Claiming parking spaces in a terraced street

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Sounds like Bath by the Hospital.

Mines kind of difficult to describe so here's a pic. On the left you can see the car park for our flats, it's always full unless I get home before 5pm. So I park on the road where the pic is taken from, it's plenty wide enough and only goes round to some more parking for other flats. There are people the will park in the entryway to the car park just so they are 25 feet closer to their front door.

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People who say they don't care and park outside someone elses house or space obviously don't care much about their cars... I would be too worried about peeing someone off, just in case they decide to key my car or smash the windows or something...
 
I'm on a town high street. Parking here is only unlimited from 5pm-8am and there's always plenty of space if i'm up early. Otherwise there are unlimited spaces about ten minutes walk. Sometimes you get the odd curtain twitcher but there's been no problems so far.

I do hate the parking arrangements around here though.
 
At least you guys can park near your home.

The council is changing the parking restrictions on our street soon, so we'll have to pay to park overnight (plenty of spaces, they just want more money).

Living in the city centre absolutely sucks for car owners, council seems to think that if you live in the centre then obviously you don't need a car.

Did have people getting their knickers in a twist back at home though, mostly caused by muppets not thinking about the obstruction they were causing by parking in silly places.
 
Where my missus' Dad lives its all on street parking, always plenty of room so no real issue, except 1 house which has a sign on the wall at front of house which says "strictly no parking" , I don't care how empty the rest of the street is I know where I am parking :p
 
A disabled guy on my street asked me not to park outside his house. I have never done it since as there have always been closer places but if I needed to I would do it again.
 
I have to park on street when I go to work and I used to park on one side by the school opposite the houses. However, due to residents complaining it was changed to 2 hour max parking up until 5:30pm.

So if I'm now on an AM I park on the residents side of the street if I have to. However there is one guy with a pickup truck, a drive to the side of this house (the only one on the street) and a massive works van.

I once had to park just outside his house only to come back at 11pm and find he had parked his pickup behind me and his van in front and I just managed to get out while he stood in the window. Once the car was out, I took great delight in smiling and making a certain hand gesture.

People get so funny about public property.
 
Gaygle said:
OK, did that really happen? I know it makes it a bit more dramatic and funny, but i very much doubt that really did happen.
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It did, I can't abide adults behaving like spoilt brats, didn't like the neighbor too much any way. Why do you find it unbelievable?
 
I have a house that doesnt have a drive, we are in a semi circle of houses that face on to a green and we have to park on the street.
The road is only wide enough for one parked car and traffic to pass.
The houses on the other side of the road have drive ways, but there is one **** who will not park his cars in his drive, he has a rot box fiesta and a beat up Vauxhall people carrier which he parks just far enough apart on the road that a space that can take 4 cars normally at a push, can only take his.

We dont kick up a fuss about it, even though space is limited, what we do is park so close to the entrance to his drive when he isnt there that he cant get in at all, or on the street, so he has to park on a different street.

He used to park in his drive, and everything was rosey, then one random day he decided he was going to be a penis.
 
There's an old bloke over the road from us, i live in a semi, with a narrow and short driveway, car fits on it just but passenger can't get out, and it sticks out the edge of the drive so can't shut the gates so we have always just parked on the road in front of my house (as you would), when we first moved in, after the first couple of nights, went out to get into the car to go to work to see a note stuck to my windscreen wipers, it said ' you have a drive way, use it!'.

We knew who it was, and now every day without fail, he ll take his car off his drive way, no plans of going anywhere, and leave it on the road opposite my house until the evening, when he will pull it back onto his drive, no idea why he does this as i can still park outside my house anyway!
 
Buckster said:
for people like that I'd park in "his spot" every day just for amusement :)
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This is what I would definitely do.

I'm fortunate that I can get 4 cars up my drive but during the 80s next door used to moan when their neighbours parked in front of their house even though their own car was up the drive.
When they complained to me about other cars parking in front of their house I asked them why they were so bothered because they never parked there.
'Because if somebody comes to visit us they have the right to park outside our house' :D
I just told them to go to a certain area like in the OP above and then they would have reason to complain.
 
Ah lol we have the exact same women down our street. She has some sort of OCD about it. She has a garage with "no parking" painted right outside and opposite it so she automatically technically always has a space as it's opposite her garage. That's not enough though, she has to get this particular spot on the end which is nearest her house. Why she doesn't park on the other side of the terrace in parellel spaces which is MUCH nearer her house I don't know, but she has to have this spot.

She will also move her car one space nearer to it throughout the day. She will curtain twitch and keep a watch all the time. It's so funny.

I've parked my car in the spot for a week or two before whilst on holiday as someone above has done lol.

But what I really want to do one day, is get an old banger or some such car that will need to be sat up for ages and park it there for like months, to see what she does. It would need to have tax and mot thouugh as she has already stitched up neighbours before with out of date tax. Not that I condone driving with no tax, it goes to show the kind of person she is. Sad.
 
Last year one of my employees was getting a lot of stick from a neighbor about parking his car in front of their house on the terrace, so over the Christmas shutdown we left a van parked outside his house, not just any type though it was an Iveco Daily long wheel base with high roof, and as we were planning to scrap it in the new year it looked a total mess :P
 
only problem ive had is my next door neighbours were having a party and one of her guests parked blocking my drive, knocked on the door to no answer, gave it a few more knocks and the lad answers the door looking abit zoned.
told him about the car, as i walked back i heard him shout somthing like "why didn't you get the door i was asleep!"

anyways this young girl comes out and foot to the floor accelerates 6foot forwards, worst bit was i said sorry!! lol.
 
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My neighbour moves his cars to the front of his house, but with good reason. He works offshore and when back spends time on his project Corrado and daily Mk1 GOlf Gti (stunning), which would be a pain if having to walk down the street. Nothing wrong this at all and the one situation worthy of it.

I sometimes park on the road leaving my drive empty, but this is on a tactical basis if there's a threat of me being blocked in on my drive. Annoying to say the least as if I don't, sometimes waking up involves the fun game of 'am I blocked in today' :rolleyes:


Another story, down the road in my parents village the local resident's rep/oldy/bloke is always trying to stop this and that, he even got a traffic prohibition put on the lane due to the amount of people rat running the lane in the morning and flying down there (it's a 20 FFS). He was over delivering notes and petitions and each time mentioned how we have quite a lot of cars on the drive (up to 6 on a huge gravel drive). We were just waiting for him to send a letter regarding such a thing but it never came. Now that would have opened the tin of worms! Oh small village politics is soo exciting :p
 
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I live in a block of 6 houses and there is a fairly large parking area and people park with some degree of consistency.
I went home the other week and on the opposite side of the large tarmacked area they had painted parking spots with house numbers on them, there must have been someone kicking up a fuss as I came home last night and all the numbers in each space had been erased although the spaces themselves remained.

I park quite sensibly and have used the same spot for over 5 years, however if I came home one day and spaces had been painted my side with numbers without me being notified I would park exactly where my housing deeds say I should be parking in my allocated space (which incidentally is quite an illogical spot) and likewise have the people change the spaces to match the deeds of the allocated spaces at their expense.
 
Our street looks like this
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That pic isa from google maps so quite a few years gao before we lived there.
Nowadays If I arrive home at 5:30 I will get a space, if I arrive home at 6pm it is hit and miss.

People put cones out to mark their spots, I generally park elsewhere when possible but will quite happily move cones if there is nowhere else.
1 guy at the top of the street parks his car over 2 spaces so that no one parks in fornt of the double gate he has next to his house (that he has admitted he can't fit his car into anyway) another chap parks over 2 spaces so that his missus can park her car later when she gets home.

I met a guy in the pub a few weeks back who used to live here that said he used to threaten people who parked outside his house and because of that no one ever did.

if anyone doesn't park close to the kurb it makes parking very difficult as the nose of your car is very close to the cars on the opposite side of the road when doing a reverse park.
 
I live opposite a guy like this. His 2 cars are always parked inside his driveway but if you happen to park outside of his house he'll make a point of moving 1 of his cars to the spot outside his house when you move your car. Guess it's to make a point but what the point is I'm unsure as in the evening he'll then re-park his car back inside his driveway.
 
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