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.

My grandad thinks the road outside his house is his. He has alzheimers and can't drive himself anymore so family sold his car. He hates people parking outside his house 🙈🙈 of course he's wrong but there's no reasoning with him anymore.

Love it! Our neighbours put bollards on the road to ‘save’ the space. They will even sit in their car and wait for the person, who dares to move their bollards and park there, to leave, and then park in ‘their space’ outside their home. They believe they are entitled to that space due to living here for over a decade. It’s a main council owned road, free to all parking.
No reasoning with them. Some people think they are more entitled than others. Just smile and walk away if they kick off.

My friend used to work at the local council offices and often had irate people shouting on the phone saying they had an absolute right to park outside their property and no one else should.

She even had people who believed they had a right to park on double yellow lines if they were outside their property and were massively affronted to be told they weren't.

There are some very peculiar people about these days.

I had a neighbour like this when I lived in london. He tried to claim the space outside his flat, despite not even having a car, he just wanted an unobstructed view from his window! Any time a car even stopped there, he’d be out there like a shot, telling them to move. Weirdly, most people seemed to go along with it and it ended up working in our favour as he took a liking to us so would ‘allow’ us to park there. It meant we’d come home from work and almost always be guaranteed the space as he’d been policing it all day 😂

Our neighbours have three cars and often plonk one outside our car even though they have space for all three outside their house and on their drive. It gets on my tots cause I have a small child / shopping and want to be able to park near my house, but I live with it cause I’m not a total and utter dick.

On a public road only only the council parking restrictions apply. If you have a permit you can park as you wish.
Your neighbour is not Lord of the Manor so has no more rights to spaces than you.