To want the car to move!

Just because it’s not illegal, doesn’t mean people can’t just show consideration for others, especially taking up two spaces. If it was for a day or a couple of hours, I’d agree with you, but to leave your car outside someone’s home for four weeks is twatty behaviour. My bet is it’s a male driver.

We have one left for months, reported to police it went the next day, they never responded but I presumed it had been stolen and abandoned. No harm in reporting it.

The govt advice to councils includes if it has been there for a significant period of time (usually considered as a month). Again I've posted the links, not conjecture.

the council will do nothing about it unless its causing an obstruction. if the car has a registered keeper, it is deemed to have an owner, if its tax'd and has an MOT then its legally parked. insurance is a grey area, because nothing can really be done about a car not having insurance until its being driven on a highway.. which in this case it is not

This post is wild.
It's a public road. I could park outside your house for a year and you'd have to suck it up buttercup (providing I was taxed MOTd and insured obvs).
Park where you like, because, well you know, it's a public road....

As an aside, I'm getting fond flashbacks to my last house without a driveway as a mid 20s night worker. Getting home at 6am and nowhere to park within 3 streets other than half at the end of the parking and half on double yellows. Not once but twice I woke to find my car gone(after roaming the streets trying to remember where I'd parked it)😭🤣🤣 towed not stolen on both occasions. Sigh. It's why I'll only ever live somewhere with a driveway now, non negotiable.

This 100%.

I have sympathy op, but there is nothing you can do. And if the vehicle belongs to a neighbour writing a snotty note will just annoy them and might make matters worse.

Is it just road space, or are they marked out spaces? Unless you have designated parking, it's not YOUR parking. You bought the house, not the road. It's annoying as heck, I understand. But ultimately it's tough luck, and if it winds you up THAT much, you really should work towards buying a house with a driveway.

Authorities must decide if a vehicle is abandoned. This is likely if at least one of the following applies:

it has no keeper on DVLA’s database and is untaxed - check vehicle tax online
it’s stationary for a significant amount of time
it’s significantly damaged, run down or unroadworthy, for example has flat tyres, missing wheels or broken windows
it’s burned out
a number plate is missing

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/abandoned-vehicles-council-responsibilities

Our council have removed three from just one road on this basis

People are truly pathetic. I love a good cone when I visit friends who live in town.

Ex's car is currently outside someone else's house. He was towed home and he would have parked in front of his house but someone else was there at the time. Sometimes you have to park on the next street. He's saving up to g et it mended.

You don't own the road outside your own house. Anyone can park there if they are legally on the road.

We had one like this on our road and it was a reload car. Report it to police asap

There could be multiple reasons the car has not moved - Driver has had surgery and can’t drive until recovered, been banned from driving, car needs repairs which they can’t afford, or can’t get insurance renewed/can’t afford it.

Pretty sure a car also has to insured, as well as have tax and MOT, while parked on a public road though so you could report it to police who can check that and can seize it if not insured?

If police find the owner and it is insured, they can’t make them move it though.

It is wrong though. The council don't tow decent cars that haven't moved for a few weeks. They have to be obviously derelict, flat tyres, smashed windows, no tax etc.

its a big one 😂

@honeyandbutterontoast you're still not getting that although you're irked, there's nothing you can do about it. YABVU to continue to moan and be rude to people.

The council can write. But the car owner will probably just bin the letter. Why would they do anything different?

When I visit my daughter I have to park on the PUBLIC ROAD as she only has a small drive.
Some sad twat always comes out and stares or takes a video/photo of me and my car. Funnily enough he doesn't when my rather large husband is with me....

There are some cowboy airport parking companies who will take the £1,000* for a 2 week parking service and earn it by using public roads miles from the airport with low crime rates.

*I imagine.

Just read that back - the car was left in our turning bay for weeks to make it clear!

But if you all just park one space away from where you all normally park noone is that inconvenienced.

This happened not outside our house but we live in a cul-de-sac with a turning bay. The car was owned by the son of an older couple in our road who was in the navy. He had gone to sea and left his car there.

Ask on the local Facebook group and knock on neighbours doors to find out if something like this could be the explanation?

Often neighbours have 'rules' about parking in situations like these. We used to have problems with a neighbour who wouldn't park in her drive; our road was narrow and because she insisted on doing this we struggled to get out of our drive. I know what you mean OP you have no legal rights here but there is such a thing as being considerate.

yeah sadly if the car is taxed and mot'd, and i would have to assume insured, its not YOUR parking space, you did not buy the road outside your house, so that space is fair game to anyone who wishes to use it.

those suggesting a note on the car, you're being ridiculouse.. its a public highway and as ive said anyone can park there.

if there are no parking restrictions theres very little you can do. but i would just have a quick call to the police, so they can check and make sure its not stolen or that the keepers are not 'missing' or of concern.

but alas it looks like you will have to just put up with it

This is spot on. None of us have spaces on public roads.