You don't have a right to park outside your house!

[LendAnEar]

Burgh! Why is it that people feel that they have some God given right to park outside their home and can demand where other people can/can't park?

I parked on the road yesterday afternoon, in front of another car, getting the perfect spot, just before the double yellows start. There was a bin on the road behind the other car, I assume to reserve a space . It's difficult to find a parking spot so I was happy I got a space.

As I get out of my car another car coming towards me slows with their window down. A woman proceeds to shout "Excuse me, you're not allowed to park there, you need to move. I'm expecting a delivery".

I was annoyed at the way she spoke to me, condecending and assuming because I look young, that I don't know where I can/can't park. I replied that I can park there as it's a public road and I'm not on the double yellows. Lady repeats that I can't park outside her house all day and that I need to move. She has a delivery coming. The house she's referring to has an empty drive!

I simply say tell the woman I'm parked legally and not moving before walking away. The thing is, if she had been polite from the start and not so entitled and asked nicely if I would move then I would have. I just hate that people think they have a right to tell other what they can or can't do

Now I want to be REALLY petty and park there every time I'm in the area but then again now I'm worried something will 'accidentally happen to my car which isn't worth it 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Yeahyeahyeahyeeeeah]

pic not pick!

[Ineedtochillthehellout]

I live on a new build estate and some of the residents have taken this to another level. If car that does not belong to a home owner is parked (legally) for more than a hour on our estate they take a photo, post it on the resident Facebook page, moan about it all day then when the car owner turns back up they will go and confront them.
We live near the m6 so they are all pearl clutching that our estate will become “a car park for car sharing commuters” and that Karen with the brand new x5 will have trouble parking her car if there is a unexpected fiat punto outside her house

I wish I had the time to get upset by such silly crap

[adaline]

I have a neighbour who does this - if she's not peering out of her window at you, she comes out and confronts you as you get out of the car.

But, best of all, she doesn't even drive herself!

[lyralalala]

And then you should see how f-ing cross some of these people get when other LEGITIMATE blue badge holders use "their" bay...

Sometimes that annoyance is legitimate though. One of our neighbours got one put in as they can walk very little distance now (degenerative condition) and another person in the street who “can’t be arsed with the paperwork or dealing with the council” now uses it as often as possible

It’s just selfish when the council would put one in for them if they’d just apply

[Witchofzog]

@00100001 The disabled parking spaces are different as the person who lives there has actually paid for that space. Our council charges £100 non refundable to check if the request is suitable for the road and then a further £250 for the painting of the bay. It is non enforceable as other blue badge holders can use it, but unless there is literally no other option then it is not nice to park there when the person who has paid for it may then struggle to go out and be independent.

[Stravapalava]

If someone comes out and tells you you can't park there, I make a big show of looking for signs, do a puzzled face and say "oh? why not?". It usually sends them all blustery and they scuttle off.

[NeverMindTheBuzzards]

I live on a street of high-density terraces. No driveways, no individual parking. There's maybe enough onroad parking for everybody who drives along here, but only because not every household has a car.

Two doors down likes to park in front of our house even if in front of their own is clear (watched him do it!) - no idea what that's all about, but whatever. We can still park close enough to the house.

A couple of years ago, though, we had an angry note on the windscreen after a couple of days of parking further up the street - something along the lines of "we need to park our cars [yes, plural ] in front of our house"

Yeah, good luck with that.

[carolinelucaseshandbag]

@00100001 blue badge holders can also be entitled. My neighbour has a disabled space outside of her house, and a huge ramp up to the front door so it's pretty clear a disabled person lives there. A few weeks ago, I was walking past, when I saw someone park in the space, pop their BB on the dash board, then get out and walk to a house five spaces down. We live in a Permit only street, but there were plenty of spaces a little further along that would have involved a walk of the same distance to their destination. BB holders are entitled to park in any permit zone. So why chose the one disabled space that's clearly outside the house of a disabled resident? Because they could

[Zaphodsotherhead]

I can understand how it might be annoying to have a double decker bus parked outside your house for weeks on end, but round here people complain about 'their light being blocked' if an ordinary car parks outside their house (and there's a verge, pavement and front garden between their window and the car).

[Pomley]

@00100001 but it's not up to anyone to judge who is the 'most' disabled, it could be the difference between someone being in agony or unable to get back to their house. It can be isolating enough anyway being disabled, let alone being anxious about not being able to park outside, in a space you have both applied and paid for. The fact that you see it as entitled is indicative of the attitude a lot of people have towards disability, unfortunately.

[00100001]

All I'm saying is the resident doesn't own the space and has no right to it.... Just like the OPs person....

[00100001]

But one disabled person isn't more entitled to use that space than another....:/

[carolinelucaseshandbag]

@00100001 BB holders can park on double yellows.

[DrPimplePopper]

I hate this! I once parked on a road near our house as someone else was blocking my drive (don't even get me started!) and returned the next morning to find a 'polite note' asking me not to park there again as it was a space 'in regular use'. It was a quiet spacious side street, loads of parking space night and day, no yellow lines, not blocking anyone, no marked disabled bay etc etc perfectly legal. A week or so later I had to move my car off my drive for repairs, so decided to drive around the corner and as I was heavily pregnant and not able to waddle far, the best choice was the space I'd used previously. As I got out a man came hurrying out of a nearby house THAT HAD AN EMPTY DOUBLE DRIVE and told me 'that's my wife's space can you move your car' !! I looked down at my huge stomach and back at him and told him 'I'm can barely walk and this is the nearest space to my house. I will be moving the car soon, but you don't have any right to tell people they can't park here.' All he heard was about me moving and said 'that's fine then.' Entitled prick.

[00100001]

Well... Then the resident CNA park in the double yellow then...and walk the extra 5 paces?

Why is the BB resident entitled to the space over the non resident BB holder??


Just as why is the OPs resident entitled to the space over the non resident?

[ChazsBrilliantAttitude]

It does depend on the delivery. We have asked people not to park in front of our house when we were expecting a ton (literally) of building materials to be delivered. The delivery would be craned/hoisted onto the driveway and so we wanted the space clear for the lorry. We didn’t want to have to lift stuff right next to someone’s car.

[YogaDrone]

Blue badge holders are allowed to park on double yellow lines.

[OllyBJolly]

the disabled space "ownership" is the next level up of entitlement to a particular space in the road

It really isn't. It's not easy to get that space and usually means the resident has severe mobility issues. Depriving them of the use of that space may mean missing a critical medical appointment or that if they are out they can't return home.

Selfish to take someone's dedicated space. I can't believe people would do that.

[Span1elsRock]

We only have limited parking at work, so often use a side street that has no restrictions. Each and every time you get a note on your car to say "DO NOT PARK HERE AGAIN" or similar, and DH actually had one superglued to his windscreen that he was so mad about he rang the Police. It's next to an industrial estate and a school, so it's used a lot during the day for parking. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would realise that there would be parking issues living there... doh!

[TheMidasTouch]

You are perfectly correct that no-one has a right to park outside their house (unless they have a permit for that specific space) but that plenty do treat it as their personal parking space.

"A woman proceeds to shout "Excuse me, you're not allowed to park there, you need to move. I'm expecting a delivery"."

"I was annoyed at the way she spoke to me, condecending and assuming because I look young, that I don't know where I can/can't park."
YABU in linking your age to the situation. She probably didn't even notice or consider your age or think anything about your knowledge if lack of it. That is you projecting. She would have said the same to anyone as she needed the space for a delivery.

[EmCamB]

I agree. It is annoying. Also if a giant truck parks outside your own house and blocks out the light all day.
There are no rights to park outside your own house - bar special needs spaces marked as such.
That said neighbours should be reasonable for everyone's sake.
YANBU

[Molly2010]

YANBU as you can park there. You are right she should change her approach. However at the weekend my DH yelled at a man who parked outside our house because his front wheels were over the white line adjacent to our drive.
The spot is small and you can get a small car there if parked considerately. He had a large 4x4.
Almost daily we get work vans and large cars parked on the white line. There’s nothing we can do about it. It makes getting off the drive difficult and at times dangerous.
As I said my DH shouted at him to move his car. He probably thought it was completely OTT and it is out of character for DH to shout at strangers but he doesn’t realise he is one of hundreds and the more people park over them the more people think it’s ok to do so.

[carolinelucaseshandbag]

@00100001 seriously? So the person parking in the space directly outside a disabled persons house, rather than a couple of spaces down, isn't being thoughtless? Because I'm guessing that the person with the BB who doesn't live in the house that the space is outside of will have to walk sine distance anyway unless they are actually visiting that persons house!
Technically yes, any BB badge holder can park there, but morally it's a bit shit, unless there is nowhere else to park. In the case I described, there was no need for them to park in the disabled space whatsoever.

[Witchofzog]

@00100001 in my opinion a blue badge holder must need that space outside of the home if they have paid £350 and gone through the rigmarole of applying. The council don't "oblingly" put one in as you stated. I know of people who have paid the initial £100 and been turned down. They don't get that back. Another poster has illustrated the battle some disabled people have when there are other spaces available. Unless there are literally no other spaces at all, it is selfish to park outside the house of someone who has a disabled parking space, ramps outside their house etc.

[Pomley]

@00100001 what an odd vendetta to have. It's not like the OP's scenario, in which it is an inconvenience to some if they can't park in front of their home. To others, although there's nothing legally stopping anyone parking there, it can be the difference between being able to leave the house or not.