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

[suzzieanneba46]

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

Oh don't be so ridiculous Countess. This thread is about parking for two weeks, not for two bloody hours.

Arf at those saying it is morally wrong. It's absolutely fine. Do what you want to do.

Its absolutely fine as long as there are no restrictions and you don't park in front of a driveway/dropped kerb. If people who live there are pissed off, the road no more belongs to them than anyone else. The should buy a house with off road parking if they want a space to call their own. The council owns the street if its a public road.

There's a lovely heart warming life affirming "suit yaself" attitude on this thread.

I wouldn't do it OP, I'd be afraid at what state of car I'd arrive back to tbh.

If the car is damaged on a public road thats criminal damage and the police would have some severe words to say about that. Those shrugging their shoulders be warned alot of cars have cctv now! De gusted that there are people that petty minded.

Oh so sorry Countess clearly you belong to the sad and selfish me me me brigade.

I will not apologise for thinking of others before I park anywhere which is why I use car parks generally and not side streets. The OP is talking about leaving her car for TWO WEEKS with no idea how the street residents live their lives or what difficulties it might cause them. We are not talking about two hours of parking while she goes shopping or visits someone in the street which might be an inconvenience but is short lived.

Quite honestly this is why I back whole heartedly resident parking permits so the selfish twats who do the kind of thing the OP is suggesting get the fine they deserve or better still their car towed away.

Same goes for those who abandon their cars all day and block up side streets so residents cannot go about their daily lives with any ease.

All those people who live in houses with no off road parking , why should they be entitled to use the bit of road outside their house and not strangers, because they are too tight to buy a house with off road parking.

We paid more for a house with a large drive so we could park our cars by the house.

I used to live a couple of miles from heathrow and friends and family used to leave their cars there all the time, and I'd drive them to the airport. I'm sure other people would do the same - there was a bus to heathrow that went past the end of the street.

I didn't recognise all the cars in the street and genuinely wouldn't have noticed a "strange" car parked there, unless they were blocking my drive.

I'm sure my family thought I was keeping an eye on their car, but in reality that made no difference and they could just as easily have parked a few streets away. My car was keyed in that street though, but that was just because it was a bit of a crappy area.

Perhaps it was all they could afford Ring!

We can rarely park directly outside of our house. It is inconvenient, but everyone has the right to park on a public road. You do not own the space outside your house. And if you did, you would have to pay for its upkeep.

I wouldn't do it. I'd worry about the car for a start and worry whether the insurers would have an issue with the car being left in a random place for so long (rather than the postcode and street/garage/driveway where they have calculated the premium for). I think it's a bit of a risk to leave a car completely unattended for 2 weeks.

Could you get someone to drop you off? That's what we do, but we live quite near the airport.

Well tough if its all people can afford, I would like a large kitchen and an extra bedroom, which we could have had if we didn't want a drive but we chose a driveway instead.

It's not illegal to park on a public road with no dropped curb, double yellow lines, etc.

But there is a certain moral obligation. If there wasn't, you wouldn't see so many controlled resident parking regimes in place and enforced by councils. When resident parking in crowded urban areas becomes impossible, the council will create resident only parking. If there wasn't some moral sense that people in crowded, residential areas should effectively be able to own a car then they wouldn't bother providing parking enforcement for them.

Show no self discipline, do what you like right up to the edge of the law rather than be governed by common decency and you will see more and more areas with parking restrictions. Simple.

Your suggested parking spot is an utterly crap place to park. I would be wary of parking there for a few hours let alone 2 weeks.

There is absolutely nothing actually wrong with doing it but leaving your car somewhere unattended for that long when there is no one who has the keys and is keeping an eye on it is inconsiderate IMO. The people who say their parents/siblings/best friends cousin left their car in their road and left them the keys is not the same thing at all.

Ring there are hundreds of thousands (probably millions!) of houses without off street parking .....not every car owner could get a house with off street parking...what should we do - knock them all down and rebuild? There wouldn't be enough space for the same number of houses ...
Where I used to live in London - Victorian terrace no-one had off street parking...can't think of any houses in the whole area that did have...
We had residents parking instead...but as a shared house we had 3 permits for our house alone. I rarely got to park any where near my house, became an expert in parking in extremely tight spots and paid a lot of money a year for the privilege...and it also meant visitors couldn't park anywhere nearby ...no metered parking for miles...and there was a black market in visitors/residents permits. So even residents parking doesn't solve the problem - or rather creates more problems...
Where I live now we are on an off road estate - you can't drive up to the house. Child friendly 60s design ...they did think to put in a couple of residents car parks where in theory we have one space (and two cars) but in practice there are less than 20 spaces for 40 houses...because cars were relatively uncommon when they were build...so we park on the main road, outside people's houses which means there is still enough space for two cars to pass ....luckily at the moment a couple of those houses have no or one car ...if two car families move in we really will have a problem.

Well aren't you just LOVELY Ring? What a nice comment eh? "Tough" if they can't afford it.

Have you stopped to consider WHY they can't afford it? Try doing so....it might be that they are elderly and have a limited income and reduced mobility. They might rely on their car and the limited bit of parking available.

Still, as long as it doesn't affect you then I guess you/anyone can park outside and make their lives difficult with impunity.

Smug, sad and selfish people are why we have the society we experience everyday. There ARE considerate people too but sadly they are few and far between....it's all me, me, me and stuff everyone else.

It's still the public highway though, however old, infirm, poor etc anyone is.

Yes it is still the public highway. Your right to do something versus whether you should do something are often two very different things.

I live on a long road of terraced houses and wouldn't know who was parked in front of my house, might notice if a 'new' car was there for 2 weeks constantly, but would assume it was one of the other residents. We do have a few people who are a bit precious about parking right outside their houses, but most people seem happy enough as long as they can get somewhere on the street.

I did, however seethe internally when the man across the road brought a HUGE white transit home from work and parked it outside for a few days. I started to feel like I'd been snowed in, and was tempted to nip outside and draw myself a bit of scenery on the side of it!

The attitude of some posters on this thread is astounding. Christ knows what their children are like!

"Oh so sorry Countess clearly you belong to the sad and selfish me me me brigade"

Far more entitled and me me me to think you can dictate where and when other members of the public can avail of public spaces.
But this is another one where people's views are fairly entrenched and won't change.
Those parking on public streets don't do it because they've got an I'm alright jack attitude or insisting they have rights just to needle someone else, we do it because we genuinely can't wrap our heads around how someone else telling us where we can or can not park when it's a legal public space in anyway think they are being reasonable.

It wouldn't happen with any other public service or space, and nobody would think it right if someone tried to enforce a unilateral private ownership of a park or a certain rail service as being theirs and possibly their friends and family if they give them the ok.

And then the other side can't get their head around the people who would park and think them unreasonable and selfish.

I cannot for the life of me imagine going to this effort just to save £50 over the course of two weeks, which adds up to the princely sum of approx £3.50 a day Surely that's not much once you've already paid for flights? Nothing wrong with it, I suppose, just seems fairly pointless when you could a) get a lift to the airport or b) just park there and get the old shuttle bus.

Yes there are a lot of selfish people who think they own the piece of public highway outside their house.