To think it’s weird to knock a neighbours door and tell them to move their car

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A family that lives a few doors down Have started knocking peoples doors asking them to move their car from outside their house.

He likes to park right outside his house. Ideally I do too but understand that I don’t have a drive, I am not entitled to park outside my house. We all pay road tax therefore the street parking should operate on a first come first come basis. I try to be considerate but can’t all the time. My other neighbour has also asked if we could come to an arrangement about parking. I found this laughable. I told him I would try to be considerate but of course if someone is parked outside my house where should I park?!
Anyway, back to the original neighbour, I think it’s unreasonable of him to knock every door on the street asking if they know who the car belongs to as the owner needs to move it.
I find this behaviour aggressive and unreasonable. Am I overreacting?!

Some people just have an over-inflated sense of entitlement. If it was me I would enjoy telling them where to go!

If he knocked on my door, I'd laugh in his face and shut my door

I can't stand people like this, in the last house we lived in everyone had a drive and the only on street parking available was outside my house (which I didn't mind). Our ndn knocked on our door multiple times for me to move my car off OUR drive because the light wasn't getting to his grass properly because my car was in the way and yet it was perfectly okay for him and his daughter to park directly in front of my house and block my driveway because she couldn't bare to walk the extra 5 steps that would mean she didn't block my drive with her car and "I shouldn't really be using my car after 5pm anyway" so it shouldn't cause me an issue to have my car blocked in once she was home from work

Sorry notonefunkgiven that sign gives you no legal rights whatsoever, and you cannot stop people parking where they want/need in the road.
You're another one who'd have the door shut on you, I'm afraid

He hasn't got a leg to stand on. Report him to police for harrassment.

We live in a block of flats and each flat has one allocated parking space. The people down stairs kept having friends over and parking in my space - fair enough people come and go but by about the 5th time I asked them to move and said it wasn’t fair on the other people whose space I was parking in. Apparently there was ‘nothing they could do because dance lessons don’t finish til 6 and needs to come and visit his friend whilst his daughter is at dance’. Continued to then play the ‘I don’t speak English’ game (think they’re maybe Russian..) but can 100% speak and understand when they need to.
They didn’t do it again after i blocked him in a few times and started to park over both spaces when they were free

Have you thought about painting a P&C bay outside your house?? 🤔

Love it!

Sorry but I would go out of my way to park in front of their homes! Ridiculous

@notonefunkgiven have you got ...... BABIES??? When is your entitlement going to stop? Use a sling and stop being an entitled knob head!!!

Women like you make mothers look stupid!!

Getting a disabled space can be easier said than done. A local authority near me will only make something like ten a year. It’s first come first served, so you could be a quadriplegic and still expect to wait 5+ years. If I saw a sign indicating the resident was disabled I would avoid parking there. A baby, not so much.

There's at least one knobhead on Notone's street...

My sister's street is a nightmare to park in. She doesn't use her car much, but when she does it can be difficult to park near her house, but I'm pretty sure she's always managed to get a space in the road.
But my mum visits quite often. She did have a lack of space once, so parked in front of the flats on the other side (completely legally). She came out from visiting my sister to her car having been keyed, the absolute entitled arseholes.
I was absolutely fuming for her. Nothing to be done but suck it up and pay the excess, and never park that side again

*My point is that these situations wouldn’t arise if people chose houses with adequate parking for their needs to begin with.^

Flat dwellers and house sharers Need Not Apply.

Or people living on narrow streets with parking only on one side.

Or terraces.

And as for visitors, they must arrive on magic carpet or not at all.

@JassyRadlett surely not just magic carpet....... maybe broom stick as well? 🧹 😂

I really dont think it matters how long you park anywhere as long as you are taxed and insured. I admit I find it a bit infuriating when someone parks outside my house for an extended period BUT I have to suck it up if they are legally parked. Get over it, its life in Britain, too many cars not enough spaces...its going to get worse as time goes on!

I hate people parking outside my house. When I moved in it was a quiet road, then they built a public building on it and we have cars everywhere. It can be tough getting out of the road when idiots park in stupid ways.

We have a drive but it is tiny and a bloody nightmare to get in and out of. I always try to park my car outside my house but a lot of the time someone is parked in that space because the public building does not have an adequate car park.

It annoys me greatly, but I accept that legally they have every right to park there. My neighbour is very keen on telling people off when they park outside theirs though. I just quietly fume because I know I am being unreasonable.

Motorists do not pay "road tax" or "road fund licence", we haven't for years. We pay Vehicle Excise Duty.

Similar situation to others here - where we live is mainly terraced housing, with ever more gardens being paved over for driveways. Pretty much no one uses garages (including us - five bikes in there!) We haven't paved over our garden and often have to park a bit of a walk up the street.

We were away staying with family in N Ireland over Christmas and as there was someone parked outside our house before we went away, we parked across the street - public road and all that.

Came back to a note on the windscreen complaining that our car hadn't moved for five days, they'd had to carry shopping bags and visitors had nowhere to park. We should be more considerate and think before we park!!! Er, OK then....

Meanwhile their immediate neighbour have two vans and two cars, often parked in the same place and only one vehicle ever parked on their drive (One of the vans was in fact parked outside our house without moving for five days over New Year - while a bit irritating, I didn't leave a note of complaint!) Parking can be a nightmare, but that's just the way it is. Time to sort a new garage we can fit the car in too.....

It's like everything else with cars, got to get in front to be first at the next junction, nearest space at the supermarket, on the footpath because folk are just too dam lazy to walk the length of themself, and don't get me started on the "but I have a baby/toddler/10year old child to get out of the car and carry/escort to the door. Your neighbour will have to suck it up and walk a bit if there is no space at his house or move to a property with a driveway if he wants his own personal space.

According to my deeds I do own the land fronting my house up to the middle of the road.
Fortunately we have no parking issues having a drive for two cars but I could produce the deeds should I have any reason to confront anyone.
Wonder how mumsnetters would deal with that scenario?

We didn’t get on with our neighbours who felt that as the newest residents in our street (council housing) we should not park in the car park as they wanted to park 3 out of the 4 cars they had in it. If the cars had to move they tended to put their trailer in the middle of 2 spaces so no one could get in. Once I had neighbours daughter hammering on my door telling me to get my f***g car out of her space as we had no right to park there as they had lived there longer! Didn’t take it well when I said it was a public car park and if she produced their title deeds showing they owned 3 spaces I would move it! It however became very annoying when we did manage to get our car in a space and the next morning there was a massive dunt in our bonnet, looking very like the end of his walking stick, that incidentally was never seen again!! When police attended they did go round and speak to them but no evidence so they got away with it. Another neighbour had their car keyed when they parked in “neighbour’s space” but again no evidence. Sometimes better to let neighbours have their own way, or be considerably out of pocket!!

YABU
Because you already know the answer.

I would say YANBU but this parking crap beats the hell out of me!

I get the whole public road thing but actually, I would expect to be able to park outside my own house... it's MY house, why would I be happy parking elsewhere?

BUT... so long as I had a decent parking space I wouldn't make a fuss.

At the moment I have people on the opposite side of the road to me (it's a large road and quite a distance) parking outside my house instead of their own even though there's spaces outside their house??

I suspect it's because we have high grade CCTV.

CFB.

I get the whole public road thing but actually, I would expect to be able to park outside my own house... it's MY house, why would I be happy parking elsewhere?

You wouldn’t last five minutes round here. I feel lucky if I manage to park on the same street!

@MrsBombastic it may be your house, but it's not your road!