Parking outside terraced house

[MRSbossyboots1]

Wasn't sure where to put this sorry.

What are peoples opinions on parking outside somebody else's property (street parking with no designated parking spot)?

Helping a friend move in and her new ndn has just put a note on my car window asking me to move the car as their partner needs to park there when they get home. (I didn't see them put it there, but they've signed it with their house number).
They have offstreet parking at the back of the property so I don't understand the problem? My friend doesn't have off-street parking so nowhere else to park...

We just found it a little odd, is this typical behaviour? Is there some sort of unspoken rule that you cant park outside ndn house?

Not blocking them from getting in and out of the property either.

Nice try but they can sod off, they don't own the spot outside their house.

I would suggest they head down their local estate agents and buy a house with a driveway or allocated parking. They don’t own the space it’s side their house. Ignore their dick head note

Meh. They don’t own the spot, so they’ve got no legal right to ask you to move.

But some streets are like this. Where I live now, you’d be looked at like you’d grown a third head and ignored. Where my in-laws live, parking in front of someone else’s house would be the height of rudeness and the talking point of the next century.

They can whistle.

I’m in a terrace with no assigned parking. You just park where you can. People moving in are obviously going to have large vehicles or several cars to help them transport furniture etc. They’re being dicks if they can’t even have patience to let her move in!

I'd ignore it and I hope your friend does too.

Terraced houses are first come first served when it comes to parking. However, most streets seems to have one or two people who think they own the road outside their house. Ignore it.

No there is no unspoken rule. It’s a bit un neighbourly to park outside your neighbour’s house every day or leave a car there for long stretches of time. But absolutely normal to use that space occasionally or for visitors if it’s empty. It’s a public parking space. The note leaving lady is trying it on.

It's the same on my street, sort of a first come first served basis, nobody owns the road outside their house. Just ignore the note.

First come, first served, I'm afraid.
I've lived in several terraced housrs and know lots of people who also do so. People should park thoughtfully, but no-one has the right to the space outside their house unless it is a designated disabled or emergency services space.
One friend always had to park two streets away when she came back from work, and used to spend the evening checking out of the window for people going out for the evening to rush out and take their place. It made a difference loading the car in the dark morning.

Tell them to sod off! I don't normally swear, but I hate this sort of passive/aggressive stuff. If they get stroppy, call the police. Keep the note, so you can show it if needs be.

People are weird and territorial. My mum's previous neighbour blocked me in when I was visiting once as I'd "stolen" her space. Terraced houses, public road outside.

Ignore it. it is not their space its free for all. Where I live we have two neighbours on the street that put bins out on the road to stop people parking outside their house. I had to move one of them to park one day as no spaces, they rolled up and had a go at me. Told them to stop being ridiculous and if they want their own parking space to move to somewhere else that offers that. Said we all have to live on this street and two arseholes puting bins out isnt very neighbouly. he then mumbled his wife had a broken arm, I said it hasnt stopped her ability to use her legs. Some folks are CF chancers.

I'm in a medieval terrace, nobody has parking of any sort. We just grab a spot where we can.

The road outside my house is most convenient but it is not mine.

Same as any other length of unrestricted road the country over.

You and your friend need to be firm with this one from the get-go.

It'll be "don't leave your bins over my frontage" next.

I’m in a terrace - a small road with 5 houses in a terrace - and we are all v thoughtful and sensible about parking, to make it easier on everyone. We all basically have a spot outside in the road where we usually park, and if a random commuter is in “my” spot, I will go and find a space elsewhere round the corner (on a road that has larger houses with drives and plenty more on-street parking) rather than park in my “neighbour’s space”. Unless we’ve just got back from holiday or massive shopping and are unloading or something. Everyone does the same as it works for us all. And if we have guests or second cars, they park elsewhere where there’s more space (or we do and let guests have “our spot”.

So maybe they have some sort of unwritten thing like this going on… but to come out and put notes on when someone is literally just moving in is harsh and unreasonable, and “unwritten rules” only work if you are all ok with them - it’s not ok if someone doesn’t agree cos basically we don’t have the right to these spaces of course!

People are very territorial.
Our awful neighbour, when we lived in a terrace, parked half in front of our house so we couldn’t park behind them because neither of them could reverse park. They had lived in the street for 40 years and we were new. That’s the way they had always done it. They demanded they had the right to park in front of the house.
For the sake of neighbourly relations for your friend I would probably move it if it wasn’t too much of a big deal. Maybe ask if you can use their off street parking instead lol

Ignore it - they don’t own the road. Next time they should buy a house with a driveway

Thank you for your replies.
I have ignored the note and weve just got on with getting the house sorted.
I can understand how some people would be a bit protective but there's not really anywhere else near that could have parked and wasn't heaving huge heavy boxes up the road!

@TakeYourFinalPosition

I think its probably the same situation as where your inlaws live. It seems a lot of the residents have lived there for a fair few years.

Write ‘fuck off’ on the note and post it through their letter box.

I used to live in a back to back terrace that had 3 parking spaces for 7 houses. It was a lottery where you parked and you counted yourself lucky if you parked within sight of your own house.

Someone put a snotty note to on my car about not parking in front of their house. I wrote on it that if they had lived there as long as I had, they would know it was pot luck where you parked and shoved it through their letterbox. I had no more notes or other complaints about parking.

@GoodnightGrandma

Write ‘fuck off’ on the note and post it through their letter box.

Please don’t do this.

We live in a similar set up, everyone parks outside their own house, one guy got funny when my mum parked outside his and I asked him if he owned the street. It is quite annoying though when I have to park half way down the street with a toddler and bags of shopping to carry but I would dare say anything.