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I didn’t like it when I lived in a terrace so we moved and paid more. If you can’t or won’t accept moving to a property without public parking outside of it then shut up.
Who is ... the poster or the "harridan"?
The rear bumper was crumpled and it had the potential to really shred if it went into someone or another car.
It had also been parked outside a neighbour's house for weeks, that neighbour doesn't drive.
The replied a few weeks later saying car safe, legally parked, but they have been asked to move on anyway, which they did.
The OP doesn't park a whacking great campervan on a street where there are limit parking spaces available to residents.
Everyone may be legally allowed to use up as much of the limited common resource as they like, but that doesn't stop it being inconsiderate.
In the street where I used to live, people got fed up with people parking and going to the station workplace etc,. So a permit parking scheme was brought in. "Great" you might think. Except the rules for the permit parking meant that you could only get a parking permit if your car was registered to the home address.
Got a leased car? Tough, you can't park it remotely close to your house because all the streets have permit parking. People in the area have petitioned the local authority about this issue for 14 years. The rules haven't changed.
It all sounds so simple until you hand it to local bureaucracy.
Whacking great campervan, I bet it's no bigger than your average van.
Have to say that despite the drawbacks of permit parking the benefits far outweighed the evils where we lived previously and everyone in the street welcomed it. Incidentally, it wasn't about us being a bunch of nobs who didn't like anyone else parking on the street. The point was that the road was a haven for abandoned/untaxed cars, commercial vehicles, etc, thus preventing people who wanted to use the park opposite from parking (resulting in a significant knock-on effect on the residents in the road- all too literally on many occasions). As has been said, to my mind it all comes down to having a bit of consideration and empathy.
Anyway, I rest my case. I was just saying that having been in a similar position I can understand why the OP was annoyed about the camper-van.