Neighbour using wheelie bin to save space?

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I live at the end of a cul de sac and have a drive with space for 1 car. Further up the street there are some terraced houses no driveways and on street parking outside their houses (not allocated to specific houses)

My teenage nephew is staying with us for a while and has been parking on the street by the terraces and one of the houses have obviously taken offence and have now started saving the space outside their house with their wheelie bin. Wibu to go and move it? Or are they right to be annoyed?

But their two cars aren’t using spaces others could use anyway, so they’re only using 1 on street parking space. It’s annoying when it’s outside your house & you normally park there, but it’s a public road...anyone can park there. (Something I have to frequently remind myself of when I’m getting pissed off about it).

Of course anyone can park where they want on the public highway, but if your household has 3 vehicles but space only for 2 (one on your drive and one on your 'share' of the kerb) then you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

But their two cars aren’t using spaces others could use anyway, so they’re only using 1 on street parking space

Three cars, not two- two on street, one in a driveway.

I don't see why the nephew couldn't just block in the driveway car- not tricky to move it if necessary, and doesn't inconvenience anyone else.

If they want guaranteed parking pay extra and buy a house with a drive

ahem

no guarantees even if you do pay extra to have a drive with the number of CFs about these days

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Oh fgs - I used to live on a terraced street where parking was a free for all. There were a couple of paid for disabled spaces but where you got to park was a lottery. If someone had a visitor and they'd parked up before you then it was just tough. Some people used to get very worked up about it. I didn't see the point.

Move their chuffing wheelie bin. Preferably quite a long way away.

Nephew is lovely and parked a way away to avoid any issues. But someone else has parked there now! The thing is he is now in front of someone else’s house, just on another street. I’m sure they will get annoyed too. You can’t win!

I can see how they might be annoyed and there is kind of an unwritten rule on this street that everyone parks as considerately as possible. But surely you still can’t expect to reserve your space. And I know the neighbour and they have no kids and aren’t disabled.

Yes, everyone has the ‘right’ to park there but do we always claim our ‘rights’ or do we act gracefully. After all it’s perfectly legal to fart right next to a stranger/neighbour/friend, but do we? Personally I’d feel the responsibility to go the extra distance not to inconvenience them, in both scenarios.

You wouldn’t BU to move it. It’s a public road and the neighbours don’t have the right to the space. Part of the downside in living somewhere with no parking is that other people might park where you’d prefer.

Well obviously neighbour doesn't own the space and you can move the bin, but if it's normally a quiet street where neighbour gets to park outside their house and the arrival of DM has upset a peaceful equilibrium then I'd say just get DN to park on the next street and walk. Or tell neighbour it's only for x more days. Neighbour is wrong but if bothered enough to keep moving a bin then sounds like a prickly person.

They don't own that space, but surely it's a decent and neighbourly thing to let them park outside their own home? We have no proper off road parking (just tiny makeshift drive that I can't get the car door open wide enough now I'm pregnant!) and my neighbours wouldn't dream of parking outside or allowing guests to, just to be kind, and I'm equally as kind and helpful to them. Tell your nephew to find somewhere else not because you have to but just to be a good neighbour?

I think just mixing it up a bit by not always taking the closest space and trying to be considerate of them, is worth it in terms of keeping the peace.

I'm in camp 'if you want a house with parking guaranteed, buy a house with a drive or off road parking'.

We bought a house with space for 2 cars because we are a 2 car household. It's not rocket science.

As many posts on MN reveal though, some people think they own the road.

The fairest solution is to have him move his car around so he pisses everyone off on a rotation basis.

Of course you can, legally you have every right. But personally, I wouldn’t. You have your driveway, and park outside your house. Is there any reason why the nephew can’t park outside the culdesac? Which is where I’m assuming you expect your neighbours to park?

I'm in the camp limit the number of vehicles in your household to what you can park on your drive (if any) and outside your house. If everyone did that, supply of parking spaces would match demand and these parking niggles wouldn't arise.

I agree with NotTerf. You're within your rights to move the bin but your nephew is the CF here and I'd be really pissed off if it was me who couldn't use my normal space or find anywhere on the street to park because a neighbour had 3 cars.

As someone who often can't park outside my house due to the neighbour taking up over 3 spaces with 3 large vehicles, and I'm not willing to block the other neighbour in... I'm in the camp of 'yes you can park where you want legally - however it pretty much makes you an ignorant entitled twat!'. But obviously I'm pretty biased.

I like at @SleepFreeZone suggestion!!! Annoy everyone equally!

I remember this in the past when we had visitors. I am not sure why some people think they own public road. Get your dn to park in different spots but if there isn't anywhere else then move the bin.

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The road is a public road. Nobody owns the road outside their house (whether they have a drive or not).

And I say that having had a neighbour with 4 cars and 1 space. They policed everyone else's visitors for stealing 'their' spaces.

Bit of a tangent, but a friend of mine has had a car parked outside her house since early March, with no sign of the owner. The seats are covered with strewn clothes, including children's, and boxes of chips. All slightly worrying, and the police have been informed several times but don't seem bothered.

Ketzele, your friend needs to take it up with the council as an abandoned vehicle.

I'm in the camp limit the number of vehicles in your household to what you can park on your drive (if any) and outside your house. If everyone did that, supply of parking spaces would match demand and these parking niggles wouldn't arise.

This!

I would try to park the car in front of a house where they had enough space for their car(s) on their driveway, so I wasn't taking someone's space in front of their own house. I know it doesn't belong to them but I think it is rude to park in front of someone's house knowing that they will have to park in another street. Spaces on the road where people regularly park, but that are not in front of their own house are fair game though.

Yes, Maisy, of course it's a public road and nobody owns the parking, but the recipe for parking harmony on any road is to match supply and demand. So if a house has a drive for one vehicle and there's enough space at the kerb for one car per house, that house can have two cars without encroaching on neighbours. Any more than that and demand for parking outstrips supply. I'm not suggesting that anyone could or should reserve a space outside their house, but if some households take more than their share of the available space, others are left with nothing.