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.😁

@Mycatismadeofstringcheese

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.

That's what I would imagine would happen if the council got too many complaints and bin lorries and abulances couldnt gain access. I'm actually amazed the council told her she was ok to park like that i presume she didn't mention that it was now necessary because she had put pots on the pavement.

Pat needs to maybe her pots, and the council needs to mark up the road as half pavement/half road parking. My sisters road has this so it can be done. FFS this is what happens when people are just selfish and stubborn (not you OP)

Pat needs to swap her pots for a window box and calm down.

Pat should move her plants. Before they'd moved for her. In kit form.

She shouldn't have plants on a public footpath so she is in the wrong.

Perfidious plant potty Pat prioritises putting poor pedestrians in peril.

Pats piss poor pavement performance proves parking permits protect proper people.

Why has Pat got plant pots outside? Presumably these are at least partially blocking the pavement which is, AFAIK, illegal.

And how on earth does the two-wheels-up get enforced to ensure free access to the road, including emergency vehicles? Or do you have signs asking people to park like that as I’ve seen in Oxford?

YABU for not including a diagram

Even so, this is an excellent parking thread! Why is Pat so obsessed with her plant pots?! Just move them!

We need diagrams..😂

Yes! Window or hanging baskets FFS PAT

Bravo viques

I'm on #TeamSyd.

If Pat has put plant pots on a pedestrian pavement, she needs to move them.

Whats wrong with some hanging baskets?

Also Casschops, sort it out, you're not new here. This is a parking thread and rules dictate a diagram

I can’t possibly get an idea of the size of the plant pots without a visual reference.

@SoupDragon

Pat needs hanging baskets.

She definitely does.

@viques

Perfidious plant potty Pat prioritises putting poor pedestrians in peril.

Pats piss poor pavement performance proves parking permits protect proper people.

Reminds me of An Austrian army awfully arrayed Boldly by battery beseiged Belgrade

Perfidy indeed.

I'm on #TeamSyd

I think any rational human being is on Syds side. Shall we get t-shirts printed?

@Littlepiggiesinblankets

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

This^ !

This has to be made up, there is no way the council would advise her to park on the road to afford access to the pavement without telling her to move her ridiculous plant pots onto her own property and get over herself. If she were on my road, I'd be dumping the things onto her own property while she stood and watched.

Does Pat actually have any supporters?

Maybe she’s starting a street war because she’s bored? I can’t see the point in her plant pots otherwise. Unless they’re massive, would she even be able to see them from her downstairs windows?

She needs to move the pot plants for the sake of blind and partially sighted (sp??) people. Also I need a diagram

@Littlepiggiesinblankets

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

👍😆

Oh and are they ‘pot’ plants or pot plants?

@Mycatismadeofstringcheese

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.

The other potential (but less likely) outcome goes back to the old days, as featured once on That’s Life, a residential street had raised complaints which resulted in rules being set permitting parking on each side at different times This meant residents parked on one side in the evening and overnight, but had to move by a certain time in the morning - unless they set off early in the morning cars switched to the other side before the traffic warden started their shift

@yvanka

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

Someone did and she complained I think.

@Mycatismadeofstringcheese

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.

This. Or your street is about to be fast tracked into the land of permit parking.