To think neighbour doesn't own the parking space outside the house?

[rentischeaper]

I live in a converted townhouse. 4 Flats, each on top of each other. We all rent.
The basement flat has always been strange. But that's a whole other story.

Two of the four flats have cars. We do, and the basement flat does.

There is no private parking here. It is all permit parking by zone. So you can park anywhere on the streets around here. This is because we live in a town centre.

Downstairs neighbour usually parks their car directly outside the house. It's often there for days without moving it. We just park wherever there is space/close if we have shopping.

Yesterday the space outside the house was free. So we parked in it.

He is being unreasonable, because he thinks he owns the space, when he doesn't.

Maybe if he stops you you can ask him why he thinks it's his space and that if he provides some documentation proving it's his space then you'd be happy not to park in it.

Leave a note back saying you do live in the house! Then he can carry the feud on with other randomers.

But I'd never move my car again...

He is bonkers

People are so weird with parking. Our drive ways are across the road from our houses, then there is street parking directly outside the houses. The two houses that only have one car will wait until the spot outside their house is empty then race over to move their cars onto the road, leaving the drive ways empty, and those of us with two cars nowhere to park. It ridiculous. Another neighbour is more bold than I am and will just park in their empty driveway.

so was there a note?

I’m sure the Eastenders drums aren’t far away…

God I can't stand people like this.

In our street there are allocated spaces for each house. 3 are directly outside the houses and the rest are in a car park at the end of the street (CBA with a diagram). 2 of those 3 are ours but we only have 1 car. The other space belonged to our adjoining neighbour who had 2 cars. They had a second space in the car park. There are signs up at say 'Private Parking Number X Only'.

Our neighbours just started parking in our spare space without asking when they moved in. Then would have the cheek to passive aggressively moan in ear shot when we had friends or family over parked in the space.

The best was one day watching our neighbour run out of the house to move her car and reclaim 'her' space the second my friend went out.

I wouldn't have minded if she had asked to use our space like everyone else in the street managed to.

My neighbours son doesn’t live in her house. She doesn’t drive nor own any car. Yet when he visits he revs his engine loudly and annoyingly several times when starting his car, it sets my dog barking. So I asked him to please not do it. Apparently deisel cars need to be revved and I know nothing about cars. And by the way I am parking in his space. I reiterated the spaces are not his or mine and I park in a free space.

He went on and on and on. I lost my temper and told him that I live and pay rent in my home as does his mother and if she’s got a problem with where I park my car (or my sons car) she is free to knock on my door and discuss it. I think I also said I would be disgusted if my son spoke to someone the way he does. He’s a horrid little weasel, he knocked a week after I moved in last summer and I was ill, I opened the door to ‘I see you’ve recently moved in I’ll just tell you how it works round here’ (parking) he’s the only one who ha said a word about parking. Each house has 2 spaces in front of it, the houses either side don’t drive or have cars. Mine sits in the space in front of my house. The rest is visitors.

He’s wrong and you’re right. Personally l would leave your car there for as long as you can

I genuinely don’t understand the entitlement around people parking outside their house. Then again l live in a terraced house where 95% of us don’t have a driveway, so lm used to every man for himself

This

well let him come knocking, when he does explain he doesn’t own the space and you’ll park where ever is available, same as anyone else with the same permit can.

TBH I would knock that on the head by installing a bollard.

I don't know exactly how the law works but I believe if you do something for long enough you can claim and possibly achieve the right to do something, especially if you can prove that you have been doing it for some time.

Of course it won't make you particularly popular ...

He probably misunderstood and thinks the resident's parking spaces are for the property they are outside, rather than anyone who has a resident's parking permit. I can see his logic.

Don’t worry about it. Even his partner thinks he’s wrong. Ignore the note. Or have a chat with him, if you want, in a friendly fashion. But mostly don’t worry about it.

He thinks it belongs to the house, not his flat from what you posted so even if he was correct (which he isnt) by his logic you can park there anyway 🤷‍♀️

Had a neighbour like this, his claim was that his house was expensive so therefore the part of (public, with council permit parking) road outside his house should be reserved for him.

It's very unlikely that the council sold off parking bays in a public street.

Had a neighbour like this, his claim was that his house was expensive so therefore the part of (public, with council permit parking) road outside his house should be reserved for him.

It's absolutely laughable, isn't it? Because he paid a private individual a lot of money for his house (newsflash: most houses tend to be rather expensive purchases) to a private individual, the council should have rewarded him with a free exclusive parking!

I always wonder, with people who believe that they own the space outside their home for parking (presumably accepting that the public are free to pass through it when vacant, in vehicles or on foot), what would they do if somebody twisted their ankle in a pot hole whilst walking through it? And what about keeping it maintained and resurfaced - do they accept responsibility for that, maybe working closely with the council who own the rest of the road and paying their share? Surely they can't think that you can own something - without actually paying to buy it or being expressly given it - and yet still it's somebody else's responsibility to keep it in good repair?!

Loads of people do this. Buy/rent a house with allocated parking if it bothers them so much. People get possessive over chairs , bins all sorts..

I have one of these lunatics for a neighbour too OP. He even puts a traffic cone out in 'his' space.

He's an aggressive, anti-social dickhead in general though, it's not just related to parking.

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Seriously, how are you confused about the point of this thread?

My husband is oddly territorial about "his" parking space even though he completely acknowledges anyone can park there it really unsettles him the entire time his car isn't in the right spot. Thankfully he's an adult so restricts his annoyance to muttering under his breath and pathological checking to see if his space is now free. Some people are just odd about these things, ignore your neighbour or if they start note wars just respond in kind confirming the space is available to anyone with the correct permit.

It's truly amazing how many people there are out there who genuinely believe that what they prefer should be the 'official' accepted law by which everybody else must abide - even when what they want will obviously match/conflict with what everybody else wants as well.

You realise you're going to have to buy a new car now op, just so you can leave this one parked outside forever?

Haha we had this today from next door
We're having building work done at the moment. Building materials on my driveway with enough space to get my wheelchair up, my car parked outside my house for easy access. Neighbor comes home and starts shouting at my builders who have parked in front of his house but left his driveway clear so neighbor can easily pull in and out. He doesnt want their van to be visible from his front room apparently. He got told to fuck off by my builder who will come and park in exactly the same spot every day for the next 2 weeks.