To want the car to move!

Where is the evidence it's been "abandoned"? According to OP, it's a 7-8yr old car in good condition with valid MOT and VED. OP has only just reported it to her local authority who will conduct enquiries to establish if it has been abandoned (or maybe stolen?). Only when this question has been answered can any of us guess at the owner's motive for parking outside OP's house, but if it's not stolen and the owner hasn't abandoned it, they've done nothing illegal and OP will have to wait until they are ready to move it.

Wow very apt name there given you are a nutnut vandal (vandal apologiser eve if you are not THE vandal. You don’t specify your level of involvement in the crime…)

I agree, every time you park on a public street with houses, you are parking outside someone's house!?!

There's no need to worry. Please read the information at the link. The LA or Police would conduct investigations to establish if the car is stolen or abandoned. They wouldn't simply tow it away on the say-so of a disgruntled neighbour.

I work for a children's charity in a building right in the middle of a residential area. We have zero parking and no where nearby that allows all day parking. I tend to bus in and out but sometimes I do need the car and have to park outside someone's house.
We all get verbally abused for parking there by the residents, we've even had them egg the building and damage cars. We've had to involve the police but the residents seem to believe they have a right to park outside their houses. I'm sorry but they don't.
It's rubbish OP that it's causing you issues but you don't have a right to park there I'm afraid.

I've had a rusty, broken shed of a car parked outside my bedroom (ground floor flat) window for 4 years
Nothing I can do as it's the neighbours and their space is outside my flat. It's annoying and I'm sick of seeing the moss growing but..

@honeyandbutterontoast

you are not thinking of the person who parked it there!

why do you assume they are not nice or considerate

they parked a car legally on the road

the end

rhe fact that you can’t park near is also probably due to others

A lot of us are 'lovely people'...a tyre let down would indicate your displeasure, but obviously not when some posters are on the case.

As others have said, it's a road where anyone can park for a set time before you can report. My mum bought a cheaper house after her
Divorce when we were kids which didn't have a driveway so she paid to get the kerb dropped before saving to have a driveway built, that's always 2 solutions you could consider. Unfortunately some houses have neither a drive or a space due to yellow lines etc so they have to park in surrounding areas so it's a bit of a bum fight without proper parking

You wouldn’t find it gone if you’ve got a parking permit.

@MumblesParty

sorry you are wrong
I am not saying it’s perfect to park there but moaning about someone being there is so self entitled it’s untrue

both need to get real
And stop playing the nice émotional card

dear me

next you will be complaining the GP didn’t give you antibiotics for a sore throat and how there are such long queues at the surgery

Yes, but one doesn't expect an abandoned car to sit in front of one's home for four week's, either.

OP isn't complaining because the neighbour's BIL parked in front of her house for a Christmas visit. The abandoned vehicle has been there for a month. Can one seriously not comprehend the difference, before finger-wagging at her?

You can check if it's stolen on isitnicked.com

This has worried me! I have moved and hardly use my car now, yet I want to keep it to see if I need it. It is taxed (£0 but registered as such), MoT'd and insured; plus I pay for a parking permit. I do start it and drive it a little but to most people (unless they're looking out of their windows all the time!) it would look like it didn't move since I usually get the same spot when I return. I would be so upset to find it gone!

If I bought a house with no driveway I would expect that some days I may not be able to park outside my home and some days I’d be lucky to be able to do so.

4 weeks and the car hasn’t moved and I’d also be a bit annoyed and would contact the police to double check it is not stolen or abandoned.

Wow, "getting annoyed is human nature"? Well, who would have thought it? Yes, we understand the irritation factor, but that's not the point. Most of us have evolved sufficiently to know that even when other people behave inconsiderately, if they aren't behaving illegally, there's little we can do about it (and we have more important things to expend that emotional energy on).
In the early days of our marriage, DH and I lived in a terraced house in a large city a mile from the football stadium. If we timed our Saturday shopping outing badly when there was a home match, we couldn't park 10 roads away from our house, let alone outside. Did we get annoyed? No, because the house was all we could afford at the time and we knew parking would be an issue. It just meant that occasionally my sister, who lived that bit further away (and had a drive), would get us pitching up for a cup of tea until the match had finished and the roads had cleared.

I don't own a car.

There is always someone parked outside my house. Those 'couple if hours' generally add up to a 24 hr period where I live.

Just because I don't have a car, doesn't mean I want yours parked outside my house....

I'd rather not have pollution in my street.. or cars idling waiting for others to join them. Or sitting in their idling cars eating lunch. Or just hanging out.