Parking outside your home

Oh. Where to start melp1 !

We live in a terraced house. No garages or drives but each property has 1 allocated parking bay (numbered) at the rear of their property. There are a few (visitors) bays on the front but not nearly enough. My next door neighbour has 4 cars and a motorbike. They do not use their numbered bay (it is always empty) but they park all over the front including on the pavement right outside my front window which drives DH absolutely batty.

Additionally, we live very close to the seaside and on summer weekends we are plagued by visitors trying to avoid paying to park in the seafront car parks. It is sometimes so bad you cannot get in or out the estate.

Yes yes yes my OH hates it that next door have up to 6 cars parked at various times , we both park our cars in the drive and they can park 3 in theirs but mostly don't so at least 2/3 are parked on the road or outside our house and he constantly moans about it. It does make turning out of the drive awkward when they park right up to the edge of our drive but its still doable.

It is a bit annoying when we get visitors and they have to park further away but really there are more important things to moan about

Unless they block me in to my drive I couldn`t care less . I think it is a man thing , my x used to get obsessed about next door having 3 cars even though they weren`t parked outside our house . He fell out with all the neighbours in turn for one misdemeanour or another , now I am divorced I make sure I get on with everyone because it makes for a nicer life .

Thank goodness DH is not the only one who gets het up about this. Made even worse at the moment because our neighbours are having a massive extension built and there are always vans and cars parked in front of our house. I have reminded him that we don't own the road and suggested he puts a three piece suite and a piece of carpet on it if he thinks he does . I suspect it is a man thing, having read the other posts. Before I thought it was a shouty controlling post stroke man thing.

As we are just off the village high Street we have a single yellow line outside so no-one is allowed to park there during the day Monday - Saturday. It can be a real pain for workmen etc as our drive is only wide enough for one car at the bottom and then there isn't really enough room to open the door.

It is not only a man thing! It drives me close to crazy. I do not mind if they leave a space in front of my path but if it is blocked, sometimes I cannot get out without pussyfooting around the car, using my stick. Mine is similar to gillybob's being an end terrace of three and after people park across my path they then proceed to use my front garden (which is all open plan) as though it is owned by the council!

Oh that drives me nuts too. We live in a cul de sac of 7 houses built round a circular road space. Every house has a garage , a drive and space for 2 cars outside. We're right at the centre .

Our neighbours sold their house to a chap who only works one day a week so to be able to keep his house he rents out rooms. It's like living next door to a hotel. There can be 3 cars on his drive , one in his car port and three on the road......and then they start parking in front of out house.

Grampy gets very territorial and moves them on in short shrift !!

Mind you , it's a 4 bed ,2 bath home.... I wonder where he puts all his 'guests'!

The two up two down terrace where we used to live always had one of next doors cars outside our house. Not a problem as we didn't have a car then. I'm glad we don't still live there though as these days at weekends the road is nose to tail both sides. I could be parked half a dozen houses away.
Where we are now we have a garage plus a drive big enough for two cars. We are set back from the road so it wouldn't bother me if someone parked outside our house but we don't get people park in the road as we all have drives and it's a main road and bus route so not a good idea.

I miss having off road parking especially having the little ones so often. It's much easier getting three children in and out of a car safely on drive than it is on thd side of the road . Also what is it with people who have dedicated parking bays out back but won't use them ? Is it because they have to walk a few extra steps ? I really can't understand some of my neighbours.

Too many double yellow lines, signs saying 'residents parking' and traffic wardens to back it up for that to haplen round here.

My DH gets agitated not only with people parking opposite our driveway as it makes access a little tricky. When we walk around our town he points out everyone that is parked opposite junctions,too near to pavements,on yellow lines etc etc etc unfortunately no one appears to be policing this here and it is a problem that is getting to be a big issue ( parking on zebra crossings , near to traffic lights , schools ) I recognise that there is a problem but he really doesn't need to point it out every single blessed time.

We don't really mind people parking outside our house. Sometimes , if parking is difficult, and we are not going out, we would not mind them parking across the end of our drive. If only they would just knock and ask. ( usually neighbours)
Next door did once have a large , very yellow car parked for ages outside our house. Everyone in the street commented on the ' yellow banana' It was alright until the sun shone. Then the whole of my living room turned yellow.

I have a friend whho's a 'barrack room lawyer'. Very well-informed and critical on what others shouldn't do, a keen amateur policeman, full of stories about how HE won a dispute with officialdom. He's still a friend, but only just :-)

We have room for our two cars in our driveway. Our neighbours opposite, have four cars. They park two on the road, but it can be difficult for us to reverse out of our drive because of this. Hubby once hit one of their cars when reversing and ended up paying them around £1,000 to have it fixed!!!

I live one street back from the beach. It is a private road, i.e.owned and maintained by the residents and not by the council and despite a very large sign indicating this, it doesn't stop the beach visitors plonking their cars willy nilly all over the place and leaving their detritus behind when they leave. I had to go out on Tuesday so left my wheely bin in the road alongside a parking cone and when I returned they had been moved to the pavement (which we also own and maintain) to allow 3 cars to park on 'my' space. It's no good arguing or appealing to their better nature as I just get a mouthful of abuse,. When DH was alive and we had 2 cars I would wedge the offending car in so the owner would have to come to the door and ask to be released

No it's not a man thing, we both get irritated at neighbours not using their driveways. It makes manoeuvring for us difficult when we are trying to park where we should - in our driveway! It's not something I'd kick off about to them though.

Funny story - my daughter used to live at the bottom of a cul de sac near a station, with only on road parking. A woman once parked her car outside my daughter's house, got the train & left it there for the entire weekend. My daughter left a note on her windscreen that was on the lines of:

Just for your information, the two stations either side of this one are park & ride. I wouldn't be so aggressive as to complain about you parking outside our house for days on end,so here's a recipe for chocolate chip cookies (followed by recipe) It went viral & ended up in the local newspaper! She reckons it's the single most passive/aggressive think she's ever done :D

I've lived near a primary school for over 30 years, parents park in my road twice a day, it's a narrow road and makes leaving the house at school time a nightmare, not many seem to walk to school anymore.
I've twice pranged a car parked opposite my drive, ironically they weren't parents but neighbours. My fault and makes me feel stupid.

I have a shared drive and after years of inconsiderate neighbours I reluctantly had my front garden block paved so I could park without any bother, now my neighbour seems to think the drive is for him and his visitors alone. I don't get a look in.

Cole my hubby is like yours we also have neighbour like you despite us all having drive he gets his car out every morning puts it opposite ours at it stays there all day .parking is becoming a real problem everywhere we see cars outside school s at 2to2.30 to get nearest place to school it's getting stupid !!

We live in the next Street to a school and twice a day the cars arrive and choke up the street. We have CCTV and some move their cars backwards and forwards until they get their car right under the gable end camera. We have had people coming to the door and asking us to check camera footage to see if they dropped their phone when they got out of the car or had it been stolen? Absolute cheek, expect us to wind back through hours of footage.

We live in a Cul de sac with a neighbour who has carers several times a day. She insists on the gates being closed so rather than open the gates the carers just abandon the cars blocking us on the principle that they will only be fifteen minutes but if you are going to meet a train have a n appointment somewhere it can be very frustrating. They also get very cross when they get a ticket as she won't buy them and the carers just think they should be exempt.

I get fed up with the holidaymakers parking as they do not want to pay parking fees, OK, but they should have some consideration for the people living where they park
They park over the drive and when they park over the road as well it makes it very difficult for me to get out of my drive. Also there is no room for an ambulance or fire engine to get thro. They should take note why we park half on the pavement. Life would be so much easier, we need holidaymakers but they should look where they are parking !

A woman once parked her car outside my daughter's house, got the train & left it there for the entire weekend. My daughter left a note on her windscreen that was on the lines of:
littlefierce we have had people parking in our road then going off on a couple of weeks' holiday (we are not that far from the bus stop for National Express!).

Choc chip cookie recipe sounds a good idea.

DH did have to park in the street when he went to a meeting a couple of weeks ago in a nearby town. He parked sensibly, no restrictions, not blocking any driveway, however he was outside someone's house. Afterwards he found he had a slow puncture caused by a big nail and a large screw in the tyre. He could have had an accident with an under-inflated tyre.

You do not own the space on the public road outside your house. It is not yours, anybody is entitled to use it. As long as your driveway is not blocked, or an obstruction is caused to other traffic there is nothing you do. You are certainly not entitled to demand the drivers of the car to move on.