You do NOT own the parking space outside your residence.

[battered]

Prohibiting said:

This is why I would never even consider a house without a driveway.

Not everyone can afford this luxury.

[Marty Funkhouser]

battered said:

Actually you can't. A mate parked on a suburban street and went out on the pop. The next morning he got a call from the Plod.
"Is this your car?"
"Yes. What of it?"
"It's parked on XYZ street"
"Yes it is, since yesterday, what of it?"
"Do you have any business there today?"
"Today? No"
"Then we want it moved."
"Not just now, I had a load of ale last night and I'm not fit to drive. You want it moved, be my guest, but I'm not getting in it because I'm still p*ssed."
"Right. Well as soon as you sober up you move it because you don't have the right to leave your car where you please if you don't have business yourself being there."

Coppers giving your mate a load of cobblers. He/she is probably a mate of someone on the street who doesn't want the car there for some reason.

Thing is, although the copper is wrong, do you really want to antagonise him into forensically going over your car and doing you for anything he can?

[ecsrobin]

Sir Lord Poopie said:

Amusing / bewildering isn't it; until the authorities abuse their power. They'd have trouble finding my residence these days, however please do not derail the thread.

Is all this since the chemtrail incident?

[mybrainhurts]

Sir Lord Poopie said:

Council So I just wanted to let these idiots know - and I'm sure plenty are reading this - you do not own the parking space outside your residence.

Lovely to have you here, you hostile poopie, you...

[H20DJY]

I am giving this thread a 7/10 for tttishness, but I think its got potential to score higher.

[AlexRS2782]

Muddle238 said:

Sir Lord Poopie said:

4) I do not wish to be put on a database so the authorities know where I reside

Based on the account profile and post history, since the account was registered last year, it has all the hallmarks of a wind up account but they've somehow managed to evade the moderators for the last few months.

[anonymous-user]

OP is full of st, and alan_w number 2.

On topic; I do legally own the space outside my house, its even detailed on the land register. D1ck.

[anonymous-user]

Sir Lord Poopie said:

Council in my area made parking illegal outside your own property without a permit so I park my car on a street that has no parking restrictions.

Went to my motor and one of the residents parked literally 5.000 mm away from the bumper blocking me in. Anyway the resident can see me from the living room inside their home and opens the front door, I ask him if the car is his. He says yes and asks me where I live because I leave my car there and it causes them problems according to him. Obviously tell the idiot it is none of their business where I live and I can park my car where I like as there are no parking restrictions on this road and my car is legal - taxed and insured.

So I just wanted to let these idiots know - and I'm sure plenty are reading this - you do not own the parking space outside your residence.

Also the idiot has done himself no favors because if my shed gets vandalised guess who'll be getting a visit.

And what will happen during this visit?
Will you take your mum with you in case he doesn't take too kindly to a little scroat puffing out his chest on his doorstep ?

[V8LM]

saaby93 said:

Afraid its in the regs Centurion - otherwise as someone else said you could get a rusty old DAF van (or anything else )and permanently park it outside someone else's house just because you dont want to lower the tone of your own neighbourhood.
It's usually only used when someone doesnt toe the line and move it

Curious - what regs?

[Prohibiting]

battered said:

Prohibiting said:

This is why I would never even consider a house without a driveway.

Not everyone can afford this luxury.

I'd compromise for a smaller house with a driveway than a larger/better one without a driveway.

[anonymous-user]

V8LM said:

saaby93 said:

Afraid its in the regs Centurion - otherwise as someone else said you could get a rusty old DAF van (or anything else )and permanently park it outside someone else's house just because you dont want to lower the tone of your own neighbourhood.
It's usually only used when someone doesnt toe the line and move it

Curious - what regs?

There is no law to prevent you parking anywhere on a public road as long as it's not causing obstruction or on the pavement.

[GT03ROB]

Sir Lord Poopie said:

Council in my area made parking illegal outside your own property without a permit so I park my car on a street that has no parking restrictions.

Obviously tell the idiot it is none of their business where I live and I can park my car where I like as there are no parking restrictions on this road and my car is legal - taxed and insured.

So I just wanted to let these idiots know - and I'm sure plenty are reading this - you do not own the parking space outside your residence.

Also the idiot has done himself no favors because if my shed gets vandalised guess who'll be getting a visit.

Personally I tend to find people with this sort of approach to life tend to suffer a lot from this....

Sir Lord Poopie said:

Does it seem some get more than their fair share of deserved st, and how is that possible?

Seems like I'm always plagued with twists of bad luck. When something goes right, everything's been done by the book, put your blood, guts soul, everything, it's followed by a sting in the tail. I'm a believer in equilibrium - at least in the physical sense. I do think that if equilibrium is real I've either been very bad in a previous life albeit after this one I'll skip the next if I get a choice.

You can do things by the book & be perfectly right/legal but still be wrong in every sense. People view this as bad luck! It ain't......

[marksx]

I own all the road outside my house.

[egor110]

Surely the council permit would allow you to park outside/near your house by forcing others out of your street and creating spaces?

We used to live near a station and parking was bad, permit scheme was introduced and only permit holders could park there between 7-7 so the commuters we're forced out.

[TA14]

egor110 said:

We used to live near a station and parking was bad, permit scheme was introduced and only permit holders could park there between 7-7 so the commuters we're forced out.

But you'd have to give your name and address to use such a scheme.

[saaby93]

garyhun said:

V8LM said:

saaby93 said:

Afraid its in the regs Centurion - otherwise as someone else said you could get a rusty old DAF van (or anything else )and permanently park it outside someone else's house just because you dont want to lower the tone of your own neighbourhood.
It's usually only used when someone doesnt toe the line and move it

Curious - what regs?

There is no law to prevent you parking anywhere on a public road as long as it's not causing obstruction or on the pavement.

We've covered it in previous threads and highlighted some cases
Technically any 'parking' in the road can be treated as an obstruction, it's a matter of degree. The person in the house doesn't own the parking space outside it but neither does anyone else have the right to use it as their personal parking space either. There are things called car parks - we dont seem to make enough use of them especially at night

[egor110]

TA14 said:

egor110 said:

We used to live near a station and parking was bad, permit scheme was introduced and only permit holders could park there between 7-7 so the commuters we're forced out.

But you'd have to give your name and address to use such a scheme.

Surely they had all that thru council tax, dvla details?

Regardless i wasn't assasinated and killed to death despite the council having all those details

I note the op is on about going off grid , i doubt he'd survive long without the comforts we've all grown used to.

[MWM3]

Sir Lord Poopie said:

4) I do not wish to be put on a database so the authorities know where I reside

Think you'll already be on the council tax bill unless of course you are not paying.

[Evolved]

TarpaTow said:

It would probably help you if you had a decent car. Why not get a BM, I have a 2-series Active Tourer and I can guarantee that people would be really pleased if you parked right outside their house as they can benefit from a class performance car parked outside and their friends and neighbours would think it was theirs.

I'm fortunate that my allocated space is right outside my property, so I can look at the BM any time by just looking out of the window. I know some of the neighbours sometimes look out of their windows just to look at it.

If I was you I'd happily pay for a permit just to be able to look at my car. Have you ever owned a BM? You definitely wouldn't want to leave it in another street.

You've obviously done well to be a Company Director, have you thought about getting a permit through your company? When I'm more sucessful and a Company Director, I'll have a chauffeur so it won't really matter whether I have an allocated parking space or a permit.

Would your company stretch to giving you a chauffeur to save you the stress? If your work is anything like mine, the less you need to worry about, the more you can concentrate on progressing your career and bringing more money in.

What sort of car do you drive? You could think about a self parking one, they're very good at getting in and out of tight spaces, worth a thought.

(Hope you don't mind me mentioning; 'favors' should be spelt 'favours'. My old Housemaster always said that if you want to get on in business, learn to spell. You are what you spell - spell well). I've actually changed it a bit, but he used to quote some old rock group (Genisis?) who used to sing 'you are what you wear, wear well.

[Centurion07]

saaby93 said:

e've covered it in previous threads and highlighted some cases
Technically any 'parking' in the road can be treated as an obstruction, it's a matter of degree. The person in the house doesn't own the parking space outside it but neither does anyone else have the right to use it as their personal parking space either. There are things called car parks - we dont seem to make enough use of them especially at night

With the number of threads I've seen along the lines of "this taxed, MOT'd, insured car has been dumped outside my house, I want it moved", I would suggest the regs you're referring to are nowhere near concrete enough to sort the "problem" as easily as being suggested.

Either that or the authorities have better things to do than pander to some little parking Hitler.