To remove the parking cones?

Cutting hours and cutting days isn’t an option, so unfortunately yes.

OP parking there to drop off/pick up, every now and then, would be more acceptable. The issue is that it's all day, every (week) day, in a similar location.
Legal - yes, considerate - most definitely not.

Surely it is generally accepted that the spaces on a residential street are intended primarily for use by the residents? Not 24/7 but mostly.

That’s why councils are generally happy to bring in residents-only parking, if the residents prove non-residents are regularly leaving cars there all day.

As opposed to the residents using a public road as free parking, you mean? I'm sure they would have installed drives/managed without cars if they cared enough, or otherwise could use all of these expensive car parks that everybody is suggesting that OP and others could use...

After all, if they aren't parking there themselves, why would they even care about saving the spaces with cones?

Yes, because 2 extremes are the only two options. 🫣

What do you mean wondering? Wondering in what way? This is the reality for many families nowadays. Those who have a stay at home parent or a nanny are the outliers not the norm in Uk society.

It is incredibly annoying for residents and they will hate you. But does it really matter? Just move the cones. Think about a dashcam in case the car starts getting vandalised.

I'd try moving the cone but parking elsewhere for a few days and see what happens first. Assuming you walk past the cone to the school.

OPs car doesn't normally 'live' outside someone else's house.....or at least it shouldn't. 🫣

You’re right I’ll just give up my career (which serves the community and for which I spent 6 years in education). God knows who else will do it… it will have to be someone without kids though. Equality hey.

Yes, I asked regarding that exact scenario!

Leaving something where it normally lives when it isn't being used - which for a sofa would be inside a house and for a car would be parked on a drive or in the street - is clearly not 'dumping' it.

Me too.
(But at least one poster has already tried to shut me down, not OP).

What are you talking about? It might not be a 'big important job', they could be factory workers working every shift possible to make ends meet which obviously can't be done from home.

Or what if they had trained for years to work in a specialist role in a hospital, being responsible for patients who need emergency blood transfusions (as a random example). No wfh and day shifts, night shifts, weekend shifts- all sorts. They should pack their career in? Who would take those roles instead?

It's a bit like saying doctors, teachers, solicitors, engineers, jobs that require business travel and so on should all quit their jobs at the whiff of having a family as it's just not flexible enough for family life. Sorry guys, make way for those whose ovaries and balls have shrivelled enough to guarantee no offspring!

What's your scenario? May help to unpick if you tell us what you and partner do for context.

Yes it’s legal. Yes you’re being hugely inconsiderate to residents.

This is why many parents compromise and change their roles, locations and hours surely.....
Having a 'big important job' isn't the end goal when deciding to have kids.

Loads of us don't have grandparents/family help.

I guess it depends what the people in the house you park in front of are doing that day. If you've gone to work in your car and leave the space empty all day which is then used by commuters while you are out that's one thing but to pop out to do your own school run and then come back to WFH and find no parking in your street at all because all the spots are taken by London commuters who leave their cars there all day, it's a bit off.

It’s one thing to park near the school while you drop your child off but to leave the car there all day is incredibly rude and inconsiderate. The reason there aren’t currently restrictions is because when the houses were built nobody would have considered that they were needed.

I do despair sometimes, why are people incapable of self regulating? You wouldn’t think it was necessary to explain to people that just because you aren’t prevented from doing something by external rules doesn’t mean you’re absolved from considering what is the decent thing to do.

I genuinely think an online forum brings out the worst in people. You can't do right for doing wrong.

My husband is in the office 5 days a week. Zero flexibility. My work is much more flexible in so many ways. If both of us had the same rigidness then we'd be in the wraparound care position too and i would be disappointed in anyone who judged me harshly for it as i would be doing the best i could for my family with limited options available and no grandparents to look after them at 3:30

There's no derail - it's central to why OP has chosen to park all day outside people's houses.

This derail is hilariously peak mumsnet

op i would still park there if I had a car i didnt care abiut getting keyed, if it is a nice one I would rotate between nearby streets

I think it's got a bit out of hand in some areas - there are definitely more cars on the road these days, and some folk also aren't willing to walk very far.
As an example, my mum lives in the same house I grew up in - very few train commuters (travelling into the closest from the nearby station) parked anywhere other than the train station carpark when I was young. Now, despite the car park being extended, it's often full and folk park in the streets all around. Many of the cars only have 1 driver too. Many park dangerously and with no regard for the visiting home carers or bigger vehicles which may need to get through. It's frustrating for everyone. It's also not the fault of local residents that some folk have overstretched themselves.

Whether or not they are in the right or completely wrong to try to reserve the parking space, the very fact that they go to the trouble to place the cones indicates very strong feelings about those parking spaces.
So I wouldn't move them, or park there because I would be afraid of something
" happening" to my car.

I would move it and park