Am i the CF?

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Yay! I've finally got my own CF thread!

I live on a street with big terraced houses on one side, street parking along that side of the road, a narrow road, narrow pavement then big care homes on opposite side of road.

It's residents permit parking but absolutely not enough spaces even if every household only had 1 car so we sometimes have to park on nearby streets. The spaces aren't individually marked out - just a long white line marked area from one end to the other.

Yesterday afternoon some giant cones appeared along the pavement spanning about 5 parking space length. Has the name of a removal company on them. I parked in the last free spot yesterday well away from the cones. During the course of today if a car has moved out of the parking space, a cone has magically been moved onto the road to stop people parking there.

Yesterday, I kinda thought fair enough, the removals team must be coming in the morning. But they haven't been here at all today.

I got home earlier with loads of heavy grocery shopping and the only space nearby was where a cone was. I hopped out, chucked the cone on the pavement and have parked there.

Am I being a cf for having no intention of moving my car tomorrow? Or are the removal company CF's or the sellers?

If the cones had appeared in the evening and the removal van there the next morning I wouldn't be bothered but the cones have been there more than 24hrs now. Parking here is hellish and no idea when the company is actually coming (5 houses on this street for sale/sale agreed and have no patience knocking on each house to ask)

They aren't something you legally have to comply with anyway, let alone when they are taking the piss like that. Fuck them, YANB a CF.

They are the CF not you, I wouldn’t worry!

Tried to attach diagram but it isn't showing. I'm all for being a nice neighbour but tbh I just can't be arsed trying to be nice at the moment

The movers may have permission from the parking enforcement and/or paid for the use of all the spaces for the removal company.

You don't get to reserve parking for that long on a street like that. It's one of the unspoken rules!! Good on you moving their cone. They're cf's.

The movers may have permission from the parking enforcement and/or paid for the use of all the spaces for the removal company.

That's not outside the realms of possibility.

It's pretty close to it though. Much, much more likely that they are chancing their arm.

@sitranced can they do that??!! Bloody well hope not. I have to pay for my stupid permit that gives a slight chance I can park somewhere within a 5 min walk of my house

YANBU.

They're being CF!

"The movers may have permission from the parking enforcement and/or paid for the use of all the spaces for the removal company"

Seems unlikely. If this were the case surely residents would have been notified in some way. We had letters through the door when our local parking was out of action due to line painting.

OP I think you were right. If the cones have been there for 24 + hours, they are taking the mickey.

Yes, we did exactly that when we moved into our house on the main high street with restricted parking. We were only allowed a set amount of time 24 hrs I think. I'm not sure how you'd find out either from the council or from which of your moving neighbours it is.

I think I'd have gone one step further and removed every cone from the road. It's them that are CFs.

Maybe I live near you op?! Same scenario here last week tho! Cf removal vans took over whole St!.
Council run our permit area, we get letters if there are to be any traffic /parking issues.

If our residents parking is suspended then the council puts up yellow signs along the relevant stretch in advance, which states the reason and the exact date/time it applies to and from. Lately it's been done for a race, and again for a skip to be put on the road while someone did their house up. I reckon the movers are being CFs!

Where I live (not UK) you can go and pay a tenner to get a couple of printouts which you tape to the wall in front of the spaces and which properly reserve a space or two for a period of a morning/afternoon (you can pay a bit more I think for longer time-periods) - but just putting them out with no notice of how long is not on.

You are not the CF - Surely that if they have permission they'd have some kind of official notice on it, and a time period.

Am i the CF? No.

They have to get permission and put notices up to do that, I thought. Not just cones.

So carry on.

Until you said cones appeared I was going to say you must live on my road!

I'd remove the cones and leave them on the pavement and park where I pay for if someone did that here.

I really wanted you to be the CF, OP

But no.

The movers may have permission from the parking enforcement and/or paid for the use of all the spaces for the removal company

Very possible to get this on residential roads but the council come and put big signs up telling you when the spaces have to be left empty. They don't just dump cones in the road!

As a pp said, we used to live in a permit area and had to apply to the council to get parking suspended. They put yellow sign on the lamp posts. No one just chucked cones out.

I'd move the car in the morning.

If they are moving and you're in the way you may find that they've accidentally dropped something on your car, or scratched it.

I always drive bangers, so that wouldn't worry me, though.

I wouldn't move your car voluntarily, but I'd expect to be disturbed for the car to be moved - that is, assuming the removals are happening tomorrow. Given the cones have already been there for more than 24hrs, who knows?

@Birdsgottafly stupidly that never occurred to me. I've had today and tomorrow off work, DH is doing school run tomorrow and I just wanted to sit in my PJs all day and drink lots of coffee and eat lots of biscuits. If I move my car it'll mean getting dressed and everything cos I'll probably have to park on the next street and walk back. If they knock and ask nicely I may move, otherwise I'll move if I see a space further along my street.

Glad the general consensus is that it's them being CF. I sent DH out to double check I hadn't missed any notices or anything. There's nothing. Would've felt really sheepish if I'd missed a glaringly obvious sign!

I did this accidentally, by parking in a space that someone else had moved the cone from. Had no idea until police knocked on my door and asked me to move! The guys who had called the police looked pretty pissed off but then looked pretty guilty as I hauled my giant bump into my car. I did explain that there was no cone when I parked. No harm done really.

Has a van turned up this morning @upsidedownfrown?