to refuse to move my car?

[theressomethingaboutmarie]

We have recently moved into a rented flat whilst waiting for our house purchase to go through. There are limited parking spaces and the other residents "assigned" us the crappiest parking spot - the one that even a Smart car could barely get in or out of.

Anyway, my DH is a pretty good driver so he manages to squeeze his car into it. I have my car parked out on the road (on a grass verge) and we have a guest staying with us whose car is also parked on the grass verge.

Last night, one of the residents knocked on our door asking us to move one of our cars off the grass verge as he wanted to park there. We were a little stunned and asked why - apparently, someone else had parked in his parking spot and so he thought it was only fair that we park our guests car someway down the road so that he could park on the verge nearest his spot.

My DH told him that it was a public road and just because someone had parked in his spot, it didn't give him any "rights" over the road.

Am I missing something in failing to see the logic of this bloke?

pathetic isn't it? they should try having some real problems to deal with!

You are definitely NOT being unreasonable. That would have annoyed the hell out of me.

But to the person that said about parking on the road outside someone else's house, even though it isn't blocking their driveway or actually on their drive, that is a bit annoying when it happens to us. EVERYONE in our cul-de-sac has a driveway, of varying lengths, but no less than 3 cars long. We often get people parking outside our house who are here to visit people in the next part of the close, or even people parking here because their kids want to play on the driveway. Well we get lots of visitors who would quite like to park outside our house, particularly my elderly nan; we have two cars and a horse trailer so no other room on our drive. Why can't people put their cars outside their own house if they need the drive for some other use? It's not that I think I own that particular piece of road, and I always park so other vehicles can get through, but it's so annoying having to reverse awkwardly around other people who have parked there, or get my nan's vehicle parked practically in the next street. It's also annoying looking out at work's vans that come to the other houses. I want my nice view, not a frickin' 'Bob the Builder, I can fix it' van parked there all day.

Actually, once we came home and because none of our cars were parked at home that day, some of the local kids had chosen our drive as their cricket pitch! I asked them if they could go play on their own drives and they said their mums and dads told them not to play near the house and also that there were cars on their drives. I also once overheard the local washer woman telling her kids to get lost out of her peaceful garden and play in the street further down, which is where we live. Don't mind kids really - I'm a nanny - but we don't have our own and don't expect someone else's to keep banging their balls up against our bay window.

Our road is a nightmare which is strange as the whole estate is only 2 years old, you would think that planning would include space for 2 cars per house.

No,no, no!
We have 1 alotted car parking space with the garage being used as a second.
We have 2 houses in our cul-de-sac which are rental houses that have been converted into 6 bedroomed houses with 6 people driving 6 cars. Then another family move in with 3 children who each have cars + the parents so that's 5 for that house. Out of 3 houses with 6 alloted space there are actually 17 cars needing to park.

They park absolutely everywhere....

It's great isn't it muppetgirl. Apparently the planning rules are supposed to discourage car ownership in towns . DOn't think it's working! We live in a terrace cul-de-sac where 10 yrs ago there were loads of spaces. Now every house seems to have more than 1 car and they are filling all available space with flats and turning houses in to bedsits.

I have to say I hate it when people park on the pavement or verge - it goes back to the days when i had a double buggy which I could NEVER get past the tiny space these selfish people had left.

It is obstruction anyway if you have not left enough room for people to get by, especially a wheelchair, and you could get the police to come and get it moved.

Other than that I have no problems where people park altho I sometimes stuggle to get my people carrier out of the drive if someone is parked opposite

We live in a tiny village,down a little lane with no pavements near the houses.All but 1 house has a very big drive.Apparently,whilst we were on holiday last year,someone actually parked on our drive!

My lovely neighbour came out & asked them what on earth they thought they were doing & their response was that 'there was no where else to park'
Unbelievable.

Forgot to add,he made them move their car.

You are not being unreasonable! We used to have very similar problems when we lived in a flat. everyone used to park in our allocated space, thus meaning we would try to park outside the flat itself, and the woman accross the road used to complain because the van wasn't aesthetically pleasing! She also wanted the space outside our flat for her sister to park so she could avoid paying the parking charges in town! Cheeky mare! I sorted out the problem by reporting her sister for driving without tax for 3 months, and the car was removed because it was parked outside out home, on a public road! Oh dear!

We now have issues with our neighbours in the fact that they don't seem to be able to park on their own driveways (either side of ours) without taking a portion of ours (good job we only drive a small car, but we have had to relay the pathway because our muppet neighbour can't seem to squuueeeezzze his beemer on to his driveway without first driving on to our pathway ). To top it all off, I came home from work the other day to my fiance showing me the damage that a transit van (blue) has done to the front of our house by reversing at speed on to our driveway, smashing the garage door, taking chunks out of the brickwork, smashing it's lights (oh dear, i'm so gutted for them) and then driving off. The Police have been out to log the incident and have apparently reported it to the traffic guys to keep an eye out for a blue van with smashed lights so we can get him to pay for the repairs. . Up until now I used to love my home.

Tiggly I'd be furious at that

We have crappy parking round here because no one has off street parking and we have very narrow, windy victorian roads (and steep as well - very steep).

I would love to be able to park somewhere near my house when I have a toddler and a weeks worth of shopping and I admit I mutter obscenities under my breath.

But it is a public road. When we moved here we had no car and no ds, and no plan for either. WHen we have enough money to move no.1 on our list will be osp.

I'm wondering whether to start badgering the council to include us in the controlled parking zone. I live in a cul de sac. All the houses have at least a one-car drive plus a garage and there are parking bays. So it's never bothered me that strangers park here too - it's a public highway, fine.

However, now the council have increased the amount of controlled parking in the town, more and more people are coming into my road. It's the nearest free parking to town so some of them are presumably shopping, others I imagine are off to the station, leaving their cars here all day.

It's begnning to become dangerous as people are parking close to junctions and bends (cul de sac is P-shaped). I'm beginning to think we should ask the council to include us in the controlled parking zone as I can only see it getting worse.

Wherever you introduce parking restrictions, it merely pushes the parking problem elsewhere.

We are within walking distance of 3 stations so ended up with commuter parking on a grand scale. Didn't bother me too much as we have room for 3-4 cars on our driveway, although people parking either side of our drive often left us little room to get in or out. However, the road is relatively narrow and, with cars parked on both sides, it became a bit of a rat run (especially as we link two A roads as well). The council introduced residents' parking with bays which has eased the problem - although we have to remember now to let visitors who don't park on our drive have our parking permit or they end up with a parking ticket. Oops.

We have a neighbour like that who complains if we park anywhere her drive, she doesn't have a car and the drive would barely fit a smart car, and when her family visit they park much further down where there is a lot of space. Her excuse is "what if I need an ambulance it would have nowhere to stop if you are outside my house" (she is quite old but very fit and mentally sharp the only ambulance she would have is to take her to the funny farm)

We don't have a car through choice so it doesn't usually bother me when people park in front of our house unless it's the tw@t who parked so close to the gate I could barely get the buggy out What does piss me off though is people parking at bus stops which means the bus can't park at the raised kerb where it's easier for old folks & buggies to get on & off - that's just inconsiderate & selfish.

What's got me a little is the amount of people moaning that there's not enough room to park more than 1 car per household - do most people really need more than one car per house in a town/city?

The only time I get fed up is when I have to park at the bottom of our road, our house is the only one without a drive (until next month) in the street, you try bringing a weeks worth of shopping plus a ds in a wheelchair half a mile up the road either I leave him in the car or the house on his own, neither of which is acceptable to me.

I meant that I struggle with the shopping or I would have to leave ds in the house or the car ... I would never leave him on his own, as neither is acceptable to me. It is a long road, but wide and no one parks in their drives, they park in front of the houses. I thought about getting a disabled bay, but a disabled bay can be used be anyone at anytime with a disabled badge, a disabled bay in front of your hose is not for your sole use.

i agree with the problem with new builds, we live on a new housing estate and were told when we moved in there was one space per flat....for the houses they have a garage and a drive so 2 spaces......they amount of people that consistantly use the visitors spaces, yeah ok if your space has a car in and you need to park, next best thing...except 2 sets of people in our block alone (5 flats) have 2 cars and the first in takes the visitors space before they park in their own. it really gets on my nerves especially when they leave their car in the visitors space and go away for a weekend etc......putting out th message that no-one is allowed ivsitors as that is their space, which it is not.

oh and those that do not park in a visitors space.....park on our lovely green grass...park o nthe pavements...park dangerously at junctions...you name it they do it! but what gets me is they park on the road when their drive is free (wtf?!?!)

oh YANBU btw!