Money Moral Dilemma: Should I park outside someone else's house to avoid paying?

hofh

Whilst it is true that no laws are bring broken and parking outside your own house is not a God given right, it is equally true that random parking like this causes problems to the householder. I live near a football ground and on match days it was a nightmare so the council bought in a parking permit scheme that has improved the situation greatly. It would be courteous to speak to the householder to see if it is causing them a problem. ie they may have young children. there is a general lack of courtesy in motoring now.

dottyash

Mister Barlow I live in a seaside town and during the summer have lots of cars trying to park in my little cul-de-sac. They park thoughtlessly making it difficult for residents to get in and out - the bin lorries have huge problems. The carparks and park & ride are there so residents can have a trouble free summer. Also the money funds all your use of bins, toilets, etc. The bins have to be collected practically daily and who pays? Why we do through larger council tax. People can come and enjoy our beautiful town and spend nothing but it stays beautiful because money is spent on it. So please do not begrudge a few quid.

gloriouslyhappy

I see this is quite an emotive subject, and only going to get worse as the population explodes and more people own cars. If all residential streets turn into resident permit zones but the local councils don't provide adequate reasonably-priced parking, I forsee much more parking-rage and nasty notes or even vandalism occurring. In my area, the high street used to have a large car park but a large tower block's just been built on it, creating much needed housing but the developers were allowed to get away with providing parking only for residents. So now the only parking - paid or otherwise - is in MacDonalds, where you get 90 minutes 'free' provided you buy some of their ghastly food. Due to worries about flooding, water run off and even water-shortage, our local council is cutting back on approving front gardens being concreted over into driveways, leaving no option but parking on the street. Bring on flying cars, and we can all park on our roofs!

House_Martin

No problems parking on the public road but one caveat.If its a downmarket area, terraced street you have a better chance of your paintwork getting the "key " treatment..
In my old terraced street I had my car keyed many times and once both wing mirrors were ripped off.
Tip..park halfway between two properties if possible, it lessons the property owners getting too aggressive and shares the parking space out a bit enough for them to get another car in without blocking their drives

takman

A college that i used to go to had a car park for students which they had to pay for a permit to use. But there were residential streets behind the college which were free to park in and many of the students parked there during the day.

But they didn't do this to save money (the permit was only 50p for a year at the time). They did this because there simply wasn't enough spaces in the college car park by a long shot. Every house in the residential streets around the college had a large driveway and garage, half of the houses also had no houses opposite them.
So there was plenty of room to park here without inconveniencing the residents.

But a few years ago the entire area became residents parking permits only. So now when you drive around those streets there are no cars at all parked there because they all have large driveways and garages.
At the same time the college decided to increase the parking permit from 50p a year to over £50 a year!. They also introduced a £1 a day charge if you didn't want a permit. But they didn't increase the size of the car park so a private parking firm they contracted gets a nice amount of money from PCN's issued to students who aren't parked in allocated spaces because there is simply nowhere else to park.

So sometimes people park in residential streets because they have no choice.

But i still think it's ridiculous that the college are not forced to extend their car park to accommodate the number of students who drive there, especially considering they have just built two new very large extensions which adds the same amount of floor space as a typical school.

pjcox2005

Outside the front of our house is the road and then the village green/playground. As far as I see it I own everything out the front so I've started cordoning off the park to prevent anyone using that public area either ;-)


Alternatively if someone does park on the road to use the playground then I just park in a different spot and walk.

PeggyM37

jgriggle wrote: »

I'm quite lovely according to my friends and family.


I stand by what I said though - if you own a car but choose to live in a house which has no drive, on a street with no residents' parking scheme you rather bring these problems on yourself.

Anyone's free to park in the street where I live. However it doesn't bother me as I chose a house with a driveway. Private, off-street parking is one of my non-negotiables when choosing somewhere to live.

We would all choose a house with a driveway if we could afford to do so. Unfortunately it is well outside of the budget of many of us.

Aylesbury_Duck

pjcox2005 wrote: »

Outside the front of our house is the road and then the village green/playground. As far as I see it I own everything out the front so I've started cordoning off the park to prevent anyone using that public area either ;-)

It must wrap around the globe so that you own the band of land all the way from your house front to the back.

I had to pop over to Ascension Island last week. Some RAF bloke had parked his plane outside my house.

Aylesbury_Duck

takman wrote: »

But i still think it's ridiculous that the college are not forced to extend their car park to accommodate the number of students who drive there, especially considering they have just built two new very large extensions which adds the same amount of floor space as a typical school.

It's perhaps not that way at all. Local authorities can make it very hard to add parking, so rather than the college not being forced to provide more parking, it could be that they want to but are prohibited from doing so. A heavily expanded school near me has the same problem with sixth form and staff parking. It owns land around its site that could be used for parking but it is not allowed to add more because of the increase in vehicular movements that would arise in the area and surrounding roads which are not able to cope with it.

asdesigned

Perhaps he was too tight to pay to keep the plane at an airfield