Neighbours have decided that myself and NDN park some of our cars in another street to make it fairer for everyone. AIBU to ignore the request?

What would you have done if the adult children had all had their own babies as well - whether they all still lived there or visited frequently? Would you have had all of the parents of little ones parked on the road but then send your own (grandparent-aged) parents off to park their car(s) 5 minutes away?

Also, is/was the parking 5 minutes away well away from other people's residential streets, or was the can just kicked along the road?

Yes, this rather defeats the object of the people who always splutter "But my visitors need to park!" - as though residents of a street should deliberately leave spaces near their own homes empty in preference of the occasional visitor who very likely will not even turn up for the vast majority of the time anyway.

I think, if a lot of these people are honest, they don't actually want a standard RPZ with any kind of specific regulations for everybody to have to strictly abide by; they just want a 'My house' zone that they alone are allowed to use and control, but nobody else can use it without their express permission.

Basically, like having a private drive on somebody else's land - and letting the council pay for it instead of paying for it yourself.

Whilst they have the legal right to do so, I do agree that it's spectacularly selfish to leave your drive empty and park on the road.

In fact, considering that a potential public parking space has been removed to allow them 24/7 access to their drive, I think the council should step in and say that you can either have that access to your drive - and use your drive - or otherwise we specifically mark out the dropped kerb as a free-for-all parking space and you can compete with it (for parking or for drive access) along with everybody else; or otherwise simply replace the dropped kerb with a standard height kerb again.

Well I'm glad my parents used there common sense and brains. Once we kids all started driving we all had a family chat as 6 cars was a lot to take up the street so 3 of us park 5 mins away where there is parking. It's just not fair to expect other neighbours to not be able to get there shopping or babies into there own houses aswell

A lot of places where there are parking issues do have permits and a limit of two cars per HH, and you have to apply for a temporary permit for guests. The parking permits are not only linked to the HH but have the number plate of the car as well so you can't just loan them out

One would think OP would have thought to mention this if it applied to them so assuming it does not. Assuming OP lives on a public road with no parking permit requirements so can park however many cars wherever they want as long as there are free spots, and if not will have to park whatever cars don’t fit somewhere else wherever they can find a park. No idea why parking permit rules are being applied to OP when they don’t have this?

None of which applies to the OP or their situation....

A lot of places where there are parking issues do have permits and a limit of two cars per HH, and you have to apply for a temporary permit for guests.
The parking permits are not only linked to the HH but have the number plate of the car as well so you can't just loan them out.

So then why say you're not interested.

Was thinking the same.....

I did so because your "2 car per house" remark was a spectacularly stupid comment.

Lol why did you comment then.

No interest in your woke suggestions.

This thread is about the OP, not your off topic twaddle.

Our neighbour has a 2 car drive and 3 cars. They don’t always use the 2 car drive. Selfish fuckers.

If you follow the chain of posts:

• I suggested limiting cars to 2 per household
• if you only give permits to two cards per HH, other cars in the HH have to park without a permit
• If you don't have a permit, you get a fine

Now you're just making shit up.

No where in the OP's post does it refer to fines for parking on a free for all road that can be used by any vehicle.

They can park there but will have to cough up a £60 fine.

Says who?

Anyone can park anywhere. Thats the whole point of this thread.

Whether the OP and their NDN had 7 cars between them or none, anyone can park and use those spaces.

The whiny neighbour is an entitled crybaby cunt.

But it is A car per driver. I think @Politicians247UnderwearExtinguishingService makes a good point, why should the OP driving her one car not park on her street so someone else who also has one car and lives on the street but arrives later can park on the street? The OP said the neighbour with an issue with it was also concerned that visitors who don’t live on the street should be able to park on this street, as a priority over the people who live on the street. This is nonsense.

if there are multiple adults living in a house, then it’s likely they will have a car each.

Most places outside big cities don't have permits - it's just spaces along the street for anybody and first come first served.

I think it would be a really backwards step if we were to start enforcing all public on-street parking. Costs for establishing and enforcing the zones would be huge, to pay for all the staff and/or cameras and monitoring that would be needed - and they would all be loaded straight on to the residents, along with all of the admin. It's also not always a utopia, as people can fall foul of the rules if they have visitors, hire/borrow a car, change their car and forget to register the new one etc.

In general, you either have to accept that you have the same FCFS access opportunities to a finite public resource as everybody else, or otherwise you ensure that you only ever live somewhere with a private drive that's big enough for your vehicles.

But at least they would find parking elsewhere!

I know some "residents only" parking streets where the residents are issued with permits. And in some cases a carnet of one-day vouchers for guests.

The child benefit cap for 2 children didnt prevent families from having a 3rd, 4th or 5th child...

2 cars per household is completely unenforceable - always ways round it.

Especially if someone is a landlord with multiple properties, for example....

You just limit permits to two per house.

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Two cars per house?

LOL

Love to see how the heck that would be enforced!

Yes, absolutely: A car.

Each person has A car, which they use daily; the fact that they happen to live together in one house is irrelevant, as the house itself doesn't own any cars.

Why should there be a hierarchy of people who are or who aren't allowed to use a public facility - when they only have one each, like many other people - based purely on what housing situation they need and can afford? Aside from specific council-dictated restricted parking areas, either we have a freely-available public facility for everybody to have a chance at using or we ban everybody from parking cars on the road; how can there be any meaningful middle ground?