To park in front of people's houses?

[MsMarvel]

This always seems to crop up from he point of view of the homeowners (and generally are told are unreasonable...) But never seen it from the point of view of the driver.

I travel for work, and am often in small towns / villages. The sort that have quite an expensive car park, and lots of residential streets.

To save money I generally park on the residential streets and walk back into the centre. Today I'm on a street that is very much dropped kerbs for drives, and small sections of raised pavement in front of each house.

BUT

There are no lines or markings, I am perfectly entitled to park here.

AIBU to do it anyway knowing that I am probably pissing people off? I will be gone by around 3.

Gah! Bold fail!

I don't care if it's perfectly legal, it pisses me off. And I think the people fucking off for the day, leaving their car parked outside someone's living room window is the 'entitled-to' twat, not the person who gets annoyed at random people from 10 miles away, parking their old banger in a road miles from where they live and leaving it there all sodding day. EVERY sodding day.

I bet the people claiming people are precious and entitled if they get annoyed at people parking in their road, wouldn't tolerate it long term themselves... And there's a bit of a difference between someone visiting the neighbour opposite for a few hours of a weekend, and someone parking their shitheap opposite (or outside) my home 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, while they piss off to work.

It's a bloody cheek IMO. Bet they would be incensed if someone did this to them.

I live in a quiet area now, several miles from a train station or town centre, or any kind of workplace, so it doesn't happen now. But it did used to happen to me. I had a job that involved partly working from home, and party going to and from my house. So I had to go in and out of my drive six to ten times a day some days. I lost count of the amount of times I clipped part of my car on the kerb, or caught the hedge, and nearly clipped someone else's car, because of some asshole parked opposite my house. ALL DAY.

That was one of the reasons I moved. And leaving a note saying 'I am entitled to park here; it's legal so fuck you blah blah,' speaks volumes about the people who do it. As I said, they are the entitled-to ones. Just because you CAN do something, that doesn't necessarily mean you SHOULD.

People parking in a residential street all day, every day, because they're too tight arsed to pay parking fees, or too lazy to find a parking space really boils my piss.

Fully awaiting the 'you do sound angry,' and 'you do need to chill' and 'get a life' and 'get out more' comments. Save it. I've heard them all. The OP asked, I answered.

when it becomes an extended station car park, it becomes unsafe. I couldn't give a fuck what it looks like but there is a safety element.

This isn't right is it? Where I live all of the roads are absolutely full of parked cars as most of the houses have no driveway, it's a CPZ but still very busy. It's a bit of a pita and I sometimes have to park 5 mins away from my house but I don't see how it's dangerous.

I don't understand why people get upset about strangers' cars legally-parked and causing no obstruction outside their house. It happens to me all the time.

My street is nose to tail with residents' cars because we have a controlled parking zone. There are no driveways. Visitors can park on meters or free at meters and on single yellows at weekends.

It works. I don't have a car any more because there is ample public transport. Often my visitors use it too.

Someone mentioned about their bins being left because the men couldn't collect past the cars. That's not the cars, that's the binmen. Mine manage to walk in between them. Complain to the council.

raven
So if it was a naice shiny new car, it would be ok? It is poor peoples' cars that upset your eyes?

From your description of the road I can't see any problem with it. I can never understand people who get worked up at people parking outside their house or down their street when there are no parking restrictions.

I lived in a street where lots of the people had work vans, plus one was in to MotoX and kept a motor home on his front garden (AWEsome parking skills to get it there) - basically every non-dropped, and many of the dropped bits was parked on by a car or work van. Sure, it was annoying looking out my front window at next-door's Sky van, and yes, sometimes it was a bit close getting off my drive (I knew I would have a car, so I only rent houses with somewhere offstreet to park) with the butcher's van parked opposite, but it was all doable, all totally possible - we all had to work, we all had to live, we all had to just rub along as long as we could all actually make it out, it just didn't matter in the end.

In a similar vein, I've parked on residential streets often enough when out and about. If its that much of a problem, you need residential parking, or a place with a drive, or you need to live with the fact you have no more right than anyone else to park on a public road.

YANBU. Anyone who tries to say you are in an entitled idiot.

This argument gets a bit tiresome though when your street ends up being used as a free park and ride scheme

It's being used as a 'free park and ride scheme'. It's being used as exactly what it is, which is a public highway with no parking restrictions and as such, ANYONE WHO WANTS OR NEED TO is entitled to park there for as long as they like. They are not taking or using something that belongs to you and your neighbours that they are not entitled to take or use. Stop being silly. If you dislike it then move further out of town, away from all schools, shops and railway stations, to a house with ample off street parking. Otherwise, just stop mithering. Because that is what's tiresome.

We need a diagram OP.

Where you park.

Where the dropped curbs are.

Gosh Shatner that is dreadful re no mileage or car parking expenses.

I work from home for a small charity and I am paid all mileage at 45p per mile (maximum allowed by HMRC) and all expenses for such things as car parking, stationery, refreshments on duty etc.

I negotiated this at interview and appointment

@sparechange. Don't be ridiculous. I obviously mean every car. I call them all old bangers, because that's what they are to me. Every car that is stopping me getting out of my drive properly is a shit heap to me.

As I said, just because you can do something, doesn't necessarily mean you should. These people who happily park all day outside or opposite peoples houses, are the same entitled-to brigade who know they can't play loud music between 11pm and 7am, so they play it full blast for the rest of the time, and fuck everyone else. 'I am entitled to play loud music for the other 16 hours of the day, so I will.'

They're also the same people who sling cans and plastic bottles out of the window when they're driving along, they're the same people who text when they're driving, and they're the same ones who speed and drive up peoples arses because they have the temerity to drive at the speed limit.

They're also the same people who will think of any excuse they can to get their money back from a shop or company, for something incredibly trivial just because they can. They're also the same people who will try and claim for something incredibly trivial to get compensation money, just because they can.

Grade A arseholes.

As for the poster (yominishill-previous page,) saying they know people who park outside their own drive - allegedly to stop people from out of the area parking outside their house; have you thought that maybe they are parking there because they struggle so hard to get in and out of their driveways because some inconsiderate arsehole parks their car outside their house from 8.30am to 5.30pm every weekday?

Maybe, just maybe that is why they park their vehicle on the road outide their own house.

And how hysterically ironic that someone gets sniffy and thinks it's mean-spirited for someone to park outside their OWN HOUSE, but thinks it's ok for people who lives miles away to park there! You couldn't make it up!

As someone said on the previous page, it's all very well people saying they are allowed as long as they don't block driveways; you still need to acknowledge the fact that you are still probably making it hard for at least one person to get in and out of their driveway.

It's rude. Sometimes it might be necessary, but where there are other spaces available or car parks nearby I would not do it out of politeness. We have neighbours who are constantly parking their second car next to our house rather than outside their own house. I just don't get it. Surely it's less convenient for them. And if I have to park somewhere else it means I have to carry the car seat, bags etc much further every time I go out.

It's a bloody cheek IMO. Bet they would be incensed if someone did this to them.

As someone who both sometimes parks on residential streets and who used to live near a station on a road where people used to park cars every day: I can promise you I wasn't incensed. I am, however, a bit jealous of a life where there's so little to worry about that you can get genuinely angry about people parking near your house.

I don't think you are being unreasonable parking in front of houses. If you buy/rent a house near a station/school/town centre you know people will try to park there.

I live near a school and I knew that when I bought the house. What does annoy me is when people park on grass verges, in front of driveways and in the turning area.

Also, when you park, make sure you are not opposite a driveway either. If the road is narrow it can be very difficult to get out of your driveway if someone has parked on the other side of the road opposite it. If I am parking, I check if the person has reversed into their drive, if they can drive out I park there. If they need to reverse and I might be in the way, I don't park there. Same goes for brows of hill, opposite junctions, on corners, opposite other cars etc. Just use common sense.

I'm with Ravenblack. I just didn't want to bold everything they said

OP, YANBU.

Though I did once live on a street with limited parking that was used as station overflow. I didn't mind that too much, except for the tossers who would park there for a fortnight while they want on holiday, despite it being obvious that parking was really tight.

I also objected to the stuck up buggers round the corner who complained about us plebs from just down the hill parking anywhere near their houses, when we had no bloody choice.

it got so bad on our street that the council made it residents permits only. We also have visitor permits x2 and daily permits.
There are 4 bays for blue badge holders, but sadly some think this means that blue badge holders can park anywhere and they regularly get fined.
If I see somebody parking in the wrong place I usually tell them nicely, so they don't get a fine but two have told me to fuck off recently, so I'm stopping doing it now, they can get fined.

Our problem is sunday when there's no restriction. We went to B&Q one sunday, came back and couldn't park anywhere, had to walk miles.
So now we share holding spaces for neighbours as few have driveways.

As long as you are parked legally and reasonably, since when is it an issue to park in a residential street? That's a new one.

I understand home owners disliking seeing a car in front of their windows because it doesn't make for a great view, but that's it.

I am much more negative towards idiots who put big stones/ any blockage on the grass verge preventing people to park. They don't own the place, and if everyone parked on the road, no one could drive through. It's also ridiculous dangerous.

The simple answer is to ban people from storing their property on the road, I don't see why something that is paid for by all tax-payers, drivers or not, should be used in this way. Provide public parking, paid for by users, allow for deliveries and make dispensations for those who are disabled; everyone else is expected to be responsible for their own vehicle and its parking.
If I decided to use the road in front of my house to store my possessions I would be charged with fly-tipping.

So just ban on-street parking Ifailed? That's an interesting thought. It would certainly lead to a decline in car ownership which is a good thing in my opinion.

splendide

Yes, ban it, but provide spaces as I've described for deliveries and disabled. I get quite annoyed when I see a local council, at no doubt great expense, resurface a road only for 1/2 of it to immediately disappear under people's cars.
Of course you couldn't do it overnight, but it could be phased in to allow people to make a decision whether to keep their cars and pay for parking, or look at alternatives. Cycling on clearer roads springs to mind.

I don't understand why you are having to do this. Parking is a legitimate expense off set against tax. No busInes needs to do this.

If you're doing it really because uou don't want to pay parking when you're out shopping or something, fair enough, but any business can claim back parking.

I live on a high street and I don't care. It happens all the time. I chose to live on a high street because I like a bit of life around me.

Yes you're right it would need to be phased in but it could be brilliant in the long term. Clearer roads, more public transport (because of greater demand). I like it. Downside would be more people paving over their front gardens but I would imagine the environmental downside of this would be outweighed by the upside of fewer cars on the road.

We've just put big stones in front of my mums. The council have just been to 're grass the verges because they looked shit from people parking on them. It looks nicer to look out onto grass rather than a churned up mud patch. Most of the neighbours have now followed suit and put stones/posts and I applaud them. Keeps the road looking nice and shows some people take pride in their surroundings