My First Parking Thread- all out war has been declared.

[Casschops]

I live on a street which is all terraced property and houses are very old so the street is narrow as people didn't have cars then. None of us have drives and we do not have front gardens so our doors open straight out onto the street.
We park wherever on the street and this is not about parking outside our own property this is out and out war people!
The parking etiquette is that on one side (mine) we park with all four tyres on the floor and on the other side they park with two tyres on the kerb and two on the road. It has been like this forever.
The council have agrees that this is the most reasonable and practicable way as my side affords access for wheelchair and pushchair users etc so we don't need feedback from that point of view.
My neighbour on the opposite (Pat) side has some plant pots outside her house ( she us on the two wheels on the kerb side) and parks her car on our side of the street which is fine by me as I wouldn't want to wreck my tyres.
A neighbour on my side who is opposite her (Syd) has parked their car directly outside Pat's house and leaving her with the need to climb over the plants to get out! 🤦‍♀️
There has also been a mystery complainer they all think its Syd and Pat has been told that she has to move her plants ( forgot to say that she is in a back to back terraced where we have yards).
She had a chat with the council and they agreed that she would be perfectly entitled to park her car on her side with four tyres on the road as this would then afford access to the pavement in front of her house. She has done this and this now means that you cannot get down the other end of the street without using a very inaccessible access road. We now have two cars parked with four tyres down and its causing fucking mayhem as nobody is breaking the law!
I can't take the dog out without somebody chewing my ear off about it and although it is inconvenient AIBU to tell them all that I don't give a shit. I just find the whole thing so childish....on both sides. She is loitering outside her house now, looking for a conflab, she is drumming up support via the Monday dog walking group who pass our houses and she is going door to door. She is like a politician. I can't hide my smile its like some shit storyline in a soap opera.😁

Ooooh that sounds like your local councillors would live to come and take some sad face photos to put in their next newsletter.

Surely her plant pots are on a pedestrian right of way?

The police will make them move if it means emergency vehicles can't pass.

I would be so pissed off with someone blocking the road deliberately. Surely it's illegal to cause an obstruction. She's taking the piss with her plants blocking the path when space is so limited.

Surely Pat can’t keep plant pots on the pavement?

As for the parking whoever parks fully on the road last is wrong because they know they are blocking the road when they park.

The council must be rolling their eyes as much as you being dragged into their pettiness

So, the road is not wide enough for cars on both sides to park on the road? One side has to park with two wheels on the kerb, otherwise a car could not drive along the road through the gap?

If Pat also has no garden and her door opens onto the street, then I don't think she should put pots of plants out as it does hinder anyone walking past her home. People should follow the rules of the past and get rid of the plant pots as that seems the most practical idea.

You know the rules, diagram or we can't get overly emotionally invested in this parking mayhem.

She needs to move those pots!

Surely if the houses open up onto the pavement Pat cannot have plant pots outside the front of her property as they are blocking the pavement??

Someone should park outside her house then, with two wheels on the road? Or am I not getting it?

Pat needs to move her pots.
But yabu for saying floor.

Pat needs hanging baskets.

If a fire engine couldn't get through I wouldn't be impressed but obviously keep us posted

Pat is a bit potty with her plants and needs to move them and then park the way she used to.

Ooh I was just saying we need a parking thread! Diagram please

How do you not care OP, this would definitely set my curtains twitching! Surely the pavement is a public footpath and so therefore Pat shouldn't be allowed to put pots on it?? How does the bin lorry get down?!

Sounds like she needs to move the pots. Or learn to jump better.

I get a feeling that Pats plant pots may disappear one night.

Yoh can't put plant pots on the pavement.

Pat needs to move her plant pots, I’m assuming they’re on the public pavement? She also needs to stop being a twat and parking her car to cause an obstruction. It is illegal and the police will tell her to move her car, i knkw because we had a similar issue in our village and the police told the idiot to move their car even though technically it was legally parked.

Pat need to move her pots

She has done this and this now means that you cannot get down the other end of the street without using a very inaccessible access road

What if there was a fire or someone needed an ambulance?

Pat needs to be careful or they’ll double yellow one side and you’ll have two sides of cars fighting for spaces on the other.

Maybe the plant pots will have to go on top of her car ...

Wtf did she think it was OK to do this? Now? After all this time. She's not a new resident from what you're saying?

#teamsyd