To want the car to move!

Then don't expect - It is not your road !

But why would you leave your car in a residential street you don't live in for weeks on end whilst you went into hospital or to uni or on holiday?

Why wouldn't you leave it in your usual parking place?

Some of the replies here are hilarious just to be able to say YABu.

Let's face it we all would be annoyed by this. It's annoying. Maybe not illegal and maybe it needs to be sucked up.

But it is annoying!

I live in a one way in and out road (estate) which have some little nooks in it like mini cul de sacs but is all the same named street iyswim?

Everyone has 1 space or a driveway.

Behind me in one cul de sac type arrangement is a guy who owns a tow truck company. He basically has a huge flat bed tow truck that takes up 4 spaces. Sometimes complete with a transit van on top.

He parks it anywhere he can find the space - sometimes that's opposite my corner space and although his wheels are legally off the dropped Kurb behind me the flat bad bit sticks out so far over I cannot get off my drive easily.

The management company keep threatening to make it permit parking due to the number of works vans that park here. I wish they would!

But until then as much as he's a dick (bought a house without parking outside it so doesn't inconvenience himself or block his view) I have to suck it up and continue parking on the corner on the road if he's not there when we get home so he can't park there

You've no more right to park in that space than anyone else. It's the downside of having a house without a driveway. Nothing to be done at the moment unless you know who the owner is.

The police won't give a shit about a legally parked car and despite some nonsense being talked, the council will not instruct a car to be removed for no better reason than it's not been moved for a few weeks.

And there is not a council in this land that has its own removal service. All towing is done by licenced companies. There is not a single one that would remove a legally parked vehicle without the instruction of police. They are now heavily regulated.

In that case which you're right, it is very unfair luckily you have recourse.
In OPs case it's not breaking the law.

a hose 5 hours later and no one is none the wiser. But you find out of anyone is watching the car. What's your suggestion?

Incidentally the police can move cars parked legally with tax, MOT and insurance if they want. A family friend was a policeman with a traffic unit, and they were tasked with towing a whole street of cars once because the Queen Mum (gawd bless her) was visiting a local hospital and (for obvious reasons) the route had to be cleared. There had been a decision to not inform the houses in the street in advance.

This was in the days of mirrors on sticks.

It doesn't matter what you're fine with, there is no exclusive right to park outside your own home or anywhere else that is public land.

The threats on this thread of scratches, windows put in, butter/flour to stick notices on the windscreen are pathetic. That happened once on our street (similar to other narrow streets mentioned) - car was parked, a resident didn't like it, went out to do something to the car the owner turned up and punched him. I saw it happen, refused to be a witness for the resident because he asked for it.

If you decide to go down the lawless route yourself (general, not aimed at you), take the consequences in good grace.

We had this.

Once some little tinker had let the tyres down, it looked more abandoned and so it got lifted away by the council contractor.

You might like to park outside your own house, who wouldn’t? However, this you will just have to tolerate. Much easier to not let something so trivial annoy you.

You still get inconsiderate people parking across driveways. Try living near a school. Dropped kerb? Great for parents to mount the kerb without potentially damaging the tyres of their four by fours. Blocking someone from getting on and off their drives? Oh, they’ll only be five minutes whilst dropping little Albert off….

Have you been sniffing glue.

People are showing you you are incorrect based on the links YOU have provided yet you are adamant you are still right.

call the police it could have been stolen and dumped

Is the car badly parked so that an ambulance or fire truck can’t get down the road? If so then contact the police so they can move it, cats absolute shouldn’t be blocking the road so that they can’t get down that’s so dangerous.

This kind of thing is not a good idea, the op does not know if the vehicle belongs to a neighbour or relative of a neighbour etc.

Yes this is annoying for her, but op has no idea of the circumstances of why the vehicle is there and could upset her neighbours - not smart at all.

But they do. I work for a council, we absolutely do.

You clearly do have a need for a driveway lol
Pay for a drop kerb then you have space for your car.

Love this!!!!

Nothing you can do anyone has the right to park there and if its taxed mot'd doing nothing wrong. I regularly have to park about 6 houses along from my own most homes on our street don't have drives and there are several properties with 2/3 cars. Everyone just parks where they can park!

Using butter to stick a note on the car is not vandalising. The butter will come off, but might take an hour or so. Not permanent, which is why I suggested this rather than popping the tyres……

And the other links?

But you believe what you like. I'm not the one who'll get towed, I know several who have.

Is there a park in your town OP? Perhaps you could claim that as your own personal green space and ask other residents not to use it!

We had this at work OP, we have access to a shared lane up to our workshop premises doors off a road and someone had parked a huge car slightly over the lane which meant we couldn't get our large delivery van in and out. For weeks. We reported to Police, Highways, Council... no one was interested as it was taxed/Mot'ed. In the end, I put it on a local FB page and said that it was going to get damaged if left there any longer as it was in a blind spot for our driver who was still learning to drive a LWB vehicle.

Was gone by the next morning.