Residents said the 7 cars were ‘taking up too much space’ and thought ‘everyone should agree to use a maximum of two spaces’
Two families on one street had seven cars between them
Neighbours have ‘decided’ two families in their street have ‘too many cars’ as they urged them to park elsewhere.
Residents said they were ‘taking up too much space’ and thought ‘everyone should agree to use a maximum of two spaces’.
While they said they understood parking spaces were ‘at a premium’ and it could be ‘frustrating’ when all spots were taken, a member of one of the multi-car households questioned whether they’d be unreasonable to ‘ignore the request’.
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The Mumsnet user explained: “I live on a street with unrestricted parking and few driveways.
“I know it might sound excessive but my family and next door neighbour’s family have seven cars between us.
“I can’t get a drive put in as the street is really narrow so I would need the space opposite to be empty in order to exit.
“A neighbour on the street knocked on my door and next door neighbour’s to explain that our cars take up too much space and means that neighbours who finish work late can never get a space so have to park on another street and walk, their weekend visitors can never get a space, on weekends they sometimes have to park in the middle of the road to unload their shopping and then go and find somewhere else to park
“We we’re told that ‘they all’ think everyone should agree to use a maximum of two spaces to use as they wish and any further space needed should be used in the free car park about 1/2 mile away.
“Also that the two teenagers (one mine, one next door neighbour’s) don’t need cars as they are still in school so should have no need for cars anyway.
“I get that parking spaces are at a premium, and can be frustrating when all the spaces are taken, but I don’t want myself or my dear child to walk 1/2 mile in the dark (or the light, for that matter) just to placate the neighbours when there’s a space available. All our cars are pretty much used on a daily basis.
“Next door neighbour told the messenger neighbour that it’s first-come-first-served.
“I do understand the annoyance but don’t agree with the suggestion because some houses only have one car and some houses don’t have a car, so should balance out in theory, but obviously doesn’t in practice.
“Would I be unreasonable to ignore the ‘request’? Suggestions welcomed.”
One response read: “I think having that many cars seems excessive between the two houses but you technically aren’t doing anything wrong.
“I also think you could be more considerate towards your neighbours.
“Good neighbour relationships do count for a lot so I personally would take this on the chin, I think a two car agreement is more than fair.
“And I’d much rather have a neighbour come to me to try and reach a compromise than finding my car mysteriously scratched.”
Another wrote: “Yeah you’ve got a ridiculous amount of cars between the two of you, and no it’s not really fair your neighbours can’t park on the road because of all your cars
“They cant force you obviously, it’s a public street, but I feel you should have some social responsibility in this situation and park one of your cars in the free car park.”
A similar comment read: “You are free to ignore but seven cars between two households is very excessive unless you have private parking in place.
“I think parking one car each further away is the neighbourly thing to do.”
A fourth said: “Yeah you have way too many cars. Absolutely ridiculous to think you can keep that many vehicles with nowhere to actually park them.
“There needs to be regulations brought in about this, I would make it only one car in the road and however many you can fit on your own driveway only.
“Roads were not designed for every house to have 3+ vehicles!”
A fifth chipped in: “I can see why they’d be annoyed at so many cars but they are being totally insane. I would never agree to something like this.”
A sixth wrote: “Legally you can do what you want. But I am on team neighbourhood I think.
“You have too many cars for someone with no distinct parking space for them, and if I were your neighbours it would p**s me off.”
