Car parking outside my house

[Louisa]

Following on from the boiler debacle, I've opted for one of the options kindly shared by fellow posters. The chap is on his way over between 4-6 but just now the space usually occupied by my car which I had made free (I moved my car and put wheelie bin to reserve space for plumber), has now got a disgusting looking red ford fiesta parked in it. My bin has been rammed to one side, presumably by the occupier, and now I am frantically looking out to see if the plumber comes along because we have very few spaces down here. I won't give too much information away, but be warned I'm in a foul mood as a result. No-one around here ever parks in my space outside my house because all my neighbours are (on the whole considerate people), and as it is a car I've not seen before I presume it's a visitor of some description.

Note for other selfish parking space stealers. MY bin was put outside the space usually occupied by MY car outside MY house for an emergency boiler repair. In a residential area with limited spaces outside homes you may want to be more considerate when it comes to stealing a reserved space (with a bin) outside someone's house.

Not happy.

Louisa.

[Alan Medic]

Sorry Louisa but reserving a space with a bin is fair game for anyone who wants to park, disgusting car or not.

[DirtyBox]

It's not your space just because it's outside your house! The only selfish person is you for attempting to block the space with your bin.

[Seabag]

My silly neighbour has the same 'thing' about parking his car/s outside his house. I've explained to him that his boundary doesn't extend to the street, he's not good at taking that fact on board though

So now i've invented a game where I park there as often as I can. A full car or pick-up or occasionally my transit across the whole property gets a 10. There after it decreases in points as the space misses his house

A royal flush is where all three of my vehicles are parked in a row. Him and his other half wait by the window to see if the spaces become free, I even caught him rolling the car back into a space in the dark, so nobody could park there. When his other half came home she rang him and he moved his car forward again

It's such a fun game that if I want to go out i'll get into my car, as if i'm about to go out and start it. he'll then jump up to move into the space, (he doesn't know he can be seen through his glass door) at which point i'll kill the engine and change vehicles, usually into my pick-up truck up the road. As I pass he'll usually be at the window muttering. I've informed him of my point scoring system btw

Lastly, it's a public space, so get over it

[Tommy1000]

If you make the (sensible) assumption that people aren't in the habit of reserving a parking space daily with a wheelie bin just for their car, and are doing for good reason like the one above (or perhaps a heavy delivery or for a skip), then it's certainly inconsiderate.

Whether it's the house's 'space' or not is besides the point in this instance, the act of reserving the space with a bin is not selfish (if done for good reason), movnig it is.

But I also agree with Seabag's sentiment, the spaces don't belong to anyone but, if reserved on a rare occasion for good reason, then why would people not respect that. On the rare instances one of our neighbours has done that, I've parked giving them as much space as possible because I thought that was the decent thing to do.

[Louisa]

To DirtyBox - your speaking out of your rear. If someone reserves a space with a wheelie bin it is clearly for an important reason, such as a visiting plumber for myself, or potentially for something more serious such as an ambulance. You're the SELFISH one for not recognising that FACT.

Seabag - people like YOU with three plus vehicles should be charged for the extra spaces you take away from other households on the street. You're lucky I'm not your neighbour cos you certainly wouldn't win any point scoring game with me I can assure you of that! How pathetic, playing games with a neighbour over parking spaces. Some people need to get a life! I was legitimately reserving a space outside my house for an urgent reason, not to childishly 'point score'. My neighbors are thankfully considerate people, other than this one person who sadly went whilst I was busy otherwise they would have been at the end of a verbal ticking off.

If you live in an area with limited spaces and parking stresses you should own no more than one car - and you shouldn't be allowed to park it anywhere other than outside your house. It's an unwritten common courtesy. Not that I expect some of you folk on here to understand or appreciate this.

Louisa.

[Louisa]

Tommy1000 Wrote:

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> If you make the (sensible) assumption that people

> aren't in the habit of reserving a parking space

> daily with a wheelie bin just for their car, and

> are doing for good reason like the one above (or

> perhaps a heavy delivery or for a skip), then it's

> certainly inconsiderate.

>

> Whether it's the house's 'space' or not is besides

> the point in this instance, the act of reserving

> the space with a bin is not selfish (if done for

> good reason), movnig it is.

>

> But I also agree with Seabag's sentiment, the

> spaces don't belong to anyone but, if reserved on

> a rare occasion for good reason, then why would

> people not respect that. On the rare instances one

> of our neighbours has done that, I've parked

> giving them as much space as possible because I

> thought that was the decent thing to do.

A voice of reason! :-)

Louisa.

[DirtyBox]

Louisa Wrote:

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> To DirtyBox - your speaking out of your rear. If

> someone reserves a space with a wheelie bin it is

> clearly for an important reason, such as a

> visiting plumber for myself, or potentially for

> something more serious such as an ambulance.

> You're the SELFISH one for not recognising that

> FACT.

>

Bollox! London is full of little people who think leaving some bins out to reserve a parking space is their right and shock...a plumber has legs! and an ambulance doesn't need a parking space, they will just double park so get off you pompous high horse and stop being selfish.

[numbers]

FGS its not just in London, its anywhere where parking may be problematic that there's an unwritten common courtesy that a wheelie bin can be left in a space to reserve it for a specific period of time and use.

This is usually for a removal van arriving/people who need to lift or move heavy equipment/tools to and from property and so on, not for say, visitors or the entitled who can't be arsed to walk. Not an everyday occurrence but as a one-off.

[Seabag]

Mind you, i'm sure you put a written note explaining the purpose of that bin

You did didn't you, of course you did

Else why would someone be so knowingly selfish

I do actually park my trade vehicles way up our road, the bit where nobody else wants to park. Sometimes though on a Saturday I need to move them near mine to load/unload

Just rattling your cage

10 points to me

*ding-ding*

[Bluerevolution]

Unbelievable. You have absolutely no right to cordon off a piece of the Queens Highway for your own benefit. Parking is a first come, first served unless there are either parking restrictions and/or permit requirement.

How rude and selfish of you OP.

[ratty]

I think it is perfectly acceptable to cordon off for a specific reason, such as a skip coming or removals. Not sure about a plumber tbh but hey hoh. OP is not suggesting that she would do this every day, just in the event of such an occurrence.

[KalamityKel]

A while back some neighbours of our put their bins out, not even right by theirs but as near as they could, with a note kindly asking not to move the bins as space might be needed for the midwife in the next few hours... a local estate agent decided sod that and took the space. Now THAT is selfish on the bin movers part. I think if people are wanting to keep a space for say services, deliveries, removals, a skip etc fine but put a note on whatever device used to "reserve" the space if its a must.

I understand your frustration louisa and im not a driver or car owner. Sadly it's people who take advantage of the whole space hogging thing that makes others feel infuriated resulting in them moving bins and such to park their cars AND often it's not even people who live in the street that do it!

*now thinking about the idiots who shunt cars in front and behind so they can squeeze their car into that teeny so not big enough space*

[Tr?]

If you leave a note explaining your good reason attached to the bin and don't do it repeatedly, fine. If you're the person who reserves the space in front of their house every day on Frogley Road, you're selfish. Louisa your use of MY in capitals suggests to me you're creeping towards the latter type.

[StraferJack]

where did you move/park your car to make space?

On the whole bins thing, I agree it would seem ?fair usage? rules should apply and on rare occasion when you need to keep a space free, marking space should be ok

But people being people that gets abused. So now we have plenty of people who routinely do that to keep their own space, inflation has set in and bins marking a space has no currency anymore

Plus, in this instance, for a plumber? It would be nice and convenient, but he?s a plumber. He will be used to finding his own space and dealing with it accordingly

[Mick Mac]

The funny thing about this was that when the plumber did arrive, he was on foot, tools in satchel.

Storm in a teacup.

[steveo]

He'll double park, block the street and then charge ?200 call out to remove the blockage

Ta ra!

[KidKruger]

generally what I do is park my car where the space will be needed then move it when the delivery or whatever it is actually arrives. That way I'm impacting no-one else until absolutely necessary. I had a ton of gravel delivered last week, they could say which day it would come but not what time, so I made sure a day or two before that I had secured the place in front of my house - the same when I had a load of grass delivered.

[the-e-dealer]

Its actually an offence to obstruct the highway with a bin. It not yours it the queens. However I agree - if you have a car block off the space with it and move it when the undertakers or whoever arrive - simple! You can ask the council for cones for a removal van I believe.

[steveo]

Can you spare a spliff KK?

[KidKruger]

I had a few kilos of grass left over steveo but unfortunately i just threw it on the compost heap and the dog shat on it.

[Jeremy]

Speaking as someone who recently moved into a CPZ... I don't understand why the residents of ED were so against having one! I park right outside my house, every time.

[Otta]

Yeah, I'm not a car owner, so I assumed I was missing something, but I always wondered why people were fighting having a CPZ. If I drove I'd love a parking spot outside my gaff.

[adonirum]

I once attended a funeral, with the cortege leaving from the house. The bereaved had put bins etc in the road with a note stating please don't park because of the funeral and what time it was. They were moved and someone had parked there. In this instance, and taking into account some of the posts already submitted on this thread, who was right/wrong fair/selfish on this occasion?

[the-e-dealer]

Depends why the car had been parked there. To collect or drop off elderly / disabled relative - Fine . To go to shop to buy Lad's mag - Bastard!