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Is it legal to park here?

80 replies

CARnageSt · 05/03/2024 08:03

Terraced street. Each house has one car outside. Last house on street parks at the end of the closed road in the middle but it obstructs no one.

Lady who's household has 2 cars and lives a few houses down has started parking here (red car)

DH is one of the cars directly next to hers and can't get out, so needs to knock on her door at 7.45 to get her up and mover her car!
She gets very mad about this!!

Can she park there, she says she can.

Is it legal to park here?
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2chocolateoranges · 05/03/2024 08:19

She’s blocking 5 cars in , she can’t park there. Each neighbour needs to chap her door at 6am each morning for a couple of weeks and she will soon get the message.

report her to the police!

our neighbour used to abandon his van blocking our drive. I took great pleasure at chapping his door at random times of the evening, (latest was midnight) to tell him I needed out my drive, only took a few nights to eventually get him to park better!

Hiddenvoice · 05/03/2024 08:20

I would speak to all the neighbours and ask them to start knocking her door very early to get her to move the car. Only issue is, I imagine she will start trying to park in one of ‘your’ spaces.

cakeorwine · 05/03/2024 08:20

It's selfish.
What kind of person blocks 5 cars in?
Maybe there should be an agreement with people so you don't always have your own space?
A bit like hot desking - and if you can't park in a space, you park elsewhere.

I also live in a cul de sac and no one has their "own" parking space.

Elephantsareace · 05/03/2024 08:20

Of course it's illegal. A couple of tickets off you report it might teach her that.

I'd have a couple of weeks of needing to leave before 6am too, really bang her door.

AndiOliversGlasses · 05/03/2024 08:21

AnotherVice · 05/03/2024 08:16

No one should be parking in the turning circle. I work for the ambulance service and had to back up a very long way to get out of a road the other day because the turning circle resembled a carpark. I then had to reverse all the way back down it so the ramp was facing the right way. Much delay to urgent treatment. Selfish.

It’s not a turning circle though. It would not be possible to turn there unless all three cars at the very end kept it clear (by this I mean the neighbours who are parking legitimately, not the daft woman double parking).

OP, does everyone have to reverse all the way down the street to get out?

cakeorwine · 05/03/2024 08:21

CARnageSt · 05/03/2024 08:07

Legally yes we know this, but there's been an understanding for over a decade between neighbours that we all have our own spaces and no one ever takes anyone else's. It's always been that way.

But instead of parking down the road she just puts it in the middle.

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Maybe this should change?

Would that seem fair to the lady?

AndiOliversGlasses · 05/03/2024 08:22

2chocolateoranges · 05/03/2024 08:19

She’s blocking 5 cars in , she can’t park there. Each neighbour needs to chap her door at 6am each morning for a couple of weeks and she will soon get the message.

report her to the police!

our neighbour used to abandon his van blocking our drive. I took great pleasure at chapping his door at random times of the evening, (latest was midnight) to tell him I needed out my drive, only took a few nights to eventually get him to park better!

Chap= knock on, for all the non-Scottish readers out there…

Changeeusername · 05/03/2024 08:22

She's nuts. She should have her car towed away. How selfish are some people.

AndiOliversGlasses · 05/03/2024 08:23

I do agree that she should be entitled to take any of the other spaces if they are free though.

spottedinthewilds · 05/03/2024 08:23

I would be knocking 5mins earlier every day until she gets the message

KitchenDancefloor · 05/03/2024 08:24

I'd consider buying an air horn and blasting it through her letterbox every single time she does this. Don't wait for 7.45. 6am would do nicely.

EarringsandLipstick · 05/03/2024 08:25

She's completely nuts, I'm amazed there hasn't been a huge row about this.

But the car parked in the middle at the end, that's surely an issue too? If all cars are parked (leaving out Crazy Woman's red car), it's still very awkward for the car either side to get out?

Ifailed · 05/03/2024 08:29

I'd consider buying an air horn and blasting it through her letterbox every single time she does this.

Which would be assault, at least.

Original poster
CARnageSt · 05/03/2024 08:31

AndiOliversGlasses · 05/03/2024 08:21

It’s not a turning circle though. It would not be possible to turn there unless all three cars at the very end kept it clear (by this I mean the neighbours who are parking legitimately, not the daft woman double parking).

OP, does everyone have to reverse all the way down the street to get out?

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Yes.

Or sometimes during the day if people are at work and the end it's empty DH will drive down and do a 3 point turn.

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AndiOliversGlasses · 05/03/2024 08:31

EarringsandLipstick · 05/03/2024 08:25

She's completely nuts, I'm amazed there hasn't been a huge row about this.

But the car parked in the middle at the end, that's surely an issue too? If all cars are parked (leaving out Crazy Woman's red car), it's still very awkward for the car either side to get out?

I think the nose of the end car parks slightly further forward so there is room for those on either side to reverse out.

Original poster
CARnageSt · 05/03/2024 08:35

EarringsandLipstick · 05/03/2024 08:25

She's completely nuts, I'm amazed there hasn't been a huge row about this.

But the car parked in the middle at the end, that's surely an issue too? If all cars are parked (leaving out Crazy Woman's red car), it's still very awkward for the car either side to get out?

No everyone can get out easily when red car isn't there.

It's not an accurate/ scale drawing 😅 The middle car is actually more forwards, towards the ending of the street so the 2 on either side can get out.

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confusedbythesystem · 05/03/2024 08:36

If the accepted informal (not legal) arrangement is for each car to park immediately outside their house, why isn't she parking outside hers (and why does the end person park in the middle as well).

Damnloginpopup · 05/03/2024 08:39

Ifailed · 05/03/2024 08:29

I'd consider buying an air horn and blasting it through her letterbox every single time she does this.

Which would be assault, at least.

You what?

thaegumathteth · 05/03/2024 08:45

confusedbythesystem · 05/03/2024 08:36

If the accepted informal (not legal) arrangement is for each car to park immediately outside their house, why isn't she parking outside hers (and why does the end person park in the middle as well).

Because she has 2 cars,

Coolblur · 05/03/2024 08:45

We have an area like this in one part of our street. A fireman parks his car there for quick exit when on call. Occasionally someone parks in front of him making it difficult to exit quickly, or at all if someone has parked the other side. I'm not sure what he does, but the ignorant parkers never do it twice!

Perhaps your DH could be 'on call' for something early one morning or late one night. Or you could play her at her own game and enlist the neighbors to box her in.
Surely she'll just get annoyed at having to move everyday eventually and stop doing it though.

StaySpicy · 05/03/2024 08:51

I'd have a coordinated approach with some of the neighbours if you're friendly enough with them. Someone knocks at 5:30 to get her to move, someone else then at 6, someone at 6:30 etc. Would only take a couple of mornings for her to get the message, I reckon.

whowhatwerewhy · 05/03/2024 08:54

I would be knocking her door at all hours to ask her to move . A few wake ups at 2am will change her mind .

MagpiePi · 05/03/2024 08:54

I’d be knocking at random times during the evenings as well as early mornings.

ApolloandDaphne · 05/03/2024 08:55

You all need to get together and agree that for a few nights you will take it in turns to ask her to move every hour through the night.

Catopia · 05/03/2024 09:15

A week of him "leaving for work" at 4am might put a stop to it.