To want the car to move!

Looks as though it has been dumped. Contact your local council.

Me too. I'm fully expecting it to be featured in a "this car hasn't moved for weeks" post on our road's FB page at any moment.

The person could have gone into hospital or has gone on holiday with people on your street. Yes it is annoying but unless it is stolen or abandoned not much that tou can do OP.

@honeyandbutterontoast has the car moved yet?

My son’s got your set up. Where I live everyone who lives here avoids parking outside someone else’s house - and has done since we moved in 25 years ago.

I live in a one way street with no drives and everyone just parks where we can. There’s no reserving your spot outside your house. Just park in whichever spot near your house is free. It’s ridiculous parking far off just to make sure your neighbours don’t have to. Nobody owns their spot and it’s just a bonus if there’s one nearby that is empty. It’s very rare for us to get to park closer than two blocks away so we’re always thrilled when any spot on our street is empty.

It was the preferred option and I was suggesting the OP contact the council, that's why the service exists. Let the Council sort out whether it's a valid complaint or not, they have the experience in these matters.

Don't be silly: just because somebody has left their property in a legal, appropriate place and not needed/been able to use it for a few weeks, in no way does that equate to 'abandoned'.

It's not burned out, or missing a couple of wheels, or has a tree growing up through it; they just got to a public parking space that OP also wanted before she did.

Has my neighbour 'abandoned' the greenhouse in her garden that she hasn't been into all over the winter?!

My Dh says he frequently gets reports of criminal damage to cars parked on the road/non allocated spaces, usually repeatedly punctured tyres. On our neighbourhood app, a poor lady had her car keyed daily, put up a camera and has caught the guy. No idea if it’s because she’s parked where she is, although obviously pretty much outside her house as the camera is on her front door. People are crazy about parking. A neighbour who has 2 vehicles and no drive has whinged about a different neighbour parking in a non allocated space despite having a drive (has a temporary extra car as her ds passed his test and is trying to sell the one not parked on the drive). Bonkers.

Why would Starmer be intrested in parking, isnt he is still trying to free the sausages.

I can't believe that people are suggesting reporting somebody to the police for parking safely in a legal, unrestricted space.

Conversely I can. (In fact on a thread this length I would have laid money on it). It wouldn't be MN otherwise.

In fact I am mildly surprised that no one has yet concocted a theory around criminal gangs, modern slavery, Keir Starmer and VAT on private schools. Although I admit it is the slow season.

Perfectly legal is they are taxed and MOTd sadly 😭

For 7 years I lived in a tenement flat a mile east of Glasgow city centre. Each close (entrance hall) had 8 flats in it and the street outside had space for 3 or 4 cars. Our street was used for parking for the shops and offices on the main road one block over and it was also used by people going into the city centre rather than them paying to park all day. If Celtic was playing at home we couldn't move the car unless we were willing to stay away long after the match finished. Getting parked anywhere near our flat was a massive achievement. It was just part of life.
No one owns the piece of public road outside their home and I would park in the nearest space to my home making sure that I wasn't taking up any more space than necessary, i.e. not parking in the middle of a space that would fit 2 cars.
Yesterday I was at my mum's. She lives in a 1920s terrace just off a main road (so again people parking for the local shops and offices, plus for trains and buses). I have regularly ended up parking in the next street over, away from the main road but I was pleasantly surprised to get a space almost at her door, which was particularly helpful since I had bags of presents plus prepared food for the extended family get together to carry from the car.

The law’s still as much of an ass as it was when Dickens denounced it.

Not according to the law

Absolutely.

Absolutely agree

Parking is one thing. Using the public road for long term vehicle storage is quite another.

Some of these posts are hilarious. It’s not “your” space because it’s outside your house. You have zero right to any space on a public road.

I live near a town centre and next to a school. It’s all on street parking with a million terraces. It’s a free for all. Sometimes I can park near my house, other times it’s several streets away, all up hill. There’s a bloke with about 6 different cars and vans he uses for storage. They one by one run out of their MOTs, sit there rotting for months, people report them, then they rot for more months until the council scraps them, then he buys another to take its place. That’s ONE bloke taking up probably 9 spaces with his vans. That’s the joy of on street parking.

I live in a very working class town. You are probably considered well off if you have a house with a driveway here.

Criminal damage… nice.

No they couldn’t. Are you ok??

We have the same situation on our street.
Neighbours used to park considerately so that everyone could find a space to park ............. until we had neighbours move in who just thought about themselves and where they and their visitors could park without inconveniencing themselves

People seem to have become so much more selfish these days and don't seem to consider anybody else's needs

Same here. All the neighbours parked considerately and it worked perfectly.
New neighbours moved in and parked so selfishly. He would park his massive van in a way that took up at least two spaces just so he could see it from his window. He'd leave it there for weeks too even though it massively inconvenienced everyone including the neighbours with a new born baby.

We all knew he was parking legally but it still meant he was an absolute dick. We ended up moving and on our moving day we text all the neighbours asking if they could keep the space outside our house free for our removal van ...... the second we moved our car to free up the space he moved his van into it!
His wife was mortified when she saw us carrying things up the road to our van but he refused to move.

When you buy a house with parking on the road, you know that you have no claim on that particular bit of public road and could be parking anywhere.

I have always lived in places where you park on the road. You park where there's a space.

We could buy two, possibly three, properties with parking if we sold our house. Living in a house that was built before cars were invented isn’t a financial decision.