I'm a lurker who rarely posts and its my first thread, have name changed as this is fairly identifying! I also know that parking posts are particularly irritating to many, but this has been upsetting/ annoying me for almost a year. And I wish to know if I'm being unreasonable or not, and if its something I should let slide. There's a fair bit of back story to it, so be patient, I don't want to drip feed.
Bought house just over 2 years ago, neighbours across road asked us to park outside their house rather than on our side of the road, we did. Forward 18 months, and I was heavily pregnant. My DH and i discussed it and decided that we would start parking on our side of the road. Neither house opposite us has a car, one has a driveway the other does not.
We have one car, but kindly someone lent us one has I became slightly less mobile the bigger I got. At about 8 months pregnant we were in bed one morning at aprox 0930 when there was a knock at the door, DH answered and the neighbours daughter was demanding that we moved borrowed car as she had to be able to park outside her parents house. Stating that she must be able to park there as she had elderly parents, and a disabled son. I got up feeling rather furious, and went out to move the car. Outside i found her chatting to the other neighbour saying that she'd just told us that our parking wasn't on, especially with 2 cars. Her parents were already in the car, I got into the car to move it, and she drove off with her parents.
My DH and I both felt that she was bullying us, and that we would continue to park outside our house, but I continued to feel intimidated and nervous that she would come back to the door.
We had been having work done to the house and had tradesman parked outside the house for a considerable time over the summer. On two occasions that we were made aware of by two separate tradesmen, she had parked her car outside of her parents and blocked the road. On one occasion she was heard to tell another motorist that hers was a mobility vehicle and she would not be moving her car.
I was concerned for her parents wellbeing, but felt reassured when i saw them cutting the grass, walking into town and taking in the wheelie bins for all of the surrounding houses.
Fast forward to this week when we returned from holiday to find a disabled bay marked outside their house effectively meaning we can no longer park outside our house. Since we came back, her car has not been there. I have seen her parents out, and about, so no dramatic deterioration has occurred during our holiday.
Am I being unreasonable to feel that this allocated bay makes a mockery of the system, and effectively it is being used to ensure that they have a convenient family space outside their house. I know that it is a public road, and whenever her car is there usually during the school day ( whilst her son is at school) we park on the same side as she is. And am i being unreasonable to question the councils installation of the space, and whether the household merits it??