To want the car to move!

From the 1st link, second paragraph:

"We won't intervene in residential disputes about vehicles outside your property, or if you simply do not like a particular vehicle in the street where you live"

They simply don't tow vehicles after 4 weeks of not moving. They might check it out but will conclude that it's not abandoned. Just a busybody wasting everyone's time.

What a good idea. Vandalise a car that’s parked directly outside your own home.

From your own link:

• It’s stationary for a significant amount of time (over 4 weeks). If the vehicle is legally parked and roadworthy we will take no further action

Just take a minute to imagine the absolute pandemonium that would unfold if any person could get someone else's vehicle towed by the council just by claiming that it hadn't moved in four weeks.

The original link that you posted said that a vehicle not moving for four weeks is a sign that the vehicle might be abandoned and therefore the council might investigate to see if it meets the council's criteria for abandonment. It does not say that a vehicle not moving for four weeks is sufficient to meet the criteria.

As a minimum the council would need to continue to observe the vehicle over a longer period of time to see if it stays stationary - they can't just act on the say so of a curtain twitcher.

I really don't think any council would try to argue in court that a vehicle not moving for a few weeks amounts to a significant time. Nor indeed explain why it hadn't made reasonable efforts to contact the owner.

Also these are organisations that can barely manage bin collections so I really would ascribe preternatural efficiency when it comes to towing abandoned vehicles.

Only the police can determine that. You can report a car as suspected as having been abandoned if it hasn’t been moved for 28 days or more. The police will then investigate and remove it if necessary.

Yes, vandalise a perfectly legally parked car. It won't be too difficult for the owner to work out who did it, then retaliate. Remember they know where you live and not you them, if you chose this game to play.

Dump a box of eggs on it. Cracked and smashed. If no one is "keeping an eye on it" the eggs will remain, if someone is keeping an eye, then they will appear, and your wrath can be spilled!

A car can be reported to police if it hasn’t moved for 28 days or more, and if they consider it to have been abandoned they will remove it.

Tell the council that you can see fluid under the car 😂 and it’s been there for a few weeks and your worried as it’s not anyone local car

I did this when a neighbour deliberately left his car outside my house ( he was in prison )
the council put a warning note that if it wasn’t moved in 7 days it would be towed

true to there word they came back in seven days and towed it
I took a video 😂😂

Here, in the first link I shared.

https://www.barnet.gov.uk/roads-and-pavements/abandoned-vehicles

Also Here

https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/environment/community_safety/abandoned_vehicles.aspx#:~:text=You%20can%20report%20an%20abandoned,if%20it%20is%20significantly%20damaged.

Here
https://www.tameside.gov.uk/abandonedvehicles

Here

https://www.leeds.gov.uk/environmental-health/abandoned-vehicles

How many more do you need? I could go on

If someone is anti social enough to park across two bays then it's a shame their number plate is missing ...

How about you stop being so rude?

What about taking a photo and putting it up on your local Facebook page asking if anyone recognises it?

Just to add, I’m having surgery on my foot in a few weeks so won’t be able to drive for about 4-6 weeks. We have two cars and a one car drive and I normally park on the road outside our house to leave the drive free for DH as he finishes work late in the evenings. If I couldn’t park there (very unlikely) before I go for my op, I’d have to park it further up the road in front of someone else’s house, and if I didn’t have DH to move my car in front of our house when whoever took that space moved, it would stay there for up to 6 weeks. I’d be doing absolutely nothing wrong!

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

Nope. It’s an offence to drive and also to park an uninsured car anywhere on a public highway.

@Okonomoyaki
Where does it say 1 month? That's pure conjecture. I wouldn't expect to go on holiday or into hospital or a term at uni or whatever and find that my car had been towed in the meantime, nor would anyone else. It doesn't happen......unless it's a total untaxed wreck, which the one outside OP's house isn't.

I get it, it's incredibly frustrating when a car parks on a resident road in such a way that they take up two spaces on the road - and then leave it there for weeks without moving. I think the OP knows that this car has every right to park outside their house but when they are taking up two spaces.... it's very annoying!

A bit of consideration goes a long way though, no ? OP says they all try to park considerately. Odd that you don’t seem to understand that.

in the meantime, put a note on the windscreen, stuck on with a mixture of flour and butter (makes great temp glue, and is a bugger to get off - just smears everywhere), telling them in future to show consideration to others and not to abandon their car outside someone’s home for weeks.

There are 2 different issues.
One is that no-obe owns the space outside their house on public road. Correct. No-one can expect to always be able to park there.
Two is about leaving a vehicle long term on a public road, in one space when parking is limited.

The second is anti-social and usually totally unnecessary. Whilst Op cannot and doesn’t expect to always be able to park outside her house, given it’s a public road with space for parking, it shouldn’t be the case that she can NEEVER get in there either.

Someone coming each day and parking and then moving would be annoying but tough luck. The problem is the car never moves.

After a month it would be totally reasonable to report to police as ‘suspected abandoned’ and they will follow it up. If it’s not abandoned, the owner might then at least move it.

To be honest I don’t think vehicles which n ver move should be left on the road. It should be the case that they come and go. You take your chances with whether you can get parked where you would like to and sometimes might succeed and other times not.