I really must stop looking at the news. Once again, I did so and once again, my blood boiled.
People who rent out their driveways to other motorists are being backed by new government guidelines aimed at tackling parking congestion in busy areas.
The guidance for local authorities in England follows reports that some have threatened to levy fines if planning permission is not obtained.
I’m sorry, but what the fucking fuckitty fuck? A driveway is private property. If someone wants to allow someone else to park their vehicle for a small recompense, that is between the two parties involved. It is nothing whatsoever to do with the pecksniffing, parsimonious, puritanical, purse-lipped, pompous burghers of the local council and the idea that these overblown, self-righteous arseholes have the sheer egotistic effrontery to assume that they can levy a fine for something that is none of their fucking damned business is an outrage.
A spokesman from the Local Government Association said: “If homeowners want to do this it is right that their neighbours are consulted.
No, it isn’t. We do not own our neighbours’ driveways and if a different colour car is parked on it, it is none of our business. I don’t care what cars are parked on my neighbours’ driveways and do not expect to be consulted if the owner of the car is paying the owner of the driveway. I have a life to lead and let them lead theirs.
Ultimately it is down to local areas to decide how they monitor this practice and in many places people do expect their council to ensure that their neighbours aren’t doing things which increase traffic and change the character of their neighbourhood.
There is nothing to monitor.
People don’t want to wake up one morning to find that their neighbour is operating a parking lot.
Fuck me! it’s a fucking driveway – how many cars can be got on it, for fuck’s sake? Talk about overstating the matter. No, it does not need monitoring and no, it does not need planning permission and no, it does not involve the neighbours.
Mr Pickles said: “Councils should be welcoming common sense ways that help hard-working people park easier and cheaply and for families to make some spare cash.
“Councils shouldn’t be interfering in an honest activity that causes no harm to others, unless there are serious concerns. Parking charges and fines are not a cash cow for town halls.
“This government is standing up against the town hall parking bullies and over-zealous parking enforcement.”
Well, there’s some common sense. Now get on with it and come down hard on those petty little bureaucrats who think that our private lives are any of their damned business. Preferably using a length of hemp, a lamp-post and something very sharp with barbs on it…
Totally agree LR.
BTW It’s a fucking CAR PARK not a parking lot you marxist cunts trying to destroy English.
Pils,
And:
” … ways that help hard-working people park easier and cheaply …”
Ouch!
Doesn’t everybody that has a car or two parked on their drive for a fee get planning permission from the council, indemnity insurance and inform the Inland Revenue ?
Any one else spot the other “benefit” for local authoritys here?
This means, they would have a right to demand all the I.D details, addresses, Proof of ownership, everything, of ANY one who DARED visit you, “Just to ensure you are not getting five bob a week, for you one car size of tarmac, you understand? Nothing sinister to this at all….” 😀
How long till driveways are counted as extras in Council Tax assessments?
This whole “your neighbours have a right to a say in how you use your own property” line is just a way of getting the idea of collective ownership into unquestioning, everyday use by the back door. Of all the various monopolies, licencing schemes and cash cows the government operates, planning permission and compulsory purchase are two of the ones which anger me the most, for the way in which they regard “your” property as being in some fundamental way *not* yours at all.
Indeed. Compulsory purchase is positively evil. And providing we do not harm our neighbours, what we do with our property is none of their business.
I’d also add to this the trend to using the term house hoarding that is being trotted out more frequently along with “our” housing stock. Not your house or my house, but “ours” and we would like you to move out because “we” think you aren’t making enough use of it, so we will tax you on it to “encourage” you to downsize. Pure fucking communism.
“Of all the various monopolies, licencing schemes and cash cows the government operates, planning permission and compulsory purchase are two of the ones which anger me the most, for the way in which they regard “your” property as being in some fundamental way *not* yours at all. ”
Isn’t that the point of the Domesday Book? All land is “owned” with the permission of the Crown. It is yours only if the Crown agrees that you may have it.
“Fuck me! it’s a fucking driveway – how many cars can be got on it, for fuck’s sake? ”
I could get five cars parked on the space outside my garage!