Why should I be able to park outside my own house?

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We have three cars at home and while we do have a driveway, this is only large enough for one car. We need to use these cars every day to get to and from work and we're all time pressured so we can't have long walks to get to the car in the morning. Parking in our road is very difficult especially as we are close to the train station so commuters use the road for free parking. A few months ago we started putting out traffic cones on the road outside our house, just enough to reserve space for our two cars - before we started doing this these spaces were always being filled and we often had to park a 5 - 10 minute walk away which is not really acceptable, we have important jobs and this is time we can do without wasting.

We have had a couple of arguments with people over the last couple of weeks and some people have been trying to move the cones and we have had notes put through the door and left on the car. We think we have every right - we own the house, live on the road, and therefore we should be able to park outside our own property. A friend suggested reporting it to the local council and they could reserve the space outside just for us and give us a permit, so I am going to call them next week. Has anyone else had any experience with this? I thought it would be perfectly fine, but the recent problems have made me think that maybe we need to get this extra protection.

Got to be a reverse. You cannot be this dense....

• I mean multi-storey. The OP is the one with the story.

Yabu as you know, but if it's that bad, asking the council to make the road permit only is worth looking into.

Well I always knew that some people thought that their time was more important than everyone else's but this is the first time I've ever seen anyone admitting it.

Well done for that OP, if nothing else. Always keen to give the benefit of the doubt, I'll assume this is not a reverse, but suggest that if you simply get up 5-10 minutes earlier, your problem will be solved when you can't park outside your own house.

Or you could have done what we did and deliberately bought a house with more parking than we know what to do with, even though it wasn't 100% for everything else because, as you have discovered, being able to park right outside your own house every single time is a very desirable feature.

Buy a bigger house with driveway for 3 cars, problem solved.

You have 3 cars and chose a house without enough parking. Your problem.

My neighbours have 2 cars and a van. They seem to think the end of the culdesac opposite their house (their house is the end one) is their personal parking lot. They even reserve their spaces by having NO CAR on their drive and 2 on the street. Both neighbours come out and shuffle vehicles as they need to. We think they're nuts.

HA HA HA HA HAHA HA no.

You can not put traffic cones on a public highway to reserve space for your cars if I was your neighbour I'd be reporting you for possible obstruction.

You'd love my Aunt. She moves cones reserving spots and wheelie bins too!

Sounds like the arse of a neighbour on my street. Has his own driveway which his car goes in but won't park his other van across his own drive when he can block up the neighbours access instead?

Nice one, OP.

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Maisypops you're lucky! Our ful de sac neighbours prefer not to park outside their own cul de sac because they all work nights and don't want to wake their families up. Much better to park up the road outside someone else's house and disturb their families whilst repeatedly slamming their bloody doors at stupid o clock at night instead.

*cul de sac

Don't get me started on cul-de-sacs

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AwaywiththePixies27
That's so selfish!

We're a row of 3 to a cul-de-sac so they park in a row blocking the end of the road.
The middle house has 2 cars so do one on their drive and one across their drive. We're on the other end and do the same as the middle house. It's a but tight when people have visitors so us and next door make do and just give a knock if we need it. But 3 car family make it very difficult for anyone having guests.

Some people are like that though. The people on the end also like to come and go at odd hours and have massive arguments that the street can hear.

You could easily fit 3 of these lined up in drive way. The pink says IMPORTANT JOB painted onto side of bike. And it has a loud beep beep to get those who work in unimportant jobs to move the fuck out the way for you.

Councils are missing a trick by not designating parking bays by profession. Perhaps 75% reserved for those with "very important jobs", 25% for those with "quite important jobs" and none for the rest of us. I'm sure a group of MNers could grade jobs by importance for us.

Oh I put a giant trophy on the front as well. Could engrave job title on it?

Oh I'm loving this. Hahahaha. The thing is, there are people out there who actually do think like this. I've seen people try to bagsy parking spaces by putting cones out. Imagine the arrogance of people who put traffic cones out on land that doesn't even belong to them.

And the amount of people who think that the road outside their house belongs to them...

Sorry just realised 3 cars, the people that live across the road have 3 cars and an extra one that has been left outside our house for 3 months,I have one car and one child with Asd, I have to reverse into a small space everytime,can you imagine having to do that when you are stressed when a child has had a huge meltdown?

To be fair, there could easily be three or more employed drivers in a household. That's not the weird bit.

Genius Francis.

But mucky OP has an important job.

Don't be so selfish.