to park my car on a residential street for two weeks and walk two miles to the airport

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Is any there anything legally / morally wrong with this? I would save almost 50 just for a short walk..

Lillian lots of people don't have a garage. They'll have to park on the road. The road that the OP wants to use to save money and screw anyone else's convenience.

Yeah I should agree that airport car parks are not always secure either but they are a darn sight more secure than an unknown residential street. Either way there will be insurance cover though. It's just that in an airport car park you are less likely to need it....allegedly.

Not really Lillian - if you're leaving it in a fully insured, reputable secure airport car park. Presumably your Uncle was fully recompensed?

And even if you lock it up in your garage thieves can still break in - it's all about minimising risk. Personally I'd save a pound a week or go on a holiday which cost me 50 quid less than leave my car on a street somewhere for a fortnight - both for safety and because I don't like to think I'm pissing people off (I tend to go for the 'just because I can doesn't mean I should approach', but I'm nice like that)

If the OP is not inconveniencing anyone then what is wrong with trying to save £50 - it doesn't make you a tightwad

I wouldn't worry about the car being damaged. It might happen but it's unlikely. The road shown earlier looks ok.

DH went really loopy at one male driver who did this and scared him shitless. (Picture angry sweary tall Glaswegian)

Someone turned round on your drive and you thought it justified (and funny) to scare them shitless by swearing at them?

This thread is an eye-opener for me too. Who knew that people kept mental spreadsheets of which cars parked on their road and for how long? Do people have nothing better to do? What's the actual problem as long as they're not parked for two weeks in a disabled or private spot, or blocking a driveway or something?

She is inconveniencing people - a PP has already explained how pissed off these residents are with people parking their cars in their streets instead of using designated car parks.

I don't think anyone is sneering at people who don't buy houses with off street parking, but I do think that if you are the kind of person who is going to spend your day glued to the window checking to see who has parked in what you consider to be your space, fulminating because someone in the street has bought a second (or heaven forbid a third) car or that they never move their car and getting into parking wars with neighbours then you shouldn't buy/live in a house without off-street parking if you can help it. If that means you have to compromise on something else then so be it - we all have to compromise on something when we choose where to live. I was conscious that that was a compromise I was prepared to make when I moved into such a street, others who lived there were not (see above rant). To the poster who wished for residents' parking I would say be careful what you wish for - great to be able to park your car, but it still doesn't guarantee you a space outside your house and woe betide you if your wheel are an inch out of place and a total nightmare for visitors, tradesmen who might only be there for a few minute. Residents parking is a licence to print money for some councils.

Blocking a driveway isn't illegal as long as you aren't preventing someone from entering the highway. So what's the "actual problem" with doing it, do you think? Surely that resident should just park on the street for the time they've had their driveway blocked and find something better to do?

I can see the should/could argument in a philosophical sense, though I don't agree with it

So, you think you should do anything you want just because you can? Thank god I don't live next door to you as you sound deeply inconsiderate. Personally, I try to think of others rather than thinking "fuck 'em".

ilovesooty I know lots of people don't have a garage - that's my point. People park on the road all the time and take this risk of their car being damaged or stolen or broken into. That's why they have insurance - no less valid if you are parked on the road than if you are in a car park.

A secure car park is far less risky though than parking on the street - and £50 is far less than the excess you would pay if your car was damaged etc. I'm not really sure what your point is Lillian

Personally, I try to think of others rather than thinking "fuck 'em".

So you would have no problem with allowing anyone to use free on-street parking if it made their life a bit easier, whether they live in that street or not. Otherwise, you'd be thinking 'fuck 'em this is local parking for local people'.

In my situation previously described,they were all big houses with private driveways and we were not inconveniencing anybody, they were just annoyed that we left it there for all of two nights. Is that really licence to slash 2 tyres, key the car and bend the wipers? Completely mindless vandalism. In a more recent incidence,my dad drove me to our church as I had a broken ankle and couldn't walk. He parked opposite the church in a kerbside public parking space and when he went to move the car an hour later he was harrassed by the man who lived in a nearby house as that was where he parked his 2nd car usually. You would think that when you buy a house near a church/school etc,you might anticipate that at certain times there may be a need for non resident cars to use the street parking. Totally unreasonable to harass anyone using a public parking space.

I'd prefer to save a bit, pay for parking and leave the space free in the street for people who actually live there - especially as I don't plan to move my car for a fortnight, and effectively plan to treat it like my private parking space for that length of time.

I live in a row of terraces where parking is very difficult. I have no idea who owns what car (except immediate neighbours) and have better things to do with my time than monitor who parks outside my house, whether for an hour, a day, a week or a month. It's a public highway for goodness sake. Do people really get annoyed about who parks on their road/in front of their house? I never knew this was a 'thing'.

I don't happen to agree that parking in a car park overnight is less risky. The only time my car has ever been broken into it was in a car park, the only time anyone has ever driven into my car was in a car park. I've lost count of the number of times I've come back to my car (or with someone else to their car) to find a scratch or a scrape in a car park. I've never had a problem in the street and I parked my car on a street in London for five years.

You obviously live in a busy street two. We live in a street not dissimilar to this, but ours is a small cul de sac where the residents all know each other and actually talk to each other. Imagine if a car parked outside your house and didn't move for a fortnight. Do you honestly think you wouldn't monitor or notice it??

Lillian - I'm talking about a secure airport car park (with 24 hour CCTV, insurance, etc etc). There is no way you are more likely to have your car broken into or stolen from one of those places than you are if it's parked on the street.

Your street (well the one like it) looks like a particularly safe place to leave a car. Everyone has off street parking so you wouldn't be inconveniencing anyone and lots of residents paying attention to what's going on to deter any car thieves/vandals.

So, you think you should do anything you want just because you can? Thank god I don't live next door to you as you sound deeply inconsiderate. Personally, I try to think of others rather than thinking "fuck 'em".

No Soupdragon, I'm talking about this particular instance. So I can get my head around the idea that people might park considerately in a free parking area - but I don't think that goes so far as to be a requirement, because free parking means it is for everyone's use, so they should not be pressured not to.

And of course I generally think being considerate to others is important and do that in my life all the time. But like Bassoon said, this particular issue is about convenience for everyone, not just about people on a particular street. What about consideration for people want to park in a free parking area? That's immoral, but it's not immoral to have a "get orf my land" attitude about what is not even your land?

Thank god I don't live next door to you as you sound deeply inconsiderate.

Nice. I'm actually very considerate and have bent over backwards to not upset my nasty neighbour who lays down her own made-up parking laws about the public space outside her house.

If I lived in a street like that sirchenjin I might notice eventually, but would just suppose it belonged to a visitor/someone who understands there's no law against parking on a public highway. I talk to my neighbours, too, funnily enough, but not about crap like 'whose car's that then...?' And no, I wouldn't 'monitor' a parked car. I live 3 minutes walk from a station. I'm fairly sure commuters park in our road regularly, but can't get worked up about it, even though I frequently have to park in the next street. It's a public road and I have legs after all.

Now you see, you would be inconveniencing people. Those of us who have visitors, or tradespeople, the kids who want to play out the front without having a car blocking the way. If anyone left their car in front of one of our houses, buggered off for 2 weeks and treated it like their private parking space then we most certainly wouldn't be keeping an eye on it or deterring vandals.

Bollocks to the 'eventually' two - a car parked outside your front window for a fortnight? You'd notice after a day or so - and because it's out of character you'd ask your neighbours.

vdb How do you know your car was vandalised by people annoyed by you parking there. How do you know it wasn't just targeted by vandals who were passing? I find it hard to believe residents would do that after only 2 days. You could have been visiting a neighbour or your car could have been just bought by someone living in the street. It would be more likely the residents would phone the police rather than damage it after such a short time