Parking outside someone's house

[Moonpye]

We have space for one car on our drive and there is then a roadside parking bay outside our house that will take 4 cars if sensibly parked. We have two cars so if those 4 bays are full I sometimes have to go a bit further away to get a space. This happened today so I drove round to the street behind us where there is a roadside bay outside a row of terraced houses, very similar to the one outside our house. These houses don't have their own driveways though. I'd just parked and a lady came out and asked me not to park in that bay as it is for the houses in that row and her disabled husband needs to park there. I was nice about it and ended up moving because I couldn't be bothered with drama and I do get that it's annoying as the same thing had just happened to me ie someone parked in bay outside my house. But AIBU to think that anyone can park outside anyone else's house if it's on street and there are no restrictions? And I had no less right to 'their' space than others have to the one outside my house?

No you were perfectly entitled to park there, but it was very kind of you to move.

If it's a public road and the parking is not reserved, you should be able to park there. I used to live on a road where all the neighbours rolled their bins out to block parking. I just put them back on a pavement and park.

You're entitled to park there but in some streets there is an unwritten rule that people don't park outside houses that don't belong to them. You didn't know about that rule because you don't live on the street.

Yes, you’re just as entitled to park there, but in the same way as you’re just as entitled to use a lift as anyone else, most people would vacate a parking space outside a house or give priority in a lift for a disabled person who needed it more. The woman asked nicely, you moved. No drama here.

You were nice about it, she asked politely and you did the right thing.

Of course you can park outside a house. It still legal, but rude however, to dump a car for days in front of someone's house.

They should apply for a disabled bay

All on-street parking is first-come basis - even disabled bays can be taken by anyone with a disabled badge. You weren't obliged to move and she was being a CF.

I’d have moved as you did, but politely pointed out the woman can apply for a disabled bay outside her house if her husband is disabled and that way he’ll be virtually guaranteed parking.

Otherwise, it’s perfectly legal to park outside anyone’s house as long as you’re not blocking their dropped kerb etc. and it really annoys me when people try to claim pieces of public road as their own personal parking spot that nobody else can use.

You did the morally right thing by moving- and it saves you from an argument! But if in future you need to park and that's the only space, you can use it.

Anyone can park in on-street disabled bays. It can be a deterrent but isn't failsafe

Voted YABU because you moved from a vacant parking spot that ANYONE can use. Why???

Tough shit to that woman really - the spaces are there to be used and if her DH is disabled, then they should have an allocated disable space or request one.

By moving your car, she will target you if you park there again. She doesnt own the space and you should not have moved.

You were legally right but you did the polite thing. If the husband is disabled it would make sense for them to apply for a disabled bay as presumably they'll have that problem a lot; we are a terrace with very limited parking and there are three disabled bays on our (short!) street for that reason.

It can take years for a disabled parking space to be installed outside a residential property, I hope her husband has an application underway.

I think you were kind to move despite being lawfully parked.
A bay near to me is for two cars but the owner if the house nearest to it parks bang in the middle so no one else can use it. It is not his bay/parking area.
He has a large extension and has used some of his driveway. Has 2 parking spaces and 3 cars. Dick.

It's a nice, community minded thing to do what you did. Yes in theory you could have refused, but she asked politely and it was no bother to you to move - you did the right thing. Assuming she wasn't making it up, of course, but you wouldn't know either way.

If it's a layby that is part of the highway then anyone can park there, but some properties will have lay-bys that are part of their private land (we have this) and therefore whilst it may appear to be a layby it is in fact a private driveway, although you might expect to see a private parking sign if it is regularly not respected. We are very rural, so apart from some initial teething problems with NDN, now fully resolved, we have never bothered putting a sign there.

It's rude to park on a public road outside someone else's house? Really?

Do you live rurally or in the suburbs? I don't think anyone who lives in a city center thinks anything other than "yesss! a free spot!" and nabs it as quickly as they can. Morality/values don't come into it 😂

I don't own a car.

I'd love it if no one parked outside my house.

This was a seemingly polite exchange where both parties respected the other. What a refreshing exchange.

You didn’t right thing even though you’re entitled to park there, like anyone else.

A nice refreshing change that everyone’s agreeing on here. Parking threads are often full of thugs 😂

There are bays on our road that belong to specific houses, and show that way on the deeds. They aren’t marked private, but they are.

It’s first come first served I’m afraid.
They need to apply for a disabled bay. I wouldn’t have moved.

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Unwritten rules? They only apply to people who can read them.

Jeezo can people just be nice. Don't park there. She asked nicely. Don't upset people just because you can. Hopefully she will apply for a disabled bay. We have a line painted between us and neighbour's so we can turn out our drive onto a busy road. Cunts still park on it.