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

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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 🤷🏼‍♀️

*Woman down my road puts her wheelie bin in the road to reserve the space outside her house despite having a driveway to park in and it being a quiet road with plenty of space to park.

Ignorant bitch*

If anyone in our road did this, my NDN would report it to the council, who would write to them telling them that their bins must be on their property, except for bin collection day, when they can put them kerbside (but only after 6.30 am).

Our road is narrow and to get in/out of our driveways a lot of people (including NDN) need to go up on the opposite pavement. When people leave their bins on the verge/pavement, they get in the way. NDN complained about both houses opposite, who now keep their bins on their own property!

Word got out that this worked, and a lot more people who did this have since had letters.

Where I live (London) it costs a small fortune to get a disabled space outside a residential property. However, given that the person with the disability has paid for it, the space is clearly signed by the council as a designated space for the sole use of the resident at the appropriate address. There is no time restriction on the space.
In my opinion that is how it should be. Anything else is not much use to the person who needs it and has paid for it.
There is provision for short term parking elsewhere for visiting blue badge holders, given that they can park on yellow lines etc.
The biggest problem IMO is the selfish non BB holders who park in BB spaces outside shops, surgeries,hospitals etc.
This used to drive me mad when I had 3 very poorly, frail BB holders to transport frequently.

My in laws live in a quiet residential road that is very close to a huge heath and a hospital.
There are no yellow or white lines and every house has a drive that could fit two medium cars one behind the other.
But many of the residents own a second car solely to park it outside their homes so hospital staff/public and dog walkers can't park in that road.
These cars never move.
If,by some miracle,a space is found,a resident will come out and shriek at the driver demanding they remove the car immediately..
The sheer bloody mindedness is unbelievable,taxing and insuring a car just to hog the space outside of your home.
It's quite funny when they have visitor's, it's like a military exercise watching them rearrange the cars so,in the two seconds that they Swop car positions,nobody whizzes into the space.
Sad really.

I'm not sure about the driveway parking thing: my vile neighbour was recently arrested (or certainly taken away in a police car) for doing this to someone down the road who'd annoyed them.
It was GREAT .

Did you know that legally you can park on someone else's DRIVEWAY and there's nothing they can do about it? It’s not illegal. It’s private property so the authorities won’t want to get involved. You’d have to bring a civil claim for trespass.

I did enjoy parking wars at my last house. Everyone was really polite and never any problems till my elderly neighbour went into a home and her house was sold. The new owners were batshit crazy. He thought it was normal when he told me he crashed his previous car and wrote it off by reversing into 2 different lampposts on 2 consecutive days.

He decided that the space outside the shared path was his space. If you parked right you could get 2-3 cars between the other neighbour and our driveway but because he was so lazy only his could go there as he had to be parked to line up with the path meaning he could open his door, step out and walk directly down the path without having to move left or right. If he got out and he wasn't directly in line he would get back in the car and move it.

She couldn't park to save her life. Once I watched her try to park, mount the pavement and narrowly missed taking down my wall. She wasn't even reverse parking! All visitors used to deliberately park in their space then we would time it from the moment they closed our door to the time he was there, keys in hand, to reclaim his space. Best one was my mum getting into the car and he was at the end of the path unlocking his car - about 40 seconds.

Workmen were at ours one day and after watching her attempt to park then give up parking along the street they went to check for damage then spent the rest of the time popping back and forth to their vehicles, stating the engine then when she got to her car and started to move it to claim the space they would stop the engine then walk back inside. It was one of the most fun days of my life. I wasn't paying by the hour so I didn't care and actively encouraged it.

The deserved it though. Threatening, abusive, disgusting wastes of space who used to think it was fun to threaten and intimidate my kids when walking to and from school. And he was a teacher too.

I posted some time ago with a diagram, but in my street, most of the marked permit bays straddle driveways. I don't have a drive and on occasion will need to block an empty drive to park anywhere near my house.

I've told the council, I've asked for clarity. I've written to the neighbours who leave their aggressive, nasty notes on my car. Council do not care that they've caused such a huge problem and tensions in the street.

But basically the council have confirmed on four separate occasions that the bays take priority. Residents with drives frequently park their own cars in the bays across their drives to keep the drive free for visitors but heaven help anyone else who might need a space.

It's made me so cross and caused huge amount of anxiety- the horrid notes gaffa taped to my car.

Anyone here have similar issue?

My DM lives on a very narrow road with limited parking.

She bores for England about "her" space it's very frustrating.

Re parking on someone else’s driveway, does anyone remember the parking thread where someone had got home early to find their drive parked on (near a school) and basically blocked them in for the rest of the weekend so they couldn’t move it?

@spanglydangly thanks for your permission for me to get "worked up"

When I pulled up to my house tonight someone was parking there and I told him I needed to park there and he moved

So I think people just need telling.

@Catandstuff22 lucky for you, I'd have done the "shh" sign as a PP mentioned down below, can't bear entitled people!

You wouldn't tell me to move, nor 90% if the people on this thread if you've read it!

As someone said earlier to you, suck it up if you can't have a drive.

I will continue to tell people to move. The man I asked was really courteous and understanding. I've got some good ideas from this thread actually, I might put cones out or something more permanent. Sick of having to walk miles in the freezing cold when people who don't even live nearby park in front of my house without a care in the world. Message to all is park in front of your own house

Tell people, or ask people?
What like you own the road? Walk for miles, yours is the only space for miles!**

@Catandstuff22 I think you exaggerate!

I've also got some tops from this thread? The shh action was the best!

Shushing people in really rude in any context. Politely asking someone to move their car is not rude. Also, we already covered me owning/not owning the road so you're repeating yourself now.

Politely asking someone to move their car is not rude

Absolutely. And I’d equally as politely decline.

The only way it is ever acceptable to ask someone to move is if you own the relevant land they’re on.

when people who don't even live nearby park in front of my house without a care in the world. Message to all is park in front of your own house smile

do you really think people enjoy a walk so much that they park far away from their home to ensure they park in front of YOUR house?

@Catandstuff22 but you said you were going to tell people! I'd tell you to shh 🤫 if you told me!

He you asked me iid still decline but without the shh!

What's wrong with shushing someone? It's funny, keeps you in a good mood and doesn't upset your day - it the one you are shushing gets irate about it, it's even funnier but it's their problem.

It is a bit patronising, but it's harmless.

Oooh I LOVE people who put cones etc out. They are like big flashing beacons saying 'MOVE ME AND PARK HERE!'

I had this neighbour who persistently rang the council claiming my then-boyfriend's car was abandoned because we kept parking it in "her spot". Not even outside her house, just in the spot she liked to park in. She stuck a laminated 'notice' to remove our car and stop parking there once, absolutely hilarious. We weren't doing to annoy them either, it was often just the space closest to our house. She also accused me of stealing her bin, odd woman

Oooh I LOVE people who put cones etc out. They are like big flashing beacons saying 'MOVE ME AND PARK HERE!'

Then place them either side or the car, like you've parked in between them not noticing they're there!

Then place them either side or the car, like you've parked in between them not noticing they're there!

Exactly! Perfect that.