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Another parking!

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Dollymixture22 · 28/12/2018 13:44

I am fully aware that the road outside houses is public and anyone can park there - and I have always laughed at people getting worked up about people thinking they own the pavement outside their house - until now!

My neighbours have a car they no longer drive - so instead of parking it in their drive - or further down the road where there are no houses they have left it outside my house - halfway between my next door neighbours and mine so neither of us can park outside our houses without blocking our driveways. It has been there for three months now and hasn’t moved once. Unfortunately it is taxed and mot’ed.

I know it’s a minor inconvenience, but it itritates me every time I look out my window. Have I decome one of those people, or would this annoy others? I just think it’s bad manners!

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TeamLannister · 29/12/2018 18:24

There was a great parking thread awhile back where (iirc) the OP was blocked in and some guys from the local rugby team physically lifted it and moved it...

Boredboredboredboredbored · 29/12/2018 18:28

My old neighbour did this with her elderly mothers car which she no longer used. She left it there so the other side couldn't park there. Worst of it is that we have learners practicing constantly on the road so it was always being reversed around blocking my drive.

I moved 13 months ago and the car is STILL there!!! I don't miss that road one bit!

WhoGivesADamnForAFlakeyBandit · 29/12/2018 18:50

So is it parked in the middle of two potential parking spots? You need someone/something to shove it along a bit. Doesn't sound like anyone would notice.

Oddsocksandmeatballs · 29/12/2018 19:17

Is it insured?

Whynotnowbaby · 29/12/2018 19:38

It is abandoned with two flat tyres. I think it probably varies from one council to the next but they had notices on one left near where I live within a few days of it being reported and it was removed shortly after that- definitely worth a try.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 29/12/2018 19:47

You need to cover the roof with bird seed and those lardy fat balls till the whole car is covered in bird poo.
Bird poo really damages paint but they cannot complain because its 'natural' and they cannot prove it was you.
(As you aren't near the house they won't see you do it)

If there's a tree there , even better , you can say they're gathering there .

MargotMoon · 29/12/2018 19:51

I would go back and explain that your elderly neighbour could do with it being moved. They might be more inclined if they realise that it's inconveniencing someone with limited mobility

posthistoricmonsters · 29/12/2018 19:53

I'm totally with the birdseed. Do you know what would work really well?

Blackberries.

The damage I saw from bird-shat-out blackberries was immense

This issue would bug me greatly because it's an unwritten rule you don't go what they've done.

currentcake · 29/12/2018 19:58

It would bloody irritate me too!
We've just bought a house and are moving in the next few weeks. Every time we've been or passed our new house there's always the same two cars parked there. I know these cars don't belong to the previous owner of the house as we are buying from MIL. We have a DD & another on the way. I hear from MIL the cars belong to people over the road whom have 4 cars so park two outside hers as she doesn't have a car.
We plan to put a sign in our front window asking for people not to park there as access is needed for parking at all times due to having to be close to my front door as not to leave a small child in the car on their own whilst I get the other in the house
Some would say I'm being unreasonable however it's their problem they own several cars and nowhere to park them. They use their driveway (we do not have a drive) and outside their house and outside ours. I'll be putting a stop to that

anniehm · 29/12/2018 20:20

Even if taxed, you can tell the council it hasn't been moved for 3 months, they will place a notice and if still not moved after 7 days remove it. You just need to hope the owner doesn't spot the notice

ALoadOfCodswallop · 29/12/2018 20:30

Bold: currentcake
I don't think your sign is going to solve anything, In fact if I saw a sign displaying that much sense of entitlement I would probably go out of my way to park in front of your house. Just start parking there and most people who are reasonable will realise that the owner of the house now has a car and stop parking there. I look forward to seeing you on here in a couple months posting about why is everyone is ignoring your sign.

Back on topic.
As everyone else has said report to the council that there is an abandoned car in front of your house with two flat tyres, don't mention that you have checked the tax and MOT and see what they do

Nanny0gg · 29/12/2018 20:36

@currentcake

Hahahahaha

Good luck with that!

theworldistoosmall · 29/12/2018 20:43

currentcake It's not impossible to take 2 children into a house from a car at the same time. Millions do this on a daily basis. The sign will achieve anything aside for giving the neighbours a warning about what's heading their way. So yea, do the sign.

Of course, a car can be abandoned and it still be Taxed and Mot'd. They get nicked, the owner becomes ill or dies, etc. all within that year. Report it and get it moved.

whassupmissus · 29/12/2018 22:59

Currentcake if I saw a notice like that I would lark there on purpose

Ollivander84 · 29/12/2018 23:09

@currentcake I parked in front of a house with the same sign the other day. Well it said car owner, no parking. It's not a restricted road, I was doing a shift as a carer/support worker and there were no other spaces 🤷🏽‍♀️
So I parked there for 20 mins

GimmeGimmeHellYeah · 29/12/2018 23:11

PARKING FOR OPERATIONAL VAGINAS ONLY THNXPLS

tillytrotter1 · 29/12/2018 23:13

Do you know someone with a very old Land Rover who could push it along the road in the middle of the night?

HarrietSchulenberg · 29/12/2018 23:18

If all its windows happened to get smashed it would either be moved closer to home or would be classed as being unroadworthy and dangerous and therefore eligible for removal.

Alternatively, spraying Arse Cunt Wanker on both sides might make its owners consider getting rid of it.

walkingtheplank · 31/12/2018 23:42

It's not true that the council will have it moved. They actually can't move it unless it is untaxed/uninsured/illegally parked. It's a pain - I would be unhappy too - but as it stands they have the right to park the car though.

I think I'd try to appeal to the neighbour's better nature.

Troels · 01/01/2019 00:00

It took 2 years to get the wreck with flat tyres no MOT and no sorn by us moved. It was parked half on the pavement, the surrounding neighbors had reported it multiple times. You can report online to DVLA. Also the council was informed muliple times and came and stood about looking at it, and did nothing.
I'd get a few neighbours toghether and push it down to the owners house, leave it in an crooked position then report it to the police for bad parking, partly blocking the road.

Ninjafox · 01/01/2019 01:23

We live in a new build with one parking space and a very narrow road. The guy opposite who's old terrace garage backs onto the road has a hobby of doing up cars, sometimes there are 3 lined up on the pavement and it makes it really hard to reverse out. One day I accidentally shot out and bumped one of them. I did confess. He was really lovely about it as he could fix the bump himself, but the long and the short of it is he hasn't parked any cars opposite since

StoneofDestiny · 01/01/2019 02:25

currentcake
Wow - no chance a sign like that will be respected.
Loads of people live in properties with no designated parking outside their home - yet they still manage to safely disembark their multiple children from their cars! Why would you buy a house with what you think is a 'built in problem'?

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 01/01/2019 02:52

Some would say I'm being unreasonable however it's their problem they own several cars and nowhere to park them. They use their driveway (we do not have a drive) and outside their house and outside ours. I'll be putting a stop to that

Annoying though it may be, you really would be BVU with that sign. How is it any more their problem that they own several cars and nowhere to park them than it is yours that you have one car and nowhere to park it?

Depending on their vehicles' tax bands, they might have paid four times as much road tax as you have, which entitles them to use any legal public parking space.

As you said yourself, they currently legally park two cars on the public road outside a house whose current owner they know doesn't have any cars. Should they leave two handy, close-by spaces permanently empty and park in the next street just on the off-chance that the house might one day be sold (as it has now) to somebody who does have a car (even though they have 'nowhere to park it')?

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