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.😁

@terrywynne

The development of back to backs in Leeds is fascinating. They used to build one up one down in a square round the courtyard with the back of the house going straight up. So then later you could build around a new courtyard and attach the houses on one side to the existing houses. If that makes sense. Those were very unsanitary areas though! A lot of the surviving back to back terraces are just ordinary roads now not courtyard layouts.

There is one random back to back house on the end of a terrace in Leeds where the second half either didn't get built or was denolished. It looks very odd - tall and thin with no windows in back wall and roof like a lean to not pitched. It also used to be painted blue...

And yes, some people do have front doors that open straight into the front room! We have friends who have that (and they also have designated half on haven't parking spaces with official signs etc). Not a back to back though.

Was the blue house adjacent to an open grassed space? Possibly on the Armley Road? I always assumed it's other half and anything previously on the open space has been bombed in the war. It's why lots of Victorian terraces are interspersed with seemingly out of place newer buildings across the country.

As PPs have said, I think there needs to be a trip over a pot, a busted ankle and an ambulance chasers claim. And then - if you’re really lucky - a local paper spread with the headline of Pats Pernicious Pots!

@User96365931 what a gorgeous view of ASS! Now parking there is a nightmare and not a diagram I'd like to draw!

Plont Pat Street is the new Alphabet Street.

I can't function in work waiting for updates

Black Ops Billy of the nightwatch has donned multi and is "walking his dog" streetwise whistling

Why does "walking his dog" sound like a euphemism for something filthy - really, really filthy?

I hope he's whistling "Colonel Bogey"

Wow, I've just caught up! This is definitely better than any of the soaps!

Your council need to come and paint double yellows down one side, even with wheels on the pavement there's no emergency vehicle access nor delivery drivers.

Can someone please explain to me why people do this? One neighbour takes issue with another neighbour for whatever reason, they then start going round to the other neighbours to try to get them involved. It ends up being a nightmare place to live for all. Why do people seek to involve others and why do others chose to get involve with situations that are nothing to do with them?

This thread has made my day!

This beats a soap opera. Btw to anyway querying the parking on the pavement, we do here too but as it's a cul de sac the lady with the scooter at the end uses the road and the fire hydrant is before the road narrows (last 6 houses)

Was the blue house adjacent to an open grassed space? Possibly on the Armley Road? I always assumed it's other half and anything previously on the open space has been bombed in the war. It's why lots of Victorian terraces are interspersed with seemingly out of place newer buildings across the country.

In my head it was in Harehills but I might be wrong. I spent several weeks driving around Leeds looking for interesting streets/buildings to appear in a youth film project about their home towns

I didn't think there were many back-to-backs still being lived in. Guess there's more than I thought. The remaining ones in Birmingham are a museum now IIRC.

@safariboot

I didn't think there were many back-to-backs still being lived in. Guess there's more than I thought. The remaining ones in Birmingham are a museum now IIRC.

Where as I had no idea they were considered unusual . Thanks to this thread I have learnt that you can tell where I grew up based on the fact I consider back to backs perfectly normal (though normal terraces were still more common)...

I'll keep you company schadenfreude, I have cake and wine so we should last a while

Thank you, Mysa. You are very kind.

I have gin and a quiche. We will hold out until at least Christmas.

Matilda

That is INSPIRED!

We will all be witnesses on Rinder.

Why do people seek to involve others and why do others chose to get involve with situations that are nothing to do with them?

BECAUSE WE CAN!

She's lying low, she's gone no contact, cancelled the check and LTB......

@Matilda I have weak ankles. If OP provides the address, I could probably manage an accident...

@yellowsubmarines

Can someone please explain to me why people do this? One neighbour takes issue with another neighbour for whatever reason, they then start going round to the other neighbours to try to get them involved. It ends up being a nightmare place to live for all. Why do people seek to involve others and why do others chose to get involve with situations that are nothing to do with them?

I'm not sure why you are on Mumsnet if you aren't interested in getting involved in other people's situations that are nothing to do with you? It's my raison d'être ici

I meant instead of two neighbours resolving their disagreement between themselves they escalate it by seeking to involve others which just makes the situation worse for everyone. But I take your point regarding mumsnet.

@yellowsubmarines

I meant instead of two neighbours resolving their disagreement between themselves they escalate it by seeking to involve others which just makes the situation worse for everyone. But I take your point regarding mumsnet.

Really, Submarine . . . where's the fun in that?

In the first back to back I lived in the door opened straight in to the living room. In the 2nd one it opened into a landing the stairs down to the kitchen were straight ahead and the living room to the right.

I would think the pots have to go, can people get past with pushchair/ wheelchairs.

This is the best thread I’ve read in ages

This thread is brilliant, cheered up my day!
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