To want the car to move!

Four weeks is taking the piss. Our road is permit and we had an enormous ancient motorhome taking up 3 spaces for a month.

Not much you can do but I feel your pain. Ours did go after a month - unusual not to need a car for that long so you could check with Police. May well have been stolen and dumped as others have said.

No, you do expect that. You expect everyone to park outside their own house.

Honestly stop with this attitude, because you'd be damn annoyed and bet that if your neighbours "space" was taken - they would park in "yours"

I'm in this position now - my road is a free for all even though I'm the only house without a driveway - they all have 3-4 cars. They make sure when I leave they reserve my space for their guests to.
But what can I do? I'm in the process of getting a drop curb permission! so I can't complain!

I have been in a similar situation op, similar parking down my residential street as yours. Usually the neighbours have consideration for each other and try and park outside their own houses where they can, but recently a car was left outside my house for a whole 12 months, 12 months of not being able to park outside my house, 12 minths of having to look at thus car through my living room window. It was taxed, insured and it had a full up to date mot. Didnt know who the owner of this car was, untill the mot was up, and the car had to be moved to be taken to a garage. It turned out to belong to family that lived 12 doors down. They had bought the car for their son who wasnt evan 16 yet. They had planned to keep it for him, untill he had legally passsed his test. I politely asked them if they would please park this car outside their own house, rather than mine, so I could park my car there. They replied that they couldnt, because they park their own car outside their house. So I gave them a few choice words, and needless to say the car was sold the very next week. Some people just take the mickey.

It may have been stolen and dumped? Have you tried the doors? Do you have a local FB page, if so take a photo and post it asking if anyone knows the owner , you can try phoning 111 non emergency number and report it as abandoned, but the police would not normally get involved if it is parked correctly, but it will be logged on the system.

Outside my house is MY carpark space it's what most neighbours do .. you know to keep the peace not to cause murder .

Report to police they will get it moved for this purpose .
It will be taken to a vehicle pound.

I'm in a similar situation OP but to compound the issue I've got new neighbours to boot and where the previous occupier had 1 car they have 4.

Sorry I must have misread someone’s else’s post and thought it was yours.
What is at the front of your properly if there isn’t a garden?

We’re the same. So are our neighbours which is why we respect one another’s’ spaces. No offstreet parking is the price we pay for living in a 400 year old house.

Why don’t you make the drive to your house bigger to accommodate both cars?
We paid for a drop kerb and a drive so we didn’t have the same predicament as you.

Indeed. I inferred from your post that this was your go-to solution and were advising the OP accordingly. Apologies if that's not the case, it is how it read.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe

That's what I said, but the service is based on speaking to a complainant first and ascertaining the nature of the nuisance, how long the car has been there etc. To be classed as a vexatious complainant by a council, you have to do a bit more than use a service more than once, especially if the Council has a duty in law to provide the service. Council officers will tell you well before they ticket a vehicle if your complaint is justified and will also tell you if a car has been claimed after ticketing, but not by who. If a vehicle has been ticketed once and received a response from the owner, they will not ticket the car again even if it remains in the same spot and yes, local authorities can remove cars legally parked, but deemed to be abandoned on a public highway. Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978, they have a legal duty to remove abandoned vehicles.

I can completely understand the frustration op. We live in a similar street where we are all considerate of one another. Occasionally, we may have to park in front of other people's houses but we try and move them ASAP. A new family moved in back in the summer and the son is an inconsiderate twat. He once left his car outside our next door neighbour's for 4 weeks. He was using another car and made no attempt to move the first one. Our next door neighbour at the time was recovering from cancer. Rhis meant tjat for 4 weeks she had to park up the street or on another road. You just need to be thoughtful of others. Some people are selfish.

If you (general) make a habit of vexatious reporting to the council you may find yourself on a list. Don't get on that list if you can help it.

The council will not arrange for legally parked vehicles to be towed, however much someone might want them moved.

Maybe they can just park wherever they choose because yanno, it's not illegal?

I used to live on a road like this, and occasionally people who did not live on the street would use parking on our street to leave cars and vans they were going to work on or were not using - my neighbour got the biggest mouthful from a couple of lovely types when she challenged them for leaving a beat up van outside our houses for a month. They were not going to park on their street, they said, because it made it hard for them when they needed to park their car. She reported them to the council and the beat up van was gone within a few days.

Report the car to your local authority as abandoned and they can ticket it. If the owner doesn't contact them in seven days, they can arrange to have it towed. If he contacts them and says it's staying put, nothing further can be done. Unless it's breaking the law or is evidence in a crime, police won't be interested. However, as inconvenient as this is, there's nothing stopping anyone parking outside your house for as long as they want as it's a public highway and you don't have any parking rights regardless of your reasons for wanting to park outside your house.

If you are 100% correct that this vehicle is not taxed, get it towed away. This untaxed vehicle has no right to be on a public road.
I have done this, and apart from getting my space back( even though it is not rightfully my car parking space) l did feel a bit smug, if it's OK to say that...

There are about six along the street outside my house that haven't moved for months. I completely feel your pain. They don't belong to anyone in the houses in our row and never move. We'd all love to park at least near our houses.

I totally understand your annoyance but how do you have the headspace to keep an eye on who and what is parked outside your house with a view to rushing off to get your car to move it into 'your' space?

What a waste of fuel/fumes - and you have to be constantly 'on guard', planning whether it's worth it to leave your own house...? That would drive me insane.

We live on a terraced street also, double yellows both sides. There are neighbour grumbles but that's all they can do, parking anywhere no yellow-lined is legal. It's difficult to get out sometimes but you just park where you can. I don't mind a walk. If I have shopping/kids then they're dropped at home (hazard warning lights on) and I go and park. There is space for cars/buses to get around me. You absolutely have my sympathies but for you sake, OP, don't engage with craziness/illegal suggestions and accept that you can park wherever you like too.

Are you near a station? Maybe consider lobbying to get CPZ. We live v near a station, and more often than not I couldn't park anywhere near my house till parking restrictions were brought in.

@honeyandbutterontoast

I may be entitled but I think we should think of others a bit more. I don’t own the road of course, but neither does the driver of the car that’s there.

Amen to that! The person who is hogging the space 24/7 for 4 weeks doesn't own the space on the road either! So why have they taken it for this whole time?!

Basically why are people accusing YOU of acting like you own the road, but not the selfish arse who is hogging the space outside your house?!