Bloke uses our road as a Car Park

Josh · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:28

Wow this thread escalated quickly.

It is a GD thread, people (myself always included) will post silly idea's for our own amusement on a GD thread.

No need for everyone to get all time of the month about it.

olivier renault · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:30

You looked into residential parking permit schemes, if it is a major local problem? Investigate with neighbours, local council, ect... I'm sure they'd be more than happy to charge / fine regular commuters for some parking space.

Uhtred · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:31

lobby the council to put parking restrictions in force on your road

feedtheram · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:33

Obviously it is their right to park there. Doesn't stop them from being jerks. Certainly to leave the car there for 4 days.

Depending on the road I think it can be classed as rude and selfish. Many circumstances can change that obviously depending on the inconvenience caused, increased danger and availability of other parking for where they need to go.

In my opinion knowingly parking outside someone’s house and leaving your car there for 4 days is rude and I would never do it. I’m sure most of those people saying its fine would get annoyed if they were in the same situation (not living in a road that regularly has cars parked other than the residents).

Don’t you have the annual street cricket match coming up anyway?

the_r_sole · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:40

Dave**** · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:46

Where exactly is this street? I have been looking for somewhere to park so I can commute to Manchester and it looks like this person has the right idea.

wildman · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:52

feedtheram said:
Obviously it is their right to park there. Doesn't stop them from being jerks. Certainly to leave the car there for 4 days.

Depending on the road I think it can be classed as rude and selfish. Many circumstances can change that obviously depending on the inconvenience caused, increased danger and availability of other parking for where they need to go.

In my opinion knowingly parking outside someone’s house and leaving your car there for 4 days is rude and I would never do it. I’m sure most of those people saying its fine would get annoyed if they were in the same situation (not living in a road that regularly has cars parked other than the residents).

Don’t you have the annual street cricket match coming up anyway?

YOu can think what ever you like, but the bottom line is its not ilegal, and no laws have been broken. Therefore if OP doesn't like it he needs to go to the council and ask for the implementation of a residents parking scheme for which they will all then get the pleaseure of forking out money to park on the road even if they live there.

Glaucus · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:54

Never lobby for resident permits, it's a nightmare unless you never have visitors.
You get a restricted amount of visitor permits and its a right hassle.

the_r_sole · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:55

There is an incredibly simple and legal solution to this, which (if the op's neighbours were actually bothered about it) they would have done weeks/months/years ago

Schlong&Stable · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:55

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Surely with that logic anyone ever parking on a street is potentially causing an inconvenience?

Absolutely, yes. But there are reasonable and unreasonable inconveniences.

Someone parking in the street to visit a friend a few streets away where they couldn't get parked, is absolutely reasonable. Someone parking their car there four days a week, every week whilst he's away in another city is absolutely unreasonable.

This street is where people live. They may not own the road, but they have a moral right to expect people who don't live there to treat them with some respect and not use their area as a car park.

Glaucus · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:57

Moral right, no they don't.

Schlong&Stable · 12 Dec 2013 at 14:01

Glaucus said:
Moral right, no they don't.

Well that is a very well thought out and entirely cogent argument if ever I saw one.

Glaucus · 12 Dec 2013 at 14:03

Better than yours. You have no right legal or moral, you don't own the road you have no rights to restrict access, etc.

And belive me going to permit route is not a good move, it's terriable.
Lived on permit streets, streets where sometimes you have to park several roads away and of course normal streets. Permits is by far the worst.

the_r_sole · 12 Dec 2013 at 14:09

Thompson_NCL said:
Absolutely, yes. But there are reasonable and unreasonable inconveniences.

Someone parking in the street to visit a friend a few streets away where they couldn't get parked, is absolutely reasonable. Someone parking their car there four days a week, every week whilst he's away in another city is absolutely unreasonable.

but where is the precise cut off? A car parking space without restrictions makes that a usable space to park a car.
If you live on a street with unrestricted parking, it is not unreasonable for another road user to use a parking space to meet their requirements.

Thompson_NCL said:
This street is where people live. They may not own the road, but they have a moral right to expect people who don't live there to treat them with some respect and not use their area as a car park.

it is not disrespectful to use a parking space!!
Blocking someones driveway or parking on double yellows where it restricts the road for others would be disrespectful but where there is a legal parking space available and someone needs to park that is perfectly respectful!

Invertigo · 12 Dec 2013 at 14:13

Half the time my housemates can't even get a parking space on our road, let alone anywhere near the house. They also don't threaten to slash tyres because it slightly inconveniences them.

It's a public highway... Public being the key word. Residents have no right to decide who can and cannot park on their road.

Bubo · 12 Dec 2013 at 14:15

Thompson_NCL said:
This street is where people live. They may not own the road, but they have a moral right to expect people who don't live there to treat them with some respect and not use their area as a car park.

This station doesn't have its own car park, or any car park within any reasonable distance. It is one of those hop on type stops and by the looks of the access, it is expected people using it will park nearby. Unless it is meant for the private use of nearby residents, which it won't be of course.

Schlong&Stable · 12 Dec 2013 at 14:18

the_r_sole said:
but where is the precise cut off? A car parking space without restrictions makes that a usable space to park a car.
If you live on a street with unrestricted parking, it is not unreasonable for another road user to use a parking space to meet their requirements.

it is not disrespectful to use a parking space!!
Blocking someones driveway or parking on double yellows where it restricts the road for others would be disrespectful but where there is a legal parking space available and someone needs to park that is perfectly respectful!

Its not a car parking space, it's a road. And please don't straw man me, I've said plainly that that it's absolutely reasonable to park your car in a residential street for a whole host of reasons. Leaving it there every week for four days and three nights whilst you've commuted somewhere else is entirely unreasonable.

Kutter · 12 Dec 2013 at 14:20

If its such an issue, why don't you or your neighbour park there before he arrives? you only need to leave a car there for 10 mins till he goes.

My house in the UK is a few streets away from burnley football club, you can just about drive down the road when theres a match on, if i was going out on a saturday, i would have to stay out until the match was finished or i wouldnt be able to park within about half a mile of my house.

Don't have that problem now as i have a 6 car drive and a double garage and live in the middle of nowhere

Also why not rent your drive to him if its big enough, you could make some extra dosh on the side.

the_r_sole · 12 Dec 2013 at 14:24

Thompson_NCL said:
Its not a car parking space, it's a road. And please don't straw man me, I've said plainly that that it's absolutely reasonable to park your car in a residential street for a whole host of reasons. Leaving it there every week for four days and three nights whilst you've commuted somewhere else is entirely unreasonable.

just to clarify, it is a car parking space i.e a designated space to park your car in. if it was a road, parking your car there would stop anyone getting past

so where is the precise line between unreasonable and reasonable??? its you that is making this judgment, I'm interested to know, is it 30 mins, 60mins, 6 hours, 18 hours, 3 days, 5 days - oh wait a minute, it's an unrestricted space to park your car so they are all acceptable!!
Whether it is on a road or not has no bearing whatsoever, it is a public car parking space available to all road users without restriction, therefore it is perfectly reasonable for any road user to park their for the duration required -fairly straight forward really

arknor · 12 Dec 2013 at 14:25

Glaucus said:
Still not an issue, you have no rights, lived in many city houses where sometimes you can park outside, sometimes it's 4 streets away. So no 1 day or 6months, it makes no difference. You need to clear your head of this presumed right that doesn't exist.

the council does not own every road

they don't own a 1 square mile area next to the city centre where I live as I found out when I tried to report a broken lamppost