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?!

We too have the situation as a PP where we do own the path and bit of road fronting our property and the deeds to prove it.

However, I don't bother about people parking on it unless they are cfs who walk all over my garden getting their kids, dogs and bags out.

Then I have to confess, I'm not very polite about telling them to shift!

@m0therofdragons I will not, it works and people on our street aren't knobheads like some of these on here so don't park there. Why the fuck should I start arsing on with slings to get my kids in the house safely when there's enough space outside everyone's house for one car! Any more cars then that really isn't my problem

But it clearly is your problem, as you don't seem to understand how the law works.

To repeat the question, why are they knobheads for choosing to have more than one car but you aren't a knobhead for choosing to have more than one baby (and everybody knows that multiples are always a possibility with any pregnancy)?

For all you know, each of those houses could be home to two or more on-call workers who could be needed at any time for an emergency. When you had your babies, how would you have felt if you needed urgent midwife attention and she was delayed for a crucial hour because her husband was a lifeboatman or paramedic called out for emergency backup – and she didn't feel like she was allowed to park on her own street (or any nearby other residential street) and so had to walk to a distant car park - because some random person on the internet had decreed that it was one house, one car, no discussion?

What about if one of the houses was home to a family with 3 existing children and the parents then had another baby who turned out to be quadruplets, meaning that their family could no longer fit in one car? Or would you be willing to unilaterally authorise an exception for them, because they have even more babies than you do?

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.

Yep, that’s exactly the way the law works – if you stamp your feet hard, make a fuss and demand what you expect loudly enough, that makes you legally entitled to have it

If you expect to able to park outside your own house every time without fail, you make sure you buy a house with a drive.

We have no back garden, because when we were looking to buy a house, what we could afford meant that it was either a garden or a drive, but not both. As a drive was extremely important to us – mainly because our previous house had had no guaranteed parking, which we’d managed OK with but found annoying - we cut our cloth and chose a house with one over a house with a garden. A garden would have been lovely, but we’re adults, so we understand that we can’t always have everything we want.

Our previous house was in a cul-de-sac of council houses, most of which had subsequently been bought (as had ours by one of its previous tenants).

Nobody had their own drive, but as with most council/social housing layouts, there was a reasonable amount of space for at least one car per house, but not a lot more. HOWEVER, it was laid out in such a way that most of the houses had alternating plots of communal greenery and communal parking spaces (both at 90 degrees to the road) at the front of their houses, in a way that made them look like they belonged to the house they were closest to.

Although they were free for anybody to use, it was made clear that they were claimed as exclusive drives and you would have felt very awkward parking in one - and as the residents were now owners rather than council tenants, they were now much more territorial in protecting what they had appropriated as part of their own property.

Those of us clustered at the end of the cul-de-sac would not have had room for a similar layout, so instead, we had an L-shaped 'row' of five (usable) spaces which we could use instead.

Of course, nobody saw it that way and, as they weren't directly in front of the end houses, they were used as free-for-all spaces - often by people who had also claimed the free-for-all spaces in front of their houses as exclusive drives.

We couldn't do anything about it, of course, but we decided when we came to move that a house with a drive was an absolute must, even if that meant we would have to compromise elsewhere (such as a garden).

At one time,I spent nearly 20 years living in a terraced house. All on street parking, and only down one side of the road. It was a bus route, so no way could you have parking on two sides, simply not enough room.

You took a space where you could. Any newbies who tried to insist on parking outside their house gave up and went with the flow very quickly, usually in less than a week. Most people were considerate, if they were able to be, but you just took whatever space was available