CF Parking neighbours

[Penguincake]

I live on a street near to a station. 1920s terraced houses with no driveways or garages. Commuters often fill up a lot of the available on road parking. Everyone on this road knew that there was no guaranteed parking when they bought their house.

About a year ago one of my neighbours started putting out 2 wheelie bins in the road in the spot their car was in when they went on the school run. Then a second neighbour started doing it.

Today I had a workman come in a van to work on my house. A third neighbour was driving off and my workman waited for the space. Her husband aggressively put wheelie bins into the space. When my workman challenged him, he said it was his space and that the workman could only park there to unload and then better move. The more neighbours that do this, the less chance we have of ever getting a space.

I do not understand why they feel so entitled to something that they do not own? I am thinking of making a leaflet for all neighbours explaining that they have no right to any parking spaces. AIBU

Report them. We lived on a road where commuters parked. We weren’t even allowed to reserve space for our removal van.

My neighbour started doing this with cones recently. After a couple of weeks, I moved the cones and parked there. When she came home I went out and spoke to her and she hasn’t done it since. You might have better results than you expect from a conversation!

I live in a road where the parking is horrendous - off a busy shopping area with lots of restaurants and banks. Like you, we all accept that the parking is shite. Very, very occasionally, a resident will 'save' a space if they're having a skip delivered for example, or need the space to load or unload furniture. I've saved a space once in 15 years when one child was really poorly but I had to take the other child to school and needed to be able to get DD in the house without a long walk. It was a massive PITA to mess around dragging bins out of the alley.

If a neighbour decided to save spaces on a daily basis here, the bins would be moved. We're all in a bad position parking-wise and it wouldn't be fair.

Put out a Shed or a garden bench and see their reaction - who is to say the road is for cars we all pay council tax

We live on the same sort of road. If everyone did this it would be chaos. People are idiots! Just move the bins.

You are allowed to move any object placed in a parking bay and park there yourself. They do not own the road and anyone can park there. I work in the local council highway department and this happens a lot people feel they are entitled to the space outside their property. They are not unless that space is on their own land

I once had a guy shove a wheelie bin behind my car while I was reversing into a space He appeared out of nowhere, luckily I obviously wasn't going fast or I'd have hit him! He got a right mouthful off me and actually had the decency to look a bit sheepish. The weirs bit is that he had a massive (empty) driveway that would have fitted at least 3 cars on it

I have a neighbour who does the same thing. There isnt any need for it as I usually never have any problem parking on the street. It can get busy sometimes through the day however he just wants to park outside his house. Part of me finds it amusing however if it led to others on the street doing it I would be having a word or moving the bins

Definitely CF behaviour

From the RAC website:

'Parking outside someone’s house

It is perfectly legal to park outside someone’s house, unless the vehicle is blocking a driveway or a wheel is over a dropped kerb.

Other situations in which parking isn’t permitted include streets governed by residents’ parking permits or any of the restrictions outlined above, i.e. double yellow lines.'

I understand that you don't want to quarrel with your neighbours but they have no legal right to reserve spaces. If you can't/won't talk to them, just move the bins and park. Are there some sympathetic neighbours who would back you up?