Parking 3.5 horse box in residential areas

[Michen]

Hi,

Bit of a silly question! My company car is being returned tomorrow and I don't get my new one until Monday. I'm hoping to pick up my new 3.5 Lorry on Friday. Is it ok to park these on residential streets? It won't fit in the garage of the underground car park of my flat so I'd need to leave it on a street somewhere and walk home. I can leave it at the yard and get a lift home but means I'm a bit stranded over the weekend without relying on other people which seems silly when I have a vehicle I can use...

 

[ElleSkywalker]

I've parked it outside a pub in the middle of a town centre before :wink3:

 

[stormox]

dont see why not, as long as its taxed and insured. The chap next door to me in Northants regularly parks his pick-up lorry in the street.

 

[eggs]

My friend used to park hers on the street. One of the neighbours did complain though and she had to move it as there was a lot of army housing in the area and it was viewed as a potential security risk!

 

[Tiddlypom]

As long as your road is wide enough for other vehicles (including emergency vehicles) to get past it without having to drive on the pavement, it should be fine. It's no bigger than a small motorhome, and plenty of folk park those on the road.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Yes, Ours was regularly outside our old house or in the village hall carpark oposite the house!

 

[ROMANY 1959]

I've parked mine outside my home many times, usually overnight when I've been going somewhere real early and picking up a friends horse from her yard, to save disturbing my YO at 5 am.
I told the neighbour and they were fine..

 

[MissTyc]

Mine has been parked outside my house in residential area for 6 years now, every day and night. When I go to events I pull my car out of the driveway and park it in "my" space and then lorry goes back in its spot. We have so many white vans in the area that the horsebox is no different really. My driveway is a fraction too small for it unfortunately.

 

[Shadowdancing]

Mine lives at home in my residential street in my allocated parking space. Luckily fits neatly against my wall so it's not too in neighbours faces n it doesn't cause an obstruction.

 

[Vodkagirly]

Mine was regularly outside my house when I was at the old yard with no issues. Even drove to work, office job in it before.

 

[asmp]

Just make sure it's extra secure - perhaps use a steering lock? (see the 'stolen' post I made last week on here about a horse box being stolen from someone's drive local to me)

 

[Abacus]

I used to have mine outside my house on the road and even in a very pretty village no one complained. Except when we moved out for 5 months elsewhere and I took the box with me - the new neighbours hated it and kept complaining. Was so glad to come home. It's perfectly legal.

 

[Bubblewrap]

If you live on a new estate, it may be worth checking. A friend of ours briefly rented a house on an estate whilst work was done to there house and then found out his large van was not allowed to be parked there. It was parking bays not driveways. Luckily it was on the edge of an older part of town and they parked it over there at night. I'd never heard of that before then and was quite surprised considering the amount of people that must drive vans.

 

[Michen]

I actually live in an apartment on the grounds of a racecourse so I've obnoxiously parked it in their horsebox parking area. Don't think there's racing on today hehe.