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.😁

this isn't exactly true I meant.

Pat needs hanging baskets.

Or maybe just hanging

Pat's a twat. HTH.

The street is now blocked there is a car trying access the sheltered accommodation. She is a CF and is not answering the door.

She should just stop being a pain in the arse and move her bloody pot plants!

Why is anyone knocking on her door Cass? surely it's Sad they need to call for - he's the one in the road.

Pat is BU obviously.

Lovely unanimous thread.

What are the plants in Pat's pots and how much sun do they get anyway?

FWIW I think hanging baskets or window boxes would still block the remaining pavement with a car half on it.

I sympathise with Syd but feel he needs a hobby.

updated diagram needed surely!

Someone really should piss on her sunshine. And her plant pots. Do any of your neighbours own a trainable dog or a very territorial tom cat?

Why doesn’t Pat just compromise and get rid of one pot? Then she can still get out of her house in the instance that someone parks up against her house. She is being supremely unreasonable to park all wheels on the road.

The problem is where "Pat" keeps her pot plants.

I lived once on an inner city street which allowed parking on both sides, two wheels up on the pavement on both sides. It was a total drag - even as an able-bodied pedestrian, it was tricky to navigate the street (one morning dashing for the train, a family with their car really close to their front gate, with the car door on the pavement side open, so it was actually impossible to walk on the pavement at all - and they shouted at me, when I asked them to make space, grrr).

I was so relieved when the Council brought in Residents' Parking on one side of the road only. If you live in the inner city, on a narrow crowded street, don't drive a blimmin' car! Or pay for garaging elsewhere.

The council are wrong

It’s illegal if an emergency service vehicle can’t get down. They just move them forcefully if they would need too.

Can someone give her plant pots a parking ticket?

This street needs a double yellow line down one side, it’s clear the residents aren’t able to manage this.

Such a shame pat has caused all this with her pots. She should have window boxes and hanging baskets. Silly, selfish woman.

@SchadenfreudePersonified

Why is anyone knocking on her door Cass? surely it's Sad they need to call for - he's the one in the road.

No it's Pat completely in the road on her side, Syd parked outside her house with 2 wheels on the pavement so she had to clamber over the pots (or just walk round the car, surely?)

We need Olaf in his high viz to properly assess the pot situ....

Could Pat not get a roof rack for her car and relocate her pots to it?
You can get them with wind deflectors so she won't lose them when driving.

1. the pot plants are on a pavement and shouldn’t be there - pat needs to move the stupid things

2. whoever parks last and causes the obstruction that blocks the flow of traffic is committing some sort of traffic offence so they are not in fact parking legally

Parking wars needs to be escalated by seeing their “I’ve spoken to the council” nonsense and raising it with an “I’ve taken photos and sent them to council and the local PCSO for advice about traffic enforcement and antisocial behaviour”. Or you buy some Roundup.

@Cocolapew

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

It’s pretty clear from the cadence and wording of the OP that English isn’t their first language. You knew what they meant.

Round here Plantpot Pat's pots would have been nicked long before they could cause a problem ....

@Pythonesque

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

Ha ha ha I knew someone would come up with a solution!

Typical! You posted a beautiful diagram whilst I was typing ☺️

You have too many cars in a street not designed for them. Pat has just as much right to store her plants on the pavement as others do to store their cars there.

Is this Pat’s house OP

Round here such streets have parking spaces drawn half on road half on pavement on one side, just as OP describes.

It seems to be SOP, leaving accessibility as reduced as little as possible and everyone gets a chance at a parking space.

But no daft sod puts plant pots out!!!!