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..

I live in a cul de sac. Before we got residents' parking we had the problem of cars being parked for two and more weeks at a time in front of our houses. There are several reasons why it can be annoying- the car alarm keeps going off ( only compensation here is knowing they will come back to flat battery - hangs head in shame); people with mobility problems/ young children having to carry things, walk further for weeks ( not just the occasional day); delivery/ removal vans being further away- once neighbours had to have a skip quite a way from their house as a long stayer was parked outside. Part of our road is outside flats which have their own parking round the back so no problem if long stayers park there. Those of us with two cars park the second outside the flats if we are going to be away and leave both cars. It's great now but it was frequently irritating before

OnlyLovers I think if you feel it's okay to 'share' someone else's property for your own use, then a commune would be right up your street... (which you could then no doubt park on )

"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'."

I really want to 'like' this! Apparently, some residents are only considerate towards people who happened to buy/rent a house near a particular stretch of public road.

bbc, what a silly answer. Occasional turning round on someone else's drive is hardly 'sharing' their property, is it? Get away with you now.

I wish the ignorant posters that keep saying I'm going on holiday would shut the fuck up, as I've said several times its not a holiday.

For what its worth I have to sort some stuff out due to a bereavement and the last minute flights had to be put on a credit card so I will already be paying shit loads in interest so I do plan to park on a quiet road and walk there to save some money to help me get back into the black.

Now I do think driving up your drive is a bit cheeky, I thought you were on about turning in the entrance way.

Celticpromise I don't understand the 'no turning' signs and shouting at someone turning either- what difference does it make to you if someone does that? If I had a driveway I can't think why it would bother me if someone used it to turn.

We had a drive in our last house, and I used to park my car on it. I changed that car for one that was slightly bigger. I'd had the new car less than a month when I got up one morning to find somebody had reversed a van or truck onto our drive and stoved in the whole of the back of my brand new car.

Obviously they'd been in the habit of using our drive to turn around in and hadn't accounted for the new car being slightly longer.

Nobody saw a thing; everybody denied all knowledge of it and we got lumbered with the excess, and the inconvenience of the repairs. As we were the 3rd house down, the only people that could conceivably have needed to turn there were our NDN or their visitors/tradesmen.

Having a car isn't a right, it's a luxury (unless you are disabled and therefore you will have your own private space and rightly so, so aren't part of this argument).

Absolute rubbish. I am disabled and used to have a disabled space outside my house, now I have a drive, but can still be part of this argument. It took months and months and months for the council to get round to putting the disabled space in outside my house. Fortunately my neighbours were nice and left the space free for us because they knew the difficulties I was facing at the time. A random stranger parking in the street for 2 weeks would have no idea if there was a resident in a similar situation.

Also, it wasn't my space, any one with a valid blue badge could park there. So I could have come home and found a disabled person visiting someone down the road and had to park elsewhere. If parking is at a premium someone with mobility problems could then be stuck having to park too far away from their house than they can actually walk.

If I visit my sister I never park in the disabled space opposite because I know just how hard it will have been for that resident to get it, and it is not fair for them to have to walk from further away twice because of me, and I'm not selfish. I get DH to drop me off and he goes to park.

You are as entitled as the next person to park on a road if there are no restrictions that apply to you.

Having said that, I'd be a little anxious as to the safety of my car if this thread is anything to go by.

Fairy I apologise for my ignorance about that.

I have lived in an area with painted parking spaces set aside for the disabled person who lives in the adjacent house, it was just for each particular house and everyone respected it. Maybe this is a Scottish thing or a city bylaw thing, or it was actually not a legal thing but just luckily happened to be respected in that way.

I mentioned disability because I thought that if I said cars are a luxury someone disabled might be offended and say that theirs was essential.