To park outside someone else's house?

[sallyhansen32]

Finally passed my test and excitedly bought a new car.
I live in terraced houses with no drive.
Parking is terrible and the neighbours have 2-3 cars between them.
Over the road is a elderly lady and she has no cars and space for 2 cars easily as the house next door is vacant.
I parked my car outside (which is directly opposite my house).
I get in my car this morning to drive to work and she bangs on my window..
Do not park there again as I couldn't get to town this morning as my taxi couldn't park at my door (there was room behind my car and the car wasn't blocking her front door.
Am I in the wrong here?

My dad says I'm in the wrong and I'm causing trouble and it's her house and you can't park outside someone else's house..
He's wound me up now ..feel like a 12 year old child.

Your dad is totally wrong

your dad is wrong and out of order for saying that

how can a taxi not park further up or just double park and wait

OP just because he's your dad doesn't mean he's always right.

he is wrong, but don't worry, you'll still feel like a 12 year old child when you are middle-aged .Parents do that to you.

I live in a terrace and luckily everyone seems fairly relaxed about parking with no one seeming to expect to be right outside their door. I think if there's loads of room on the street it's better to try to park outside your own house. But if not it's totally fine to park there. If everyone had the opinion she has it would mean you having a go at your neighbours for parking outside your house.
You've got to park somewhere! If she's that bothered she should have bought a house with a drive. I find it hard to believe she couldn't walk the width of a car to get to the taxi

We had this with some people who lived round the corner and thought they owned the stretch of road outside thier house. We live on w busy road and often no spaces outside so we park there as a last resort but we had rows because they tried to say it was permit only, definitely wasn’t. Now they all park extremely passive aggressively with big gaps between thier cars but not big enough for a car so only a certain amount can fit in, they act like they own it. Some people are just so entitled it’s unreal

Your dad is completely wrong. Of course people don't own the bit of road outside their house.

Personally I would park outside her house every time. She sound like a right misery

So where does your DF suggest you park if you can't park outside your own house?

I live in a terraced house with no drive. We don't have a car. Everyone parks in front of our house - and all the houses on the street - wherever they can find a space. I don't care. That's what happens if you live in a terraced house.

It's a public road, so your Dad is wrong.

However there is nothing like parking on street where there is a row of terraced houses, to create ill will with neighbours.

So my advice would be that whilst it is a public road, have a think about whether it is worth the aggro with your neighbour.

Also years ago when I lived in a busy terrace (all flats so many more households and therefore cars) I often couldn't even park on my own street. There's no entitlement to park outside your own house.

You can park, it would be kind to leave room for her taxi though. We had a neighbour with a bad knee who liked the taxi to park in a particular spot so it was easy for her to get in with the curb at the right height for her allegedly.

I have to either park next to my house (if by some miracle I get home first ) or park around 3 min walk away (which worry's me as it's not the best area ) and leave it there

If there's other places to park by all means park there otherwise park outside her house. Why on earth inconvenience yourself like that. She doesn't own that bit of the road

Just park it’s outside the empty house for the sake of argument. People are very weird over parking

Just wondering whether the neighbour over the road has a driveway for one or two cars in front of her house? If so, she has a point if access to a drive is blocked by a parked car. We had this in m home in a terrace with a drive for each house.
If you can keep on good terms with her, and she has a drive she does not use, you could ask her if you could park there regularly. None of this applies if there is no drive, sorry.

More likely she is nosey and couldn't see what was going on and using this as an excuse.
You did nothing wrong.

If you live in terraced housing and your neighbours all have 2 or 3 cars then how it is not a common occurrence for people to park outside her house - I don't understand this.

I live in terraced housing and even if we park as accurately as we possibly can there is only room for 1 car and a bit outside each house. Are you saying people do not usually park outside her house??? If that is the case there must be masses of spare parking in your street. If you say you will just park elsewhere then there cannot really be massive parking issues in your street - that simply would not be an option where I am.

If the vacant house is filled by a family with 2-3 cars what is she going to do then? They will almost certainly park in front of her house.

Next door has 3 cars ..they put one next to my living room window and one next to their living room window and the next car is on the corner of top of street.
Top house parks on top of street.
Over the road there's my neighbour and a house ..no cars parked on that bit of road.
That's why I thought parking on that side but directly opposite would be ok.

Well why isn’t your dad up in arms about your neighbour parking one of their cats outside YOUR house then. He’s a numpty.

Car not cat. 😹

My dads reply was ...it's not doing any harm

This is one thing that really annoys me, people actually thinking that they own the road outside their house. Unless it's a private road or it's permit holder only parking, then they don't have a leg to stand on. Your dad is completely wrong.

If you're paying road tax etc then you can park there! Tell her to sod off