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dump and run
I wouldn't object to you parking in my street, but this is taking liberties.
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Some streets are used for that now for commuting parking in Belfast as the hospitals started to charge everyone (including the staff) for parking.
Technically it is legal as the car spaces / road spaces are not owned by the inhabitants but it is pissing off the locals.
Car dumping is quite rare here, though some ass had dumped a car on the footpath for months. You could still easily go past with a wheelchair etc, but come on... fix it or scrap it.
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Not ideal to look out on to.
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I share the general disapproval of the forum to these shenanigans, but have some sympathy in certain similar circumstances.
When I started dating my girlfriend, who lived in Putney, I had a somewhat nomadic existence partially living in an old VW van. When staying in her Putney flat I'd park the van in the first street that didn't have parking restrictions outside Putney on the edge of Barnes. The houses on that street are worth £2 mil a piece easy. I could see how having my shit van there for a week plus at a time may have been sub optimal to the residents, even if you discount that they probably wanted to park near their house and I wasn't the only person doing the dump and run. I disapproved of myself back then, and I still do today.
Now I can see the same happening near where we live in Kingston. First street out of the permit zone has a collection of shit vans and bird poo splatted bangers parked along it. Not ideal to look out on to.
I'm in favour of the "permits only between 9am and 10am type approach to this kind of thing. Free parking for most, but stops the perma parking and commuters using the streets as a car park.