehicle/trailer parked on a road can technically be causing an obstruction.
A caravan, when not attached to the towing vehicle is classed as a trailer.



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