Page 3 | car parked outside my house for weeks

LookItsMeAgain · 14/09/2021 10:34

You mentioned that he is a car dealer so he is using these spaces as an extension of his business parking. Is there anything in the local council bye-laws that would mean he would have to pay higher parking rates to do this? Could you approach your elected representatives in your council to discuss introducing something to do with parking if it's for a business rather than private use?
That's the only thing I can think of that might deter him from parking there.

CovidCorvid · 14/09/2021 10:37

@Ceci03 the street I park on is a small cul de sac. But in a village it’s all cul de sacs and small residential roads branching off the busy village high street. It’s not my fault I can’t park on my road. The people who live in the side streets come and park outside my house for 20 mins while using the shops on “my” street. If they want the shops and the amenities this is the draw back.

CovidCorvid · 14/09/2021 10:38

Oh and I have a note once, if I knew who’d written the note I’d certainly have told them to fuck off.

Dbank · 14/09/2021 10:40

YABU, the owner has paid VED so they can park on public roads.

Thinking you have some sort of right to the space outside your house is just a selfish fantasy.

If you want to call your parking space "yours", buy a house with a drive.

Whammyyammy · 14/09/2021 10:40

@minitwister

We had similar. Call 101/111 (brain not working!) and tell the police you are concerned it's been abandoned. They won't tell you who owns it, but they will try to contact the owner and suggest they move it.

The one opposite our house was gone within the hour.

Why would the police suggest the owner moves a legally parked car, just because someone else wants to park there?

Can I call police to get people to move cars if they're parked in my favourite bay in Sainsburys too?

Whammyyammy · 14/09/2021 10:44

@NotStayingIn

I honestly think I would key his car. I know that's terrible!

To cause criminal damage to someone's property because they are legally parked on a public highway that feel you have sole rights too? You sound deranged .

hollyhocksarenotmessy · 14/09/2021 10:46

I can't believe people are gleefully suggesting vandalising the car. You bunch of bastards.

A friend used to live in an area with many HMOs and not enough parking. He sometimes had to park legally in the neighbouring street. Three times his car was vandalised. Two slashed tires and a keying. For someone on a low income, it was devastating.

Feeling annoyed doesn't make this OK.

LemonLymanDotCom · 14/09/2021 10:47

@Ceci03 yeah I live in the estate, not on the road I park on, which I get to by crossing the main road my estate is on and going down a side road. I bet those residents of the side road are equally as pissed, but it's the same situation as you have. Someone, not living on that road has parked their car in front of your house, and you're annoyed by it. Which is unreasonable.

Whammyyammy · 14/09/2021 10:48

@hollyhocksarenotmessy

I can't believe people are gleefully suggesting vandalising the car. You bunch of bastards.

A friend used to live in an area with many HMOs and not enough parking. He sometimes had to park legally in the neighbouring street. Three times his car was vandalised. Two slashed tires and a keying. For someone on a low income, it was devastating.

Feeling annoyed doesn't make this OK.

Totally agree. And if anyone does vandalise someone's property, I hope they do it to the wrong person, get caught and suffer long ongoing consequences.

Skinnytailedsquirrel · 14/09/2021 10:50

Why do people feel entitled to park on any road? As tax payers (we all are) paying for the roads and yet they are used as parking lots for cars.

NerrSnerr · 14/09/2021 10:51

@Skinnytailedsquirrel where are you suggesting people park then?

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 14/09/2021 10:56

@minitwister

We had similar. Call 101/111 (brain not working!) and tell the police you are concerned it's been abandoned. They won't tell you who owns it, but they will try to contact the owner and suggest they move it.

The one opposite our house was gone within the hour.

Not if it's tax they won't.

Do you really bother 111 with nonsense like this?

DancesWithTortoises · 14/09/2021 10:58

#teambirdseed

TruffleShuffles · 14/09/2021 11:03

I’ve twice reported cars as abandoned on my local councils website and both times the car was gone within 48 hours. I reported one outside my terraced house and one outside a shop I owned, both had been there a few weeks. I have no idea how the process works once reported but it got both of them shifted, technically neither were parked illegally but I suppose someone getting in touch with them made them move.

WorkingItOutAsIGo · 14/09/2021 11:03

Thing is what he’s doing is legal, but dickish. I wouldn’t do anything illegal in return but I might be drawn into doing something dickish. So no keying the car, but maybe birdseed or dog poo…suspect I wouldn’t really!

FindTheTruth · 14/09/2021 11:05

@Ceci03

I know I know, there's nothing that can be done, it's a so-called public road, although it's a very small little cul de sac estate. It's right outside my house, where I would park. There are 3 spaces. this car is in the one nearest to me. I live beside a school so it's manic twice a day and I often cant get a space when I get back from dropping ds so end up parking round the corner then moving my car when it calms down again. He's taking up a precious space for school mums too. Just having a moan I suppose. I checked and it is taxed so police wont do anything. I just wouldnt have the nerve to park right outside someone's house for weeks on end. Apparently he lives round the corner and it's been going on for years. Different neighbours have asked him not to but he's said h'es not breaking any laws. Trouble is there are only 3 spaces, and the rest of the cul de sac is no parking 8-9.30 and 3-5pm so if you have a workman in, or visitors there's one less spare space for them.

Do you have the option to drop the kerb outside your house and turn it into a drive?

Apply for a dropped kerb
A dropped kerb allows vehicles to cross the pavement from the road to a driveway
www.gov.uk/apply-dropped-kerb

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Ceci03 · 14/09/2021 11:12

yeah the difficulty is there is a curb around my front garden. everyone else has removed it and drives into the front. Typcially being the rented house, mine is obviously still has the original curb. I have tried driving over it a couple of times in desperation if I was in a hurry to get parked, but its not good for the car to be bouncing over the curb up from the road and then the curb around the garden.

thanks for sympathy and ideas though :)

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ChrissyPlummer · 14/09/2021 11:13

You lost me at “precious space for school mums”. IME they are the biggest lot of entitled people going and usually shite/dangerous at parking too.

Doris86 · 14/09/2021 11:14

@Skinnytailedsquirrel

Why do people feel entitled to park on any road? As tax payers (we all are) paying for the roads and yet they are used as parking lots for cars.

Errrm because, so they as have tax, MOT and insurance, they are entitled to park on any road.

Travelledtheworld · 14/09/2021 11:17

@ChampionOfTheSun you need to lobby your local council to introduce residents parking Zones.

SirChenjins · 14/09/2021 11:18

We had a local bloke do this a while back...he bought a skanky big old army truck and then instead of parking it on his own driveway (where he has space for 3 cars - probably didn't want to look out of his living room window onto it) parked it in one of the 3 shared spaces in our cul de sac, thereby reducing the amount of spaces for residents, visitors, tradespeople etc. It sat in the same space for months - he would very occasionally move it and drive off on it, and then would park it right back in the space as soon as one became free - where it would sit for months on end again.

Yes, legally he could - but it was a complete PITA and horrible to look out at. Eventually DH asked him if he was ever planning to move it, whereupon he got all huffy with DH and no longer speaks to us which suits us fine. Not long after he did move it, and it now sits on his driveway for months on end.

MaggieFS · 14/09/2021 11:20

Would you ever need to have a skip or building work and have tradespeople park outside?

What we often see on local Facebook groups are polite messages with a photo along the lines of 'this car is parked absolutely fine, however it hasn't been moved for a few weeks and we've got builders coming next week. If anyone knows who owns it, we were wondering if they could be kind enough to park just a couple of spaces along for a few days from Tuesday' sort of thing.

Inevitably what happens is there's then a pile on of comments from both sides - one saying it's fine, legal etc and the other saying how inconsiderate it is. And then sometimes the car moves and sometimes it doesn't. Often does especially when someone tags someone 'Bob isn't this one of yours?'.

Worth a try - nothing to lose.

spiderlight · 14/09/2021 11:20

We've had one of these in our street for months. The car is never used, but is periodically moved a few houses down the road and then back again, always outside the same two houses. The guy opposite us got fed up because it was making it difficult to move his work van on and off his drive and knocked all the doors in the street, but nobody knows whose it is and it's only ever moved at night. We hadn't actually noticed it until he knocked to talk to us about it but we're strangely fascinated by it now and desperate to spot it being moved!

LittleMysSister · 14/09/2021 11:22

@Ceci03

The thing is, I've never lived in a house or apartment with it's own car space, so I'm used to parking on the street. Its never been a problem.

The problem I have with this guy is that he doesnt use the car, he just leaves it sitting there for weeks on end. I mean, before, at least he had the decency to park in the space furthest from my house, but this time it's literally the space outside my house. I 'm not precious or entitled enough to believe that that is "my" space, and if someone else uses it before me, or I cant get into it, no worries. but it's for weeks on end. he never moves the car or uses it. That's the part that bugs me.

We have this too.

Someone moved into our (small) block of flats in Feb and ever since that day he's had a car parked in one of the only 2 spaces right outside the front door, and he never moves it, never uses it.

We have a little car park round the back, where he also has a car and a van parked. He never parks the car he uses within one space, so in total this one man is taking 4 spaces across our parking.

It's just so frustrating that everyone else has to lug all their shopping etc round from the back because he's just dumped his disused car in one of the two prime spaces by the front foor. His flat looks out over the back as well, so it's not like he's put it there so he can check it's ok or whatever.

Some people are just so inconsiderate of others. It's very frustrating.

Macncheeseballs · 14/09/2021 11:24

Perhaps it's more entitled to own a car you never bloody drive, what's the point of him owning one, its just a big ugly block of metal dumped outside someone's house