Inconsiderate parking

Usually car parking spaces on residential roads are not designated, unless for disabled drivers but if their parking makes it difficult for you I would not think it unreasonable to ask if they could allow you a little more room to park.

If you have a drive it is illegal to block it.
I'd go round to your neighbours and explain the situation nicely and then hopefully they will leave a suitable gap for your small car to get in.

Fingers crossed.

Obviously if you can't access your own drive it will just add to the parking chaos. I can see that having a drive/space that you can't access is frustrating though!

We have a drive and people do park across it now and then. Never completely - but sometimes enough to make getting out impossible. Usually I can wiggle/manoeuvre past but if not I pop to my neighbours and ask for it to be moved.
It's usually a thoughtless visitor.

Do please speak to your neighbour if they keep on doing it.

I've occasionally had a commercial van parked right outside my house - the distance from my front window to the kerb is about one metre. The van owner does not live in our street, but that is the only parking space he could find.

I don't like it one bit - but I chose to live in a street full of terraced 'ye Olde world' stone houses with no off street parking so accept that as one of the drawbacks.

The man-with-the-van is a tradesman who I might even need one day, who knows - he has to earn a living.

The whole street has a line of cars parked on both sides - it's also narrow so there are frequent traffic jams as it's a through road from one town to another.

Parking is a problem wherever you live now. Public transport is expensive, not always viable, and difficult if you are transporting children and shopping from A to B.

... in fact, even just living through the humdrum minutiae of every day life in general is becoming increasingly irksome- refuse collection can be complex with numerous boxes / bins into which you have to sort this that and the other; we, in common with others, never know if the postman will arrive in the morning, afternoon, or even that day; there is escalating low-level anti-social behaviour in the town but no police to deal with it; graffiti is making its debut round here...

Parking problems are all part and parcel of the same gradual decline of our towns and some cities.

We often had to park streets away when we lived in our first house. We knew that the public road belongs to everyone and we had no rights to a space outside our house.

When we lived in London I felt I had done well if I was actually parked in our street and not round the corner!
Restricted and permit parking seems to have alleviated the problem whenever I visit the London daughters.
But I vividly remember the logistics of trying to get one or more toddlers AND the weeks shopping into the house. Leave girls strapped in car seats while I dump the bags on the doorstep? Take girls into the house and dump in playpen? It made that fox/hen/bag of corn conundrum a doddle in comparison!

Back in the 80s when we lived in Brixton my BIL and SIL came to visit. They were surprised at how we weren't bothered that other cars were parked in front of our house so that we had to park elsewhere. They lived in suburban Kent where being able to park in front of one's own house was expected. Daggers at dawn if they couldn't!

I would be cross if I couldn't get off my own drive however.

I live in a town house style of house with no drive at the front. I have been very lucky with all my neighbours we are all very considerate about parking but I fully realise I have no right to park outside my house.
But I do have a drive at the back of my house which is accessed by a road to the local church so usually easy to park. Occasionally when the church is busy and has a funeral,wedding, Christmas or Easter I get people park over my drive or even on my drive if my car isn’t on it. I have learnt not to let it stress me life is too short.
My neighbour over the road has a weekly supermarket delivery between 6am and 7am every Sunday I must admit that does rattle me a bit, but the lady is lovely and wouldn’t ever say anything.

lily64 YABU, in my opinion.

We have single yellow kine outside our house. No one can park there - well apart from the idiot opposite. He doesn't park outside his house as his large car blocks the light through his windows.

For some years I was lucky if I could park in the road where I lived. 😂

lily64

Obviously you think it’s fine to behave in a way that’s inconsiderate to others? I work a 12 hour day and really don’t think I am asking too much to be able to park outside my house . So glad you have no problem with your parking

I work a 12 hour day and really don’t think I am asking too much to be able to park outside my house

But if it's a public road - you are asking too much.

As others have suggested, you could have a polite word with them - which might be more productive than posting on here. It sometimes works.

Your thread has descended into quite a rant lily not only about your parking problem but also being rude to GN’s who don’t agree with you.
Is there any option to convert your frontage to a parking space, with the help of a dropped kerb?
As stated upthread, no-one has a right to park outside their own premises on a public road - it’s all a question of give and take - frustrating as it is for you.

lily64

Exactly. I live in at the end of a Close. And don’t get me started to those idiots who get their Ocado delivered at 7 am!

Oh dear. Working people needing a grocery delivery have a choice of very early morning or in the evening when they’re knackered after a day’s work and trying to cook/deal with children/do normal domestic stuff/may need to go out or take children somewhere. You sound very intolerant, Lily. It’s not just about parking is it?

What Scribbles said.

Germanshepherdsmum

Speak to your neighbours or move.

This.

I solved the problem of parking by applying to the Council for permission to widen the drive and drop the kerb. Now, four cars can easily park on my drive and 2 across , if necessary .

lily64

Exactly. I live in at the end of a Close. And don’t get me started to those idiots who get their Ocado delivered at 7 am!

Idiots? That's very offensive.
Perhaps it hasn't occurred to you that busy people with time pressures need to get their groceries delivered at breakfast time? Not everybody can pick and choose their own hours.
If the sound of an Ocado van delivering disturbs your lie-in then maybe you should invest in some triple-glazing or consider relocating to somewhere without any neighbours.

Speak to your neighbours or move.

Obviously you think it’s fine to behave in a way that’s inconsiderate to others? I work a 12 hour day and really don’t think I am asking too much to be able to park outside my house . So glad you have no problem with your parking

Sadly we live in a busy terraced houses street and very few people, including us, have off street parking! It’s the first thing on our list of priorities when we “get rid of the kids” and downsize!

Or having a word with them?

Have you considered moving.

Exactly. I live in at the end of a Close. And don’t get me started to those idiots who get their Ocado delivered at 7 am!

Our road is quite narrow and the driveways opposite each property are offset which technically makes access and egress easy for all residents........until someone has visitors and they just block anyone else's driveway rather than parking across the one they are visiting.

I didn’t say it was in front of my house did I. It is illegal to block a driveway which is what I am referring to. Glad you and your neighbours like you parking outside their house