To want the car to move!

The council won’t tow it away unless it’s causing an obstruction to emergency services or it’s not taxed and insured!

You can do very little about it sorry @honeyandbutterontoast but I get how annoying and infuriating it must be. I have a driveway so don't tend to have this issue, but we do occasionally get inconsiderate muppets people parking in an awkward place, making it difficult for us to get in (or out) of our driveway...

Right now, a big black car is parked directly opposite a lady a few doors down from me, and it's been there 6 days, and not moved the whole time (similar situation to you,) and the lady I know is super pissed off because it's making it hard for her to get in and out of her driveway.

NO-ONE seems to know who the car belongs to. 6 full days it's been there. DEFINITELY no train station or airport nearby. OR bus stop. Nearest train station is 20 minutes drive, nearest bus is 3 miles away, and nearest airport is 25-30 miles away!

I agree with the posters saying take a photograph and post in on your local Facebook group.

Whilst agreeing with those who observe it is no-one's parking space, I would be concerned it has been dumped. Depending on age. Doubt the police would be interested, as you don't know who parked it there, so could not prove if moved there say by a disqualified driver.

Actually WhammyYammy is correct, nothing you can do it’s a public road! And you really expected to be able to park outside your house all the time? When I just had street parking, actually parking outside my house was a bonus! All you can do is contact the police in case it’s stolen!

Exactly, why be a martyr and park far away when
it is pouring down with rain and you have to do multiples trips to unload your Christmas shop??
Just park in the free space that is closest to your house - either the people living there only have one car and they will use the other space or they have two and they will in turn use a space from a neighbour. Everybody still ends up parked near their house, what is the issue?

@honeyandbutterontoast

utter nonsense.
its a taxed and MOT car parked on the public road
it has as much right as you, outside your house or not.

if you want you own space by a house with drive.

jesus

I’d be tempted to post a photo of the car on a local Facebook page, asking if anyone knows whose it is, because you’ve bumped it and you’ve been hoping to speak to the owner.

😂 Love it!

The local authority you work for and all other LA's are entitled to tow ABANDONED cars. They do not tow road-legal cars unless they're causing an obstruction. Why do you find this so hard to understand? You've posted all these links and yet you seem incapable of understanding what the information tells you. LAs would be inundated with law-suits if they towed road-legal cars that were parked correctly on the public highway.
It is still worth OP reporting the car's details to her LA (as she has done) so they can conduct their checks to see if it has been abandoned, but if it hasn't, there is damn-all OP can do about it (apart from fume, obviously).

That's right! Only males can be inconsiderate twats! In fact, I've never met an inconsiderate female ever.

We are designed to be annoyed by others being inconsiderate in a way to make sure we are socialised into being considerate of others.

Well maybe some are. Whilst a few aren't in order to ensure that as a whole the clan/tribe/species doesn't fall into a single point of failure ? That 1 in 20 figure that pops up everywhere in human groupings ?

Would you seriously behave like this? What kind of person would even think this way? I’m very glad I don’t associate with people that think this is a solution to a trivial annoyance.

Well they obviously don't have a driveway, like you don't. Public road, first come, first served, even if you 'expect' to get parked outside your house.

And yes, I do have a drive, indeed it is a corner plot so has space for 6 cars. Which was one of the main reasons for buying. I wanted my own private space.

Only takes amn hour or so to replace a window once a brick has been thrown through it, where does it stop? Wasn't a guy stabbed to death a few years back in his own home over parking?

Damaging or tampering with people's cars whilst they are legally parked could quite possibly end very badly, once you escalate it's difficult to come back from. Certainly when you don't know who you're playing with

OP,
I totally understand your frustration.
We are a household with more than 1 car, so we can park on our driveway, but cannot assume we can park the other car outside our house. We'd like to but it's not guaranteed.
This is all @Whammyammy was trying to tactfully explain to you..
We happen to live near a train station, and we had a car parked outside our house for 5 weeks, turned out she was doing a tour of the middle east & couldn't be bothered to pay for station parking 🙄
It is so frustrating though....😫

Getting annoyed is human nature!

We are designed to be annoyed by others being inconsiderate in a way to make sure we are socialised into being considerate of others.

Clearly some people aren't as evolutionalised as the main population and this nice bit of human nature bypassed their dna!

Luckily most human beings don't go out of their way to explain why they'd be an inconsiderate twat just because they can. 🙄

Yanbu although by law they haven't done anything wrong it's very selfish behaviour Iv lived in multiple houses with on street parking and their is kind of an unwritten rule about where everyone parks im guessing the people on this thread saying they can park where they want have drives

Who the hell knows? Maybe someone is parked in the usual space. Maybe parking is in such short supply that there isn't even a usual space. Maybe I'm walking to the hospital or station. Maybe I just don't give a shit. The point is it doesn't matter what the reason is. Anybody has the right to park there so getting annoyed by it is ridiculous.

Yes but you can’t have it both ways…the car there is annoying and possibly dumped but if you have the choice of parking elsewhere near your house but decide not to take it then you can’t really complain about the issue of having to walk from that other place. Yes I’ve lived on roads with parking like this before you say anything and whilst people tended to park outside their own houses it’s not a hard and fast rule and people are free to park on a road wherever they want.

Taxed, MOTd and insured ?

A car was towed by the council on my street after being left for around 6 weeks in a similar situation. Victorian street, big houses but lacking drives!

I totally get where you are coming from OP. I live on a street like yours and we often have cars parked outside for weeks on end. The record was 4 months earlier this year. It is stressful. I understand. These people are morons. We needed a skip to go outside of our house for building work - thankfully the car was moved in the nick of time, otherwise I'm not sure what we would have done. We have a garage at the top of the street and the owner sells cars - he will leave his cars on the street for weeks/months. There are also two pedestrianised streets feeding onto ours, so parking is crazy. It sounds petty but I always check to see if these inconsiderate cars are taxed, and if not I report them. They seem to move fairly quickly after that. I have been known to leave notes, but people don't seem to care. I really should move as it winds me up!
Sometimes cars park so close to my house that they make access in and out difficult. That's another story though!