AIBU to refuse moving my son's car from a public road?

I’d advise them to park their cars on the road outside their house and their visitor can then park on their drive?

I'm sure OP would have thought of that if it were the case.

We had one of these. I just walked away when he started trying to take me to task for my (completely reasonable) parking. That completely bamboozled him! Well after suggesting that it wasn’t my parking that was the issue it was his inability to drive as he felt I was blocking him in. He’s moved now thankfully . When the bin lorry came he’d come outside to make sure it was being driven and parked to his satisfaction.

Are your 3 cars in a long line @Deactivated000? Only from your description in the op of giving up half your front garden I was picturing 2 in a line on the drive and the other to the side on the garden. In which case the 2 that leave at the same time park one behind the other and ds takes the single space surely?

Thoughts aren’t facts thankfully.

So what? The neighbours don't want their guests to have the inconvenience of walking a few metres extra.

It's a public road, so it's first come, first served.

I'm guessing the neighbours wouldn't be very happy with the noise of them having to shuffle the cars around at 3:30am either. Engines revving at slow speeds, as people go forward a bit carefully, reverse a bit more, are always much more annoying than just getting in and driving straight away.

At any rate, you don't get a discount on your VED for avoiding parking on the road when it would be convenient but maybe not strictly essential; so it really is first come, first served to use the public roads.

I assume that you don't drive and don't understand the parking rules on public roads. Unless parking is controlled by a permit system or similar, then nobody has priority with regard to on-road parking just because it happens to be outside their house. On a public road, the OP's son has as much right to the space as her neighbours, their guests or any other random person who might happen to want to park there.

But people don't want the faff of an extra task to remember and do every day - they just want to park up in a safe, legal space and then not have to worry about it until they need their car again.

No traffic cones are unacceptable, but in this case the OP has 3 or 4 cars and the space to park them on their own land- they just don't want the inconvenience.

We used to have a neighbour who did this - he even left a note under the windscreen once claiming that he did own that space, even though it was on the opposite side of the road to him, directly outside (but obviously not blocking and allowing plenty of manoeuvring space for) some very nice, perfectly reasonable neighbours, who only had one car and always put it on their drive.

Best thing was that he had a double drive and never actually parked there himself at all, except when he was clearly trying to make a point about us parking there - but we just pulled in behind or in front of him, so his pettiness was pointless.

He also pulled the 'visitors' card - greatly exaggerating the number of visitors he had, as these types often do. Even so, going by his crazy 'logic', why would somebody's occasional visitor be MORE entitled to park there than a permanent resident?

They have exactly the same right as OP. I have two neighbours who put a traffic cone in the road because they seem to think they own that space. They don't.

If your son can move and park around the corner, why can't the neighbours occasional guests? Are the guests disabled or elderly? I don't get this thing where people feel the space outside their house is theirs. It's not. Am all for being considerate, don't block people in, don't block light by parking a huge van outside theirs or whatever but this seems a bit much.

Time for your son to develop a drinking habit @Deactivated000. "Sorry I can't drive for at least another 5 hours (whatever time he needs to leave), I've had too much to drink." Every single time they ask. CFs.

Ouside there own house i think they do have more right to the space than you. Having so many cars in one household is your problem not the neighbours.

So he’s parking there from 23:00-7:00? Is this when their guests arrive and can’t find a parking space?

I take it that you’ve explained why you do this? Not that you should have to, but if people understand the ‘why’ they’re generally more amenable.
If that’s failed, do a couple of noisy 3.30am car shuffles and perhaps they’ll catch your drift!

Every road has one person living on it who thinks they own the road outside their house (as evidenced by the 19% who think yabu)
I'd ignore them op.

If your son is parking legally, not blocking anyone and on a public road, he should just ignore them. It's perfectly sensible for him to not go on your drive in these circumstances.

The road is not an extension of their private drive, so no, yanbu. They don't own the road, and assuming that he has parked in a place where parking is legally permitted, then they can't demand that he should move.

My dd usually tries to park on the road outside our house when she is home, so that she doesn't block me from the drive where my car lives. There are frequently people parked in that space though, so she has to park elsewhere. And that's fine, because it isn't her personal space!

I used to work for the NHS assessing and delivering equipment for elderly and disabled people and the shouters are not uncommon! It used to be difficult in uniform because you can't just let rip as I might would have done as a private person. I had to stick to voluble apologies and promising to be as quick as I could. It wasn't just the issue of being officially complained about but giving more trouble to the person I was visiting and also their relatives all of whom already had enough on their plates. Most of them were around the same age as my client group and I used to hope against hope that I would get one as a patient, but I never did.

That's awful that they shouted at a midwife doing a visit and parking legally! I'd be very tempted to report them for anti-social behaviour.

Some people need to jog off with their stupid parking demands, it's a public road.
Their relatives might have to walk a short distance, they need to get on with it.

Tell them you can park where you want.

We have one car, which lives on our drive. Our neighbours are still obsessed with the possibility that we may have a visitor who parks on the (public, open parking) road in a position visible from their house. They monitor constantly against this risk, and pounce if it takes place. One of them shouted at the midwife who came to do mine/ my baby's day 3 check. Which is a long way of saying that I think the 'someone has parked on My Road outside My House' people would have been no happier in the 70s!