parking on the street?

[BeyondTheReasons]

Yesterday I got lost, so I pulled into a road, parked up and called my friend (who I was meeting).

I get a knock on my window and was told I wasn't allowed to park here. Pointed to a small sign that said parking on this private street was prohibited

I really didn't think you could ban parking on a street? (No yellow lanes and not obstructing anyone's drive)

You weren't parked. You'd just pulled over temporarily to use your phone.

I really didn't think you could ban parking on a street?

You can in certain situations quite legally - although you weren't actually going to park the person had no way of knowing that and could have been trying to save you a ticket

There are private streets where the owners have to pay for the maintenance and of course they can forbid parking - but even in that case someone was being a bit precious.

'Should I be allowed to park in a residential road?'

Pulls up a chair, grabs popcorn.

It sounds like it is a private road so it is effectively a large driveway for which the residents share rights and responsibilities, it's not like a normal road, it would be like parking on a driveway or a farmer's field.

I'm curious ... just say I'd parked there for 2 hours then who exactly would give me a ticket? A private company?

It really depends, from my understanding though (willing to be corrected), if it is a private road then it obviously belongs to someone, they could theoretically call the police, they could also have a company that could clamp you or give you a ticket. Ofc none of these things might happen but given there's a sign saying no parking, you wouldn't have much of a leg to stand on if anything like that did happen.

I used to live in a private road, parking was not allowed for non residents. We had a very interesting neighbour who had massive stickers printed up - if anyone parked in the road he would put one of the stickers over the windscreen ( they were a bugger to remove). In theory I suppose all of the residents could have got together & employed a parking company but it was never enough of an issue to bother.

It's a private road. In effect it's no different to parking on some else's drive. No one would give you a ticket for that either.

but it would make a thread we could all enjoy

Nancy wouldn't that be considered damaging the car owner's property, though?

whooo Apparently not if you can remove it without leaving lasting damage. The neighbour in question was a retired judge & knew everything about it!

If it's a private road owned and maintained by the residents then you have no right to park there although I agree the person was being a bit precious for the sake of a phone call.