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Original poster

to put a note on a parked car

24 replies

EveHen · 01/06/2018 08:35

We are lucky enough to live in a leafy village. We have 2 cars in our household, mine parks in the driveway and the other on the street outside. Parking is reasonably busy but not mad - my partner can usually park within 100m of the house.
For the last 3 weeks another car has been parked directly outside our house. It hasn't moved in that time. Our neighbour phoned the police and it isn't stolen and is registered to someone in the village but not in our street.
My partner wants to put a note on the car to the effect of thats its unfair to park there and would they mind moving it. I am of the opinion that its not our park, they are not doing anything wrong and its a bit curtain-twitcher-y to leave a note (but then I get to park on the drive!)

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Sparklesocks · 01/06/2018 08:37

It’s annoying when you can’t oark but You don’t own the street - only a busybody would leave an entitled note.

Laiste · 01/06/2018 08:37

Maybe it's someone who's been taken ill? Or gone on holiday? In any event i doubt the owner will see a note if they're not using the car at the moment.

Annoying, but i wouldn't bother with a note.

greendale17 · 01/06/2018 08:38

YABU- you can’t control or police who parks outside your house.

MiniCooperLover · 01/06/2018 08:40

Your husband has no right to ask them to move it, the fact they don't live on your street is irrelevant, the road is a public highway.

Laiste · 01/06/2018 08:40

We live in a village as well and loads of the cottages have zero off street parking and it gets quite manic down some of the lanes. We live in a street where the parking is a bit of a pain some days (with a primary school as well!) but i can understand someone choosing our street to leave a car on for a couple of weeks rather than bunging up their own.

onalongsabbatical · 01/06/2018 08:42

3 weeks without any movement of car? I'd be concerned that the owner - perhaps elderly? - has had an accident at home and not been found.

AlpacaLypse · 01/06/2018 08:42

If it's taxed, which you can find out online with the registration number, it can park wherever it likes for as long as it likes on public highway.

We've had a car parked for seven months now in a place that's legal but very inconvenient. Its tax ran out at midnight last night. At least six people have already reported it that I know of!

AnnieAnoniMouser · 01/06/2018 08:46

Why don’t you ring your local police station & ask if it’s been stolen (no need to let on that your neighbour has already rung) and then ask them how long it’s allowed to be parked there, without moving, before it’s considered abandoned?

It’s alright saying it’s a public highway, but it’s bloody rude & there surely has to be a limit to how long you can leave a car without moving it?

Original poster
EveHen · 01/06/2018 08:48

Alpaca, that is annoying/funny. I'll bet its caused a lot of interest! 7 months is a long time!

sabatical - that is a good point, I didn't think of that! It could be an old persons car too. Obviously the police don't give the address out though (for good reason!) so we can't check. Its a small village though, so hopefully next door neighbours would notice

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Original poster
EveHen · 01/06/2018 08:48

Annie - its 6 months apparently

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Ifailed · 01/06/2018 08:51

Unless you are watching it 24 hours a day, how do you know it hasn't been used? As others have said, so long as people are allowed to store their vehicles on the public road, it really is none of your business.

Bunchofdaffodils · 01/06/2018 08:53

There’s a (very old) American car parked outside a house in my town. I assume it belongs to the house it’s in front of. It’s been there (at least) 25 years since I used to walk past it to school, the exact same position! It’s rusting away now, presumably it’s so old they don’t pay road tax for it each year just to sit there. Bit irrelevant to you op sorry.

AlpacaLypse · 01/06/2018 08:56

We know our long term resident hasn't moved due to the plants that are now growing over it!

JustAnotherPoster00 · 01/06/2018 08:56

surely has to be a limit to how long you can leave a car without moving it?

How would that work exactly? Hmm

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 01/06/2018 09:04

He WBU to leave a note but I can appreciate it is annoying if it's just sat there & hasn't moved at all. We have a similar annoyance in our car park. On my road it's a mix of on road, drives & a residents car park. There's been a (taxed) car on the carpark for about 5 months now, it's not moved & no one has been near it in that time but it doesn't belong to any of the residents. We're planning on reporting it to the carpark owners (a Housing Assoc) as although it's taxed the carpark is for residents & not visitors etc. Hopefully they'll do something.

Original poster
EveHen · 01/06/2018 09:05

Thanks for your comments everyone - my partner has conceded defeat and there will be no note!

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BitOutOfPractice · 01/06/2018 09:05

No, you can't put a note on it, even though it's really annoying

CuriousaboutSamphire · 01/06/2018 09:08

surely has to be a limit to how long you can leave a car without moving it? Not always! One NDN has had their car parked out front for a year, previous woman up the road for about 8 years, only moved it for MOT and a very occasional trip to hospital.

We have so little parking here it is annoying, but they have every right to park their car on the road... traffic warden thinks it must be irritating too! But nobody complains, as there is no reason to! We just grumble behind closed doors Smile

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 01/06/2018 09:11

It IS bloody annoying but there isn't legally anything you can do about it.
My Dad has the same problem except that it's the neighbour across the road who does it - but whenever that neighbour moves their car, Dad rushes out and moves his back into "his" space outside his own house, and leaves it there for weeks on end (he's 85, he doesn't drive much these days!).

OracleOfDelphinium · 01/06/2018 09:15

There are double yellow lines all around my house, so I have to park elsewhere (no driveway). I try to be considerate, and use public car parks etc as I know it's annoying when people park outside your house. However, on the one occasion I parked on the road (nowhere near anyone's drive, but outside someone's house - it's a quiet road with lots of space), I had a nasty note on the windscreen telling me not to do it again. I actually found it quite upsetting, so I think you are right not to leave a note.

Notevilstepmother · 01/06/2018 09:27

Leaving a note is really rude in my opinion. They have as much right to park there as you do as long as it’s taxed and tested.

AStatelyPleasureDome · 01/06/2018 09:27

I have just sold my car after moving to a house with no off street parking and where the nearest residents' parking is in an adjoining street. The new city is mostly pedestrianised and has excellent transport links. I only drove the car once in 6 months because I didn't need to, so it was parked on a public road and for the first 4 months was on a street with houses.

I have to say that it did not occur to me to move it. Was I being unreasonable? Should I have I have moved it every few days so it was in front of a different house? I paid my road tax and for resident's parking, so I would have been upset and angry if anyone left me a note.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 01/06/2018 09:29

Tell your partner to be grateful it’s not something huge and unsightly like a truck or a camper van. Notes never go well....

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