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.😁

Pat sounds like she thinks she owns the whole fucking street....

Very surprised the council didn't tell her she can't put plant pots on a council-maintained pavement that is not her property....

I'm sorry but I'd move pats plant pots not saying you should though.
All this over plants , Pat needs to learn to pick her battles .

Pat needs to move her pots. She’s completely in the wrong,

They are going to end up putting yellow lines down one side of the street at this rate.

Can Pat not get a window box of hanging baskets?

Diagram or we are just not playing

YABU no diagram.

Think pats pots would go missing replaced with a random note. Or perhaps pats pots could be placed lovingly on the bonnet of her car

@JacobReesMogadishu

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.

All of this. Pat is being a knob.

Where I used to live they had white lines painted on the pavement (I think signs as well) showing that it was ok to park with 2 wheels on the pavement. Could you talk to the council about doing something like that to make the parking rules more official?

Couldn't Pat get a window box instead?

How long have the plant pots been there? Surely it won't be long before they are stolen.

She is being SO unreasonable - parking on the '4 wheels down' side and then blocking the pavement to stop people parking Wheels On Kerb.

I think suggesting window boxes could be a good way forwards.

But she needs to be told that basically her pots are preventing someone parking.

Another way forwards would be, when she is out with her car, everyone else move their cars so that the ONLY place left for her to park is to block her own access.

Syd is also unreasonable - it isn't OK to block the road.

I am surprised: where I live the council would be issuing tickets to anyone with even half a wheel on the pavement. Unless they had pained lines on the pavement and road which designate half the pavement for parking.

Or - send the lot of them on Judge Rinder.

This is going to get so much better and bloodier when parking on the pavement starts being enforced. Essentially it will be parking one side of the road only and you'll be schlepping your schlopping from 2 blocks over.

And then you'll get someone who's entitled to disable parking and they'll get a designated spot outside their front door. (which is completely right of course)

Let the blood bath begin!!!

@SoupDragon

Pat needs hanging baskets.

😂🤣😂

@mogtheexcellent

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

That's what I was thinking. She has no right to have her pots on the pavement whether they are blocking access or not. The council needs to step in here to tell her to move them, then Hissing Syd can go back to parking with two wheels on the pavement and traffic can get down.

Though TBH, I can't see how anyone other than Pat was really being discommoded in the first place - and that was by her own plant pots! You said that wheelchairs/ buggies etc had to use your side of the pavement anyway.

She has chosen to park on the side opposite her own home to protect her tires (legal) and that has meant that someone else has had to park opposite HER home (also legal); she complained when she had to clamber over (her own) plant pots; other driver moved his car fully onto the road (legal) and she is now stirring things up against perfectly legally parked neighbour.

I suspect that somewhere there is a nice little bye law that can be used to make her shift her plant pots. If I were Syd - or any of the neighbours who have to navigate that street, I'd ask about it.

She's a CF.

@MrsToothyBitch

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

Fabulous solution!!

you'll be schlepping your schlopping from 2 blocks over

If someone accidentally falls over Pat’s pots, surely she would be responsible for obstructing the public pavement 🤔

@viques

Perfidious plant potty Pat prioritises putting poor pedestrians in peril.

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

🤣

@RincewindsHat

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.

Pat phones the council, says nothing about plant pots, and doesn't mention that if she parks with all four wheels in the road she'll be blocking it. Just says "The neighbours say I have to park on the pavement and I can't fully open my door when I do," and the council worker who's never been to the road says "No you can park on the road."

But in fact, parking so that the road is blocked is illegal.

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

So are all the cars with their wheels on the pavement.

Plant pots need to be moved. She has no right to have them there. They are an obstruction.

Geez the nerve of Pat

#TeamSyd

You could create a phonics book out if this.

Pat's pots are a pain.
'Move your pots Pat' said Syd 'I can not park'.
Pat would not.
Syd was cross