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People parking outside our house

221 replies

ReeRi · 28/12/2019 12:07

I find that people always tend to park outside our house when visiting the neighbours. I’m not sure why at all. This is quite a wide road. There is lots of parking as the houses are decent sized semis and detached with big gardens and most have two parking spaces or more. There are not many cars on the road at all so it is not a case of parking wherever you have space. There is nothing outside the neighbours’ houses and yet, when people visit, they park outside our house.

It is particularly annoying because we only recently moved and are decorating so don’t have curtains or blinds downstairs. There is a massive car parked in front of my living room.

I know I don’t own the road and people can park wherever they like but I’m just wondering why the neighbours’ friends and relatives park outside our house and leave the front or their houses clear?!

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paranoidmum2 · 28/12/2019 15:37

@Hearthside one of my mum’s neighbours puts 2 traffic cones and a broom outside their house to stop people parking there! And crazily the neighbours let him get away with it even though parking is a pain on the street!

SpruceTree · 28/12/2019 15:45

Plant a lovely beech hedge. Their leaves turn golden and they retain their leaves through the winter. The birds will love it and you will have a garden full of birdsong and wild life. You might even get a hedgehog.
You will never have to look at a car again.

1forAll74 · 28/12/2019 15:48

It looks nice where you live, but can't see a problem with the car parked where it is.

PositiveVibez · 28/12/2019 15:50

It's not really right outside your window though is it OP??

NameChangeNugget · 28/12/2019 15:52

I’m really not understanding what to get excited about here OP

Hearthside · 28/12/2019 15:53

paranoidmum2 could just see someone trying that here Grin.Someone going shop highly likely het out and move it .

Piglet89 · 28/12/2019 16:00

Christ, OP. Don’t be that neighbour.

ChristmasSweet · 28/12/2019 16:08

Plant a lovely beech hedge. Their leaves turn golden and they retain their leaves through the winter. The birds will love it and you will have a garden full of birdsong and wild life. You might even get a hedgehog.

Ooh that sounds lovely. Tempted to do that for my garden once I get rid of the ivy that's on the fence.

Okbutno · 28/12/2019 16:11

I don't understand why you're bothered by this.

motherheroic · 28/12/2019 16:23

This is a reach. I thought is was going to be across the bottom of your drive.

BackforGood · 28/12/2019 16:30

Another who really can't see why anyone would even notice, let alone get worked up about this
It is nowhere near your living room Confused

Yetanotherwinter · 28/12/2019 16:37

You’re correct you don’t own the road. If you’re going to buy a house on a road where there is parking then you’re always going to have this issue. It always make me laugh when some people on terraced streets put notices in their window saying “ no parking car owner”. I would suggest you ignore the issue or it’ll start to really irritate you.

catpyjamas · 28/12/2019 16:37

@MaButterface
Sat 28-Dec-19 13:22:03 Sounds like maybe your neighbour have told them to park there rather than in front of their house.

Why do people tell others to park in front of a neighbour? I'm asking because I have a similar situation as the OP with neighbour's visitors parking in front of my house and using my drive instead of parking at the neighbour's house and using their large drive and for the life of me I can't figure out why people do this. Xmas Confused

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 16:42

I agree @TigerOnATrain

@Jog22 @howabout This is the kind of advice I was after, not “get a hobby” 😂

@Laughterisbest I agree. I used to live in a house like that and there was only street parking so the street was full of cars and it was hard to park at all. I understood that because people had to park somewhere and would usually take the space closest to their house, other than the next door neighbor who used to park outside our house so that his wife could park outside their house 🙄

Precisely @paranoidmum2 and same @DramaAlpaca!

@ChristmasSweet I live pretty much in the countryside but there are other houses around. I don’t expect not to live around other people but also not everyone can afford a house completely in the countryside without any other houses around them!! The thing is there is A LOT of space on our street which is why I question the choice of parking spot.

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 16:43

@MaButterface @catpyjamas Yes exactly I think they have as it happens a lot, which is more annoying. If they don’t want cars parked outside their own house then why we would want that.

A beech hedge sounds great!!

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doingmeheadin · 28/12/2019 16:43

Totally get where you are coming from with this one. Our neighbour's visitors (often their family) do it all the time, including school pick ups/drop off times and it gets on my nerves. Park outside the house you are visiting (esp when there is exactly the same amount of space outside each house)!! Probably doesn't annoy me enough to start a mumsnet thread about it, but I certainly appreciate why you find it irritating.

HouseworkAvoider10 · 28/12/2019 16:46

My parents have the same problem.

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 16:49

@BillHadersNewWife 😃

@GnomeDePlume We have been here a few months and I get visitors at this time of year. One night it seemed liked there was a party or something so it didn’t seem strange someone parked outside our house too. It’s strange when they only park outside our house.

@Actionhasmagic err thanks 🤓

@BellyButton85 People are very inconsiderate when it comes to parking!

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 16:50

@doingmeheadin Yeah I think I was a bit tired and irritable when I started the thread 😂 but this has happened before so I was curious as to why as it had occurred to me the neighbours didn’t want their visitors parking outside their own house

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DrManhattan · 28/12/2019 16:53

Slash their tyres

ProfessionalBoss · 28/12/2019 16:55

So looking at the pictures, towards the left, where I assume they we're visiting... On the opposite side of the road is a junction and a driveway... If you've read the highway code, you'd know that it's illegal to park within 10 metres of a junction... Therefore he has parked considerately to not only the neighbours across the road with their driveway, but also every other road user... Hmm

WhenOneDoorClosesAnotherOpens · 28/12/2019 16:56

I understand OP. YANBU My neighbour has a large drive next to their house but instead every single day they park in the road in front of my house. I know I don't own the road but I think what gets me is that it doesn't make sense. Who would choose to park in the road instead of in their own drive?

People are very inconsiderate when it comes to parking!
I completely agree with this!

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 17:00

@ProfessionalBoss It’s not that close to the junction and the house two doors down, closest to the junction, doesn’t have this issue. They park outside their own house!

People are also weird @WhenOneDoorClosesAnotherOpens

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Grumpelstilskin · 28/12/2019 17:02

Is that you Hyacinth...? Grin

OverByYer · 28/12/2019 17:04

It’s not really inconveniencing you though is it? I’d they parked further along it looks like it would make it difficult for the person opposite to reverse of their drive or would be opposite the white car making it more difficult for other road users to get through.